Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Investigators with the Modesto Police Department’s Street Gang Unit have arrested four suspected members of the Norteño criminal ...

SAN JOSE — At age 22, Salvador Mexicano’s life has centered on gangs, poverty, violence and prison. Mexicano’s father was sentenced to 30 years behind bars when Mexicano was just five. Two years later ...

At 3:40 a.m. on March 3, 2012, Joseph Luis Jauriqui entered an east Modesto home with orders by a high-ranking member of the Norteño street gang: Kill the 18-year-old woman who lived there and anyone ...

SALINAS — Jesus Garcia was out delivering furniture, having walked away from gang life and found a steady job in his 30s. Jose “Chepe” Saldana was coming back from trade school in Sacramento — because ...

An East Salinas Norteno gang member known as "Drilla" was given 72 years to life in prison after he was convicted of murder and other charges, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office said ...

A Vallejo member of the Norteños street gang was given just over seven years in federal prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, according to prosecutors. Nicholas Addleman was given 84 months for ...

FREMONT — Fernando Campos-Diaz turned and ran from the 7-Eleven as shots rang out behind him. But his last-ditch attempt to flee to safety would fail. A Union City teenager, identified by Fremont ...