Football: Liberty ends McClymonds’ win streak in a rout
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. OAKLAND – The Liberty Lions trounced McClymonds 42-14 in an impressive road victory Friday evening. With the win, the...
View ArticleFootball: De La Salle’s offense erupts against Bishop O’Dowd
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the slideshow on a mobile device. CONCORD — In three games this season, De La Salle High has won them all, by a combined score of 107-23. None of the games...
View ArticleBay Area corporate giants tangle with counties in high-stakes property tax...
Apple Inc. has earned worldwide notoriety for its efforts to reduce its tax bill — and those efforts extend to the Bay Area, where it currently has 489 pending appeals of its property tax assessments...
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Oakland-Maui flight: Pepper spray emergency follows disturbing photo
People gather in a back galley on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Oakland, Calif., to Kahului, Hawaii, after a can of pepper spray went off inside the plane. (Nicholas Andrade via AP) First came the...
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Kids + San Francisco art museums = big fun
CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device On a kid scale of one to broccoli, plodding through a classic art museum is right up there with forced consumption of the...
View ArticleScottish Games pack star power and pack Pleasanton fairgrounds
Click here if you are having trouble viewing the photos or video on your mobile device. PLEASANTON — The 153rd Scottish Highland Gathering and Games has everything you could hope for from a literal...
View ArticleSan Ramon physician’s assistant gets federal prison in pill deals
OAKLAND — A former physician assistant busted last year in an undercover sting by the Drug Enforcement Administration accepted 37 months in exchange for pleading guilty to dealing prescription pills....
View ArticleEast Bay letters: Democracy can get by just fine without biased press
Regarding a recent East Bay Times letter, “Trump’s complaints simply shooting the messenger,” a free press is absolutely essential to the maintenance of democracy. A biased press is not. — Vicki...
View ArticleAlameda council to consider big Oakland Estuary housing project
ALAMEDA — A controversial proposal to add up to 589 apartments and condominiums along the Oakland Estuary is heading to the Alameda City Council on Tuesday. Known as Encinal Terminals, the project at...
View ArticleCurtain Calls: Billie Holiday bio ‘Lady Day’ coming to Richmond
Eleanora Fagan, better known as Billie Holiday, became one of the most influential jazz singers of all time and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. Many are familiar with the...
View ArticlePark It: Hayward apple fest fun way to start harvest season
Summer is coming to a close, but there’s still plenty to see and do in the East Bay Regional Park District. For example, sampling of rare apple varieties, live music, dancing, old-fashioned games and...
View ArticleBest Bay Area ice cream? Vote now!
CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device The Bay Area’s evolving ice cream scene has given rise to some pretty heated debates over who makes the best scoop of cold,...
View ArticleTime Is Ripe: Return of canning’s popularity continues
With all the fresh fruits and vegetables available at your farmers’ market right now, canning and preserving the harvest is a great way to enjoy this fabulous produce all year long. Try your hand at...
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Big rigs overturning at ‘remarkable’ rate at Fremont highway interchange
Thick traffic crawls slowly along Mission Boulevard in Fremont’s Mission San Jose area most weekday afternoons, as thousands of people make their way home from work and school. The commute was...
View ArticleBART station agent ‘sucker punched’ at MacArthur station
OAKLAND — A station agent at the MacArthur BART station suffered a gash to his right cheek after a man “sucker punched” him Friday night, police said Sunday. Around 11:47 p.m., two women flagged the...
View ArticleHigh school football: Weekend scoreboard, how Top 25 fared
Thursday Wilcox 37, San Benito 6 Friday Aptos 56, Aragon 21 Sacred Heart Prep 15, Burlingame 13 Capuchino 40, South San Francisco 6 Terra Nova 21, Carlmont 10 Live Oak 33, Christopher 31 Cupertino 42,...
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Primed to burn: Where are the Bay Area’s most vulnerable places for wildfires?
In Mill Valley’s tinderbox of grassy meadows, trees and tangled bush, homeowner Mike Quijas rushed his own hose and shovel to a half-acre brush fire this summer before firefighters arrived to douse the...
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Bad Business Model Bikes brings old bicycles back to life — for free
(CLICK HERE, if you are unable to view this photo gallery or video on your mobile device.) CASTRO VALLEY — Inside a two-car garage, nestled in a modest Castro Valley neighborhood with 1960s-era starter...
View ArticleFather of slain Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts decries using her as ‘pawn’
BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The father of slain Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts in an opinion piece spoke out against using his daughter’s death in support of “views she believed were profoundly...
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Kurtenbach: Jon Gruden is confirming Raiders fans’ worst fears about his...
ALAMEDA — What did you expect Jon Gruden to do? Did you expect him — fully empowered through a 10-year, $100 million deal — to be passive? Did you expect him to play a drawn-out game of contract...
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