Park It: East Bay trails great now for viewing wildflowers
This is shaping up as a fine spring for wildflowers in the East Bay Regional Parks and other open spaces. Perhaps due to recent rains, flowers are flourishing in several dependably colorful areas....
View ArticleMan shot to death in Union City, woman believed to be his wife arrested
UNION CITY — The shooting death of a man inside a residence Sunday appears to be “an isolated case,” and resulted in the arrest of one of two women also living there, police said Monday. Officers found...
View ArticleAnother rough day for Southwest Airlines brings scare on Oakland departing...
OAKLAND — A Southwest Airlines flight taxied back to the gate Monday morning after reports of smoke coming from the plane prompted an emergency response, officials said. Southwest Airlines flight No....
View ArticleBrandon Belt’s endless at-bat spotlights baseball’s big problem
First of all, the headline you’re seeing all over the internet is incorrect. From our friends at CNN: “MLB has been around a long time. This had never happened before.” The “this” to which CNN refers...
View ArticleEast Bay MS-13 member gets four years for immigration charge
OAKLAND — An El Salvadoran man who has been deported numerous times was sentenced Friday to nearly five years in prison for a guilty plea on a charge of illegally re-entering the United States after...
View ArticleBowling Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl
Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl April 23 Trailriders: Sean Umamoto had a perfect 300 game and a 720 set, 141 pins over average. Tammi’s Alteration: 570 Scratch Trios: Donald Brooks had a perfect 300 game...
View ArticlePreventing #MeToo moments: Changing students’ conversations about sexual...
What Robin Stephan-Engdahl remembers of her sex-education class two years ago is an emotional teacher reminiscing about her own abortion in front of a class of stunned, bored and silent freshman. “It...
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Shunning Oakland? Raiders send message with plans for upcoming NFL draft
CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos on a mobile device It’s a cringe-worthy bit of hokum, this idea the NFL has of allowing teams to announce their Day 3 draft choices (rounds...
View ArticleSquirrel wins UC Berkeley student senate seat
Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and beyond. Sign up for our ew Morning Report weekday newsletter. BERKELEY — The University of California, Berkeley has elected a squirrel to...
View ArticleReport: Sports anchor sent home from San Antonio after taking Warriors...
KGO-TV called home sports anchor Mike Shumann last week after he was caught on video taking a jacket belonging to a Golden State Warriors official from the AT&T Center in San Antonio after a...
View ArticleSex assault trial involving two young sisters and their ‘uncle’ begins
OAKLAND — A young girl made a deal with her sexual assault assailant: She wouldn’t tell anyone, as long as he didn’t attack her younger sister, a prosecutor said Monday. But, that all changed when the...
View ArticleTwo survive shooting in East Oakland
OAKLAND — Two men survived a shooting Monday in East Oakland, police said. The 34-year-old and 30-year old each were in stable condition at a hospital, police said. They were expected to recover The...
View ArticleLetter: The lowest cost earthquake ‘insurance’ money can buy
The lowest cost earthquake ‘insurance’ money can buy We live in a dangerous earthquake zone. Those who should know say that the Hayward fault could slip with a major quake at any time. Or not....
View ArticleBay Area Book Festival brings a literary bonanza to Berkeley
Of the more than 250 authors who will be amassing in Berkeley this weekend for the fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival — and they include such literary lights as Dave Eggers, Barbara Ehrenreich and...
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What does $2,300 rent you in Oakland today?
We’ve rounded up the latest rental listings via rental site Zumper to get a sense of what to expect when it comes to scoring housing in Oakland if you’re on a budget of $2,300 per month. (Note: prices...
View ArticleWatch: Ex-Cal QB Goff goes back to school, pranks players who think he’s a jerk
CLICK HERE if you are having a problem viewing the photos or video on a mobile device Recently a new guy showed up at a Ventura Community College football practice. He wasn’t difficult to spot with his...
View ArticleTrump’s tariffs push Fremont to advance purchase of new fire engines
Fremont has moved up its purchase of two new fire engines by several months to avoid a surcharge that the manufacturer will soon add as a result of the Trump administration’s new tariffs on imported...
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Tesla factory workers stiffed on overtime, denied breaks: lawsuit
Tesla and a contracting company failed to pay contract workers fully for overtime and denied them legally mandated meal and rest breaks, a contract employee at Tesla’s Fremont auto-assembly plant said...
View ArticleReview: Vaxxing debate — and pretty much everything Berkeley — spoofed in new...
Sometimes a moment in a comedy will make you laugh and cringe at the same time, and for the same reason: what’s happening may be totally outrageous, but it’s also all too recognizable as behavior...
View ArticlePolice warn of possible Livermore home-invasion robbery
#Livermore police trying to get armed robbery suspect out of his home on Coronado Way. Suspect is man between 20-30 years old. Say he robbed neighbor at gunpoint, ran home. Holed up inside....
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