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3 Bay Area real estate professionals sentenced to prison in $55 million fraud scheme
The scheme was carried out from 2018 to 2022, which involved submitting fake income documents.
Big-rig crash on Bay Bridge snarls traffic
Four lanes of the lower deck of the Bay Bridge were closed for almost four hours Thursday morning after a truck jackknifed.
Healthcare leviathan Kaiser shrinks downtown Oakland footprint again
Kaiser Permanente is warning it plans to slash its downtown Oakland headquarters footprint.
With Trump’s victory, Ellen DeGeneres will never return to America: report
DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi were reportedly so 'disillusioned' about Harris's loss that they vowed to 'get the hell out' of the United Sates and have moved to England.
Silicon Valley tech boom lifts California’s dreary budget view
A gauge of the so-called Magnificent Seven mega tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon.com Inc., Apple, Meta, Microsoft Corp., Nvidia and Tesla Inc. — is up 56% so far this year, more than twice the advance of the SP 500 Index.
‘Bomb cyclone’ storm expected to detonate in East Bay and South Bay on Friday
The rain is expected to continue with only a slight break through early next week.
US Justice Department seeks Google Chrome sale to curb monopoly
The US Justice Department and a group of states proposed major changes to Alphabet Inc.’s Google — including a forced sale of the company’s Chrome web browser — after a landmark ruling that the tech giant illegally monopolized online search.
Dead body discovered off of exit on I-880
The CHP received the first reports about the body about 5:30 a.m.
Jury finds East Bay siblings guilty of charges in 2021 slaying of missing Carmel teen
After a five-week Solano County Superior Court trial and three days of deliberations, a jury on Tuesday found the Quintanilla siblings guilty of respective charges related to the Oct. 30, 2021, gunshot slaying of a 19-year-old woman in Fairfield. Seated at the defense table in Department 11, Jessica Yesenia Quintanilla, 24, of Pittsburg, held her []
Sausalito hotel inducted into Historic Hotels of America program
Casa Madrona in Sausalito was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Historic Hotels of America program, joining more than 300 other historic hotels in the US.
Map: Tracking the storm in the Bay Area
The updating radar map shows areas of precipitation in green, with greater intensities indicated by yellow and orange.
Judge rules against blocking UC Santa Cruz pro-Palestinian protester evictions, cites safety concerns
A Santa Cruz judge denied Tuesday a court injunction seeking to temporarily halt UC Santa Cruz's practice of mass banning of students and faculty members without individual fact-finding hearings.
‘Bomb cyclone’ storm: 1 dead, half a million without power in Northwest
Rainfall of 12 to 16 inches was expected over far northern California into Friday.
AG asks judge to force LA County to address ‘serious ongoing deficiencies’ in juvenile halls
The state has ordered L.A. County to make improvements at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall or empty the facility by Dec. 12.
Unidentified body recovered near Santa Cruz County beach
Emergency responders retrieved the body of an unresponsive man from the ocean north of Davenport Beach over the weekend.
Police: Bystanders injured in Santa Cruz gang crossfire
Police are investigating last week's shooting as collateral damage in a gang-related shoot-out outside a Westside bar and restaurant.
Pedestrian and dog killed in Santa Cruz County hit-and-run ID’d
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's-Coroner's Office has identified a pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday.