DUI checkpoint planned for Friday

Despite bid protest, council moves forward with construction contract and reduces total cost to $42 million

The Walnut Creek City Council approved a resolution to force a hearing on a proposal to get six schools out of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District.

"Good job on the play Saturday night," I told one of my students, Dane Lamoureaux, during seventh-period writing class.Dane quickly turned around. "You were there, really?

NORTH RICHMOND — A funeral has been scheduled for a 15-year-old girl who was struck and killed last week while crossing San Pablo Dam Road in El Sobrante, a family friend said.

A mother calls the Liberty High sophomore who pulled the girl out of the pool, and the Marine who performed CPR, "two angels."

Felony robbery charge against a homeless man who flashed the "gun" while seeking 50 cents for beer money is dropped.

Parking control officers worry that higher fines will provoke greater abuse from ticketed drivers.

Berkeley Mom Gets 11 Years

Misti Mina Hassan, 31, pleads no contest to manslaughter for killing her 9-year-old son with an apparent drug overdose.

Construction crew in Oakland hits a charged line this morning, causing a small blast that sends two men to the hospital.

A 12-year-old S.F. girl who failed to show up for school Monday may be staying with a man, police say.

Supreme Court ruling may clear the way for the resumption of executions in California.