A 3-year-old boy still was on life support a day after he and his 8-month-old brother were thrown out of an SUV in a roll-over crash on Highway 4.

It's been six months since Loretta Beckwith was found strangled in an Antioch high school parking lot -- and her family wants answers.

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BRENTWOOD — An 18-year-old man is in stable condition after being shot in the leg Thursday evening, police said.Officers were called to Diablo Way and Chestnut Street around 9:15 p.

School official carried on relationship with 16-year-old girl, police say

PITTSBURG — Firefighters needed several hours to stamp out every last remnant of a Thursday night barn fire off Kirker Pass Road, the Contra Costa Fire District said.

John Yandell was in a coma two years ago, and recently found himself in another unlikely spot - gripping an oversized $100,000 check for winning an online fantasy fishing tournament.

A small sum was apparently at the heart of a dispute in which a man, 36, is suspected of fatally beating a homeless person.

Firms discuss a merger as the software giant's deadline for deciding whether to take its bid hostile or withdraw nears.

Chevron Nets $5.1B Profit

Motorists may be sad, but stockholders are celebrating as the local oil giant posts the second highest quarterly gain in its history.

State prosecutors say evidence is lacking in sexual assault case involving a 17-year-old girl and local college baseball players.

A 94-year-old tenant accused of killing a man at his home is one of the oldest Bay Area homicide suspects ever, say police.

No one was injured in two-alarm fire that raced through a four-story apartment building yesterday afternoon.