Richmond retiree's violent death is difficult to comprehend, loved ones say.

Student taking summer school classes at Marsh Elementary

Police notes from Lamorinda

n With Toris Jaeger's position at the Wagner Ranch Nature Area eliminated, she is slated to teach fifth grade at Sleepy Hollow Elementary

A federal judge moved Thursday to fast-track a lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 8 and let California's same-sex marriages resume.

Lamorinda public meetings

Emily Alice Chesbrough of Lafayette and Frances Anne Johnson of Moraga have been named to the dean's list at Scripps College in Claremont, the women's college of the Claremont Colleges and one of seven separate colleges that make up the Claremont group.

The boy may be linked to other holdups, police say.

BAY POINT — A sheriff's helicopter used thermal imaging to find a car theft suspect who led police on a chase from Bay Point to Antioch that ended when he crashed into a light pole, the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office said.

MARTINEZ — Two car theft suspects led police on a short chase early this morning, rammed a patrol car, and prompted an hour-long manhunt before they were caught and arrested, police said.

Research will assess whether supplements narrow the gap between disease rates in blacks, other racial groups

Police Wednesday evening were investigating the robbery of a home in the 300 block of South 49th Street.The residents of a home were approached by three men wielding handguns at 4:45 p.

U.S. Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in this Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President...

A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday. Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high. The Dow Jones industrials closed at their lowest level in six...

The King of Pop had a fan in the White House. President Barack Obama described himself as a longtime follower of Michael Jackson, the legendary performer who died June 25 at age 50. I grew up on his music _ still have all his stuff on my iPod, Obama said in...

Michael Jackson permeated popular culture so thoroughly that people and towns nationwide with no connection to him are holding services in his honor. A funeral director in Pittsburghs East Liberty neighborhood is holding a memorial service Thursday night and...

President Barack Obama tells The Associated Press that he will reassess the possible need for additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the Afghan national elections in August. Asked how he defines U.S. success in Afghanistan, the president said Thursday...

Girls who were sexually assaulted by men they first contacted on MySpace cannot seek damages from the social-networking Web site, which is protected from liability by federal law, a state appeals court has ruled. The decision by the Second District Court of...