A bronze plaque honoring Vietnam vet Gary Meyer was stolen from a Pleasanton park by thieves looking to sell the metal.

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Authorities canceled an Amber Alert after two young Antioch girls were found safe with their mother, who has threatened to harm herself and the girls.

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Authorities are searching for two young Antioch girls who may have been taken by their mother, who has threatened to harm herself and the girls.

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An off-duty El Cerrito police officer drew his weapon to detain a man seen hitting his wife after the man acted belligerently toward the officer Monday evening, police said.

CONCORD — A gas station was robbed Monday night by two men who claimed to have handguns, police said.The men entered the convenience store at the Valero station in the 5300 block of Clayton Road about 8:55 p.

CONCORD — A man was jumped Monday evening by half a dozen men, one of whom used a stun gun on him, police said.The 29-year-old Chico resident told police he was approached by the men near Clayton Road and Newhall Parkway about 5:50 p.

The 'laid-back' 73-year-old was shot in the head while driving, marking city's 22nd killing of year

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Nearly four dozen East Bay Democrats are in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, where the party will nominate Barack Obama for president.

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Contra Costa cities hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis say the county assessor has made their fiscal situations worse with wholesale downgrades of property values.

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The two names are most popular among the 4,300 freshmen arriving at the college, an incoming class that also includes two 13-year-olds and two older than 60.

Now that computer programmer Hans Reiser has been convicted of murdering his estranged wife, the question of whether a Juvenile Court judge had the power to order the couples children to return to the United States from Russia is moot, a state appeals court...

The City Attorneys Office has reached a tentative settlement with the parents of a Seattle man who plunged to his death from a Nob Hill rooftop in 2006 during a rescue attempt by a San Francisco fire lieutenant, court records show. The settlement in the...

Although U.S. home prices fell faster than ever in the second quarter, the rate of acceleration slowed in June, according to a closely watched index. Experts hailed the slight deceleration as a harbinger of an eventual turnaround in the dismal real estate...

A Foster City man has pleaded no contest to elder abuse for hitting his father in the head with a hammer because he mistakenly thought the 81-year-old man had to be hospitalized before he could be admitted to a nursing home. Jayantibhai Patel, 58, entered...

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama delivered a passionate and personal introduction of her husband, Barack Obama, on Monday night, saying he wants to lead a nation that will listen to our hopes instead of our fears. Each of us also comes here tonight by way...

The thousands of Democrats on their feet Monday night in the Pepsi Center, cheering as their eyes welled with tears, knew they were witness to a last great page, written as they watched, of their most cherished icon, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts...