The 20-year-old man, who used to live in Oakland, was standing with friends when the shooting happened Sunday night.

CONCORD -- Two men were arrested after police said they did severe damage to a sports field with a four-wheel drive pickup truck over the weekend.Police were called to the Boatwright Sports Complex at Campus Drive and Alberta Way about 2:15 a.

MERCED -- An 8-foot-tall statue now stands in a Merced park in honor of Steven Stayner, known for escaping his captor as a teenager and rescuing another young victim in 1980.

VISALIA -- The gunman in a fatal shooting of a Mormon church official in Central California was a former member of the congregation who felt wronged when a bishop "shunned him to hell" in 1988, his younger brother said today.

A week ago, four storefronts in the area were vandalized.

The job of the doctors and nurses at Sutter Delta's Emergency Department is to take extraordinary circumstances and make them routine. And routinely, they get results. A recent study by independent health care ratings organization HealthGrades ranked Sutter Delta's ED in the top 5 percent of hospitals, landing it an Emergency Medicine Excellence Award.

VALLEJO -- One of two men convicted in the 2008 gunshot slaying of young Fairfield City Councilman Matt Garcia was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison this morning.

Andrew Barrientos, 20, of Union City, who was arrested within feet of the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday night, is not expected to be brought back to the Bay Area until Thursday at the earliest.

A 31-year-old year old man already in jail in a burglary case has been charged with assaulting and robbing a woman in a Gilroy Outlets restroom in April.

WALNUT CREEK -- The Walnut Festival Run is back.After years on hiatus, the once popular event tied to the city's September festival will be held Sept. 12 in downtown Walnut Creek, with an 8 a.

HERCULES -- A man found dead from an apparent homicide at his home over the weekend has been identified as investigators disclosed few details of the circumstances of his death.

SAN PABLO -- A pair of near-simultaneous crashes on Interstate 80 in West Contra Costa County this morning made for slow going for Oakland- and San Francisco-bound commuters, the California Highway Patrol said.

A man with a lengthy criminal record was sentenced today to 50 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a Fairfield city councilman in 2008, a slaying that prosecutors called the result of mistaken identity over a $50 drug dispute. Henry Don Williams,...

A man was found slain at his home in Hercules over the weekend, authorities said today. Ricardo Sales, 73, was found by police at his home on the 1100 block of Crepe Myrtle Drive, in between San Pablo Avenue and Interstate 80, at about 3:15 p.m. Saturday,...

Two people have been arrested in the slaying of a man whose body was found over the weekend wrapped in a rug in East Oakland, police said today. The body of Jose Ogo, 64, of Hayward was found in a rug on the 900 block of 89th Avenue at about 9:45 a.m...

I just got back from Bosnia, and the only guns I saw were rusted relics in makeshift museums. Somehow the capital, Sarajevo, managed to emerge from four years of hyperviolent siege with lots of bullet-pocked buildings and mortar casings as objects dart in...

An international panel of scientists says the acclaimed committee studying global warming needs stronger leadership and fundamental changes. Representatives of the worlds science academies have released their report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Activists from the Appalachian region called on the Obama administration Monday to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, saying it is destroying their land and harming their water quality. Although the administration has set out to curb the...