The remains were sent to the Marin County Coroner's Office, and U.S. Park Police are treating the area as a crime scene.

The Exchange Club of the San Ramon Valley will host a remembrance service of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The hourlong event will be held at 9:50 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11 at the All Wars Memorial at Oak Hill Park, 3005 Stone Valley Road in Danville.

A senior fell for a mail fraud scam not once, not twice, but 18 times before realizing he wasn't really the winner of millions of dollars.

Christine Hubbs, 42, has pleaded not guilty to more than five dozen sex crime charges involving two teenage boys.

Benito "Benny" Honorio is now sitting in a Yuba County jail while his attorney races against the clock to win a court hearing from the federal Board of Immigration Appeals.

MIAMI -- A senior law enforcement official says the scientist detained at Miami International Airport because of a suspicious item in his luggage had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- The family at the center of the balloon boy hoax has moved out of the house where the fateful trip began, leaving Colorado for Florida.

CAPITOLA -- After struggling for weeks to pull together the money necessary to host a stop on the Amgen Tour of California, Capitola leaders have decided to bow out of contention.

A group of boaters -- including three children -- was rescued safely after being stranded overnight when their motorboat ran aground in the Suisun Bay, the Coast Guard said.

SALINAS -- A helicopter landed upside-down on a California highway in Salinas Friday, slowing Labor Day weekend traffic for part of the morning but causing only minor injuries to the pilot.

Flanked by Latino political and community leaders, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown fired back at his Republican rival Thursday on leadership styles, experience and vision for California's future.

BAY POINT -- The search for missing Hercules man Frederick Sales, the only person linked to a killing spree who might still be alive, has turned to a landfill, where Hercules police are leading a search for him today.

The search for a missing Hercules man took a grim turn today, as police shifted their attention to a Pittsburg landfill and 3,000 tons of garbage in searching for his body. Frederick Sales, 35, a nursing aide at Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, has not...

After Efren Valdemoro met Cindy Tran during a flirty encounter more than two years ago at a Vallejo beauty salon where she cut his hair, he struck her co-workers as kind and giving. He used to bring us coffee and Filipino desserts. He was very generous,...

Alameda County sheriffs investigators are asking for the publics help in locating two men charged with murdering a man they apparently suspected of plotting to steal their marijuana. Mohammed Kahn, 47, and Manuel Trujillo, 62, know they are being sought in...

The suspect in the shooting of a Fremont police officer in East Oakland has been returned to Alameda County after his arrest near the Mexican border over the weekend, records show. Andrew Barrientos, 20, an alleged gang member from Union City, is scheduled...

A human skull and other bones have been found in a cove in the Marin Headlands, and efforts are under way to recover additional remains, authorities said today. The skull was first spotted by a kayaker at 7:30 p.m. Monday in a cove below Battery Spencer, near...

Gasoline prices have been falling for weeks, and they could go even lower as autumns leaves begin to drop. The national average for a gallon of unleaded regular was $2.681 on Friday, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Thats...