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Police say fatal Oakland shooting might be drug-related

Killing of 28-year-old man is city's 105th homicide of the year.

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Richmond teen held in El Cerrito school assault

14 year old arrested after stairwell attack Thursday at Portola Middle School

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For-profit colleges prepare for state oversight

Thirty months after California regulators took their eyes off about 1,700 for-profit and vocational schools, a new agency will take over that responsibility on Jan. 1.

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Pleasanton choir saved by borrowed bells

Loan of bells after theft saves Christmas concerts

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National board certification program for principals and 'teacher leaders' launched

Organization that provides national board certification for teachers plans to create a similar program for school leaders

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Pittsburg man looks to keep at-risk youths on right path

An ex-convict applies 'grinding pressure' to make teens and young adults want to improve their lives.

Barnidge: Uniformly good results when students dress alike

TRUSTEES of the Pittsburg and Antioch school districts are weighing whether high school students should wear uniforms.It says here that most high school kids already do.

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Parcel tax supporters gather steam for another ballot measure in the Mt. Diablo school district

Funding committee will review voter poll results and ask school reps to report back to their campuses

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Financial setbacks paved the way to Alamo jewelry store shootout

Suspect was reportedly trying to prevent his Alamo home from going up for auction

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Police arrest 66 UC Berkeley protesters

University shuts down Wheeler Hall activities after students advertised hip-hop show with well-known artist Boots Riley.

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11 students arrested after brawl at high school in Richmond

n No injuries reported after melee at high school in Richmond

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Police arrest 66 UC Berkeley protesters

University shuts down Wheeler Hall activities after students advertised hip-hop show with well-known artist Boots Riley.

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Clinton may be model for Fiorina, Whitman

Theyre tough, Republicans and former CEOs - but theyre also wives, daughters and mothers striving to be something more: winners next year in the cutthroat male-dominated world of California politics. And if former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina hopes to...

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Court tosses Prop. 8 ruling on strategy papers

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has reversed a judges order that backers of Proposition 8, the state initiative that banned same-sex marriage, give their campaign strategy documents to opponents trying to overturn the measure. In a unanimous ruling...

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Conviction in Mothers Day fatal stabbing

A Santa Rosa man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder and other charges for stabbing the mother of his two young children to death and stuffing her body in a toy chest, then driving to Ukiah and trying to shoot her mother. A Sonoma County jury found...

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Career schools official Jason Hodge dies at 34

The handwriting was on the wall from the moment Jason Hodge launched a petition drive in the fifth grade to get the principal of his school, Sobrante Park Elementary of Oakland, fired. The 30 signatures didnt dislodge the principal, but Mr. Hodge had made...

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Supes push on sanctuary law could backfire

Supervisor David Campos is that kid you used to know in grade school - the one that kept telling you not to worry about breaking a few rules, nothing is going to happen. Thats how you ended up grounded. Campos says his new law on arrested undocumented...