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SAN JOSE – South Bay civil rights leader Rev. Jethroe “Jeff” Moore II died Thursday, according to friends and family.Related ArticlesObit...

Today is Friday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2024. There are four days left in the year.Today in history:On Dec. 27, 2007, former Pakistani...

SAN JOSE – An investigation is underway into a stabbing last weekend in San Jose’s Almaden Valley neighborhood.Related ArticlesCrime and...

OAKLAND – A man was shot to death Thursday afternoon in East Oakland, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety |...

ANTIOCH – A gunfight that left two men dead earlier this month in Antioch stemmed from an attempted robbery, police said Thursday.Related A...

Steph Curry is making his second trip the brand-new Intuit Dome in Inglewood, but he won’t be suiting up.Curry, 36, is inactive for Friday...

Boats are built to withstand fierce seas. But tethered inside the shallow and narrow Santa Cruz Harbor, few of the cruisers, catamarans and...

Associated PressDALLAS — Some flights were delayed or canceled in Texas on Thursday after a line of thunderstorms started moving across par...

SAN JOSE — An appellate court has overturned the 2020 rape conviction of ex-San Francisco 49ers star Dana Stubblefield, ruling that the pros...

Santa Clara County’s Family and Children’s Services Director Damion Wright resigned Thursday, according to a letter obtained by the Bay Area...

SAN JOSE — A man was arrested on suspicion of human trafficking and operating a brothel out of a home, the San Jose Police Department announ...

MARTINEZ — Two homes here were raided after police learned of an alleged death threat by a 17-year-old boy whose younger brother had been su...

The Black Flag lineup has changed quite a bit over the decades.Most notably, it no longer includes one of the most iconic singers in punk r...

MARTINEZ — An Antioch man who opened his home to children in need, then sexually abused them for years, was sentenced to 23 years in prison....

More than 130 schools play major college football — 134 to be exact — but few experienced a greater year-over-year downturn than Washington....

“How expensive?” tracks measurements of California’s totally unaffordable housing market.The pain: California is home to 15 of the nation’s...

For those who enjoy the feeling of a book in one hand and a glass of fine merlot in the other, a bookstore-cum-wine lounge just landed in Be...

This is the second in a series on the major Bay Area pro teams’ top performers of the last 25 years. The all-2000s 49ers were unveiled yeste...

Donald Trump loves to sue people for defamation to scare them out of making negative statements about him. In a settlement made public recen...

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Chris Daughtry, 45; Jared Leto, 53; Ozzie Smith, 70; John Walsh, 79.Happy Birthday: You are sitting in a bett...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I am a lifelong hospitality worker, and consider myself a great greeter in any scenario.Related ArticlesAdvice |...

DEAR ABBY: I taught tennis lessons at a private club for 41 years. Then came the pandemic. I was furloughed and not asked to return to work....

Today is Thursday, Dec. 26, the 361st day of 2024. There are five days left in the year.Today in history:On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude...

SAN FRANCISCO – LeBron James dribbled down the court on a one-man fast break before finishing through multiple Golden State defenders for an...

Homes are urgently needed for animals following a fire at the Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV) earlier this month.And you can help out...