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Officials ID CHP officer killed in off-duty crash
Officials have released the name of a veteran California Highway Patrol officer who was killed in an off-duty motorcycle crash, while his colleagues remembered him as a dedicated public servant. John Fanene died after the motorcycle he was riding clipped a pickup truck that had turned in front of him ...
US receiver starts layoffs as Calif. inmates ebb
The federal receiver who controls health care in California prisons is issuing layoff notices to more than 2,200 employees as inmate crowding eases. The notices announced Wednesday come as receiver J. Clark Kelso begins returning control to state officials. Spokeswoman Liz Gransee says the goal is to reduce the medical ...
Assassinated SF mayor, supervisor remembered at vigil, candlelit walk
To mark 34 years since the assassination of then-San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, city officials and the families and supporters of the slain leaders held a vigil and led a walk from City Hall to the Castro District Tuesday evening. The 4:30 p.m. vigil was held ...
Local veterans' memorial dedicated in Castro Valley
It was seven years in the making, but Sunday saw a new veteran's memorial being dedicated in the East Bay. More than a thousand people gathered at a Castro Valley Park Sunday for the dedication ceremony of a new veteran's memorial, which was a project the local post of the ...
State fire chief dies while on assignment
A state fire chief has died after losing consciousness while on an investigative assignment in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that 47-year-old Rob Van Wormer was pronounced dead at Dominican Hospital around 8 p.m. Saturday. He was the Santa Clara Unit Battalion Chief for the California Department of ...
Kinkade's girlfriend agrees to pay $11K-a-month rent
Thomas Kinkade's girlfriend is agreeing to pay $11,000 a month to rent the San Francisco Bay area mansion where she had lived with the late artist, but his paintings and possessions remain the focus of a bitter estate fight. The San Jose Mercury News reports that Kinkade's widow, Nanette Kinkade, ...
Vigil held for 7-Eleven clerk fatally gunned down during robbery
A candlelight vigil was held Friday night in Milpitas for the 7-Eleven clerk who was fatally gunned down last Saturday by robbers. The 67-year-old store clerk was working the graveyard shift when he was shot. The community came out to remember Mohammad Reza Sadeghza, a man they didn't know well ...
Humorist Phyllis Diller dies at 95 in Los Angeles
Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at age 95. "She died peacefully in her sleep and with a smile on her face," her longtime manager, Milton ...
Vacaville teen's family sues tourist, Aloha Jet Ski
The family of a 16-year-old California girl killed in a Hawaii watercraft crash is suing an Australian tourist charged with third-degree negligent homicide. The lawsuit filed Monday in Circuit Court in Honolulu by Kristen Fonseca's family also names as a defendant Aloha Jet Ski, which rented the personal watercrafts that ...
South Bay Marine was among three killed by Afghan police officer
A South Bay man was one of three Marines shot and killed by an Afghan police officer shortly before dawn Friday as they all sat down to share a meal, making this the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week. Officials said Matthew Manoukian, a ...
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