People steal all kinds of things whether it be for the fun of it, monetary gain, or some sort of compulsive addiction (kleptomania). A 64-year-old woman was busted last Tuesday by Walnut Creek police for stealing plants. 

According to Larry Brooks, director of Alameda County Healthy Homes Department, which leads lead poisoning prevention, the soil does not present a current health risk because it is under the blacktop pavement and is contained.

More than 100 people showed up to San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood to take part in a candlelight vigil for a young man killed in San Jose.  

A family on the Peninsula is asking for help finding their missing mother. Maria Guadalupe Serrano was last seen walking to a job site in Half Moon Bay back in 1998 and has not been heard from since then. She had two young sons at the time.