Concord teen wins 43rd Girls Junior PGA Championship

A 16-year-old girl from Concord has won the 43rd Girls Junior PGA Championship, setting a record for the tournament's lowest 72-hole score.

'Unbearable' lines for Build-A-Bear Workshop promotion

Lines have already closed for the day for Build-A-Bear Workshop's 'Pay Your Age Day,' before West Coast stores even opened. 

Toddler struck in face with shrapnel while attending memorial in Oakland

A 3-year-old boy from San Leandro was injured by shrapnel that flew into his mother's car, striking him in the face during a shooting Wednesday night in Oakland, police said.

Medic, divers who stayed with boys leave cave

The Latest on the rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand (all times local):   10:10 p.m.   The official who led the Thai cave rescue says the medic and three Thai navy SEAL divers who stayed with the trapped boys after they were found have left the flooded cave.

Surveillance photos capture naked prowler at multiple Bay Area homes

Fremont police have obtained additional photos of suspect who is connected with four indecent exposure incidents in Fremont and was caught naked on camera outside a Pleasanton home this week. 

Baby survives 9 hours buried in western Montana woods

A 5-month-old infant who miraculously survived more than nine hours being buried under a pile of sticks and debris in the woods of western Montana suffered only minor injuries despite wearing wet and soiled clothes in cold weather, authorities said Monday.

California police draw attention to cold case, in tweets

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A California police department is drawing attention to a 45-year-old murder case by tweeting about the crime as if it just happened, in the voice of the 11-year-old victim. The Newport Beach Police Department just south of Los Angeles suspended all its normal Twitter content on Saturday to post an extensive series of tweets about Linda O'Keefe, an 11-year-old girl...

Jahi McMath's mother slams doctors at funeral over bitter brain death debate

Funeral services were held Friday for Jahi McMath, the Oakland teenager at the center of a long and bitter legal battle regarding brain death. 

Berkeley-based activists arrested for trespassing while trying to deliver toys to migrant children

A Berkeley man and an Oakland nurse were arrested this weekend as they tried to deliver toys and sing songs to migrant children whom they believe were separated from their parents and are now staying at a Fairfield shelter. But the activists were asked politely several times by police and a security guard to leave the private property, and when they didn’t, the pair were taken into...

Pride of lions kill suspected rhino poachers on game preserve

A lion, or lions, killed suspected poachers at a game reserve in Africa. According to Sibuya Game Reserve’s owner Nick Fox, a group of at least three poachers entered their property overnight on July 2. 

Chesterfield Twp neighbors throw block party after fireworks threat

A Chesterfield Township neighbor's anonymous, threatening letter about 4th of July fireworks backfired. Pretty literally. 

New revelations alleged regarding the death of Tupac Shakur

Las Vegas police investigators are responding to claims made by a former gang member that he knows who shot and killed Tupac Shakur, a rap legend who lived in Oakland.

Arrest in homicide of San Francisco security guard

An arrest has been made following the homicide of 61-year-old security guard Rolando De Leon Romero. Romero was just a half-hour into his shift when he was shot and killed just before 5:30 a.m. Monday. He was on duty - and unarmed - while patrolling the Alice Griffith public housing complex in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood.

Neighbor's call to police for boy mowing lawn prompts donation, surge in lawn mowing business

An Ohio resident called the police on a 12-year-old boy who's spending the summer mowing lawns. Reggie Fields runs his lawn-mowing business called Mr. Reggie's Lawn Cutting Service with his siblings and cousins.

Family forms human chain to save drowning Pleasanton teacher at Half Moon Bay beach

A substitute lunch supervisor in Pleasanton and beloved mother and wife drowned on Sunday while she and 10 other relatives and friends were swept out to sea in Half Moon Bay, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office and her brother-in-law.