BART

East Bay bus carrier AC Transit will hear its resolution when it meets at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the district's second floor boardroom at 1600 Franklin St. in Oakland

The 14th richest person in the world took BART on Friday, heading from San Francisco to Oakland where he met with Mayor Libby Schaaf outside Beauty’s Bagel Shop on Franklin Street.

BART deployed a new team of officers on Monday to monitor trains and platforms as part of Chief Ed Alvarez's plan to reduce crime. 

The new system, to be installed over the next 11 years, will replace the current system installed in 1972.

Brim is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a mental competency hearing before another judge, Superior Court Judge Michael Gaffey.

He became the interim chief in May after the retirement on Carlos Rojas. 

Under consideration is whether to add 10 unarmed employees walking around the trains and platforms

BART says an unstable person on the tracks between two stations in the East Bay is causing major delays Wednesday evening.

According to a recent BART survey, only 11 percent of surveyed riders are even aware of the BART Independent Police Auditor.

John Lee Cowell, a 29-year-old transient, is charged with murder and attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Wilson and her sister, 26-year-old Letifah Wilson, on the platform at the MacArthur station at 9:36 p.m. on July 22, 2018.

Syon Sergio was contacted shortly before 1 p.m. and found to be in possession of controlled substance and a loaded firearm, officials said.

The noon rally at the station at 3401 E. 12th St. will celebrate the life of Grant, who was fatally shot by former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year's Day in 2009.

The attorney for the 29-year-old BART stabbing suspect charged with Nia Wilson's murder has filed for a change of venue motion.

City planners have identified a 4.5-acre parcel just north of the Pittsburg courthouse for prospective office-space development.

Service through the Transbay Tube is down to one track for scheduled work and delays of up to 20 minutes are expected from the Montgomery Station in the Antioch direction, and the West Oakland Station to San Francisco.

John Lee Cowell is charged with murder and attempted murder for allegedly stabbing Wilson and her sister, 26-year-old Letifah Wilson, on the platform at the MacArthur station at 9:36 p.m. on July 22, 2018.

The judge has three options: ordering Cowell to stand trial on Jan. 6 as scheduled, finding that he's mentally incompetent to stand trial and suspending the criminal proceedings against him, or appointing another psychiatrist to examine him to determine his current competency.