12-year-old girl struck and killed in Castro Valley hit-and-run

The California Highway Patrol is seeking the driver of a truck who they say struck and killed a 12-year-old girl in a crosswalk in Castro Valley on Monday afternoon. 

House sitter robbed at gunpoint in Pleasanton home invasion

A search is underway for the three suspects who broke into a Pleasanton home in the middle of the night while a woman was housing sitting. 

Community meetings set for Monday to update McClymonds High School closure

The campus has been closed since the discovery Thursday of the cancer-causing chemical trichloroethylene in the groundwater at the school, located at 2607 Myrtle St. in West Oakland.

Pleasanton police seek three suspects in home invasion robbery

Police said that at about 3:45 a.m. Sunday, two men smashed the glass of a rear sliding door and entered a house in the Kottinger Ranch neighborhood, on the city's south edge. The suspects confronted a woman resident there, brandishing a handgun, police said. The men demanded cash and then ransacked the house.

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Founder and organizer Fern Stroud speaks with Claudine Wong on Mornings on Two on Saturday, February 22, 2020.

Wells Fargo to pay $3 billion to settle investigations into millions of unauthorized accounts

As part of the settlement, the bank admitted that it wrongly collected millions of dollars in fees and interest, harmed the credit ratings of some customers and illegally used customers’ private information, officials said.

'No longer City Hall but Silly Hall,' Oakland councilman says over police chief's firing

Noel Gallo said that the reactions he’s been getting of the phone and through email, are mostly people  saying, “it’s no longer City Hall but Silly Hall.” 

Oakland Police Commission unanimously votes to fire Chief Kirkpatrick

The Oakland Police Commission in a closed-door meeting Thursday evening unanimously voted, joining Mayor Libby Schaaf, to fire police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick without cause. 

Navy dad surprises sons at Dublin elementary school

“You guys excited?” Darren Nelson asked, crouched down, hugging all three boys at once, ruffling their hair. “You got Daddy back.”

Defense rests in Cowell trial: Jailhouse calls reveal his lucid conversations with aunt

For most of his murder trial, John Lee Cowell has refused to come to court. On Thursday before the defense rested its case, they called more witnesses to the stand. One of those witnesses spoke out in Cowell’s defense.