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Weapons, three kilograms of cocaine, $15,900, drug paraphernalia and evidence consistent with the manufacturing of cocaine were seized from a home in Dublin on Thursday, officials with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department say.

Kirk, who a founder of Turning Point USA, died after he was shot while speaking at a Utah Valley University event in Orem, Utah. A day after the deadly shooting, the right-wing political figure was flown back to Phoenix.

Business owners in two Bay Area cities used weapons to open fire at would-be robbers. Experts say the reliance on firearms is a reaction to an increasingly violent American culture.

Even though there's plenty of peak fire season left, towns that experienced wildfires this year, have to be thinking about what comes next. "Next" could very well be dirt and debris laden water and mud.

A popular cake-lovers’ extravaganza is set to return, and it will not only offer a chance for Bay Area cake lovers to converge, but it will be held at a new and much-anticipated waterfront park.

It was not clear whether anyone was cited or charged.

A person died after being hospitalized with life-threatening stab wounds on Wednesday afternoon

Oakland police said it is currently not known whether drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash.

Alex Jones, who called the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting a "hoax," was sued by the shooting victims’ families. Jones argued that the court judgment violates his constitutional rights, including free speech.

Oakland police on Thursday addressed what occurred at Eddy Cash 4 Gold, where a shop owner exchanged gunfire with five attempted robbery suspects and two of them died. 

In a blow to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ambitions to replumb the Delta, California lawmakers once again punted on his plan to fast-track a deeply controversial $20 billion tunnel project that would funnel more water to the south.

New Orleans' first female mayor is accused of using taxpayer dollars to travel and dine with her bodyguard, then lying to investigators to hide their romantic affair.

The father of a 19-year-old killed this past weekend in downtown Oakland hopes his son's death will serve as a life lesson for other young people to stay off the streets and for parents to be involved in their children's lives.

The mother of a 12-year-old boy who went missing from his home in New Orleans and was killed by an alligator has been charged with negligent homicide.

The alleged shooter at Evergreen High School in Colorado has died after suffering a "self-inflicted gunshot wound". Two other students are still hospitalized.

An Oakland shop owner exchanged gunfire with several attempted robbery suspects Wednesday evening. The police officer's union says two suspects were killed and the shop owner was also shot.