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June 10 HIT AND RUN, BATTERY: 11:11 a.m. at West Campbell and Victor avenues. A road rage incident resulted in a man colliding with the victim. The victim confronted the man, who spit on them. The victim was believed to …

OAKLAND — A big office complex in Oakland has been seized through a foreclosure that slashed the building’s value to one-third of its prior price, fresh evidence of a sickly post-COVID Bay Area real estate market. The two-building office center …

June 11 PROWLER: 4:27 p.m. at Creekside Village Drive. A caller reported that a naked man was pounding on the windows of their home to get inside. June 12 to June 13 GRAND THEFT: 4:07 p.m. at Safeway on Pollard …

Don’t expect Klay Thompson to stay out of the headlines. He unfollowed the Warriors and removed team-related posts — to Draymond Green’s apparent amusement. The Athletic reported Monday that Thompson is joining Team Bahamas for training, though he likely won’t …

After a planned hearing on the proposal was cancelled this week, San Jose Water is now waiting for the California Public Utilities Commission to decide if the company can increase its rates 11% for customers in the South Bay. While …

The Aero Fire, reported around 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Sierra Nevada foothills, grew within hours to more than 5,000 acres, up to the edge of Copperopolis. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Map: Wildfires burning across California as dry, …

Once a staple of the Bay Area’s cultural offerings, Oakland’s Art and Soul Festival could now be done for good without a major financial boost, which isn’t easy to come by in a city caught in a perilous budget crisis. …

About 1,800 miles separate Oakland and Kansas City, and the cultural divide might be even wider. But baseball fans in both regions share one thing in common: They loved, and then lost, the A’s. The A’s got their start in …

Justin Timberlake has been arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons, several news outlets have reported. The singer, 43, was arrested in Sag Harbor, according to Newsday and ABC’s Good Morning America. A representative for the Sag Harbor Police …

A plot of land where Interstate 5 crosses the American River in Sacramento was once occupied by the Rusty Duck and Hungry Hunter restaurants, but they’ve closed and their buildings have long been vacant. Recently a developer acquired the property, …

In the insurance business, there are different kinds of black boxes. One is literally a small black box usually inserted into a car’s electronic system that records exactly how a driver behaves and handles the car and then sets insurance …

FREMONT — A vast site in Fremont once occupied by a Fry’s Electronics store has been bought by a real estate investment group from the Southeast in a deal that tops $30 million. Sterling Organization, acting through an affiliate, paid …

Gov. Gavin Newsom and Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara just announced separate plans to give insurance companies bigger, faster rate hikes in response to the home insurance crisis. Their actions would fulfill an insurance industry wish list that threatens Californians’ access …

SAN JOSE – Bay FC has lost nine of its 13 games and has given up a league-worst 25 goals. But at the midway point of the season, it’s still only three points out of the eighth and final playoff …

DEAR HARRIETTE: My roommate and I have been living together for about six months now, and while things were fine at first, we’ve recently started fighting over the chores in our apartment. Related Articles Advice | Harriette Cole: My boyfriend …

Dear Readers: The following Q&A first ran in 2014. It has been flying around the world, shared on various platforms, ever since. Related Articles Advice | Ask Amy: When the worst movie ever made became an Amy Dickinson column Advice …

DEAR ABBY: I am single, never married. A male manager at my job is divorced. I have been here for about a year. After a few weeks at the job, I realized he was single. Related Articles Advice | Dear …

DEAR MISS MANNERS: This happened to my husband at the grocery store: Related Articles Advice | Miss Manners: Is it OK to change my socks on a plane? Advice | Miss Manners: She seems to be mocking me on social …

CHICAGO — The batting cages at Wrigley Field are down one set of stairs, around a corner and past another, longer staircase. To reach the manager’s office requires a climb up another set of stairs, 49 steps, and a march …

INDIANAPOLIS — It was a night for familiar names at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. Former Cal backstroke star Ryan Murphy is headed to his third Olympics. So is breaststroke queen Lilly King. And the most prominent name of all, …

UC BERKELEY – Authorities on Monday arrested a 34-year-old Oakland man in connection with the firebombing of a UC Berkeley Police Department vehicle and three other arson attacks at the school. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Yuba County …

Jaylen Brown became the first UC Berkeley alumnus to win the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award after scoring 21 points as the Boston Celtics defeated the Jason Kidd-led Dallas Mavericks in five games. In Monday’s 106-88 title-clinching win, Brown …

SAN JOSE – San Jose Sharks general manager Mike Grier emphasized Monday that he’s not interested in trading his captain, Logan Couture, who he feels will be a major part of the team’s rebuild as it enters its next critical …

SAN JOSE – Ryan Warsofsky remembers sitting in Mike Sullivan’s office as a teenager and disagreeing with the then-Boston Bruins coach about a certain defenseman on the team. Sullivan liked him, and Warsofsky — not one to back down — …

Ten wildfires of 300 or more acres were burning across the state Monday afternoon, from Redding to Riverside County, according to Cal Fire. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Spare the Air restrictions in effect because of Point Fire Crashes …

Two new highly critical civil grand jury reports describe Santa Clara as “outmaneuvered” by the San Francisco 49ers in its original stadium negotiations and blast the current council as unable to “work together as a cohesive group,” effectively undermining the …

RICHMOND — The Richmond City Council on Tuesday evening is expected to place a tax on oil refining businesses on the November ballot, an initiative that would target the Chevron Refinery. If placed on the ballot by council and approved …

Welcome to Adobe, you can subscribe any time you like, but you can never leave. Well, maybe not never, but customers who subscribed to San Jose image-editing technology powerhouse Adobe’s software found it very hard, and potentially very costly, to cancel, …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Gonot has been a boon for the VTA Re: “VTA needs new leader after BART debacles” (Page A8, June 9). This editorial continues to ignore …

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Keep Pinole police fully funded I have lived in Pinole for 20 years and have always been impressed with the police force and the excellent …

CHICAGO — Willie Mays may not be in attendance this week when the Giants visit his hometown and first professional ballpark, but the oldest living Hall of Famer won’t be far from their minds during Thursday’s Rickwood Classic. “Unfortunately I …

At the direction of state regulators pushing San Jose to clean up its creeks and rivers, local officials are developing an ambitious plan to move about 500 homeless people living along its waterways to sanctioned encampment sites on public property …

The U.S. surgeon general wants to put a warning label — a lá cigarettes — on social media, claiming that it is harmful to the mental health of teens. He should consider expanding that warning to professional athletes, too. Warning: …

The upcoming Summer Olympics basketball tournament will feature a familiar voice for Warriors fans. NBC Sports Bay Area’s Bob Fitzgerald will handle 2024 Olympic basketball play-by-play duties, the Warriors announced Monday. The games will be broadcast by NBC Universal. This …

A new chapter in the life of Oakland’s beloved, three decades-old Bookmark Bookstore has begun. On June 15, the used bookshop – whose proceeds all go to support Oakland public libraries – opened its new location downtown in a historic …

SAN JOSE — A solar company that aims to use the sun’s power to make buildings more energy efficient has decided to make San Jose the headquarters for its United States operations. ClearVue PV has developed a cutting-edge “solar window” …

Members of Sonoma County’s wine community are watching anxiously as firefighters battle the Point Fire, which broke out June 16. The wildfire was first reported at 12:33 p.m. in an area about 12 miles northwest of Healdsburg and west of …

MARTINEZ — A Yuba County woman has agreed to pay nearly a million dollars in restitution to a Richmond company after pleading guilty to a 12-count complaint related to embezzling, authorities said. Angela Fae Brown, 53, of Oliverhurst, entered her …

Stanford pitcher NiJaree Canady has entered the transfer portal after leading the Cardinal to back-to-back Women’s College World Series appearances. Topeka NBC affiliate KSNT first reported over the weekend that Canady was expected to put her name into the portal. …

Is Meghan Markle throwing her famous friend, Nacho Figueras, under the bus? Meghan’s team most certainly don’t think so, even as a source with inside information told the Daily Beast that she had nothing to do with the professional polo …