A Six-Year-Old Boy Was Abducted From A California Park In 1951 — And Now He’s Been...
An ancestry DNA test helped Luis Armando Albino's family find him 73 years after he was kidnapped while playing at a park in Oakland, California, with his older brother.
Heat Advisories this weekend
A massive high-pressure dome is compressing the coastal marine layer, locking Northern California into a prolonged, unseasonably hot autumn weather pattern. Coast: 65° to 72°. A thin stratus fog deck is confined strictly to the beaches during the day. Bayshore: 75° to 85°. High clouds with temperatures running well abo
Weekslong heatwave set for California. How long could it last?
October is here, but summer is hanging around for quite a bit longer. Starting Friday and lasting through at least the next week, a heatwave will keep the western U.S. hot as we kick off the 10th month of the year. The result will be a prolonged stretch of above average temperatures for nearly all of California, with w
New Bay Area rules push homes away from gas water heating
Imagine your water heater suddenly breaks, and replacing it is no longer as simple as buying another gas model. That is the situation many Bay Area homeowners could face as local air regulators move toward zero-NOx water heaters. The rule targets new water heaters installed after the current gas units...
Bay Area biotech’s groundbreaking blood test to detect 50+ cancers gets critical FDA panel...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - A Bay Area biotech company appears to be one major step closer to receiving final federal approval for its groundbreaking multi-cancer early detection (MCED) test, designed to screen for more than 50 types of cancer with a simple blood draw. Sunnyvale-based GRAIL Galleri has shown to detect...
Teenage girl, suspect ID’d in 1969 Oakland cold case
The Oakland Police Department and the FBI announced on Thursday the name of a teenage girl strangled in a hotel bed in 1969 as well as the name of the suspect who allegedly killed her. OPD Chief James Beere identified the girl as Joanie, a 16-year-old girl, whose body was...
Spirit Halloween haunts vacant Bay Area storefronts
Data: Axios analysis of Spirit Halloween store locator; Chart: Brad Jennings/Axios Spirit Halloween is haunting the shells of former big-box stores around the Bay Area and across the U.S. again this fall, with 1,500 locations nationwide. The big picture: The stores appear and vanish each fall, so finding this year's Sp
Oakland animal shelter hits capacity for large dogs
(KRON) — Oakland Animal Services said its shelter is overcrowded with large dogs. The shelter reached the maximum capacity for big dogs at 72, and more dogs are arriving every day, according to OAS. “We currently have shepherds and huskies pushing us over capacity, including two sets of adorable puppies,” Oakland Anima
Oakland police identify 16-year-old girl slain in hotel 57 years ago
A 16-year-old girl found dead in a hotel room in Oakland nearly 60 years ago has been positively identified through DNA technology, the Oakland Police Department and FBI have announced.
Walnut Creek Mom, Ex-Delta Pilot Convicted of Molesting Her Daughter for Years
Two separate Contra Costa County juries have convicted a former Delta Air Lines pilot and his ex-girlfriend, a Walnut Creek mother, of repeatedly sexually abusing her young daughter over several years. Rustom Bhagwagar and Jennifer Spitz Powell were each convicted on all charges, including eight counts of oral copulati
