17+ Photos Show the 7,800 Person Crowd at No Kings Walnut Creek Rally
WALNUT CREEK — An estimated 7,800 people gathered in and around Broadway Plaza on Saturday, October 18, to participate in the second nationwide “No Kings” day of action, according to event organizers. Photos courtesy Indivisible. The Walnut Creek event ran from about 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m....
Small makers, big trousers: the Bay Area’s indie pants renaissance
San Francisco — birthplace of Levi’s, Ben Davis, and Gap — has a long history with pants. But that history, which over the past decade has unleashed a plague of straight-leg chinos on the world, has reached a turning point. A new era of huge pants is...
With strike coming to end, Bay Area Kaiser Permanente employees hope negotiations move forward
More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care professionals across California and Hawaii have been picketing for nearly a week. They are asking for solutions to unsafe staffing and wage inequalities.
Person dies in Oakland police custody following struggle in residence
A person suffering a medical emergency died after an encounter with police that involved a “brief struggle,” according to Oakland police.
Twins of Irvington High School: Neel & Jay Bhimani
JAY BHIMANI (11) (Right): “Personally, I think a big part of being twins is that we push each other a lot. Naturally, as twins, we do a lot of the same activities whether it’s volleyball or other extracurriculars that would push us to be better. We push each other, whether it’s encouraging each other or having some...
City Applies for Adaptation Grant to Design Future Southern Shoreline
Alameda has been dealing with a structurally inadequate shoreline along its south shore ever since a developer pumped in sand from the Bay to create more land for homes and a shopping center in the mid-1950s. The developer left Alameda with an embankment that didn’t hold up well.
SFPD Royally Pisses Off Other Police Departments With Hiring Billboard Right In Their Parking...
The SFPD is making no friends among the top brass of other Bay Area police departments, with their LED mobile billboard going right into other departments’ parking lots offering their cops higher pay to jump ship. The San Francisco Police Department has been complaining for years that they are...
Bay Area college students rescue tiny gopher, but get huge ER bill
Two college students ended up being charged thousands of dollars for care that required little more than a Spider-Man Band-Aid after they were bitten trying to rescue a little gopher. Here's how 7 On Your Side helped.
Man convicted of lighting ex-girlfriend on fire in Palo Alto
(KRON) — After years of legal delays and an overturned conviction, a man who murdered his ex-girlfriend and ignited her body on fire in their Palo Alto home was found guilty for a second time. Bulos “Paul” Zumot was convicted by a jury following a retrial this week. On October 15, 2009, Jennifer Schipsi was […]
Bay Area man on probation accused of running “ghost gun factory” in apartment
A Bay Area man on probation for a domestic violence conviction has been arrested on dozens of felony charges for allegedly running what prosecutors described as a "ghost gun factory" inside his apartment.
