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Is your overflowing closet starting to get out of hand? Piles of clothes you haven’t worn in months — or even years — but can’t seem to part with?. Or maybe you’ve already done the hard part and sorted through your closet, but that trash bag of items to get rid of has somehow never left your house.

Bay Area rapper Weez Gotti will remain behind bars after prosecutors cited murder lyrics in his songs. The 30-year-old (real name Luis Rincon) from North Richmond is currently detained after being arrested for firearm possession following an Airbnb break-in. According to The Mercury News, prosecutors persuaded US Magistrate Judge Thomas...

(KRON) — A 21-year-old Bay Area motorcyclist was killed Monday after a collision near the University of California, Santa Cruz, according to the California Highway Patrol. The fatal crash occurred at 4:45 p.m. on Empire Grade north of Heller Drive. Authorities said the 21-year-old man, a resident of Pescadero, was riding a 1999 Harley-Davidson northbound. […]

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Last Tuesday, it turned deadly at one of South San Francisco’s busier intersections, after an 89-year-old pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at Chestnut Avenue and Mission Road and later died at a hospital, officials said. The collision was reported just after 11:30 AM, and emergency crews rushed the victim to a nearby medical center, where the person was pronounced dead...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KRON) — A pizzeria in Walnut Creek closed for good over the weekend. Pizza My Heart, located at the corner of Botelho Drive and S California Boulevard, held its last day of business on Saturday, May 2. Pizza My Heart opened back in 2017, ending a near-decade run in the city’s downtown […]

(KRON) — A family is grieving a mother who was killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 680 in Walnut Creek last week. California Highway Patrol officers said a driver in a Dodge Charger was driving southbound into oncoming northbound traffic when she collided with six vehicles near the Treat Boulevard exit. Seven people were […]

A 19-year-old Union City man has been ordered to stand trial in the fatal shooting of a Kaiser Permanente security guard in West Oakland last August, after a preliminary hearing that narrowed the fight to a handful of key facts while leaving big questions about motive and video evidence hanging in the air.

Visibly frustrated and divided, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved a nearly $1 million fine against the couple, one of the largest fines in city history.

Oakland's Ceasefire officers did not wait long to make their move. Today, the specialized team headed to Stockton and arrested four people after connecting them to a robbery the day before, seizing two loaded firearms and property investigators said was tied to the holdup. In a brief post on X,...