Newark Woman Charged With Murder After Mother Dies From Hammer Attack
A 57-year-old Newark woman was charged with murder Tuesday for allegedly killing her 75-year-old mother by attacking her with a hammer on Sunday, prosecutors said.
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A 57-year-old Newark woman was charged with murder Tuesday for allegedly killing her 75-year-old mother by attacking her with a hammer on Sunday, prosecutors said.
Authorities say unemployment and drug addiction have spurred an increase in the destructive practice of cutting off the knobby growths at the base of ancient redwood trees to make lacey-grained coffee tables.
President Barack Obama proposed an almost $4 trillion federal budget on Tuesday that includes a few nuggets for California, but it also cuts money the Golden State had been counting on.
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Enhanced security measures will be in place at the SAP Center starting with Tuesday night's San Jose Sharks game and continuing through the rest of the NHL season and playoffs, a center spokesman said Tuesday morning.
A 60-year-old woman shot her 93-year-old mother and then herself in an apparent murder-suicide at a convalescent home in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood on Monday evening, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
Facebook is in talks to purchase an aerospace firm that makes solar-powered drones as part of the company's strategy to bring Internet access to areas of the world that lack connectivity, according to a published report.
BART announced on it is renewing a program offering free transit tickets to certain military personnel who are on leave or returning from active combat in dangerous war zones.
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