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Bay Area Rapid Transit workers took a significant step closer Wednesday to a train stoppage that would affect hundreds of thousands of daily commuters, prompting transportation officials to warn that there could be gridlock on the region's streets next week.
A Richmond man has been charged with murder for the fatal shooting of a San Francisco rapper in downtown Oakland in April.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office on Wednesday dropped charges against a convicted prostitute in the slaying of a Monte Sereno man and solved a mystery about DNA in the case, a deputy district attorney said.
San Francisco city officials broke ground Wednesday on a massive, decades-long redevelopment project in the city's Hunters Point neighborhood.
Microsoft showed off a new and improved version of its Windows operating system at its developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Suisun City police have identified a woman killed in a stabbing Tuesday evening and a man who is the suspected perpetrator.
A bike-sharing pilot program is set to launch in the Bay Area starting in August with 700 bikes at docking stations in five cities.
Two elderly sisters whose bodies were found decomposing in their San Lorenzo home last week were identified Wednesday.
A man has been arrested in the June 6 kidnapping, assault and robbery in East San Jose of a store clerk who was stabbed before the suspect fled with money and store items, San Jose police said Wednesday.
San Francisco police have arrested two suspects in a shooting at a Hunters Point bus stop that left a man dead and a teen girl in critical condition.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that backers of Proposition 8, California's ban of same-sex marriage, had no right to appeal a federal court ruling that overturned it. As a result, same-sex marriage can resume in California.
The high court invalidated the federal Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday that has prevented married gay couples from receiving a range of tax, health and retirement benefits that are generally available to married people. The vote was 5-4.
The Milpitas and San Jose fire departments responded to a two-alarm fire at Santa Clara County's Elmwood Correctional Facility late Wednesday morning, a fire battalion chief said.
A man was shot in the parking lot of BART's Coliseum station in Oakland Wednesday morning, a BART police lieutenant said.
A boat belonging to a convicted sex offender that shipwrecked on the shores of a Richmond park weeks ago is being removed Wednesday, a police sergeant said.
