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San Jose City Manager Ed Shikada, acknowledging the City Council wanted new management, Wednesday announced his resignation as of Jan. 1, the day Mayor-elect Sam Liccardo takes office, according the city officials.
One San Francisco city supervisor, who's irritated with vandalism in his district, has posted video of a tree vandal in action.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said Wednesday that there's been a "significant decrease" in use-of-force incidents by her city's police officers since they began wearing body cameras four years ago.
A U.S. official said federal investigators have now connected the Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. hacking to North Korea and are expected to make an announcement in the near future. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to openly discuss an ongoing criminal case.
The president's call for loosening travel and trade restrictions with Cuba is an historic shift that many young Cubans living in the U.S. never thought they'd see. An Oakland performer hopes his mom will get to see him dance.
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Really, America? This is what we've come to? Cancelling showings of a frat-boy comedy movie because of "threats" from a group we don't even know exists? COMMENTARY
President Barack Obama says the United States will have a different relationship with the Cuban government going forward. Watch his full statement here.
Supervisor London Breed is hoping her legislation will keep the music playing at long-standing entertainment venues across the city.
A senior Obama administration official says Cuba has released American Alan Gross, who has been imprisoned for five years.
Hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace made ominous threats Tuesday against movie theaters showing Sony Pictures' film "The Interview" that referred to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The group also released a trove of data files including about 8,000 emails from the inbox of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton.
Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies wanted "sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads" but couldn't get them, yet the real U.S. Navy now has drone sharks, and while the robots don't have lasers, the "GhostSwimmer" UUV is a formidable weapon ripped right out of fiction.
A Bay Area police chief who participated in a protest against police brutality said he would do it again, despite complaints from officers saying he broke the law because he wore his uniform during the march.
California received funding for a long list of programs and projects from a new $1.1 trillion congressional spending bill passed late Saturday night, despite most California representatives voting against it.
