Gang Member Gets Life In Prison For Vallejo Musician Murder
A Sureño gang member was sentenced Monday morning for the highway shooting murder of Vallejo musician Dewey Tucker in 2010 and the slaying of a Santa Rosa man a year later.
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A Sureño gang member was sentenced Monday morning for the highway shooting murder of Vallejo musician Dewey Tucker in 2010 and the slaying of a Santa Rosa man a year later.
"The Bay Lights," an $8 million privately funded project created by artist Leo Villareal, will wow visitors near the bridge for at least the next two years. Mayor Ed Lee said an estimated 50 million people in San Francisco and the North and East Bay will eventually see the lights.
A light sculpture made up of 25,000 LED lights strung along the western span of the Bay Bridge will be turned on Tuesday night after months of preparation.
All lanes were reopened after a multi-car crash left one person dead and shut down part of westbound interstate Highway 80 in Richmond Saturday afternoon.
Finding a lost wedding ring along a snowy highway is hard enough. But a Good Samaritan in Northern California also has to track down the man it belongs to.
Power was restored to lights on both spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after an outage Tuesday night.
Three men were arrested this week in connection with a string of robberies at the Carquinez Bridge toll plaza, California Highway Patrol officials announced Thursday morning.
Work on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge has "reached its last major milestone" and "we can smell the finish line," Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger said Tuesday.
Traffic on westbound Interstate Highway 80 on the Bay Bridge and in Emeryville is slowed by two vehicle collisions Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
All lanes of Interstate 80 in Berkeley reopened Tuesday night after a big-rig crash near the Gilman Street exit snarled traffic in both directions, according to the California Highway Patrol.
By next March, the installation will create the appearance of dancing lights on the bridge's Eastern Span, and organizers say it will likely bring nearly $100 million a year in tourist dollars to the region.
The trial of an alleged gang member charged with the separate killings of Vallejo musician Dewey Tucker and a Santa Rosa man is under way in Sonoma County Superior Court.
Caltrans is warning the Bay Bridge could be closed over a five-day span as the work to complete the new eastern span grinds toward a planned 2013 Labor Day weekend opening.
KCBS, CBS 5 and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier looks at the push by a local legislator to eliminate the carpool lane on Interstate 80.
A FedEx truck overturned causing diesel fuel to leak onto the shoulder of Interstate Highway 80 in Fairfield early Tuesday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanor DUI charge in connection with his arrest on the Bay Bridge in April.
Authorities say Oakland Raiders wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey has been charged with misdemeanor drunken driving following his arrest last month after a traffic stop on the Bay Bridge.
Interstate 80 in Solano County may convert carpool lanes into hot lanes in order to tackle the increased traffic demands along the corridor.
Sacramento authorities have fatally shot a man at an apartment complex following an exchange of gunfire and manhunt spurred by a series of carjackings that led to a 6 ½ hour closure of I-80.
An 8-year-old boy is recovering after he was shot when a driver opened fire at his family's car in Richmond in an apparent road-rage incident.
A Granite Bay woman allegedly led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase covering more than 100 miles Friday morning before she was finally stopped in Sunol, a CHP spokesman said.
The park that will be adjacent to the Oakland touchdown for the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge will incorporate a rail yard to accommodate operations at the Port of Oakland, transportation officials said Wednesday.
A motorcyclist was killed Thursday morning in a crash that threw him off the freeway after reportedly speeding on the northbound Interstate Highway 880 connector to eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Oakland, according to a California Highway Patrol officer.
Fundraising has began for a public art installation that would turn the suspension cables on the Western Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge into a sculpture of light.
The California Highway Patrol has added patrols around the Carquinez Bridge, where a robber held up a toll worker on Tuesday in the latest in a string of such crimes.
