Castro Valley News

California is about to reach another benchmark by offering fewer adult education opportunities to its residents than - well, just about any other state.

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An unidentified male was killed and seven people wounded early today in a shooting outside an East Oakland liquor store, police said.

The victim was 47-year-old Johnethel McGehee, authorities said. A sheriff's deputy found her body May 10 on Highway 128 near Lake Berryessa in rural Napa County.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly rammed his car into a Castro Valley duplex following a dispute with his boyfriend.

A 58-year-old Dublin man struck by his runaway pickup truck at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory has died of his injuries.

The suspect, a 19-year-old Pittsburg man whose name wasn't immediately released, was arrested after the rampage, said Alameda County sheriff's Sgt.

After an argument with two men at Alameda County Hydroponics, owner Christopher Bolton , 31, was shot in the head and killed.

Someone opened fire on Eduardo Pereira, 27, of Hayward and the other man at 12:45 a.m. on the 28000 block of Cole Place , police Lt.

Local leaders of the United Church of Christ are calling on their fellow pastors and ministers to support teaching diversity and multicultural education in public schools in response to the issue coming under fire when it was proposed here and in Castro Valley.

A 31-year-old Castro Valley business owner was fatally shot inside his hydroponics equipment store Friday afternoon, an Alameda County sheriff's sergeant said.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Department is searching for at least two suspects after a man in a Castro Valley hydroponics business was shot in the head this afternoon.

KEEPING THE CHILDREN busy is the name of the game in the summer and is as easy as heading to the Castro Valley Library, where activities are geared toward families and children.

The driver of a white BMW 2004 linked to a hit-and-run accident Monday evening on northbound Interstate 680 has turned herself in, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The woman accused of striking a popular Safeway clerk with her car and leaving him unconscious in the street has entered a not guilty plea to a hit-and-run charge.

Two men were shot, one fatally, early Monday in front of a residence on Cole Place in south Hayward, according to police.

A man who was fatally shot in Hayward early Monday morning has been identified as 27-year-old Eduardo Pereira, Hayward police Lt.

Leon Luster, 23, Rashaan Lamonthe, 31, and Shante Bostic, 21, entered guilty pleas last week just before they were to have gone to trial in Alameda County Superior Court, said Deputy District Attorney Jimmie Wilson.

Dough boy: Twirl master Tony Gemignani. Hey, mambo! World pizza-tossing champion Tony Gemignani rocked the dough in his self-described "truly Italian" fashion at Sunday's North Beach Festival .

The primary defendant in a string of robberies of restaurants and other businesses last year pleaded guilty this week to two counts of robbery and will spend more than 19 years in prison, authorities said.