Richmond News

William Brantley rasped with a voice like steel wool. Wednesday morning, he bid his eldest goodbye.

A series of shootings took place on Richmond streets in little over an hour Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, in which two people were killed, and five more wounded.

The shootings, which happened in different parts of the city within a span of a little more than an hour, did not appear to be related, police said, but investigators were not discounting the possibility of retaliatory violence outright.

A Richmond man was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday in the 2006 shooting death of a 23-year-old Oakland man who was shot near a Berkeley bar and taken to a nearby sorority, where he died.

Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Bay Area is quickly in danger of losing its manufacturing mojo and the thousands of jobs that come with industrial output.

A 34-year-old man was found fatally shot by an unknown suspect in Richmond Monday night, and police have asked for the public's help in solving the homicide.

A woman who was fatally shot on Interstate Highway 80 in Richmond early Sunday morning has been identified as 25-year-old Rickeasha Washington, a Contra Costa County deputy coroner said today.

A 25-year-old Richmond woman was fatally shot in the passenger seat of a car early Sunday morning as it was driving on Highway 80, according to the Richmond Police Department.

RICHMOND, Calif. - The suspect accused of brutally beating an elderly Richmond man who was taking his daily walk now faces a possible murder charge.The victim, 79-year-old Euvaldo Sisneros, died Tuesday.

San Pablo officials, reversing the conventional model of building more lanes to accommodate more traffic, want to put one of the city's main commercial strips on a "road diet." Public Works Director Adele Ho proposes to improve traffic flow and safety on 23rd Street south of Market Avenue to the Richmond city line by converting it from two lanes in ...

The Chevron refinery in Richmond released 100 workers Thursday following a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge's ruling Wednesday ordering the refinery to stop construction of its Energy and Hydrogen Renewal Project, Chevron spokesman Brent Tippen said.

Family photograph of Euvaldo Sisneros, age 79, taken on Thursday, July 2, 2009 in Pleasant Hill, Calif.

Bank of America said Wednesday that it will accept IOUs from the State of California from its customers through July 10.

Legendary San Francisco Bay area hot dog chain Caspers Famous Hot Dogs celebrates 75 years with "The 75 Cent Event," taking place July 28, during National Hot Dog Month.

A 19-year-old robbery suspect went to jail Tuesday after a traffic stop and brief foot chase in Richmond.

Demolishing 38 greenhouses and other structures from a trio of prewar Japanese nurseries to make way for 336 units of affordable and market-rate housing would hurt local historic resources, a city report found.

Euvaldo Sisneros was attacked from behind on the 2800 block of Humphrey Avenue about 3:40 p.m. June 16.

Queen: Loyal subjects, the Queen is dazzled and amazed. Her Majesty included a paraphrase identified only as coming from a "court jester" in her June 24 column, without specifying whether it was uttered by a politician, or in a movie or a book.

Gus Petsas, CPA, financial adviser and board chairman of the Bay Area Rescue Mission talks about the work done at the mission in Richmond, Calif., on Thursday, June 11, 2009.