San Lorenzo News

Police arrested a man on suspicion of drunken driving Nov. 11 after they said he crashed into five parked vehicles on three streets and then fled the scene.

Holiday donations in the Tri-Cities area have decreased as the nation's economy worsens.

Veterans young and old, but mostly old, were greeted with cards, handshakes and many "thanks" in Fremont on Wednesday during Alameda County's 59th annual Veterans Day ceremony.

Alameda County's 59th annual Veterans Day ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Central Park.

Grissom's Mortuary followed all the right steps in its 16-month effort to build a crematory on its property off Lewelling Boulevard, but the project was shot down by a last-minute discovery of an obscure regulation buried in the county's health and safety code.

San Lorenzo and Cherryland homeowners are shocked that they soon will be paying as much as $1,500 a year for flood insurance they didn't realize they needed.

Oakland police say they're stepping up efforts to prevent potentially deadly sideshows where drivers perform dangerous manouvers for large crowds.

Doug Siden, Alameda resident and East Bay Regional Park District board member, was honored recently with an Individual Citation of Merit.

Grissom's Chapel and Mortuary plans to build a crematory at its facility at 267 E. Lewelling Blvd., but some local residents aren't happy with the idea.

Police are investigating a shooting that left one woman with nonlife-threatening injuries and were searching for a carjacker in the same crime scene area Wednesday afternoon. Authorities Wednesday evening were trying to determine if the incidents were related.

With Centennial Hall facilities closing at the end of the month, the Salvation Army is out of a place to host its popular annual Thanksgiving dinner, and organizers want to get out word that they only will be able to provide box meals this year.

Oakland police have identified three people killed in a high-speed crash on MacArthur Boulevard early Saturday morning.

Three people were killed and three others injured in East Oakland early this morning when a speeding car, possibly involved in a sideshow or street race, careened along MacArthur Boulevard on the wrong side of the road, slammed into two parked vehicles at 100th Avenue, flipped over and hit a pedestrian on the sidewalk, throwing him over a fence and ...

DURING THE earthquake I lived in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco. I was home on maternity leave.

Buying costumes for the family can get costly, especially if you have a lot of children.

There was good and bad news for Milpitas public schools when the California Department of Education released the 2009 Accountability Progress Report for districts and school sites Sept.

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Wulf Bieschke, president of the San Lorenzo Village Homes Association, unexpectedly resigned this week.

In San Lorenzo, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, Maopepe Gaoteote, of Fremont, Calif., second from left, prays during a prayer vigil held at the First Samoan Free Methodist Church for the victims of an earthquake and tsunami that struck American Samoa.

A fire tore through a liquor store in San Lorenzo Monday night, causing the store's ceiling to collapse and for a time giving firefighters all they could handle.