Union City News

With Independence Day less than a week away, Newark residents got a head start preparing for festivities.

Fireworks may be a Fourth of July tradition, but only a handful of Bay Area cities are permiting them this year in response to public safety concerns.

Four years after setting out to pay tribute to those who have served the country, local veterans will gather in Union City on Independence Day to dedicate Veterans Memorial Park and raise flags in honor of all service branches.

An 18-year-old man was charged Monday with three felonies after police said he led them on a high-speed chase after a pair of purse-snatching cases late last week.

Police said they found a man facedown in a pool of blood near 10th and G Street after receiving a call at 2:55 a.m. Sunday.

Health care workers at Tiburcio Vasquez Health Centers picketed in front of the Mission Boulevard clinic Wednesday during a one-day strike over the breakdown of union contract negotiations.

More people may be staying at home this year to celebrate the Independence Day weekend because of the slumping economy, but if they celebrate with fireworks, they could face a $1,000 fine or even jail time, unless they live in one of five Bay Area cities.

When the City Council approves its $148 million general fund budget tonight, there will be no layoffs, all the fire stations will be kept open and no union contracts will be singled out by council members as an albatross.

Like other government agencies forced to tighten their belts, the Union City Council and New Haven school board tonight are scheduled to adopt budgets reflecting service cuts for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

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Connie Spinnato, who was named principal of Newark Memorial High School earlier this school year, has decided to retire, officials said.

Police say a 2-year-old boy drowned after apparently falling into a hot tub at a Union City condominium complex where he was attending a birthday party.

A toddler who drowned in a hot tub at a Union City condominium complex Sunday evening has been identified as 2-year-old Fremont resident Drew Michael, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.

A 19-year-old Union City man has been convicted of first-degree murder for shooting to death a 24-year-old man at a small shopping center in Fremont as a large group of high school students watched.

Police initially went to the home as part of the investigation into the shooting death of Elric Wheeler, a 24-year old Fremont man, which happened earlier in the day at the Meadow Square shopping center.

Q Can you explain, when there is an accident on the Dumbarton Bridge, why every firetruck in the area has to respond? Last week a car rolled over, and when I got there, they already had firetrucks stopped on the westbound side blocking two lanes, while eastbound firetrucks had already left.

Fremont City Council Tuesday unanimously approved a final environmental impact report for the East-West Connector Project, but not before more than a dozen residents again spoke against it.

East Bay Regional Park District police are seeking more suspects in a Saturday fight at Garin Regional Park, which Lt.

A Hayward woman was arrested last week on charges of robbing seven East Bay banks through the months of April and May, Fremont Police Department reported.