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Narcotics officers arrested three men and seized handguns, cash and drugs during raids on two Vallejo-area homes.

When Robert Rigsby arrived in Atlanta, he got a standing ovation. When he surprised his wife during her speech at Howard University, he got a standing ovation.

The Vallejo City Unified School District board is expected to decide this evening which schools must be closed because of declining enrollment and loss of revenue from reduced state funding.

A 35-year-old American Canyon man was pronounced dead Wednesday morning after he lost control of the 2008 Ford pickup he was driving on Lake Herman Road and struck a large eucalyptus tree.

On Thanksgiving Day or very near it, runners across the nation will be lacing up their shoes for some version of the t urkey trot .

A man who lived the high life in Sausalito pled guilty yesterday to setting a fire that destroyed a warehouse filled with 6 million bottles of wine and to selling wine he was supposed to be storing for customers.

Mark Anderson of Sausalito pleaded guilty Monday to arson and fraud charges in connection with a Vallejo fire that destroyed millions of bottles of fine wine.

When it comes to directing children, Tom Segal has to be as flexible as a firefighter entering a burning building in the dark.

The missing toddler of an Oakland woman found dead at Aquatic Park had not been in the care of his mother for nearly two weeks, relatives of the slain woman said Saturday.

Vallejo was plagued with three back-to-back structure fires in a five-hour period late Wednesday night and early Thursday.

Local metal thieves have evidently graduated to larger game with the recent snatching of a 1,500-pound cannon from a Vallejo cemetery, officials said this week.

Vallejo Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Rick Wells has been named to lead the San Rafael chamber.

They may say the recession is over, but the pain certainly isn't in one Bay Area school district.

Share + Nov 10, 2009 9:16 pm US/Pacific VALLEJO Two community forums are scheduled this week at Hogan High School to discuss school closures in Vallejo.

Vehicles, it seems, may be the bane of Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff's existence.

At times, she said, it seems like they're invisible. Reports about Native American students' test scores, good or bad, typically include no mention of their performance, said Melissa Mendoza, parent advisory chairwoman for the Vallejo school district's Native American Studies Program.

Just hours after reopening the Bay Bridge, Caltrans officials said Monday they are confident traffic can cross safely, but added the span may be closed in about six months for more permanent repairs.

Downsizing has become a way of life in America. And the Salvation Army isn't excluded.

Anxious for protection against the H1N1 virus, nearly 1,300 people Friday waited hours in the rain in downtown Vallejo for the much-in demand vaccine.