In a television interview with ABC News, President Obama said he believes same-sex couples should be able to get married, becoming the first sitting American President to support gay marriage.
The biggest and brightest full moon of 2012 is being spotted over most of the San Francisco Bay Area Saturday night, as it passes 15,300 miles closer to Earth than average.
Want to see the President speak during his latest fundraising swing through the Bay Area? Be prepared to pay up.
President Barack Obama will attend three Silicon Valley events in support of his 2012 re-election bid and the Democratic Party on May 23, including a Redwood City rally expected to draw hundreds of supporters, the Political Beat has learned.
A movie about the shooting of Oscar Grant, the 22 year-old unarmed Hayward man killed by BART Police in 2009, could begin filming in Northern California this summer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The entertainment publication said Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and ”Chronicle” actor Michael B. Jordan are in negotiations to play the roles of Wanda Johnson, Grant’s mother, and the shooting victim in the production.
A 78 year-old woman was killed by a Union Pacific freight train in San Leandro Tuesday night after her daughter mistakenly drove their car down a set of railroad tracks, police reported Wednesday.
San Leandro Police said the 56 year-old daughter got out of the car and unsuccessfully tried freeing her elderly mother from the stuck 2011 Toyota Prius before an oncoming freight train rear-ended the car at the Williams Street railroad crossing near San Leandro Blvd. at 10:10 p.m.
A University of California task force issued a blistering report Wednesday on the Nov. 18, 2011 pepper-spraying of Occupy UC Davis protesters by campus police officers, ridiculing the police department and embattled Chancellor for “unreasonable” use-of-force against students.
The task force, assembled after UC Davis Police Lt. John Pike’s pepper-spraying of peacefully protesting students garnered worldwide attention, said the incident “should have and could have been prevented.”
After decades of planning, BART’s extension to San Jose is finally breaking ground this week. Will you ride?
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nearly 2 months after SF Giants fan Bryan Stow’s savage beating, LAPD officers arrest the “primary aggressor.” http://cabe.at/7vD
Police: Stockton Amber Alert a hoax; children were safe with mother, father could face felony charges. http://cabe.at/NvD
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