With the government shutdown over, school communities will grapple in the coming weeks with the upheaval and uncertainty the 43-day shutdown caused. Students from preschool to college were affected by the loss of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the federal program that helps feed low-income families. In addition, schools were left without guidance for helping students with disabilities, homeless students, and children of migrant farmworkers after many U.S. Department of Education employees were laid off.
At the reconsideration hearing held Friday in a San Jose courtroom, Ramon rejected pleas from the district attorney's office to give more weight to the allegations in the murder charges. He ultimately sided with public defense attorneys who argued that the defendants' lack of violent histories, as well as their local family ties and community contributions, did not make them imminent public dangers or flight risks.
Authorities made an arrest early Friday morning of a suspect who may have already confessed to shooting Laney College Athletic Director John Beam. The shooting occurred at the college's Field House on Thursday morning, leading to the school going into lockdown though it was soon learned that the shooter had fled the scene after allegedly shooting Beam in the head. The arrest occurred around 3 am Friday, according to Oakland police.
California made incremental gains in boosting student graduation rates, reducing chronic absenteeism and seeing more students ready for college or careers, according to newly released state data. But the state's slow progress means the majority of California's students may not reach proficiency in English Language Arts and math for many years. "At the current pace of progress it will take many, many more decades and leave behind multiple generations of students," said Melissa Valenzuela-Stookey, the director of P-16 research at EdTrust-West, an educational advocacy nonprofit.
As Hayward revises its 2025-2026 budget after depleting $31 million in its general fund budget, the city is working to rein in its expenses after a 21% increase in salaries and benefits and a 14% increase in overtime that has caused city officials to return to the negotiation table with the city's labor groups. Our public safety departments account for the lion's share of overtime expenses, largely because they account for the lion's share of overall city staffing,
A change to how Berkeley enforces the state fire code will force two popular street events, the city's Juneteenth Festival and a holiday gift market on Telegraph Avenue, out of the locations where they've been held for decades. Meanwhile, city officials are also moving to increase the fees they charge organizers for those and other events an effort to better reflect the staff work that goes into planning for street festivals that is expected to add thousands of dollars to the cost of permits.
The Berkeley Half Marathon is back again this weekend, and the city will be shutting down parking and travel lanes starting Saturday to accommodate the race course, which typically draws several thousand runners each year. Roads will stay open to vehicular traffic until at least 5 a.m. Sunday morning but the city will shut down four blocks around the finish line at Civic Center Park beginning Saturday morning.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff was arrested Wednesday on federal charges that allege she siphoned $225,000 out of a dormant state campaign account and wrote off a $1 million luxury handbags and private jet travel as business expenses on her tax returns. According to the 23-count indictment, unsealed Wednesday morning, political consultant Dana Williamson and her employees Greg Campbell and Sean McCluskie billed the dormant campaign account for bogus consulting services through shell companies they controlled starting in the spring of 2022.
You forgot to finish with the famous line from the movie Network: And I'm not going to take it anymore. The editorial highlighted every major issue during our pariah president's tenure, but characterizing Silicon Valley's business bosses as appeasing and capitulating is as ill as Pam Bondi's nose in South Park. Call them what they are: gutless, spineless miscreants, driven only by money, who bend the knee to the autocracy.
DALY CITY - A house caught fire Tuesday morning in Daly City, injuring a resident and a firefighter, fire officials said. The fire broke out around 8:35 a.m. in the first block of Mateo Avenue, according to the North County Fire Authority. Crews arrived to find the first floor of a two-story home filled with heavy smoke and a bedroom in flames, fire officials said. They put out the fire while searching the residence.
A woman who had driven into Mexico after leading multiple law enforcement agencies on a pursuit from Ventura County through San Diego was arrested Tuesday as she tried to cross back into the U.S., California Highway Patrol investigators said. Officials did not immediately provide the woman's name. They said charges were pending against her as of Tuesday afternoon. The incident began around 10:35 a.m. Monday after Ventura County sheriff's deputies received a report of a woman driving a stolen Toyota Sienna in Thousand Oaks.
They were forgotten amid the frantic evacuation of two senior care facilities, according to state investigators, leaving the elderly women in immediate danger as the smoke and flames of the Eaton fire drew closer. In two reports published recently by the California Department of Social Services, investigators describe the harrowing circumstances of three women who were left behind in the assisted living facilities during the deadly Jan. 7 fire.
