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The organization began in 1997, when Amy Lemley and Deanne Pearn, two graduate students at Berkeley, realized that young people transitioning out of foster care had little in the way of public support. They were literally dropped off on a corner or at a homeless shelter with a garbage bag of belongings, and that was it, said Jayme Catalano, First Place for Youth's communications director.

Officials recovered a body Saturday afternoon off the coast of Davenport in Santa Cruz County, several miles north of a beach where a woman had been reported missing and a shark had been spotted. Around 1 p.m., Cal Fire firefighters used a rope system to recover the body from the beach south of Davenport. The agency posted photos online of the firefighters setting up a rope system to recover the body from the beach to the bluffs.

Crean Lutheran's Hunter Caplan, left, and Nick Giarrusso have helped their team reach Classic at Damien semifinals. A look at The Times' top 25 boys' basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 6. Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. SIERRA CANYON (10-1): Trailblazers getting close to full strength; 1 2. REDONDO UNION (13-2): Sea Hawks looking like Sierra Canyon's major challenger; 3 3. SANTA MARGARITA (15-2): Drew Anderson is a big man rising in performance; 2

The U.S. Transportation Department slashed funds for the bullet train aimed at connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles in July. The Trump administration has said the California High-Speed Rail Authority had " no viable plan " to complete a large segment of the project in the farm-rich Central Valley. The authority quickly filed a lawsuit, with Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom calling the federal government's decision "a political stunt to punish California."

Isaac Landry, 51, no longer faces the charge in the Sept. 2 shooting of 43-year-old Robert Abeyta, a Rodeo resident shot during an early morning fight outside a store on the 3800 block of San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. Landry still faces charges of being an accessory after the fact a felony and leading police on a brief chase, a misdemeanor, records show

The City Council signed off on a $3.5 million, six-year agreement with Ladris Technologies to purchase a system its creators said can distill vast quantities of data to determine which route will most quickly lead evacuees to safety. The purchase comes just in time for the technology to aid in emergency preparations for a series of major sports events expected to bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to San Jose next year.

California has withdrawn a lawsuit against the Trump administration that sought to recover roughly $4 billion in federal funds pulled from the state's long-delayed high-speed rail project, after concluding it can no longer rely on the federal government to help deliver the system. The suit was filed after the Federal Railroad Administration began canceling federal grants for the project totaling about $4 billion, arguing the California High-Speed Rail Authority had failed to deliver on commitments amid years of delays and cost overruns.

High winds and heavy rain Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day brought down trees, power lines, flooded roads and left thousands of North Bay residents without power for the holiday. The storm system, the second in a row, swept across the North Bay late Wednesday into Thursday bringing periods of heavy rain, gusty winds, thunderstorms and even pockets of hail, according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Dylan Flynn.

As the Chronicle reports, a gasoline tanker carrying two four-thousand-gallon tanks traveling at an allegedly unsafe speed collided with a pickup truck around 5:30 am Friday near Hellyer Avenue on southbound US Highway 101, causing the tanker to overturn, according to the California Highway Patrol. Per Bay City News, the driver of the pickup truck, who had slowed down to avoid flooding on the freeway, was uninjured, but the big rig driver was taken to the hospital for assessment.

State data show that, between 2017 and 2019 - the latest years for which state data is available - about 28% of Latinas reported taking folic acid the month before becoming pregnant. White women took the vitamin at a higher rate, with 46% of them reporting consuming folic acid, according to the California Department of Public Health.

A Pittsburg man has been found guilty of second-degree murder in a 2022 quadruple shooting outside a Brentwood gym, court records show.

Flooding shut down some lanes of state Highway 87 near state Highway 85 in San Jose early Thursday morning, prompting authorities to urge drivers to avoid the area. Around 5:10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol said two southbound lanes of Highway 87 north of Highway 85 were flooded, creating risky driving conditions. An estimated time for reopening was not immediately available.

SHERIFF OUSTED: The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors removed Sheriff Christina Corpus from office in October 2025 due to allegations and findings that she misused public funds, retaliated against subordinates and violated conflict-of-interest laws, particularly concerning her chief of staff, Victor Aenlle. Following her removal, former Santa Clara County Sheriff Ken Binder was appointed as the new sheriff. He's the brother of Palo Alto police chief Andrew Binder.