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Equipment linked to identity theft, including a machine for embossing names and numbers on blank credit cards, was seized when investigators searched an apartment in the city's West End.

The last night of November, 65 years ago Monday, was wet with rain and fog. A big Navy reconnaissance plane bound from Alameda to Hawaii developed engine trouble over the Golden Gate.

Gourmet "heritage turkeys" costing $100 or more remain a popular U.S. Thanksgiving niche, even in tough economic times, farmers say.

TOM STANLEY, a south Jersey native, has been on the West Coast for years, but he's always felt something was missing.

The Alameda County Public Health Department has canceled H1N1 vaccination clinics that were scheduled for Dec.

An Alameda-based energy storage company will be using a grant from the federal government to help it store green energy being harnessed by the Modesto Irrigation District.

FRIENDS OF THE ALAMEDA Animal Shelter cordially invite Alamedans and their pets to their first SANTA FAAS celebration from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Dec.

When the planning for Alameda's new library was under way, a survey asked residents what they wanted most.

A state appeals court in San Francisco has upheld the convictions of an Oakland father and son in a string of nearly 30 takeover-style robberies of small East Bay businesses in 2005 and 2006.

Mayor Beverly Johnson and other city leaders will visit Southern California today, when they plan to meet with officials from Irvine to learn how they are handling the redevelopment of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.

Last week, Alameda City Council reviewed the quarterly sales tax numbers. Retail sales tax in Alameda was the hardest hit, business-to-business sales tax revenue the least hardest hit. Theater and parking garage doing little to offset loss of auto-row.

Police arrested a man on suspicion of drunken driving Nov. 11 after they said he crashed into five parked vehicles on three streets and then fled the scene.

The small island town of Alameda, California was rocked by the pop phenomena of Twilight at midnight last night when Twilight New Moon made it's premiere at the local theatre.

Yesterday, Alameda firefighters announced that starting Monday, the union local would give away free Thanksgiving turkeys to Alameda families, while supplies last.

City Councilwoman Marie Gilmore has announced she's running for mayor. Gilmore has served on the council for six years and points to the openings of the new main library and the Alameda Theatre & Cineplex, as well as her work to revamp the Park and Webster street business districts, as among her achievements.

Sculptor Vakil Kuner had no expectations walking into Autobody Fine Art's "Critique Salon" with his recycled aluminum casts in hand.

In this twelve-page letter to SunCal, Alameda City Manager Ann Marie Gallant responds to written comments received from SunCal about the City's election report.

State inspectors say an oil spill that sent hundreds of gallons of bunker oil into San Francisco Bay was caused by a fuel tank that overflowed during a morning refueling stop.

OPPORTUNITIES TO MAKE decisions that will have immediate and profound impact on an entire community do not come along frequently.

Share + Nov 17, 2009 12:38 am US/Pacific OAKLAND Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said Monday that she has agreed to state Attorney General Jerry Brown's request that her office investigate the secret taping of conversations with reporters by Brown's former communications director.

Robert Rosales stands by his BMW at his home in San Jose, Calif. on Saturday, November 14, 2009.

A child's body was recovered from San Francisco Bay waters south of the Berkeley Marina late this morning near where investigators spent Saturday searching for a missing 17-month-old son of a murder victim, a police lieutenant said.

A search of Berkeley's Aquatic Park concluded this afternoon with no new information about the disappearance of the 17-month-old son of the woman found murdered on the park's shoreline early Friday morning, a police lieutenant said.

Police arrested a 20-year-old Alameda man Tuesday after a background check revealed that he was wanted on a warrant that accuses him of receiving stolen property.

Authorities are searching for a missing infant, the son of the woman found murdered in Berkeley's Aquatic Park Friday morning.

While the Alameda County Republican Party has a history of hostility, lawsuits, and in-fighting, the November 17th Monthly Meeting is shaping up to be a war-zone. Earlier this week, the ACRP Executive Committee gave their approval to a resolution that would make a non-interventionist foreign policy, the official position of the county party.

Speech therapist Roberta Rockwell has worked with Alameda students for more than two decades, helping special education students communicate with the world.

Officials are releasing birds that were cleaned of oil that coated them after a spill in San Francisco Bay last month.

Lani Cid-Iulio's students call her "Auntie Lani," and her assistant at Halau Makana Polynesian Dance Company in Alameda is "Auntie Julia." It's a fitting tribute to women who have spent the past 12 years bringing a little bit of Hawaii to the mainland.

Alameda police seized approximately 200 marijuana plants and made one arrest Wednesday after narcotics officers searched an apartment in the city's West End.

Supporters of turning Chipman Middle School into a charter school made their case before the school board Tuesday, saying the new campus would keep a neighborhood school open in the city's West End while offering an alternative for students to succeed.

It's difficult to imagine a time when the biggest thing to happen in a city was the arrival of a Wells Fargo coach, where the most important person in town was the blustering mayor, when people excitedly looked forward to a citywide ice cream social, and the primary place of entertainment was the public library.

Alameda police arrested a Benicia man Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling at least $380,000 from a trucking and warehouse company that stores shipping containers so that customs officials can inspect them after they arrive at the Port of Oakland.

California AG Jerry Brown's office may have issued its report on ex-spokesman Scott Gerber's secret taping program, but the political blowback has just begun.

A swearing-in ceremony is being held in Washington, D.C., Thursday for John Garamendi, who won a special general election Tuesday for an open U.S. Congress seat in the East Bay.

Despite a severe vaccine shortage, Alameda and Contra Costa counties will hold free swine flu clinics beginning Saturday, but will sharply restrict who is eligible for the coveted shots.

The San Francisco Business times is reporting that federal stimulus money is funding Bay area energy startups.

The Alameda County Public Health Department vaccinated about 7,000 people today during four H1N1 vaccination clinics in the county.

Denise Shelton the box office manager for the Alameda Civic Light Opera sent in this reminder that ACLO is has a great show, Broadway's Greatest Moments at Kofman tonight at 8:00 p.m. and tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.: As you know, this has been a tough year financially for many organizations.

An Alameda police officer remains in the hospital Friday and is expected to survive after suffering significant injuries after crashing his motorcycle while pursuing a traffic violator Thursday morning, a police sergeant said.

The board of directors of the City of Alameda Health Care District voted to extend the application deadline for filling the vacancy on the board of directors to Nov.

A former Brazilian police officer is scheduled to enter a plea Nov. 20 to 17 felony charges involving sexual assaults on six women in Oakland and Emeryville from April to last month, authorities said Friday.

A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation with a fuel barge Oct.

Alameda Point Development Initiative - Public Benefits Could Cost $375 Million, SunCal Only Committed to $200 Million On October 30th supplement to the City of Alameda Election Report on SunCal's Alameda Point Initiative indicates that the promised public benefits could cost from $300 million to $375 million.

Alameda residents will get to vote on the proposed redevelopment plan for Alameda Point in February after the City Council decided Tuesday to place it on the ballot.

What began in 1993 as a one-time art exhibit in 16 years has become an annual celebration of the works created by Alameda female artists.

OCTOBER WAS A GREAT month for adoptions and rescues at the Alameda Animal Shelter.

THE LEAGUE of Women Voters of Alameda recently asked City Treasurer Kevin Kennedy to present the findings of his committee, the Fiscal Sustainability Committee, to its membership and the citizens of Alameda.

Proponents of a plan to turn Chipman Middle School into a charter have turned in a proposal that, they say, offers the educational resources the school's students need to thrive without creating a financial hit to the school district.

According to City of Alameda Development Services Manager Leslie Little, who is also on the board of the California Redevelopment Association, a Sacramento-based lobby group, Alameda's redevelopment agency, the Community Improvement Commission , is supposed to lose money each year, "because agencies operate this way Statewide."

A ship that spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel oil into the Bay was moved from its anchorage to a San Francisco pier on Sunday, escorted by a crew of skimming vessels that sought to prevent any more residual oil from soiling the water.

Crews are continuing to clean up oil that spilled from a tanker into the San Francisco Bay last week, resulting in the closure of several local beaches in the Alameda area and the deaths of at least a dozen birds.

Cleanup crews are still sopping up fuel that washed up on Alameda County beaches after last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay.

In December of 2008, we reported on the lawsuit filed by the Alameda Education Foundation against Count Me In, of Bellevue, Washington, who collected over a period of roughly two years and failed to remit more than $81,000 in donations to the AEF .

Clean-up crews went to Crown Memorial State Beach, Bay Farm Island near Oakland International Airport and the Ballena Isle Marina, where workers said the damage was minimal.

Cleanup crews today will resume mopping up an oil tanker spill that killed an unknown number of birds and left tar balls on the shoreline at Crown Memorial Beach and Ballena Bay in Alameda, the U.S. Coast Guard reported Saturday.

Crews working to clean up Friday morning's oil spill in the San Francisco Bay have found some oil washed ashore, and spotted about a dozen oil-slicked birds, a U.S. Coast Guard petty officer said this afternoon.