Castro Valley News

A 53-year-old man described as being mentally ill was shot and killed by Fremont police early Sunday after a confrontation with police, the second fatal officer-involved shooting in Alameda County in three days.

The woman, who has not been identified, was taken to Eden Medical Center, just a few hundred feet from where she was hit, to be treated for unknown injuries, according to a CHP dispatcher.

A robbery in progress at a burger restaurant in Castro Valley was interrupted when Alameda County sheriff's deputies shot and killed the suspect late Friday night, a sheriff's sergeant said.

The incident happened just after 10 p.m. on the 3600 block of Castro Valley Boulevard, according to Alameda County Sheriff Sgt.

Authorities had few details following a robbery at a hamburger stand late Friday that left as many as three people shot, possibly including the suspect, an Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.

The state health department has fined three Bay Area nursing homes a total of $200,000 for incidents that led to the deaths of three residents.

Crews are responding to a two-alarm vegetation fire near Fairmont Ridge, on Aylesbury Court off Lake Chabot Road, fire officials said.

While some hospitals excelled at keeping patients alive, more than half of institutions around the Bay Area had worse-than-average death rates for at least one medical procedure or patient condition in 2010 and 2011, a new state report reveals.

The crash occurred about 4:40 p.m. in the 26000 block of Palomares Road at Paloverde Road.

Various officials have asked the Eden Township Healthcare District to provide financial support for the San Leandro Hospital of up to $20 million between 2014 and 2015.

The League of Women Voters Eden Area will facilitate the meeting, which begins at noon.

In exchange for the colorful toy firearms, Strobridge Elementary School students received books and a chance to win a new bike, Bay News 9 reports.

Some retired teachers were shocked this month to find that a Medicare benefit paid for by the school district for years was illegal.

Two pedestrians suffered major injuries after being hit by a car at the entrance of Lake Chabot Regional Park on Friday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.

With the weekend discovery in B.C. of an underground marijuana bunker, we look at some of the large and unusual grow ops discovered by police over the years.

Q I got a nasty surprise in the mail the other day. It seems that a couple of months ago a traffic camera in Australia caught me driving a bit fast.

When the Yvette and Phil Hornig family hosted an exchange student from Spain a few years ago, offspring Brett and Brie weren't sure what to expect.

Castro Valley High's Sasha Wallace achieved a rare feat by successfully defending her two state track and field individual titles Saturday at the California Interscholastic Federation state championships.

Q I got a nasty surprise in the mail the other day. It seems that a couple of months ago a traffic camera in Australia caught me driving a bit fast.

The Vietnam War came to Foothill High School in Pleasanton recently in the form of two veterans with divergent experiences.