Fremont News Archives

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges Friday in an alleged $8 million insider ring that includes three Fremont men and the chief financial officer of an activist San Francisco hedge fund.

Q I've seen Fremont police cars sitting alongside Interstate 880, apparently watching for speeders.

The South Hayward BART stations remains closed as of 8:30 p.m. after an explosion in an underground electrical vault killed the power there.

Solyndra extended a growth spurt by signing a deal to rent 506,000 square feet in Fremont, marking what is believed to be one of the biggest lease deals in California this year.

A group of Mission San Jose Elementary parents, convinced that their principal is being forced to transfer to another campus, picketed outside the school Tuesday.

GreenVolts Inc. , which focuses on concentrating photovoltaic technology, named David Gudmundson president and CEO.

The doctor elected to lead the medical staff at Washington Hospital has filed suit against the hospital and several of its top doctors, charging that they retaliated against him for appearing in a documentary critical of the hospital.

A young Fremont woman who suddenly found herself in the middle of a street race died Thursday night after one of the speeding cars hit her Volkswagen and caused it to hit the center divider.

FREMONT -- When night fell at Amy Cobb's apartment, she knew something creepy was going to happen.

The biggest bookstore chain in the United States jumped into the increasingly crowded electronic book reader market on Tuesday, unveiling its own device in a challenge to Amazon's popular Kindle.

Fisker Automotive, a California-based startup manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, plans to announce shortly the location of a U.S. manufacturing facility where it will build plug-in electric vehicles, its top executive said Tuesday.

Like any teenager, Robin Patche is eager to assert her independence. But for the 19-year-old and her classmates at California School for the Blind, simply crossing the street at the corner of campus can be a potentially fatal challenge when drivers illegally cut them off at crosswalks.

Android is known for smartphones but the mobile platform will also power the new Alex e-reader from a Fremont, Calif., company called Spring Design Inc.

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. said Monday its third-quarter profit dropped 36 percent as revenue tumbled amid the tech spending slump and it booked hefty costs for stock-option compensation.

Dr. R.C. Sproul is headed to the Bay Area November 5 and 6, 2009. Make your plans now to attend one of these events.

Forty years of haunting have spooked those brave enough to stroll through the Chadbourne Carriage House during October.

Fire and emergency responders from Fremont, Menlo Park and other agencies are beneath the Dumbarton Bridge in Fremont, investigating an overturned boat found floating in the area, an Alameda County fire dispatcher said.

A Fremont man convicted of killing his 2-year-old foster child has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

There are few places with more sweeping views of Fremont and the Bay than Vargas Plateau, which the East Bay Regional Park District has been working for years to turn into a park.

It's been nearly two months since Hasanni Campbell, a 5-year-old Fremont boy with cerebral palsy, was reported missing from behind a shoe store in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.

The sun never sets for very long on all five of Fremont's far-flung sister cities, but the clock has struck midnight for its Sister Cities Commission.

Fremont, Calif-based Hurricane Electric, the world's leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will deliver the keynote address at the Slovenian IPv6 Summit on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

At least one lane of Interstate Highway 680 in unincorporated Alameda County just east of Fremont is blocked this afternoon following a big rig crash, according to the California Highway Patrol.

For nearly a decade, the postal service was on the right track delivering cross-country mail.

The Tri-City area's most civic-minded Halloween tradition kicks off its 40th anniversary Saturday with a throwback to a simpler and spookier time.

Motorists should expect to encounter work crews and lane closures in about a dozen stretches of road this month as the city moves ahead with street repairs.

Bijan's has made Persian food my new favorite cuisine. You'll find this particular cafe at 39935 Mission Blvd.

At an age when most men have given up their grandest ambitions, Dan Pavlik is shooting for the stars.

Cal Fire crews and East Bay firefighters are battling a wildfire that's burning in the Niles Canyon area, between Fremont and Sunol.

School board members are considering lifting a ban that restricts teachers from logging onto YouTube on district computers, but are worried that allowing access to the popular - and sometimes salacious - Web site would disqualify the district from receiving federal money to support telecommunications.

Fire officials initially estimated about 15 acres had burned, but determined Friday the fire was approximately 25 acres.

Deep cuts in taxes and regulations will jump-start California's economy but a tax reform commission's recent proposal is cause for concern, Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said Friday.

New global investment in clean-energy companies fell 22 percent in the third quarter as government financing was offset by tight credit markets, according to new research released Friday.

A 15-acre vegetation fire that broke out this afternoon and led to the injuries of four firefighters in the Fremont area is not expected to be fully contained until Friday morning, a Cal Fire battalion chief said.

FREMONT a ' Crews are battling a vegetation fire in the Niles Canyon area of Fremont.