Hayward News

City libraries soon will offer a new borrowing system that borrows from Netflix, the mail-based, no-late-fee movie rental service.

Alert bank tellers and customers helped lead to a suspected bank robber's arrest this morning, police said.

As it stands, 926 B St. is a pretty low-key building. A wall of old, mortar-oozing brick doubles as the rear border of Newman Park, and along the street, a little cell phone shop is the sole tenant.

Police haven't released any details about how and where a Hayward boy who went missing was found Wednesday.

Dozens of law enforcement officers are looking for an 8-year-old Hayward boy who went missing from late Tuesday.

The closure of the Bay Bridge for six days has resulted in a net loss of about $1.9 million in revenues on state-owned toll bridges in the Bay Area, Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman John Goodwin said today.

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About seven years ago, a couple of guys showed up at John Wilma's auto shop looking for jobs.

A man was struck and killed by a BART train this morning at the Union City station, according to BART spokesman Linton Johnson.

Six women who were attacked and raped in the area around downtown Hayward last year are set to testify against Damon Williams at his preliminary hearing, which is expected to last at least a week.

It was a Caltrans hope that just didn't float. Speaking at a hastily arraigned late-evening press conference Thursday, Caltrans officials said, should all repairs and testing be completed ahead of Friday morning, there was a slight chance the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge could go into service in time for the Friday morning commute.

Construction crews work to repair the Bay Bridge which is closed for emergency repairs on Wednesday October 28, 2009 in Oakland, Calif.

An explosion in an underground electrical vault tonight has shut down the South Hayward BART station although trains did not lose power and were running through it, officials said.

The California Highway Patrol has issued high wind advisories for two Bay Area bridges this morning.

A man is scheduled to be arraigned today after being arrested in a string of brazen snatch-and-run shopping mall thefts in Hayward and possibly other locations along the Interstate 880 corridor, police said.

Oakland police are examining which cities drivers are from who participate in sideshows as part of a crackdown on the high-speed driving activity.

The city is rife with Money and Brains. It's teeming with a Bohemian Mix. And more than anything, it's overflowing with American Dreams.

A Fremont man was sentenced Friday to 61 2 years in prison for running a Hayward company that purchased more than $9 million in merchandise stolen from major retailers and selling the stolen goods to out-of-state customers, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello announced.

Local families from Samoa are collecting donations in the Hayward, California area.

A murder charge against a leader of the Waterfront, a dangerous South Berkeley street gang, has been dropped because the prosecutor said he did not have enough admissible evidence or credible witnesses, authorities said.