Alameda County News

The shootings occurred on the 8300 block of International Boulevard, near 83rd street, Oakland police said.

The Alameda County Fair opened July 1 in Pleasanton with new rides and old favorite attractions.

Two people have been struck and killed by the same Amtrak train, one in Berkeley and the other about two hours later in Oakland.

The Alameda County coroner's bureau today identified a 37-year-old San Rafael man who was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon at the Emeryville Marina.

Police seized 64 pounds of illegal fireworks from a Dublin home Thursday morning in an operation that originated when neighbors complained that the residents were selling them.

Alameda Co. Sheriff Close numSlides of totalImages The Alameda County Sheriff's Office Tuesday night released descriptions of two suspects wanted in connection with the Friday fatal shooting of a 31-year-old Castro Valley man inside his hydroponics equipment store.

A former Dublin doctor accused of drugging and molesting male patients and friends was sentenced Wednesday to seven years and four months in state prison.

The memory of pop icon Michael Jackson is living on at the Alameda County Fair through an amusement park ride that once operated at his Neverland Ranch in Southern California.

Authorities have found another major marijuana growing operation in a remote area of Alameda County.

A Modesto businessman was sued Tuesday by the state attorney general's office, which claims he was running a "massive bait-and-switch scam" at his 22 Midas Auto Service franchises in the Central Valley and Bay Area, including a branch in Merced.

A 33-year-old woman has become the first Marin County resident to die from the disease after contracting it in the county, health officials announced Wednesday.

Tony G. Shiu, 41, was ordered by Judge Henry Ramsey Jr. of Alameda County Superior Court to serve seven years and four months in prison.

A woman shot and killed in East Oakland early Saturday was identified by the Alameda County coroner's office Sunday as Tracy Spangler, 29.

If your wallet is feeling a bit heavy this summer, concert promoters are certainly willing to help lighten your load.

Midas franchisee Mike Glad will aggressively defend against the civil complaint filed in Alameda County.

California Attorney General Jerry Brown and two county district attorneys are suing the owner of nearly two dozen Midas auto shops in the state, accusing him of a "massive bait-and-switch scam." Brown and the district attorneys in Alameda and Fresno counties filed a complaint Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court against Maurice Irving Glad, the ...

The suspect, a 19-year-old Pittsburg man whose name wasn't immediately released, was arrested after the rampage, said Alameda County sheriff's Sgt.

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Earl "Butch" Butler, CEO and President of Butler Amusements who had a business relationship with Michael Jackson, talks in Pleasanton, Calif., on Friday, June 26, 2009, about visiting Neverland Ranch.

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