Over at the Niles Banquet Hall in Fremont on Saturday night, five men were stabbed (while a sixth suffered a serious head injury) after five uninvited guests tried crashing a wedding. After being asked to leave, it seems, the creeps got brutal after one member of the clan pulled out a knife. According to the Oakland Tribune, "one victim was found lying facedown on the sidewalk and stabbed in the back several times. Another......

Over at the Papyon Terrace condominium complex in south Fremont, James Henderson--a 39-year-old man--raped, pistol whipped, and beat a woman early this morning, prompting a standoff with the police. (He lives in the garage of his family's condo, it seems. Charming.) Police still have him barricaded within Papyon Terrace's walls, according to the Oakland Tribune, and SWAT teams have surrounded the complex. Unfortunately, Herderson has yet to be apprehended or fatally shot. The Tribune goes......

Good Lord, Bay Area residents. It seems that we had not one, but two bomb scares yesterday....

After House Democrats rescued him from censure today, Fremont Democratic Representative Pete Stark then apologized to members of the House and President Bush for his recent remark about "'soldiers getting their heads blown up...for the President's amusement."...

Who knew that one of the five islands in San Francisco Bay was privately owned? Even stranger, "Red Rock Island" is now up for sale, for a paltry $10 million. The last time we remember one of our islands changing hands was way back in 1847, when Captain John C Fremont bought Alcatraz for $5000. Fremont was in town, as you no doubt remember, as the head of a surveying expedition. A man of......

School stabbings at a high school in Fremont In Oakland yesterday, kids at Lafayette Elementary find a dead body in the school garden."This is a very abnormal, unusual situation," Oakland Unified Spokesperson Roqua Montez said of the incident at the Market Street school. For readers unfamiliar with standard composting procedure, this is not how it's usually done. And, no damage done yet, but we are anticipating eventual childhood trauma with the deployment of Extreme......