SF News 18-Year-Old Running for Mayor of Fremont, California It's a wide open race for mayor in Fremont, and an 18-year-old college freshman is hoping to take the head office of his hometown. Aziz Akbari says that "Over the last 8 years
SF News Knife Crime 2012: Man Attacks Self With X-Acto Blade, Severs Penis Maybe we can't technically count this one towards 2012's wave of knife crime in the city, but this baffling tale of self mutilation in Fremont deserves a sharp headline. According to police in
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giants Fan's Hat Features Action Figures, Astroturf, Glory Giants fan Lonee Hoffman of Fremont sports this breathtaking baseball cap anointed with figurines of San Francisco Giants players as she watches her favorite team workout before a spring training game against the
Arts & Entertainment Check Out This Gorgeous Cluster Of Monarch Butterflies Shot at Ardenwood Farms in Fremont, Flickr user sunmallia captured this group of monarch butterflies. "It took me a long while to really see them as they look like a clump of dead
SF News 5,000 Sans Power In Fremont [Updated] An estimated 5,000 people are without power this morning care of PG&E. According to this map, four outages resulted in a major outage for many folks. Power should be restored.
SF News FDA Decides Fremont Man Is A Sperm Factory In Fremont, the Food and Drug Administration has decided that one local man, a sperm donor who has fathered 14 children, should be legally classified as "a manufacturer of human cells" for his
SF News Occupy... Fremont? Fremont, that oft-ignored city to the east, will get its very own Occupy movement starting today at 10 a.m. A march is set to begin at Walnut Avenue and Fremont Boulevard with
SF News 2.8 Earthquake Strikes Hayward Fault Overnight A modest, some might say small, earthquake rumbled along the Hayward Fault just before 4 a.m. this morning, measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale. Unlike the previous half dozen or so
SF News Republicans Subpoena White House for Solyndra Records With full support from Republicans (and none from Democrats, naturally), the House voted today to subpoena the White House for any and all records regarding Solyndra, the Fremont, California-based solar company that imploded
SF News Small Militia Takes Over Fremont Firm in a High-Tech Heist On Sunday, a group of 15 men armed with automatic rifles and handguns jumped six employees of Unigen, the Fremont-based maker of memory cards and wireless internet adapters, in an early-morning heist at
SF News Federal Budget Proposal Would Help Build Central Subway, BART to San Jose Obama's proposed budget has some numbers in it that local transit-o-philes will either love or lambast, depending on how quickly they want to get from Chinatown to the Ballpark and how they feel
SF News Two Men Sought In Connection With Fremont Murder Alameda Country authorities are looking for Manuel Trujillo, 62, and Mohammed Kahn, 47, who allegedly kidnapped and killed 27-year-old Francisco Lopez "after mistakenly believing Lopez wanted to steal their marijuana." According to AP/
SF News Fremont Undercover Officer Shot In Oakland A manhunt is underway for a felon who allegedly shot and wounded a Fremont undercover police officer outside a liquor store in Oakland this afternoon. According to Oakland Tribune, "After shooting the officer,
SF News Construction Beginning on BART's Warm Springs Extension At long last, another new leg of the BART system is about to see the light of day, this time on the Fremont line. The Warm Springs extension project, which will extend BART
SF News Toyota To Close Assembly Plant in Fremont, Slash 4,600 Jobs Toyota has announced that it will cease production at the Fremont-based assembly plant known as NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.), effective March 2010. This follows on GM backing out of the same
SF News $10,000 Reward For Missing Fremont Boy On Monday, the Oakland police department and Crime Stoppers offered up $10,000 for information leading to the return of five-year-old Hassani Campbell, the 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who went missing a
SF News Woman Arrested for Letting Kids Roast In Car You've heard this story too many times. A parent leaves their young offspring inside of their car (or worse, their pet dog) with the windows up, the car sits in the sun, the
SF News Two Men Arrested in I-680 Pellet Gun Shootings A couple weeks ago we mentioned this disturbing-though-not-deadly situation on I-680 where drivers were getting shot at, apparently by an air rifle and maybe by a teenager, and getting their car windows shattered.
SF News Some Kid Using Cars on 680 For Target Practice A sadistic teenager / psychopathic "gunman" has been shooting at cars as they pass between Washington and Mission Boulevards on 680 near the Fremont-Sunol border (i.e. boonies adjacent). No one has been hurt,
SF News Obama Offers $535 Million Loan Guarantee to Fremont's Solyndra, Inc. According to a White House report, "Energy Secretary Steven Chu today offered a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc. to support the company’s construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its
SF News Fremont Hosts Stab Wedding 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
SF News Fremont Rape Suspect in Standoff 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
SF News Two Bombs Found in SJ, Fremont Good Lord, people. It seems that we had not one, but two bomb scares yesterday. First, bomb no. 1: after stopping a car for a routine traffic violation in San Jose, police found
SF News Pete Stark Apologizes to Bush We sure are remorseful these days. First, Archbishop George Niederauer offered his mea culpa to the Catholic Church for giving Communion to the Sisters. Now Stark is getting in on it. After House
Arts & Entertainment nugget o' history: Island for Sale... 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
