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