SF News Sunday Links: Person Rescued After Falling From Cliff Along Batteries to Bluffs Trail The city of Richmond is on level one alert after visible flaring at the Chevron Refinery; a Pleasanton man will serve 11 years for voluntary manslaughter in a 2021 Oakland shooting over a woman; and firefighters rescued someone who fell from a cliff.
SF News Pleasanton Man Who Turned Himself In For Mother's Murder Says He Got Tired of Her Nagging A Pleasanton man who confessed to stabbing his mother multiple times after turning himself in to police two weeks ago says he did so "quickly" and "humanely," after he had finally had it with her nagging.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pleasanton Man Confesses to Killing Mother A 31-year-old Pleasanton man turned himself in for the killing of his mother; a power outage hit the Castro, Noe Valley, and Mission; and new details have emerged in the 2023 Nashville school shooting.
SF News Pleasanton Police Investigating Following Death of Dog on Sweltering Apartment Balcony A possible case of animal cruelty is being investigated in Pleasanton after a video went viral on social media of a dog barking and whining while trapped on an apartment balcony in 100-degree heat.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Corgi Con Celebrated Its 10th Anniversary Saturday at Alameda County Fairgrounds A couple thousand corgis and their human companions unleashed corgi magic at the Alameda County Fairgrounds for the tenth anniversary Corgi Con Saturday, and made short work of many different contests where they competed fur prizes.
SF News Two Suspects Plead Guilty, Take Plea Deals in Fatal Shooting of Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Pleasanton Home Depot security guard Blake Mohs was shot and killed trying to thwart a shoplifting last April, and the two suspects involved have just pleaded guilty to knock a few years off their sentences.
SF News Head Up, East Bay Drivers: Big Stretch of I-680 Will Be Closed All Weekend Long Starting at 9 p.m. Friday night, a nine-mile stretch of I-680 southbound will be closed for pavement repairs all weekend long, and the detours will reverberate for drivers on roads all over the East Bay.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
SF News Pleasanton Man Arrested For Murder of Fiancee, Whose Dismembered Body Was Found On Alameda Shoreline In July Alameda County authorities have arrested and charged a Pleasanton man in connection with the death of a woman he called his fiancee, after her body was identified last month.
Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
SF News Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Shot and Killed When Confronting Shoplifter A 26-year old Home Depot employee was shot and killed on the job in Pleasanton Tuesday afternoon while trying to thwart a shoplifter, in a story that gets more heartbreaking when we learn that the shooter had a getaway car with a young child inside.
SF News Errant Cow Gets Loose In Pleasanton, Damages Tesla, Creates General Chaos Reminding us again of how close we are to the countryside, a member of the livestock community in Pleasanton got loose Wednesday night and wandered onto some busy streets in the city, at one point having a "cow-llision" with a Tesla.
SF News Remains of Missing Berkeley Runner Philip Kreycik Likely Found In Pleasanton A body was discovered in the Pleasanton park area Tuesday where 37-year-old Berkeley resident Philip Kreycik went missing over three weeks ago. Pleasanton police say that the body, while not yet confirmed to be that of Kreycik, was found 250 feet from a game trail.
SF News Sunday Links: Pleasanton Police Say They Have Searched All Areas Where Missing Runner Might Be The Dixie Fire is almost a quarter-million acres in size, a 3.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded this morning at 7:30 a.m. near Hollister, and Pleasanton police say they have now “pretty much 100% covered” areas where missing runner Philip Kreycik could’ve been.
SF News Authorities to Resume Search for Missing Runner Philip Kreycik on Saturday The search for missing Berkeley man Philip Kreycik is set to resume Saturday, three weeks after he went missing while on a run in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park.
SF News Still No Trace of Missing Berkeley Runner Philip Kreycik; Detectives Call the Case 'Baffling' Either 37-year-old Philip Kreycik disappeared himself and doesn't want to be found, or he somehow got hurt or incapacitated in a part of an urban park that hasn't yet been searched, and investigators in Pleasanton continue to say they've never had a case nearly this bizarre.
SF News Search For Missing Berkeley Runner In East Bay Canyon Enters Fifth Day A cry for help reported by a couple in the area of Sunol Canyon on Tuesday turned out to be a dead end, as hundreds of volunteers continue to aid in the search for a Berkeley father of two who disappeared while on a run Saturday.
SF News So... Did Anyone Recently Lose an Emu in the East Bay? In unrelated news about the election: an off-course emu was captured by Pleasanton animal services Friday — lassoed in front of a suburban lawn — and its owner still appears MIA.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF News Esteemed Pleasanton Architect Allegedly Assaults On-Duty Officer Over Stock Market Troubles 58-year-old Paul Powers, a well-known and affluent Bay Area architect — who was reportedly unsettled about losing money amid current stock market declines — was arrested for allegedly attacking an on-duty Alameda County Sheriff's Office deputy after he was pulled over for careless driving.
Bay Area Sports East Bay Company Creates Kobe Bryant Grass Mural In Pleasanton A Livermore company that specializes in creating large-scale murals in grass has just unveiled a new mural in honor of late basketball great Kobe Bryant in a Pleasanton park.
SF News Dublin High School Mourns Loss Of Three Teens Killed In Christmas Crash A pair of teenage twins and their friend were killed in a collision Christmas night near Castelwood Country Club in Pleasanton, and now the Dublin High School community and the boys' families are in mourning.
SF News Dummy Stolen By 'Mannequin' Fan Returns With Yet Another Creepy Note A mannequin that was stolen from a East Bay clothing store has just as mysteriously reappeared, with yet another odd note by its side. Given the state of the world, it's understandable if
SF News East Bay Dummy Stolen By Apparent 'Mannequin' Fan A window display display was swiped from a Pleasanton clothing store in a bizarre robbery in which the thief left behind $200 and a note signed with the name of a character from
SF News Billion Dollar BART Extension To Livermore Has Officials Livid Have you ever gazed at the system map while riding BART and noticed some dotted-line ‘proposed extensions’ and said to yourself “Haha yeah right, as if I’m going to live that long!
