A recently adopted runaway dog named Roo is now home safe after wildlife officials rescued him from a dark San Francisco Caltrain tunnel, where he spent two days hunkered down.
"Consumers are paying, in some cases, hundreds of dollars more beyond what they would pay just by going straight to the DMV website," said one consumer advocate.
The Oakland Roots are cleared to play this Saturday at the Coliseum after paying for the match against Pittsburgh Riverhounds, but they are skating on thin ice with a massive $1.4 million debt hanging over them.
Video circulating on social media shows the group blindsiding a man at the San Jose laundromat with a punch to the face. The suspects continued the beating, stripped the victim of his belongings, and fled the scene.
Oakland officially welcomed James Beere as its new police chief Wednesday, with Mayor Barbara Lee swearing in the 29-year department veteran during a ceremony at City Hall.
A Hollywood movie producer was arrested this week after federal prosecutors in Illinois charged him with defrauding investors of more than $100 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme.