SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- A Santa Cruz County man is facing possible prison time after being convicted of animal abuse charges. Prosecutors say jurors needed only three hours to convict Robert Brunette of 10 counts of animal abuse and neglect Friday. Full Story »
SAN JOSE -- Fire crews responded to a small plane accident at the Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose on Monday afternoon. A strong cross wind at 4 p.m. caused a private plane to flip over as the pilot landed, San Jose fire officials said. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- The attorney for a former city of San Francisco network engineer accused of denying the city access to its own computer network said Monday that his client is a stressed-out "workaholic" passionate about network security and did not commit a crime. Full Story »
EL CERRITO, Calif. -- The principal and assistant principal at Portola Middle School in El Cerrito have been placed on administrative leave during a school district investigation of the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in a stairwell on campus Thursday. Full Story »
Gilroy police Monday afternoon released additional details on the chain of events leading up to the death of a 15-year-old girl at a sleepover on Dec. 5, refuting reports that the teen had large amounts of water in her lungs when she died.. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- A group campaigning to put a marijuana legalization measure before California voters says it has enough signatures to qualify for the 2010 ballot. Full Story »
Lafayette Real Estate Broker Alan Marks, 57, had a grand mal seizure last year after 20-years of intense cell phone use. Full Story »
Workers continued to repair a huge sinkhole south of San Franciscos Market District Monday, in the hopes that adjacent roads would be open by that night. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco native plant thought extinct by botanists has been discovered near the Golden Gate Bridge. The last, wild Franciscan Manzanita was believed to have perished in the 1940s when the city cemeteries where it grew were moved south to allow for neighborhood expansion. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court Monday ruled that California wasn't paying group foster care homes enough to cover the cost of taking care of children. Full Story »
California Highway Patrol officers were searching for two men Monday, one of whom pepper sprayed the other inside the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Santa Rosa and sent at least three others to the hospital. Full Story »
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Authorities say an early morning car fire in Contra Costa County appears to be unrelated to the torchings of more than two-dozen vehicles across the area since late October. Full Story »
RICHMOND, Calif. -- Police are searching for a gunman who shot a man in the city's Southern District this morning, Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French said. Full Story »
PITTSBURG, Calif. -- Two men were arrested in Pittsburg Sunday night after they allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint in Concord. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- Christmas is less than two weeks away and while some people are still shopping for their holiday gifts, a different kind of rush is on. Full Story »
GEORGETOWN, Del. -- The CEO of Craigslist says he had decided not to do business with eBay in 2004 before being asked to meet with eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman. Full Story »
Three Bay Area high schools will be making the trip to Southern California this week to compete for a state football title as powerful De La Salle was chosen Sunday in the Open Division, Bellarmine was selected in Division I and Marin Catholic in Division III. Full Story »
MILPITAS, Calif. -- The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office has identified the body found in an abandoned vehicle earlier this month as a Milpitas woman missing for nearly a year. Full Story »
CONCORD, Calif. -- A woman who was killed Sunday evening in a suspected drunken driving crash in Concord has been identified as 55-year-old Concord resident Virginia Ugarte, a Contra Costa County deputy coroner said. Full Story »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Prosecutors say a former Folsom State Prison guard convicted of disability fraud must pay more than $244,000 in restitution. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's pilot's cap was sold for $5,800 on eBay Monday, raising money for two Bay Area elementary schools. Full Story »
SAN FRANCISCO -- A three-alarm fire in San Francisco's Marina District Sunday night sent a man to the hospital suffering from smoke inhalation and facial burns, authorities said. Full Story »
Iran said Monday it would try three forner UC Berkeley students jailed since crossing the border from Iraq in July, a step certain to aggravate the U.S. at a time when Tehran is locked in a standoff with the West over its nuclear program. Full Story »
San Jose city officials say they plan on using the clout of the city's finances to get banks to tow the line on foreclosures. Full Story »
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner says he will contribute $15 million of his personal fortune to his GOP campaign for governor. Full Story »
A 6-day-old sheep relaxes with its mother at a zoo in Tokyo, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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