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Hundreds of court clerks, legal assistants and other staffers returned to their Alameda County courthouses Friday, allowing courtrooms to begin operating as normal after a two-day strike that hobbled the East Bay’s justice system. The leaders of SEIU Local 1021 said they planned to go back to the bargaining table Monday, while suggesting that future

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San Jose Sharks players and coaches intently watched Thursday’s 4 Nations final between the United States and Canada

Multiple criminal charges have been filed against a man who engaged in a shootout Feb. 16 with San Leandro police who were looking for him for using his truck to ram a vehicle containing his children, authorities said.

“One thousand firefighters who could have been on the job fighting the fires were sent home” on Kristin Crowley’s watch, the mayor said.

Closing leaves the fate of the city’s Oktoberfest in question

The S&P 500 sank 1.7% for its worst day in two months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 748 points, or 1.7%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.2%.

‘We are a union that is sickened by your lust for power,’ the San Francisco union told San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus.

Which of the current Big 12 schools are best equipped to rise above the masses and gain entrance to one of the Big Two conferences in the 2030s?

Robert De Niro stars in another series that should’ve been a movie.