SAN RAMON — Chaos broke out on an East Bay freeway Saturday night after a two-car crash that ended with one car in the bushes and that driver barricading himself in the vehicle and threatening that he had a gun, authorities said. It turned out that was not the case, and the CHP took the … Read more
For three years, Rula didn’t have a place to warm herself in the cold, or cool down in the extreme heat. Used as a guard dog and mostly tethered to a 10-foot-long pulley, the energetic 4-year-old German shepherd/husky mix spent most of her life pacing from end to end in a double-fenced maintenance yard, excitedly … Read more
More than 1,200 Pizza Hut delivery drivers in California are slated to be laid off in February. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Pizza Hut operators will lay off more than 1,200 delivery drivers at hundreds of franchises across California in February, the company confirmed. San Ramon-based PacPizza and Southern California Pizza Co., which operate Pizza Hut restaurants … Read more
A Pac-12 logo flag lines the course during the Pac-12 cross country championships at Chambers Creek Regional Park on Oct. 27, 2023, in University Place, Wash. Kirby Lee/Getty Images According to documents filed with labor officials, the conference plans to lay off 141 employees from its San Ramon office on a periodic basis starting on … Read more
A United States Postal Service worker unloads packages in Chicago on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg Edward Fletcher, a letter carrier who’s worked for the United States Postal Service since 1985, has been dealing with an unusual problem — or, rather, it used to be unusual. Ever since the world shut down in 2020, thieves armed … Read more
FILE: A sign is posted on the exterior of a WeWork office on Oct. 7, 2019, in San Francisco. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images WeWork, the company that rents temporary office space to the laptop class, declared bankruptcy Monday in another blow to the Bay Area office market. The move caps off a tumultuous saga that saw the … Read more
A young Bay Area law student was found dismembered on the Alameda shoreline, and police say the man she lived with is responsible for her death. The woman’s remains were found on July 20 inside a bag left near Bay Farm Island Bridge, Alameda police said in a statement Thursday. Whoever put her there had removed … Read more