Bay Area

A Bay Area man who stabbed two sisters on a commuter train platform in 2018, killing one and wounding the other, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday. The New York Times reports, a jury also found the man, 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, guilty of attempted murder and the special circumstances count of lying in […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police and civic leaders in the cradle of America’s free speech movement will struggle to balance liberty of expression with safeguards against violence as demonstrators with varying political viewpoints travel to the San Francisco Bay Area for dueling rallies throughout the weekend. On Saturday, a politically conservative group called Patriot Prayer […]

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the coming years, Californians could have valuable seconds of warning before earthquakes such as this week’s wine country temblor reach them, allowing trains to slow down or stop, power plants and factories to shut off valves, and schoolchildren to dive under desks to avoid falling objects. Earthquake early warning systems […]

At Wiz Khalifa‘s concert Friday night in Northern California, a shooting occurred and a man is dead. The concert was at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. Just after 11 gunshot’s rang out as Khalifa performed. TMZ reports that the shooting happened backstage and the victim was at least 5 times. Cops are investigating […]

NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Winemakers in California’s storied Napa Valley woke up to thousands of broken bottles and barrels as a result of Sunday’s earthquake. The earthquake couldn’t have come at a worse time for the region, which has just started harvesting the 2014 crop. “It’s devastating. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Tom […]

“Fruitvale Station” is not just the name of the movie, it’s the actual Bay Area Transit Station (BART) where the murder of 22-year-old Oscar Grant took place on New Year’s Day 2009. Grant was heading home to Oakland after a night of partying in San Francisco when a scuffle on the train led transit police […]