Two East Bay men were each convicted Friday of two counts of murder  for killing a drug dealer in Antioch four years ago and then killing an  innocent woman in Oakland because she was a potential witness to the crime.

Sunday will mark the one-year anniversary of the worst day in the  history of the Oakland Police Department, when four officers were killed  during a confrontation with a wanted parolee. The Police Department will mark the anniversary of the March 21,  2009, incident in a low-key manner with a barbecue hosted by the police  officers union, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Friday.

Police say the man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years has been ruled out as a suspect in two unsolved murder cases involving children in Reno. Reno police Lt. Mike Whan says Phillip Garrido was cleared after investigators extensively looked for similarities between the cases and Garrido's method of operation in the Dugard case.

San Francisco is joining a group of other California cities and  public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say  misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power. Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment on the June 8 statewide  ballot, would require a two-thirds majority vote before local jurisdictions  could establish a public power program, known as community choice  aggregation, to compete with private utilities.

An attorney who previously won a lawsuit alleging that the city of  Oakland illegally diverted money from a voter-approved public safety measure  filed a second suit Thursday alleging that the city is still violating the terms  of the measure.

The head of the California Department of Transportation is leaving his post for a new job in Contra Costa County. Transportation officials say Randy Iwasaki is stepping down as director of Caltrans to take a job as the executive director of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority. As head of the authority, Iwasaki will be getting a big raise from his Caltrans job.

Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves. There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone.

A Richmond man who was found dead in his home Wednesday night  while police were serving a search warrant died from blunt force trauma to  his head, according to an autopsy report. The victim has been identified as 60-year-old Frederick Cotton,  Sr., a Contra Costa County deputy coroner said.

Officials say an autopsy conducted on the body of an Oakley mother who was killed by her boyfriend Wednesday showed that she was beaten to death with a baseball bat. According to the Contra Costa County coroner's office, the autopsy report shows 21-year-old Elizabeth Reyes died from skull fractures and a brain injury caused by multiple blunt force impact traumas from being beaten with a baseball ball bat.

The St. Mary's Gaels are still alive in the chase for the NCAA men's basketball championship. St. Mary's students watched and shouted from the school's Moraga campus as the Gaels upset Richmond by a final score of 80 to 71.

City workers accused San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom of bullying  them and called 17,000 pink slips issued to employees on March 5 a scare  tactic at a protest in City Hall Friday afternoon. About 50 people, many of whom were among those laid off, held  signs that said "Pink slips  service cuts" and chanted "SEIU," for Service  Employees International Union.

Public health officials are tracking a new case of the measles this month in the Bay Area after noting three other confirmed cases in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties in February.  California officials say there was a fifth confirmed case in February in Amador County in the Sierra foothills.

Police are trying to confirm the identify of a man who disappeared  Thursday after he went swimming near the Pacifica Municipal Pier and never  came out of the water. At 2:17 p.m., police received reports of a person needing  assistance in the water off Shark Park Beach, about 100 yards south of  Clarendon Road. When officers arrived, two separate groups said they saw two men  and a woman on the beach who seemed to be drunk, police Capt. Dave Bertini  said.

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is continuing  track improvement work Friday on its system in the city's Castro and Mission  districts that will affect service on the agency's J-Church line and will  close nearby streets to traffic this weekend.

The San Mateo County Sheriff's Office is reminding residents that  the week of March 22 has been declared Tsunami Preparedness and Awareness  Week by the state and federal government. Last month's earthquake in Chile, which triggered a tsunami  advisory in the Bay Area, serves as a reminder for the need to be prepared in  the event of a tsunami, sheriff's officials said. A tsunami is a series of waves usually caused by an earthquake  under the ocean floor.

A 36-year old pickup truck driver faces two charges of DUI and one felony charge of gross vehicular manslaughter after his vehicle ran into and killed a pedestrian Friday morning near the San Francisco Caltrain station. KRON 4's Yoli Aceves took video as police conducted a field sobriety test on Dwain Davis of Templeton.  Yoli later saw police take Davis away in handcuffs

San Francisco police Chief George Gascon is announcing a personnel overhaul of the department's crime lab that he said would facilitate the ongoing investigation into the lab's practices. In a prepared statement, Gascon said the changes were not punitive but intended to enhance the transparency of the investigation. Both the commanding officer of the crime lab and the lab manager are being temporarily reassigned to other duties.

A motorcyclist is getting treatment for serious injuries after he lost control of his bike and fell more than 40 feet from the Fremont Street off-ramp from I-80 onto a parked car below. The CHP tells KRON 4's Jackie Sissel the rider flew off his motorcycle, went across a gap to another lane of the off-ramp then fell onto the hood of an SUV before landing on the ground.

Pacifica - The US Coast Guard has suspended the search for a missing swimmer near Pacifica Pier at 8:40 p.m. this evening after nearly six hours of searching over 45 suqare miles along the Pacifica shoreline.

San Francisco is joining a group of other California cities and  public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say  misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power. Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment on the June 8 statewide  ballot, would require a two-thirds majority vote before local jurisdictions  could establish a public power program, known as community choice  aggregation, to compete with private utilities.

Rohnert Park police are investigating an alleged kidnapping that  lead to a seven-hour standoff Friday morning at a Motel 6. Miles Minoletti, 21, said on his Facebook page around 2 a.m. Friday that he had been kidnapped and was being held hostage by his father, Martin  Minoletti, in a room at a Motel 6 in Rohnert Park, Department of Public  Safety Lt. Jeff Taylor said.

San Francisco is joining a group of other California cities and  public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say  misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power. Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment on the June 8 statewide  ballot, would require a two-thirds majority vote before local jurisdictions  could establish a public power program, known as community choice  aggregation, to compete with private utilities.

Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves. There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone.

California community college students have missed out on as much as $500 million in unclaimed federal aid, according to a recent report. Wednesday's report by the nonprofit Institute for College Access and Success in Berkeley found that about 500,000 of the 2.9 million community college students in California could be eligible for a Pell Grant.

Police say they've identified a man believed to have shot a 29-year-old Fairfield resident in the leg after the two got in an argument at a bar last week. Just before 2 a.m. on March 8, the victim reportedly began arguing with a man at Harry's Sportsman Lounge at 833 Texas St., Fairfield police said. The two left the bar and continued their argument outside, where the suspect allegedly went to the cab of his truck and retrieved a handgun.

Despite a modest rise last month, Bay Area home sales continue to stagnate, according to the latest figures released by San Diego-based real estate analysts MDA DataQuick. The report said 4,987 new and resale homes were sold in the nine-county Bay Area in February, up 2.8 percent from January but down 0.9 percent from the same time last year.

Prosecutors allege a Northern California man molested two women in his care at a center for the developmentally disabled. According to court documents, Curtis Cortez of Benicia faces seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious acts by a caretaker upon a dependent person. The alleged misconduct took place while the 59-year-old Cortez worked for San Rafael-based Cedars of Marin as a program instructor. He has since resigned.

Thursday afternoon's scheduled arraignment of San Rafael murder suspect Richard Leroy Carlson in Marin County Superior Court has been postponed.     Carlson, 30, is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. on March 24 for the murder of his 72-year-old mother Eleanor Carlson in her home at 215 C St. in San Rafael on or around March 15.

Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian says he will not seek the death penalty for two men charged with the murder of a San Francisco business owner in the garage of his Novato home in 2008. The decision applies to Larry Blay Jr., 20, and Sean Demetrius  Washington, 23, both of San Francisco, who were indicted along with three  juveniles on June 12 for the shooting murder of Tong Van Le as he sat in his  car on Sept. 13, 2008.

PG&E is identifying the worker who was electrocuted on the job in Benicia Wednesday morning as 26-year-old Max Martinez. Utility spokesperson Katie Romans says Martinez was a general construction lineman who worked out of PG&E’s Calistoga yard in Napa County. She did not know where he lived.

An Olympic gold medalist says the governing body of the U.S. swim team hasn't done enough to address a problem of widespread sexual abuse in youth swimming. Deena Deardurff Schmidt, a 1972 Olympic champion swimmer, spoke out Friday in support of a lawsuit alleging inadequate background checks of coaches in the USA Swimming system.

Public health officials are tracking a new case of the measles this month in the Bay Area after noting three other confirmed cases in San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties in February.  California officials say there was a fifth confirmed case in February in Amador County in the Sierra foothills.

San Francisco is joining a group of other California cities and  public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say  misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power. Proposition 16, a constitutional amendment on the June 8 statewide  ballot, would require a two-thirds majority vote before local jurisdictions  could establish a public power program, known as community choice  aggregation, to compete with private utilities.

The San Jose State University Police Department is investigating a  pair of robberies that occurred on campus early Thursday morning. Three men assaulted a campus custodian and took his money at about  2:36 a.m. at the intersection of South Fourth and San Carlos streets,  according to university police.

Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are increasingly falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands of pot thieves. There have been dozens of cases in recent months alone.

California community college students have missed out on as much as $500 million in unclaimed federal aid, according to a recent report. Wednesday's report by the nonprofit Institute for College Access and Success in Berkeley found that about 500,000 of the 2.9 million community college students in California could be eligible for a Pell Grant.

Danero Thomas hit a 15-footer as the buzzer sounded and 13th-seeded Murray State stunned No. 4 seed Vanderbilt 66-65 on Thursday in an NCAA tournament opener in the West Regional. Perhaps President Barack Obama was onto something picking these revved-up Racers to get past the first round. It was the school's first victory in the NCAA tournament in 24 years.

Despite a modest rise last month, Bay Area home sales continue to stagnate, according to the latest figures released by San Diego-based real estate analysts MDA DataQuick. The report said 4,987 new and resale homes were sold in the nine-county Bay Area in February, up 2.8 percent from January but down 0.9 percent from the same time last year.

The union that represents workers at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., known as Nummi, have voted in favor of a proposed severance package for the 4,600 workers about to lose their jobs when the plant closes, according to a United Auto Workers official. Spokesman Mike Roth confirmed late Wednesday workers had ratified the package.

The head of the union that represents 4,700 workers at the New  United Motor Manufacturing Inc. auto plant in Fremont alleged Tuesday that a  proposed severance package mandates a gag order preventing him from speaking  to news media.