70 of Fremont's 180 police officers were in an Oakland courtroom Tuesday for the first court appearance for the man accused of trying to kill Officer Todd Young. Andrew Barrientos did not enter a plea during the brief hearing after his new lawyer said she needed more time to prepare for the formal arraignment.  The judge set a new hearing date for September 27th.

A street memorial complete with flowers, incense and emotional messages has been set up near the spot where Berkeley police shot and killed a mountain lion last week after they were unable to chase it out of a residential neighborhood. However, another note defends the actions of Berkeley police, who killed the mountain lion in the driveway of a house at 1630 Walnut St. shortly before 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 31.

Although a recent report by The San Francisco Chronicle shows noise levels on some BART trains can equal those produced by jackhammers, the Federal Transit Administration is praising BART for keeping it quiet.

Police found nothing significant on Monday in their continuing search of a Pittsburg landfill for the body of a missing Hercules man, but searchers did find papers that indicated they were searching the correct trash pile.  Officers and volunteers have been sifting through garbage at the Keller Canyon Landfill on Bailey Road since Friday, looking for the missing 35-year-old Frederick Sales.

A Livermore man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing his teenage son and wife with a fishing knife during a late-night argument. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department says 48-year-old Gary Gomez took his wife, 14-year-old son and his son's two friends to go fishing around midnight Sunday.

The wife of a Fremont police officer who was shot and critically wounded trying to arrest a suspect in Oakland last week says her "whole life turned upside down" when she learned he had been shot. Speaking with a trembling voice to reporters at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where 39-year-old Officer Todd Young is still recovering from his gunshot wounds, Nicole Young said doctors initially told her that her husband "wouldn't make it off the operating table."

A 42-year-old Livermore woman pleaded not guilty Friday to 67 felony counts alleging she committed sex crimes with two teenage boys.  Christine Shreeve Hubbs, who remains at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $4.3 million bail, waived her right to have a speedy preliminary hearing and is scheduled to return to Alameda County Superior Court in Pleasanton on Oct. 14 for a pretrial hearing.

Livermore police are looking for a teenager who beat an elderly woman Monday along a path near the Arroyo Mocho Creek. Investigators say an 89-year old woman was walking on the path at about 3:45 in the afternoon when the young man struck up a conversation with her.  He reportedly said his name was "Cameron" and that he was in the seventh grade. 

72-year-old Charles Rittenhouse remains in the Solano County jail on two million dollars bail after his first appearance on two explosives charges based on evidence police say they found while searching his Vallejo home where they also discovered two murder victims. Rittenhouse pleaded not guilty to both charges.

Although a recent report by The San Francisco Chronicle shows noise levels on some BART trains can equal those produced by jackhammers, the Federal Transit Administration is praising BART for keeping it quiet.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is suing former CEO Mark Hurd to stop him from taking a job at rival Oracle Corp. The complaint filed Tuesday in a California state court comes a day after Oracle hired Hurd as co-president to help lead the database software maker as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf.

San Francisco police have arrested a man who scaled the exterior of a 58-story downtown skyscraper and unfurled an American flag at the top. Police tell KCBS radio that the man is veteran skyscraper climber Dan Goodwin. The 54-year-old Lake Tahoe resident's other climbing credits include Chicago's Sears Tower.

The Pacifica Police Department is seeking three suspects in connection with a home invasion and robbery that occurred Sunday night. The victims of the robbery were not injured during the break-in, police said. Police units arrived at the house in the 100 block of McKinney Avenue at about 9:55 p.m. Sunday, according to a statement. The multiple victims then gave police an account of the robbery.

Lake Merced Boulevard was reopened as of 3:30 a.m. Sunday after a fatal collision Saturday night caused a closure of the road from John Muir Drive to Brotherhood Way, a San Francisco police spokesman said.

The flight controls on a small plane that crashed in a lagoon off San Francisco Bay, killing three people on board, were in the correct position, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday, as two of the victims were identified.

Two animals in San Mateo County were found to be carrying West Nile Virus last month, the county's Mosquito and Vector Control District reported in a statement. The infected raven and squirrel found in August raised concern about the possibility of West Nile Virus circulation in the county.

The wreckage of a small plane that crashed into a lagoon in Redwood Shores Thursday was floated to the water's surface and pulled to shore Friday, a Redwood City spokesman said.  The plane crashed Thursday at about 11:50 a.m. into the lagoon, located just north of Twin Dolphin Drive, and killed all three people on board, including a man believed to have been the founder of a Palo Alto steel company.

 Two environmental groups are suing to block the redevelopment of San Francisco's abandoned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, saying a key part of the plan could permanently damage shoreline and wildlife. At issue is a 41-foot bridge that would be built over Yosemite Slough. It would provide a high-speed bus link and pedestrian and bicycle connection between the two parts of the project area.

Crews with the state Department of Fish and Game worked overnight to remove oil from a tugboat that leaked up to 600 gallons of fuel into the Petaluma River on Monday, a spokeswoman said. The spill, which was reported at about 8:15 a.m. Monday, came from a 60-foot, 90-ton tugboat that was in the process of being salvaged, Department of Fish and Game spokeswoman Alexia Retallack said.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a search for a possible woman in distress off the coast of Tiburon, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said. A helicopter was dispatched at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday to search the waters near the Tiburon peninsula after the Coast Guard received what sounded like a distress call Monday night. The cryptic call came in over a marine radio channel at about 9:15 p.m.

The National Park Service and the Marin County coroner's office are working to identify human remains found in the Marin Headlands this week, a park service spokesman said Friday. A kayaker reported finding a skull at about 7:30 p.m. Monday in a cove below Battery Spencer, which is in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Park Ranger George Durgerian said.

San Rafael police are investigating four incidents in the past week in which men accosted women or girls walking on city streets. In two of the cases, the men were in cars; in the other two, the suspects were on foot, police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said.

Hewlett-Packard Co. is suing former CEO Mark Hurd to stop him from taking a job at rival Oracle Corp. The complaint filed Tuesday in a California state court comes a day after Oracle hired Hurd as co-president to help lead the database software maker as it tries to muscle in on more of HP's turf.