Nearly 50 Bay Area schools are on an incomplete list of poorly performing campuses in a new report from the California Department of Education. The list includes schools in the all nine Bay Area counties except Napa. The state is listing the schools as "persistently low-achieving."  That's defined using a complex formula.

The suspect in a Vallejo homicide who was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday has been extradited back to the Bay Area and will be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Solano County Superior Court. Ellis Gabriel Ross, 21, was booked into Solano County jail late Sunday. He is being held without bail for the murder of 36-year-old Marico Whitemon, of Vallejo, outside Parkway Liquors at 1601 Lewis Brown Road on Feb. 6.

Officials at a wild animal preserve in Santa Rosa are celebrating the birth of a baby giraffe at the preserve. Officials at Safari West say the calf was more than 6 feet tall and weighed abut 130 pounds when it was born Thursday. Staff members say the baby Masai giraffe, named "Stretch McCovey," was up and walking within an hour after being born.

A 25-year-old Santa Rosa man was arrested for animal cruelty Saturday night after allegedly beating a dog with a stick, according to police. Police said witnesses heard Todd L. Naus strike the animal, causing head and eye trauma and possibly fracturing its jaw. At about 10:30 p.m., police were notified of someone beating a dog in the 700 block of Wilson Street, according to Santa Rosa police.

Vacaville police say three suspects have been arrested in connection with an apparently gang-related shooting Friday night that left a 17-year-old boy dead and a 15-year-old boy seriously injured. Vacaville police Sgt. Jeff King said callers told police that a group of young men armed with handguns fired multiple shots on a group of people in the 100 block of Meadows Drive.