A sixth suspect has been charged in connection with the Oct. 24  gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School's homecoming dance. Elvis Torrentes, 21, was arrested in Richmond on Monday and  charged Thursday with rape by a foreign object of a person unable to resist  due to intoxication, rape by a foreign object while acting in concert and  rape while acting in concert, Deputy District Attorney Dara Cashman said  Friday.

On Friday, the tanker that leaked hundreds of gallons of oil into the San  Francisco Bay last week departed from Pier 80 in San Francisco while crews continued to wind down their response to the spill. A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation  with a fuel barge Oct. 31 caused the Panamanian tanker Dubai Star to leak  between 400 and 800 gallons of oil into the Bay two miles south of the San  Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

A judge is ruling that an Oakland woman should stand trial on  charges that she attempted to murder her estranged husband and murdered his  91-year-old grandmother because of a custody battle over their 2-year-old  daughter.

Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and  co-defendant Antoine Mackey are scheduled to stand trial May 17 on three  counts of murder for the deaths of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other  men in the summer of 2007. Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Chris Lamiero said Bey and  Mackey, both 23, also are scheduled to appear in court May 3, two weeks  before their trial is to start.

Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout  the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at  the highest risk for illness from the virus. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz are among the  counties hosting clinics. Due to limited supplies of the vaccines, only pregnant women,  young children, and people with chronic medical conditions or compromised  immune systems will be eligible to receive the vaccine.

Jurors in Martinez have decided Edward Wycoff should be sentenced  to death for killing his sister and brother-in-law in their El Cerrito home  in 2006.  The eight-man, four-woman jury only deliberated for about an hour  and 10 minutes before returning with its verdict on Thursday. Wycoff, a 40-year-old Sacramento-area man, represented himself  during trial and testified at length about his reasons for the murders,  claiming that he had a right to kill Julie Rogers, 47, and her husband Paul  Rogers, 48, because they were "bad people" and were out to get him.

Police in Walnut Creek are looking for two men who robbed a bank  at gunpoint Thursday morning. Officers responded to a report of a robbery at Pacific National  Bank at 1910 Tice Valley Road at around 10:15 a.m., according to the Walnut  Creek Police Department. Two suspects, both described as men in their mid-to-late 20s,  entered the bank and demanded money from the tellers, according to police.  One of the men was carrying a handgun.

Nathan Burris pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he fatally  shot his former girlfriend and her friend at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge  toll plaza Aug. 11. Burris, a 46-year-old Richmond resident, has been charged with two  counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 51-year-old Deborah Ross, a  toll collector at the bridge, and 58-year-old San Leandro resident Ersie  "Chuck" Everette, a Golden Gate Transit bus driver.

The weak economy is creating some unanticipated troubles in suburban Contra Costa County. Some people in Brentwood aren't very happy with Union Pacific Railroad parking its idle railcars on an unused line that runs through the city. Railroad officials say they have to park the cars somewhere because reduced demand for rail transport has forced some of its cars to sit idle.

Berkeley professors have a message for the athletics department: Stop running in the red. Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday passed a resolution calling for an end to subsidies for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Cal's football and men's basketball teams make money. But other programs don't, leading to deficits of millions of dollars.

A police commander is announcing that seven people were arrested Thursday after officials discovered about  five pounds of cocaine and more than a half-pound of crystal methamphetamine  at a home in East Palo Alto. The arrests were made after a month-long undercover operation  conducted by the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force in cooperation with  the East Palo Alto and Menlo Park police departments.

On Friday, the tanker that leaked hundreds of gallons of oil into the San  Francisco Bay last week departed from Pier 80 in San Francisco while crews continued to wind down their response to the spill. A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation  with a fuel barge Oct. 31 caused the Panamanian tanker Dubai Star to leak  between 400 and 800 gallons of oil into the Bay two miles south of the San  Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

A San Francisco railway employee has been arrested on suspicion of punching a 17-year-old girl during a dispute over fares. Police say the girl and her sister asked 59-year-old Muni ticket agent Kenneth Valentine for a youth ticket Thursday afternoon at the Embarcadero Station. Youth tickets cost 75 cents while adult trips cost $2. But the girl did not have any proof of age, and police say she may have looked older than she was.

San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences facility has been recognized by the urban land use industry as a worldwide model of excellence  in design and development. The new $488 million, 412,000-square-foot building in Golden Gate  Park opened in September 2008 and includes an aquarium, planetarium, natural  history museum and four-story rainforest.

Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout  the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at  the highest risk for illness from the virus. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz are among the  counties hosting clinics. Due to limited supplies of the vaccines, only pregnant women,  young children, and people with chronic medical conditions or compromised  immune systems will be eligible to receive the vaccine.

In one ad after another, voters in California and Maine were besieged with images of what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal: Students on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary kids gobbling up books featuring gay couples, kindergartners learning about homosexuality from their teachers. The strategy worked.

Residents of San Francisco's Bayview District are expressing concern about community involvement in the ongoing toxic cleanup and  redevelopment of the former U.S. Navy shipyard at Hunters Point at a Board of  Supervisors committee hearing. The Government Audit and Oversight Committee Thursday afternoon passed  a resolution authored by Supervisor John Avalos calling on the Navy to  reconsider its plan to dissolve the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) for  Hunters Point.

Crews are continuing to clean up areas of the San Francisco  Bay affected by last week's oil spill, which has so far resulted in the  deaths of 24 shorebirds, according to official estimates, with 37 more birds  rehabilitating at an Oiled Wildlife Care Network treatment center in  Fairfield. A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation  with a fuel barge early Friday morning caused the Panamanian tanker Dubai  Star to leak between 400 and 800 gallons of oil into the Bay two miles south  of the Bay Bridge.

San Francisco Giants star pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state.  Washington State Patrol spokesman Steve Schatzel said Thursday that the pitcher was pulled over for speeding on Interstate 5 on Oct. 30. An officer approached Lincecum's 2006 Mercedes and smelled marijuana. Schatzel says Lincecum immediately complied with a request to hand over the drug and a marijuana pipe.

A teacher at San Francisco's Abraham Lincoln High School is being named one of five California Teachers of the Year. Valerie Ziegler teaches U.S. history, economics, government and  politics to 11th and 12th graders at the Sunset District school.

Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout  the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at  the highest risk for illness from the virus. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz are among the  counties hosting clinics. Due to limited supplies of the vaccines, only pregnant women,  young children, and people with chronic medical conditions or compromised  immune systems will be eligible to receive the vaccine.

Three Santa Rosa men were held over for trial Wednesday on five  felony charges stemming from the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl in April. Oscar Anibal Magana-Aristando, 20, Salvador Armando Rivas, 18, and  Alejandro Corado, 31, will re-enter pleas to the charges on Nov. 12 in Sonoma  County Superior Court. They are charged with rape in concert by force or violence,  kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, oral copulation in concert by  force, and giving a minor a controlled substance.

Honorio Pantaleon killed his common-law wife and tried to kill her  mother but he was delusional and believed both of them had implanted demons  and snakes inside him, his defense attorney told a Sonoma County jury Thursday  morning. "This is not first-degree murder and torture," Deputy Public  Defender Jeff Mitchell told the jury during his opening statement in the  trial in Sonoma County Superior Court.

A key transportation committee is considering raising tolls by at  least $1 on the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges next year, but the  proposal doesn't seem to be generating much controversy as only five people  spoke at a public hearing on the subject Wednesday.

Napa County has received 2,800 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine, most  of which will go to local obstetricians and gynecologists who serve pregnant  women, according to county health officials. The doses arrived Friday, Napa County spokeswoman Elizabeth Emmett  said. There are 1,500 doses of adult vaccine without preservatives,  which are appropriate for pregnant women and other adults, county Public  Health Officer Dr. Karen Smith said.

Vallejo police said a 19-year old man was sitting in a car with a  teenage girl drinking milkshakes when he was fatally shot during an attempted  robbery early this morning. Lt. Abel Tenorio said one of the three suspects took the girl out  of the car and threw her to the ground before the shots were fired. The girl  was not injured.

A coalition of environmental and nonprofit groups are hoping an increase in vehicle license fees will help keep California parks open and accessible to residents. The new initiative, California State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund Act of 2010, would charge drivers an extra $18 to register their vehicles. In exchange, motorists would receive free admission to all state parks.

Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said Wednesday she is running for the Republican nomination to battle liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat. Fiorina ended months of speculation with an announcement in an opinion piece in the Orange County Register. She then made a formal announcement Wednesday morning in Garden Grove.

A Northern California woman accused of using her 13-year-old son as a designated driver to avoid getting another DUI has pleaded not guilty. Heather Choulos of Mill Valley is charged with child endangerment, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and allowing a minor to drive. She pled not guilty to all charges Oct. 15.

An angry driver who tried to run down a parking enforcement  officer in Santa Rosa on Monday was arrested for assault with a deadly  weapon, according to police. Just before 3 p.m., a vehicle without a handicap placard was  parked in a handicap space near 1880 Mendocino Avenue, according to Santa  Rosa police.

A police commander is announcing that seven people were arrested Thursday after officials discovered about  five pounds of cocaine and more than a half-pound of crystal methamphetamine  at a home in East Palo Alto. The arrests were made after a month-long undercover operation  conducted by the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force in cooperation with  the East Palo Alto and Menlo Park police departments.

Starting budget talks early in an attempt to patch together a  $96.4 million budget deficit for next year, San Jose City Council members  hope to distribute the funding squeeze evenly between taxpayers, city workers  and service cuts. In a special meeting Thursday to address budget issues, the  council approved a plan to meet one-third of the gap with wage or benefit  reductions, a third with increased taxes or fees, and the final third with  efficiencies or reduced services.

Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout  the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at  the highest risk for illness from the virus. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz are among the  counties hosting clinics. Due to limited supplies of the vaccines, only pregnant women,  young children, and people with chronic medical conditions or compromised  immune systems will be eligible to receive the vaccine.

San Jose officials have ordered the release of 911 recordings and reports in the May fatal shooting by police of a mentally ill man. A city council committee approved the release Wednesday to serve public interest in whether officers knew Daniel Pham was mentally ill before they killed him.

Santa Cruz leaders are considering clamping down on the city's nightclubs, with police complaining that they've created security issues downtown. The city relaxed its liquor laws after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to help businesses draw visitors back.

The San Jose Unified School District is taking the first step to administer H1N1-Swine Flu vaccines to all students. KRON 4’s Will Tran was at Anne Darling Elementary School on Thursday, when the district sent home vaccine permission slips that must be signed by parents and returned by November 12th.

Santa Clara County prosecutors are filing adult charges against three juveniles accused of attacking two Halloween trick or treaters. The two 16-year olds and a 15-year old along with an 18-year old adult all face two counts of attempted murder. Investigators say the defendants attacked a 13-year old boy and a 12-year old girl on Halloween after suggesting their shoes were similar to those worn by members of a rival gang.

Fortune magazine says Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is the CEO of the decade. Jobs beat out a number of other corporate leaders including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and somewhat improbably convicted felons Martha Steward and Bernie Madoff.

A coalition of environmental and nonprofit groups are hoping an increase in vehicle license fees will help keep California parks open and accessible to residents. The new initiative, California State Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust Fund Act of 2010, would charge drivers an extra $18 to register their vehicles. In exchange, motorists would receive free admission to all state parks.

San Jose police have arrested three teens in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy and the stabbing of his 13-year-old friend while trick-or-treating. Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said Tuesday a 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old boys have been taken into custody in connection with the incident Saturday night. He did not release their names or provide other details about their arrest.