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.

Santa Cruz police are warning residents about questionable  door-to-door soliciting practices that have been occurring recently in the  city. In the past two weeks, the Police Department has been alerted to  multiple instances of male solicitors going door-to-door asking for money to  fund a sponsored photography trip or communications study to Europe.

Fire officials no longer consider a fatal fire in a San Jose home Friday night to be suspicious. San Jose fire Capt. Robert Culbertson says an 87-year-old woman was found dead after an explosion in her single-story home around 6:40 p.m. Friday. Culbertson says fire investigators are trying to find the cause of what he termed was a "significant explosion" but don't think the blast was intentionally set.