Bank says 47-year-old Frank Harrison Martinez was drawing funds against bogus $3,000 check.

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The guy who made the Giants by surprise came up with a most surprising home run against a pitcher who rarely surrenders them.

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Windsor?s wastewater plant is going solar.

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A car spun out of control, hit the center divide and then ended up going over the guard rail and into oncoming traffic in the northbound lanes, the...

Santa Rosa's newest retirement community, Varenna at Fountaingrove, looks more like a posh Italian resort than a senior center.
The $110 million complex, which opens this week, boasts a spa, movie theater and even its own wine cellar.

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A Petaluma teen who earlier told police he wasn?t involved in the theft of an electronic game console now is in custody after an officer discovered...

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Santa Rosa?s average price for regular gasoline was $3.921 a gallon today, according to AAA. A year ago, it was $3.441.

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Firefighters hire more crews as temperatures forecast to hit 97 degrees.

Santa Rosa police search for a man who allegedly killed his girlfriend Sunday, then drove to Ukiah where he beat up her mother.

NorCal teen and her beau killed in Chester. Her brother, after getting the bad news, is critically injured in car crash.

Mentally Disabled Man Turns Up

San Bruno resident who vanished during a group home's trip to S.F. last week is in the critical care unit at St. Francis Hospital.

Fremont's Omeed Aziz Popal, 31, accused of running down and trying to kill pedestrians in S.F., enters a not guilty plea.

Palo Alto computer maker is reportedly close to buying the information technology services firm for about $12 bil.

With California facing as much as a $20 billion deficit, there will be no easy way for Gov. Schwarzenegger to fix the problem.