Public speaker Drew Debro, 17, was recently presented with the Oakland Unified School District’s Distinguished Participation Award for “Demonstrating the importance of literacy and his eloquence...
Rowena Tatmon, of Oakland, (pictured with show host Drew Carey) recently won over $11,000 in cash and prizes on “The Price is Right” game show, which...
Guard Josh Akognon played well enough to impress the Mavericks. The Dallas Mavericks recently signed Akognon (5-11, 185), who originally signed a 10-day contract with Dallas...
The City of San Leandro will honor Earth Day 2013 by hosting or partnering on a number of springtime events. Residents can commemorate the occasion by...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week announced that 12-year-old Pavan Raj Gowda of Fremont is one of the recipients of the 2012 President’s Environmental Youth...
By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez The song always pops up when you least expect it. There you are, minding your own business, you hear a...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous The United States has five percent of the world’s people but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. For the sake of our...
By Godfrey Lee John Lam, a dance soloist with the Boston Ballet, returned home to San Rafael to dance in the Marin Ballet 50th Anniversary Reunion...
John Isaiah Norwood, an eight-year-old third-grader at John Sinnott Elementary School in the Milpitas School District and recent Greene Scholar Science Fair award recipient, accomplished an...
Proceeds from the concert will support the Glide Foundation, which provides meals and other services for the homeless in the Bay Area Soul/Indy-Rock Recording Artist Leah...