• UC sex assault cases mishandled federal complaint alleges

  Attorney Gloria Allred said that some of the complaints allege a hostile environment for women and others charge colleges with violating the federal Clery Act, which requires accurate reporting of campus crimes. Women "will no longer accept the status quo where rapes and sexual assaults are swept under the rug and condoned by college administrators," Allred said in a statement released ...

• Oakland City Council New budget rules approved amid tensions

  OAKLAND -- With just over a month to adopt a budget, Oakland council members approved rules aimed at preventing a repeat of last year when the final budget plan was introduced at the last minute with no chance for public vetting.The new law, passed 6-2 after a testy debate, forbids council members from submitting major budget amendments within three days of the final meeting when the budget is ...

• Rental startup Flightcar lands in Boston eyes more airports

  Flightcar, co-founded by CEO Rujul Zaparde, is opening its second car-sharing location at Boston's Logan International Airport in time for Memorial Day weekend. Vehicle-sharing startup Flightcar is opening its second location, Boston, just in time for Memorial Day weekend and plans to be at up to five airports by year's end. But CEO Rujul Zaparde told me this week that he and teen ...

• Coming up 3D printing for Bootstrappers

  The Bootstrapper's Breakfast happens on the fourth Friday of every month in Mountain View. The talk at the monthly Bootstrappers Breakfast Meetup in Mountain View this week is about how to leverage 3D printing for startup and small businesses. Paul Spann of Spann Enterprises, a longtime mechanical engineer at various Silicon Valley tech companies, is making the presentation. He believes that ...

• Tampa Bay Area Drying Out as Holiday Weekend Approaches

  According to Bay News 9 Meteorologist Juli Marquez, rain chances are only 20 percent today as showers move inland and to the other side of the state."After our wet days, rain chances start dropping and drier air moves in," Marquez said. "It will be partly sunny today with some slight chances of isolated showers and storms - mainly to the east of the Bay area. It will remain warm ...

• Paper Battery Co. of Troy wins Silicon Valley hot 50 tech startup honor

  The Paper Battery Co., a Troy, NY startup developing a paper-thin energy technology, has been named to a Silicon Valley list for the 50 hottest early-stage tech companies. ...

• Google expanding Fiber to Raytown Mo.

  Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city approved Google Fiber on Tuesday night, according to the Google Fiber blog, and it becomes the tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't disclose when the network would go live, ...

• Google Fiber expanding in Kansas City

  Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city on Tuesday approved Google Fiber, according to the Google Fiber blog. This is the company's tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't say when the new service would go live in ...

• LinkedIn acqui-hires polling startup Maybe

  LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. LinkedIn Corp. has acqui-hired social polling startup Maybe, whose engineers are now working in LinkedIn's mobile divison. Maybe was shut down, according to TechCrunch, and all five of its employees, other than founder Omar Hamoui, are working at LinkedIn. Terms of ...

• Intel Names Krzanich as New CEO

  POSTED May 2, 2013 SANTA CLARA - Intel Corporation announced that its board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will assume his new role at the company's annual stockholders' meeting on May 16. Krzanich, Intel's chief operating officer since January 2012, will become the sixth CEO in ...

• The Funded YesGraph

  YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

• The Funded YesGraph

  YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

• The Funded YesGraph

  YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

• The Funded YesGraph

  YesGraph raised $1.2 million. Here are the latest fundings from Silicon Valley companies, announced or filed recently with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Funded is a recurring feature where we post new fundings that cross our desks, as well as an archive of past fundings. Click here to search the database. Palo Alto-based YesGraph Inc. raised $1,201,979 in equity and series ...

• Google Oracle among companies dropping subsidiaries from disclosures

  Google's disclosures of overseas subsidiaries have dropped from 100 in 2009 to 2, and both of those are in Ireland, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. are among companies taking advantage of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows companies to not disclose overseas subsidiaries unless their operations are "significant." For a ...

• Joaquin Miller Elementary celebrates African American Living History Day

  Fourth-graders at Joaquin Miller Elementary School celebrate, learn and relive the history of the migration of African-Americans to California from the south in the 1940s with music, dance, costumes, food and ...

• Hope Hype And Health In Silicon Valley

  hype cycle " - a jolt of excitement when I arrived, thrilled to be immersed in the scene, taking me to the "peak of inflated expectations," followed by the "trough of disillusionment" as I became better at separating out mythology from achievement. Now, I've reached what I can only hope is the "plateau of productivity." I've an even deeper belief ...

• Bay Bridge documents reveal decisions that led to broken bolts

  OAKLAND -- Caltrans and private engineers deliberated three months in 2003 over the proper corrosion method to use on high-strength steel rods for the new Bay Bridge, a decision that led to the embarrassing failure of 32 rods a decade later.Documents reveal a series of back-and-forth letters and emails on the subject among more than two dozen engineers and designers from Caltrans and the hired ...

• Pickup Crashes Into San Francisco’s Outer Mission Driver Flees

  Authorities said a truck crashed into this home near Florentine and Morse in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...

• Bill would prevent genetic-testing firms from using surreptitiously obtained DNA

  If you want to keep your DNA to yourself, be sure not to leave any stray hairs, Q-tips or underwear lying around. There are genetic testing companies out there willing to reveal your most intimate biological secrets to anybody -- without your knowledge or permission. And under California law, such genetic snooping is perfectly legal.Now, legislators in Sacramento are considering a bill to change ...

• Oakland Unified announces candidates for District 4 seat

  The meetings are long, the hours unpaid and the complaints loud, but a dozen candidates including Anne Campbell Washington, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, are hoping to fill the Oakland Unified School's District 4 board seat left vacant when Gary Yee stepped down to become acting superintendent on July 1. The challengers come from a variety of professional and personal ...

• Driver dies after being impaled by metal rod on I-580 in Livermore

  LIVERMORE -- A 33-year-old Lodi man died after he was impaled by a metal rod that burst through his windshield on westbound Interstate 580 early Wednesday morning, police said. A spokeswoman from the Alameda County Coroner's officer identified him as Michael Cox. Cox was alone in the car and no one else was injured, said a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol. CHP officers responded ...

• Alameda County Youth Center Opens After Decade-Long Effort

  ALAMEDA COUNTY (KCBS) -- The state-of-the-art REACH Ashland Youth Center celebrated its grand opening Wednesday afternoon after a decade-long, youth-driven effort to improve the neighborhood. The two-story, 31,000 plus square-foot facility on East 14th Street is located in an area between San Leandro and Castro Valley struggling with issues such as high dropout rates, teen pregnancy and gang ...

• Joplin survivor helps victims of Oklahoma tornado

  WTOC spoke to a Joplin tornado survivor who has since moved to Effingham County. She says instead of focusing on the past, she is trying to help the victims of the Oklahoma ...

• Oakland Police identify citys 40th homicide victim of 2013

  OAKLAND -- A man who was shot and killed while working on a car Tuesday morning in East Oakland has been identified, but the shooter remains at large, police say. Jose Orellano-Cruz, 54, of Oakland, was visiting a relative in the 2600 block of Bartlett Street near Brookdale Avenue when shots rang out about 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. Police said Orellano-Cruz had been outside working on a car when a man ...

• State and Investors Accuse SF Broker of Fraud

  Nearly a dozen angry investors tell the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit the prominent broker took their money, hid records, took secret commissions and has avoided any public ...

• Richmond Police Find Stray Pony Wandering Around Neighborhood

  This stray horse was found near Seventh Street and Nevin Avenue in Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood on May 22, 2013. ...

• Bay Area Preparations Under Way for Super Bowl 50

  Bay Area Proud is NBC Bay Area's community outreach and volunteering initiative. We hope you'll join us at our events, where our on-air talent often roll up their sleeves and help out on ...

• Grilling goes sustainable -- and delicious

  We may fire up the barbecue year-round, but even we weather-blessed Californians view Memorial Day weekend as the true start of grilling season. Whether we're lighting the hibachi or revving up the gas grill, what lies ahead is an endless, sunlit series of backyard feasts with friends and family.It's also the raison d'être for a dozen new cookbooks, from Michael ...

• Details emerge on who picked steel for Bay Bridge that later broke

  OAKLAND -- Caltrans' use of large galvanized steel fasteners on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge in 2001 led to engineers' choice to deploy the same specifications for the bolts that later snapped on the new Bay Bridge.High-strength steel coated with zinc is susceptible to a well-known phenomenon where hydrogen atoms invade the metal's molecular structure and it becomes brittle and ...

• 49er Players Thrilled To Have Super Bowl Coming To Town

  The constant noise around team headquarters is a combination of cranes, hammering and coaches' whistles. San Francisco's players got back to formal offseason work with organized team activities Tuesday while also celebrating the announcement that their new, state-of-the-art $1.2 billion stadium next door had landed the coveted 50th Super Bowl in ...

• Critics Say The Metro Is Online Brothel

  Pulcrano was referring to the latest issue of Metro where the paper investigates actions by former labor boss Cindy Chavez, who is running for Board of ...

• Bay Area real estate market is hot even in hardest-hit areas

  Carol Nurmi of San Jose paints her investment property home which she has been remodeling in order to sell or rent it out, on May 13, 2013 in Union City. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News ...

• San Jose Weekly Paper Pressured To Remove Escort Service Ads

  SAN JOSE (KCBS) -- A San Jose weekly newspaper is being pressured by community leaders to stop running advertisements for escort services. The Metro is under fire for escort service ads both in the paper and on their website metroactive.com. Santa Clara County prosecutor Chuck Gillingham is among those who said the newspaper is promoting the sexual exploitation of young boys and girls and the ...

• Harper Powers Nationals To 2-1 Victory Over Giants

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Ian Desmond singled in Bryce Harper in the 10th inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Wednesday to avoid a three-game series ...

• Gigya grows after space grab

  Gigya just grabbed more space for growth. The company is adding 6,000 square feet to its existing home at 2513 East Charleston Road in Mountain View, pumping the company's space up to 18,500 square feet. Just nine months ago, the company was sitting in 5,500 square feet at 1973 Landings Drive in Mountain View. Gigya is a social infrastructure provider -- essentially, it helps businesses ...

• Tornado Relief Effort Gains Support Through Cupcakes

  Some Bay Area businesses are taking action to help provide relief for Oklahoma tornado victims. Charles Nelson, co-founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes in Palo Alto, is an Oklahoma native who hopes to raise several thousand dollars for his home state. The cupcake shop is selling "Red Cross Red Velvet Cupcakes" until 9 p.m. on Wednesday. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross. The ...

• Teenager accused of killing two girls must face jury judge rules

  OAKLAND -- Diantay Powell, 18, pleaded not guilty to killing two teenage girls during an adolescent lovers' quarrel last year, but two close friends and one acquaintance all said he did it, evidence presented during a preliminary hearing revealed.Based largely on that evidence, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Rolefson ruled that there was enough reason to believe Powell committed ...

• Union City third-grade teacher placed on unpaid leave after molestation charges

  UNION CITY -- A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.Michael Howey, 47, who teaches at Alvarado Elementary School, was arrested May 1 in connection with the allegations and has been held on $750,000 bail at the Santa Rita Jail since his arrest. The move to freeze his pay came Tuesday ...

• Oakland Effect Two boys trying to avoid trouble in tough neighborhoods

  I spent some time recently with a couple of young kids from the neighborhood. Joseph was 15, John was 18, both were African-American. (I'm going to keep their real names private for various safety considerations.) In different ways, these two boys are grappling with challenges that are both unique to their neighborhoods and their families but also common to many of us. Joseph was a relative ...

• Supplier Persuaded Caltrans To Use Rods Which Cracked On New Bay Bridge

  questionable bolts on the Bay Bridge , after a supplier pointed out that they were already in use at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. But experts said the bolts don't perform the same function on each bridge. On the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, the galvanized steel rods were tightened to lower tension levels, seven times lower than those on the Bay ...

• Artemis Crew Wants Safety Changes In America’s Cup Following Death

  SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS/KPIX 5) - An America's Cup racing boat crew member died and another was hurt when their catamaran overturned on San Francisco Bay Thursday afternoon during a practice run. A KPIX 5/KCBS reporter on the scene at the St. Francis Yacht Club said he saw the deceased sailor placed into a body bag after cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts by paramedics ...

• Defense Of San Jose Pension Reform Grows More Expensive

  SAN JOSE (KCBS) - The legal battle over San Jose's landmark pension reform measure continues, nearly a year after voters approved Measure B. By a vote of 8-to-3 on Tuesday, the San Jose City Council voted to increase the legal budget for defense ...

• Surprise Inspection Of Limos Shuttles And Buses Conducted At SFO

  SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)-- Operators of limousines, passenger buses and shuttles were randomly pulled aside at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday in a surprise inspection conducted by the CHP, police and state agencies. A white stretch limousine, not unlike the one ...

• East Palo Alto Police Chief Wants Meeting With Gang Leaders

  a deadly shooting last weekend , which claimed the life of a 16-year-old. Davis is organizing a face-to-face meeting with some of the Norteno gang members believed to be responsible for opening fire on a car full of teenagers on Sunday night, killing 16-year-old Jose Quinones. It was the city's 5th homicide of the ...

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