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A dockworker fell to his death from the deck of a container ship at the Port of Oakland early Tuesday morning, port officials said.

Trees toppling onto above-ground power lines spark wildfires, more than 1,000 of them in the last decade in California alone. The wires snap in blizzards and hurricanes, causing dayslong outages. Everywhere, power poles topple in all kinds of disasters, blocking escape routes.

Federal employees breathe a sigh of relief as the president agrees to re-open the government for three weeks but furloughed workers remain concerned as to what will happen after the three weeks are over. Damian Trujillo reports.

PG&E acknowledges in reports filed with state regulators Monday that its equipment was involved in sparking separate fires on both sides of Highway 24 in Lafayette, but noted the fires were not in high fire threat areas subject to Sunday’s massive power shutoff.

Two “rapidly expanding” fires on each side of state Highway 24 in Lafayette prompted evacuations Sunday, according to a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman. Melissa Colorado reports.

A Vista postal worker was honored with a hero pin by the National Association of Letter Carriers after she helped find a missing toddler and missing autistic teen.

A stunning confrontation at a local fast food drive thru was captured on cellphone video. A Jack in the Box worker in Campbell refused to serve a deaf woman and even mocked her sign language.

A stunning confrontation at a local fast food drive thru was captured on cellphone video. A Jack in the Box worker in Campbell refused to serve a deaf woman and even mocked her sign language. Robert Handa reports.

A U.S. Postal Service worker will be recognized Wednesday for helping an elderly woman who injured herself in May in San Ramon, USPS officials said.

Pennsylvania State Police acted recklessly when troopers used a bulldozer to pursue a Grateful Dead fan caught growing marijuana on public land, killing him when he wound up under the machine’s treads, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed Monday.

Workers at a Philadelphia Taco Bell were fired after a man accused them of beating him and his girlfriend in an unprovoked attack that was captured on video.

Furloughed workers can breathe a temporary sigh of relief after the president announced Friday the government will re-open for three weeks, but workers wonder what will happen after those three weeks are over.

A local Transportation Security Administration employee says the government shutdown is making the already stressful task of securing airports even more difficult — and he also believes it can come with grave consequences.

A man is under arrest after authorities say he grabbed the shirt of a Florida McDonald’s employee and tried to pull her over a counter.

Dixie Singh is No. 158 on the official list of people missing after Northern California’s catastrophic wildfire. That came as news to her. “I am the only Dixie Singh I’ve ever heard of. And I am alive,” the 86-year-old woman said Wednesday.

Gary Brand, Jean Eisenbarth, Jay Raynor, Kelly Winslow and Tim Joyner — they’re evacuees, survivors and residents of Paradise. We came across them in the parking lot of The Neighborhood Church and a makeshift donation center in Chico, California where they are now living. They lost everything in the Camp Fire — California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire — but...

A 52-year-old man died in a suspected homicide on San Francisco’s Market Street late Wednesday night, police said. Bart Kylstra, CEO of Rio Mobility, a company that makes electric accessories for wheel chairs, was allegedly killed inside his office apartment.

A 52-year-old man died in a suspected homicide on San Francisco’s Market Street late Wednesday night, police said. Jean Elle reports.

A station agent was injured when a man punched the worker in the face at the MacArthur BART Station late Friday night, according to BART police.

A station agent was injured when a man punched the worker in the face at the MacArthur BART Station late Friday night, according to BART police. Pete Suratos reports.