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When a man suspected of firing shots at his family barricaded himself inside his Pittsburg home last Friday, police sent up their other set of eyes — a drone with high-definition video — to survey the situation, keeping officers out of harm’s way and gathering information to help them plan their moves. The drama ended […]

OAKLAND — For the past week, Melissa Hellums stayed up all night, worrying how a small Oakland shelter for homeless women would raise $14,000 by Saturday to stave off imminent eviction. But she was up all night Friday for a different reason: to watch donations roll in. Serenity House, home to up to eight homeless […]

General Motors unveiled its new mid-engine C8 2020 Corvette Stingray on Thursday, July 18 at the iconic Tustin blimp hangar at the former Marine Corps Air Station. The automaker got rid of the manual stick shift in the much-anticipated overhaul of the iconic Corvette. Why? Drivers need a free hand for the 8-inch touchscreen, of […]

As the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing approached last week, I found myself wondering whether we, as a nation, are losing one of our greatest strengths: the ability to be aspirational. To believe not only in our own ability to achieve ambitious goals, but also in our country’s ability to do so. Regardless […]

Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial advice, gathered from around the web: A 401(k) for sole proprietorsIf you are your own boss and have no other employees, a little-known retirement-savings vehicle called an “individual” or “solo” 401(k) may be for you, said Jeff Brown at The Wall Street Journal. “Solo Ks, […]

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: A Congressional Budget Office analysis released last week “makes clear that the benefits of a $15-an-hour minimum wage would heavily outweigh the downside,” said Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times. The agency found that as many as 1.3 million people […]

If you are among the 10 million people who use the Slack messaging and communication platform at work, you may have to change your password now because of a hack of the Slack platform that occurred four years ago. San Francisco-based Slack, the company behind the popular messaging service used by thousands of businesses, said […]

The driver of an open-top sightseeing bus who was asked to make way for a motorist instead responded with racist abuse then got out of the coach and attacked the other driver, a lawsuit filed this week claims. Carlo Flores Bolanos said in the suit filed Thursday that he was driving behind the bus on […]

Colorado employers added a net 8,100 jobs between May and June, with the strongest gains coming in professional and business services, construction and government, according to an update Friday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. May’s monthly gain, which initially came in at an anemic 2,200 jobs, was revised higher as well to […]

OAKLAND — As the Bay Area’s homelessness crisis continues to worsen, one small East Bay shelter — and all its residents — are facing eviction after a massive rent increase and four months of missed payments. Serenity House, which shelters homeless women who have survived addiction, domestic violence, incarceration and other traumas, needs to come […]

Hoseong Ryu’s trouble at Intel started even before he began working there, he claimed in a lawsuit filed this week. Ryu, 45, applied in 2014 for a software engineering job at Intel, and was interviewed by a three-man panel, according to his lawsuit filed in Northern California U.S. District Court. One interviewer at the Santa […]

Apartment rent increases in metro Denver may have finally slowed enough to avoid eroding household buying power, according to the latest Denver Metro Apartment Vacancy and Rent survey from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver. The average apartment rent in metro Denver rose to $1,528 in the second quarter, an annual increase of 2.4 percent […]