Also: Tenant protections | Senior center | Trump’s interest | Healthy aging | Rewriting history. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for April 8, 2025.

Darrell Smith allegedly made himself a noticeable fixture at the FCI Dublin women’s prison — at least once swapping his guard’s uniform for leather boots, an unbuttoned shirt and a cowboy hat.

The spacious historic property located in the 400 block of 59th Street in Oakland was sold on Feb. 14, 2025.

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The investigation started after a woman discovered a hidden camera in the bathroom of her Orinda home, where the suspect was a guest.

Using cocoa butter as a vegan base for mousse “works like a charm” in this creative vegan lemon mousse recipe by Greens executive chef Katie Reicher.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors last month accepted $4 million from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in an ongoing effort to fix lead pollution from Oakland’s industrial era and prepare for a growing senior population. The dual grants, awarded during the Biden administration, focus on vulnerable populations of children and low-income seniors

Coastal North Bay including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern Monterey Bay and Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast as well as San Francisco County are under a beach hazards statement which was issued by the National Weather Service on Monday at 2:31 p.m. The statement is in effect until 11 p.m.

The property located in the 1600 block of Corte de Callas in San Jose was sold on March 12, 2025.

While it may be a bit labor-intensive at the start, this recipe for wild mushrooms “au poivre” yields “the holiday dish of my dreams!” writes cookbook author Katie Reicher, executive chef at Greens in San Francisco.