Man accused of shooting a Newark customs agent was friends with the victim and his wife, and they dined with each other less than three months ago, said the owner of the Union City school.  

A Livermore police officer was injured by someone hurling chunks of concrete from a railroad overpass early Friday morning, police said.

My Town: Livermore  

A man shot by police in Castro Valley on Wednesday night after he rammed an officer with his car is on federal parole for drug and weapons violations and has ties to a notorious drug house that was boarded up in 2009 after a decades-long battle with neighbors.