Hercules police spokeswoman Doreen Mathews says crews may not finish sifting through trash at a Pittsburg landfill until Wednesday.  Officers and volunteers searched for the missing Frederick Sales on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at the Keller Canyon landfill, which is at 901 Bailey Road.

A Livermore man has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing his teenage son and wife with a fishing knife during a late-night argument. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department says 48-year-old Gary Gomez took his wife, 14-year-old son and his son's two friends to go fishing around midnight Sunday.

The wife of a Fremont police officer who was shot and critically wounded trying to arrest a suspect in Oakland last week says her "whole life turned upside down" when she learned he had been shot. Speaking with a trembling voice to reporters at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where 39-year-old Officer Todd Young is still recovering from his gunshot wounds, Nicole Young said doctors initially told her that her husband "wouldn't make it off the operating table."

A 42-year-old Livermore woman pleaded not guilty Friday to 67 felony counts alleging she committed sex crimes with two teenage boys.  Christine Shreeve Hubbs, who remains at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in lieu of $4.3 million bail, waived her right to have a speedy preliminary hearing and is scheduled to return to Alameda County Superior Court in Pleasanton on Oct. 14 for a pretrial hearing.

Livermore police are looking for a teenager who beat an elderly woman Monday along a path near the Arroyo Mocho Creek. Investigators say an 89-year old woman was walking on the path at about 3:45 in the afternoon when the young man struck up a conversation with her.  He reportedly said his name was "Cameron" and that he was in the seventh grade. 

72-year-old Charles Rittenhouse remains in the Solano County jail on two million dollars bail after his first appearance on two explosives charges based on evidence police say they found while searching his Vallejo home where they also discovered two murder victims. Rittenhouse pleaded not guilty to both charges.

A suspected gang member accused of shooting a Fremont police officer who tried to arrest him in Oakland last Friday was brought from San Diego County to Oakland Thursday, Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. Andrew Barrientos, 20, is charged with 10 felonies, including attempted murder and carjacking, and could face life in prison if he's convicted,

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.3 struck Thursday morning in San Pablo. The earthquake occurred at 9:35 a.m. and had a depth of 4 miles. The quake was centered about 1 kilometer north-northwest of central San Pablo and 2 miles north of Richmond, according to the USGS.

The Pacifica Police Department is seeking three suspects in connection with a home invasion and robbery that occurred Sunday night. The victims of the robbery were not injured during the break-in, police said. Police units arrived at the house in the 100 block of McKinney Avenue at about 9:55 p.m. Sunday, according to a statement. The multiple victims then gave police an account of the robbery.

Lake Merced Boulevard was reopened as of 3:30 a.m. Sunday after a fatal collision Saturday night caused a closure of the road from John Muir Drive to Brotherhood Way, a San Francisco police spokesman said.

The flight controls on a small plane that crashed in a lagoon off San Francisco Bay, killing three people on board, were in the correct position, an official with the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday, as two of the victims were identified.

Two animals in San Mateo County were found to be carrying West Nile Virus last month, the county's Mosquito and Vector Control District reported in a statement. The infected raven and squirrel found in August raised concern about the possibility of West Nile Virus circulation in the county.

The wreckage of a small plane that crashed into a lagoon in Redwood Shores Thursday was floated to the water's surface and pulled to shore Friday, a Redwood City spokesman said.  The plane crashed Thursday at about 11:50 a.m. into the lagoon, located just north of Twin Dolphin Drive, and killed all three people on board, including a man believed to have been the founder of a Palo Alto steel company.

 Two environmental groups are suing to block the redevelopment of San Francisco's abandoned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, saying a key part of the plan could permanently damage shoreline and wildlife. At issue is a 41-foot bridge that would be built over Yosemite Slough. It would provide a high-speed bus link and pedestrian and bicycle connection between the two parts of the project area.

At least three people were killed, including one believed to be the founder of an East Palo Alto steel company, in a plane crash in Redwood Shores Thursday afternoon.  A woman's body was recovered from a lagoon just north of Twin Dolphin Drive, where the small plane crashed at about 11:50 a.m., and two bodies were still trapped at the bottom of the lagoon under the wreckage, fire Battalion Chief Dave Pucci said.

An independent analysis of the electronic meter-reading system operated by California's largest utility says the devices are highly accurate, despite thousands of customer complaints. The report on Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s "smart meter" program was released Thursday at a meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission. The regulators had ordered the five-month review.

California court has refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban. The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento on Wednesday denied a conservative legal group's request to force the officials to defend Proposition 8 in court.  The court did not give a reason why it turned down the request by the Pacific Justice Institute.

The National Park Service and the Marin County coroner's office are working to identify human remains found in the Marin Headlands this week, a park service spokesman said Friday. A kayaker reported finding a skull at about 7:30 p.m. Monday in a cove below Battery Spencer, which is in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Park Ranger George Durgerian said.

San Rafael police are investigating four incidents in the past week in which men accosted women or girls walking on city streets. In two of the cases, the men were in cars; in the other two, the suspects were on foot, police spokeswoman Margo Rohrbacher said.

A 6-year-old boy shot in a Salinas apartment Tuesday evening remains at a Bay Area hospital in serious condition. Officers responded to reports of a shooting victim in the apartment complex of 2073 Santa Rita St. at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, and found the child suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said.