A sixth suspect has been charged in connection with the Oct. 24  gang rape of a 15-year-old girl at Richmond High School's homecoming dance. Elvis Torrentes, 21, was arrested in Richmond on Monday and  charged Thursday with rape by a foreign object of a person unable to resist  due to intoxication, rape by a foreign object while acting in concert and  rape while acting in concert, Deputy District Attorney Dara Cashman said  Friday.

On Friday, the tanker that leaked hundreds of gallons of oil into the San  Francisco Bay last week departed from Pier 80 in San Francisco while crews continued to wind down their response to the spill. A mechanical failure that occurred during a bunkering operation  with a fuel barge Oct. 31 caused the Panamanian tanker Dubai Star to leak  between 400 and 800 gallons of oil into the Bay two miles south of the San  Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

A judge is ruling that an Oakland woman should stand trial on  charges that she attempted to murder her estranged husband and murdered his  91-year-old grandmother because of a custody battle over their 2-year-old  daughter.

Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and  co-defendant Antoine Mackey are scheduled to stand trial May 17 on three  counts of murder for the deaths of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other  men in the summer of 2007. Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Chris Lamiero said Bey and  Mackey, both 23, also are scheduled to appear in court May 3, two weeks  before their trial is to start.

Jurors in Martinez have decided Edward Wycoff should be sentenced  to death for killing his sister and brother-in-law in their El Cerrito home  in 2006.  The eight-man, four-woman jury only deliberated for about an hour  and 10 minutes before returning with its verdict on Thursday. Wycoff, a 40-year-old Sacramento-area man, represented himself  during trial and testified at length about his reasons for the murders,  claiming that he had a right to kill Julie Rogers, 47, and her husband Paul  Rogers, 48, because they were "bad people" and were out to get him.

Police in Walnut Creek are looking for two men who robbed a bank  at gunpoint Thursday morning. Officers responded to a report of a robbery at Pacific National  Bank at 1910 Tice Valley Road at around 10:15 a.m., according to the Walnut  Creek Police Department. Two suspects, both described as men in their mid-to-late 20s,  entered the bank and demanded money from the tellers, according to police.  One of the men was carrying a handgun.

Nathan Burris pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he fatally  shot his former girlfriend and her friend at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge  toll plaza Aug. 11. Burris, a 46-year-old Richmond resident, has been charged with two  counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 51-year-old Deborah Ross, a  toll collector at the bridge, and 58-year-old San Leandro resident Ersie  "Chuck" Everette, a Golden Gate Transit bus driver.

Health officials are holding free H1N1 flu vaccinations throughout  the Bay Area Saturday, but the vaccines will only be available for people at  the highest risk for illness from the virus. Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz are among the  counties hosting clinics. Due to limited supplies of the vaccines, only pregnant women,  young children, and people with chronic medical conditions or compromised  immune systems will be eligible to receive the vaccine.

The weak economy is creating some unanticipated troubles in suburban Contra Costa County. Some people in Brentwood aren't very happy with Union Pacific Railroad parking its idle railcars on an unused line that runs through the city. Railroad officials say they have to park the cars somewhere because reduced demand for rail transport has forced some of its cars to sit idle.

Berkeley professors have a message for the athletics department: Stop running in the red. Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday passed a resolution calling for an end to subsidies for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Cal's football and men's basketball teams make money. But other programs don't, leading to deficits of millions of dollars.