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ICYMI, Pinole and Hercules! Headlines from Around East Bay You May Have Missed Last Week
Community Ambassador fired following alleged attack on transient; loss of San Jose officer; memorial services for fire captain; bear rescue

Were you busy last week? We thought so. Catch up with the stories that made headlines around the East Bay last week.
- Coroner Identifies Second of Two Men Killed in Oakland Blaze
- No One Injured in Livermore Mobile Home Fire, Home a ‘Total Loss’
- Berkeley Community Ambassador Fired After Alleged Attack on Homeless Man Caught on Camera
- Dispute Over Gill Tract Farm in Albany Leads to Arrest During Protest At Sprouts In Petaluma
- Coroner’s Office Identifies Man Who Died After Rear-Ending Car, Crashing into Wall in Pinole
- Mother Hit By SUV While Pushing Stroller Dies at Castro Valley Hospital
- 3 Students Arrested for Shooting Outside El Cerrito High School Friday
- 5-Year-Old’s $1 Piggy Bank Donation Starts Movement to Save Pleasanton Business
- Livermore Mayor Travels to Washington, D.C. to Push for Water Help
- Man Gets 80 Years for Murdering Former Friend in Livermore in 2012
- Fire Crews Knock Down Fire in San Leandro, 1 Suffers Smoke Inhalation
- ‘The Bear is OK’: Watch Police, Fire Officials Save Bear as it Falls From Tree
- Amy’s Frozen Foods Recalled Over Possible Listeria Contamination
- Former Saint Leander Principal Passes
- Hammer Attack Suspect Detained Near Telegraph Avenue
- 5-Year-Old’s $1 Piggy Bank Donation Starts Movement to Save Pleasanton Business
- Cute Chick Alert! Third Grade Classrooms in Pleasanton School Bursting with Adorable Chicks
- How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs
- Get Creative When Dyeing Easter Eggs
- Police Release Sketch of Suspect in Attempted Kidnapping in Hayward
- CA Legislature Sends Emergency Drought Package to Gov. Brown for Approval
- San Jose Police Officer Shot, Killed on Senter Road, Suspect Search Underway
- SJPD Mobile Computer System Crashed Amid Requests For Info After Officer Killing
- Healthcare District Board Votes to Close Doctors Medical Center
- Salvation Army Hayward Seeking Volunteers
- 100 MPH Chase Through Oakland Ends in Arrest
- Man Found Murdered Near Lake Merritt Identified
- Memorial Services to Honor Pinole Fire Captain Who Died of Brain Cancer
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Photo of Pinole Fire Capt. Rich Voisey, who died earlier this month after a nearly two-year battle with brain cancer.
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