A 1-month-old girl who was buckled into a baby seat in the back of a car that was stolen Tuesday afternoon from a church parking lot in Morgan Hill has been found.The California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert at about 3 p.m. for the car, a white Infiniti Q45 that was taken about an hour earlier from Saint Catherine's Church, 17400 Peak Ave., in Morgan Hill, police said.
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A California Highway Patrol officer pleaded not guilty today in Solano County Superior Court to stealing electronics from a Vacaville Target store earlier this month.Shawn Hammonds, 36, of Vacaville, is charged with four counts of burglary with intent to commit grand or petty larceny. A preliminary hearing date will be set July 12.Hammonds was on leave for a non-job-related injury at the time of the alleged thefts, a CHP official said.
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At least one person is dead and five others injured after an SUV rolled over and slid off a remote dirt road in San Mateo County and fell into a canyon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An intricate rescue operation occurred in the remote area near La Honda, miles from the Alpine and Mindego Hill roads intersection, to retrieve seven people from the vehicle, CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said. It took more than four hours for all victims to be pulled from the canyon.
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A tanker truck carrying 1,000 gallons of fuel crashed on Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland on Thursday afternoon and blocked multiple lanes of traffic, according to the California Highway Patrol.The crash happened at about 12:45 p.m. and blocked the three left lanes of northbound traffic on Highway 880 near 23rd Avenue, CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.A Sig-alert was issued at about 1 p.m. with no estimate on when the lanes would be reopened.
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A man who had pulled over on the shoulder of southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Brisbane on Tuesday morning to check out a problem with his pickup truck was killed when another driver crashed into his car, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The man had stopped his Dodge Ram on the shoulder just south of the Sierra Point Parkway on-ramp to inspect his truck, which was having a mechanical problem, CHP Officer Shawn Chase said.
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The California Highway Patrol cleaned up a gas spill and reopened all lanes of southbound U.S. Highway 101 in Palo Alto after a drunken driving crash, where one person was arrested and another was injured, an officer said.The three right lanes just north of San Antonio Avenue were opened at 3:38 a.m. after crews were sent to clean up the gas and other debris covering the road, CHP Officer Ralph Caggiano said.
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In the most recent safety compliance report of Muni’s bus fleet, 70 percent of the vehicles inspected were cited for violations of some sort. The infractions ranged from corroded batteries to defective stopping systems to broken blinkers.
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Five people were injured in a crash on San Francisco’s Doyle Drive this afternoon that snarled traffic for more than an hour. The crash was reported at about 12:30 p.m. near the off-ramp to 19th Avenue.
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Gas drifted across a major highway in San Mateo County, prompting the California Highway Patrol to close the roadway during rush hour traffic Monday.Both directions of Highway 92 were closed at Highway 35 for nearly an hour, according to the CHP. Half Moon Bay police and PG&E officials also responded.A gas main broke in the area around of 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. The highway was closed by because of reports of “natural gas drifting across the roadway.”
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All lanes are open on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in San Francisco on Friday afternoon after a motorcycle crash left one lane closed just before the entrance to the Bay Bridge, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The CHP responded to the crash shortly before noon and all lanes were reopened by 1 p.m., CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.
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