Contra Costa Times - Fri Nov 06

One of the East Bay's highest-paid public employees this week received a significantly lower raise than an outside consultant had recommended - giving her at least $843,000 a year, including bonuses.

SanLuisObispo.com - Fri Nov 06

Shell Oil Co. has been ordered to pay $19.5 million to the state for environmental violations at gas stations around California.

KRON-TV San Francisco - Fri Nov 06

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.