Oakland hires guard against Caltrans Tentative agreement is near over who owns 52 acres of waterfront as the staging site for the new span of the Bay Bridge
BART shut down; white powder found All trains into and out of the city stopped for about an hour after white powder was found in the Powell Street station
Dissident board member W. Hewlett insisted the vote remained too close to call
The turbulent shareholder meeting drew more than 2,000 mom-and-pop investors, current and past Hewlett-Packard employees. The 15,000 layoffs that are expected if the deal goes through. HP shares fell 45 cents, more than 2 percent, to $18.80