<![CDATA[Contra Costa Times - Local news]]> 15 <![CDATA[Bay Area investment group connects socially responsible lenders, local farmers]]> <![CDATA[Noticeable decline in school-age children in West Oakland]]> <![CDATA[Gas leak briefly closes Pacifica stores]]> <![CDATA[Occupy Oakland marchers continue weekly anti-police protest]]> <![CDATA[Roadshow: Crash victims try to do the right thing and pull off the road]]> <![CDATA[Skull fragment, other remains found in San Joaquin County excavated well identified as burial spot by serial killer]]> <![CDATA[Two wounded in Antioch shooting]]> <![CDATA[In most Bay Area schools, high-profile school reform ideas remain hypothetical]]> <![CDATA[El Cerrito's first police dog, King, dies]]>