Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical posters, and about 100 gold records.

An East Bay apartment complex that gave an old cannery a new mission has been bought for more than $150 million.

Artist Alphonso Butlak IV installed a "mini Pink" at the former site of The Old Pink, which met a similar fate last June.

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch.