You may have seen a man carrying a giant wooden cross around the beach this week. Bob "CrossWalker" Hanus has been coming ...

Even after nearly 20 years, architect Lara Dutto is still astonished by Lafayette’s Hillside Memorial, a collection of thousands of simple, wooden white crosses across from the city’s BART station.

David Shafer and his wife were sleeping on the first floor when the fire broke out. His wife was able to escape, but Shafer went back into the burning home to try to rescue his mother, Josephine, who ...