Too late for Monday morning's commute, the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge has re-opened. The bridge had been closed since last Tuesday afternoon when a 5,000-pound steel assembly and two steel tie rods plunging into traffic.

San Francisco Bay Area commuters received bad news on Sunday night. The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge will remain closed at least through Monday morning's commute, with no definite time of opening given by authorities.

The 49ers' defense tested the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday, and while they were able to take a 14 - 6 league into halftime, there is no defense that can stop the Colts forever. Final score: Colts 18, 49ers 14.

The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge will remain closed into the weekend, as several setbacks occurred. The setbacks, according to live TV reports just shown in the Bay Area, include having to back out some of the repairs they have already made.

Commuters across the San Francisco Bay Area began to adjust to life without a San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge today, as the repair work hastily done over the Labor Day weekend snapped off late yesterday afternoon. This forced a total Bay Bridge closure; there is no announced ETA on a repair.

The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge has been closed in both directions, after pieces of the cantilever section fell during the late-afternoon commute. The SF Chronicle reports that authorities said the pieces were two high-strength rods and a support saddle that were part of the emergency repair work done during Labor Day weekend.

Many are making fun of the proposal by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom to tax soda. The proposal was met with anger and outrage, in fact. People need to take a look at how harmful the empty calories in soda are, and use a little common sense.

Despite announcing that the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge would not open until Wednesday morning at 5 AM, 24 hours later than originally scheduled because of a crack in a support link found over the weekend, the Bay Bridge re-opened only hours later than the original time.

Authorities have given commuters a Bay Bridge update, and it is not good news. They announced that as a result of the crack found while replacing a section of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge during seismic retrofittins, the bridge will not reopen on Tuesday as had been expected.

Crews raced time to complete repairs on a cracked support strut on the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, found during the seismic retrofit which had been planned for the Labor Day weekend. Originally, plans were to reopen the span early Tuesday morning at 5 AM, in time for the commute, but the discovery of the crack placed doubt on that timing.

Jaycee Dugard, now 29, was abducted in Meyers, CA in El Dorado County, on June 10, 1991. She has now surfaced in Concord, CA, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office. She is pictured as a child above.

A female toll collector on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and another man were shot and killed at the Richmond Bridge Plaza in what police are saying was a domestic dispute.