Today’s top local news: The Hayward City Council is poised to amend the city’s condo conversion ordinance.

Downtown, no finer place for sure: San Leandro starts to flesh out its ideas for a transit-oriented development.

That’s Madam Gumshoe, to you: Lady detectives are the order of the day in several new mystery books.

Surprise!: Warriors play it risky and sink one at the buzzer to beat the Nets 110-109.

Surprise again!: More Bay Area homeowners are finding themselves faced with the F word: foreclosure.

Mail call: Check out today’s Letters to the Editor. Go ahead, send us one. Click here.

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