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Hayward car enthusiast Jermaine Shaffer remembers the pothole on Hesperian Boulevard that used to slam his 1947 Chevrolet Fleetline to the asphalt, chipping the onyx-colored fender and hood that he put together himself. However, in the past five years, the city of Hayward has made strides to improve its most used and deteriorated roads, and Shaffer along with the rest of the East Bay's classic car community has felt the difference in his own smooth rides.

"If you go over here. You can see there is a line right here. This used to be all painted shut, and now it's open. Then, right here is a two-foot crack," said Cathy Rodriguez.

"The younger girl had blood all over the face. She was in complete shock. I think there might have been something with her arm being dislocated because she had kind of like an awkward position. They looked in shock and easily that the explosion took out their ear drum - I assume - because people were trying to talk to them and they were not really hearing it," said Oscar Vazquez, a resident in the area.

His name was Emmanuel Padilla-Maciel, and at the time he was a 19-year-old known to the woman alone in her living room with him as a laid back, chill type of person. She asked him what was causing him to behave so uncharacteristically. What followed, according to her court testimony, was a chilling confession to a homicide that occurred just two days earlier in the same city where they were watching TV.

Police responded to a domestic violence call where a 30-year-old man was fatally stabbed by his 25-year-old girlfriend, who claimed it was self-defense.

Hayward Police Department urges the public to avoid the area near Mandarin Avenue and Sumatra Street due to an explosion inside a house.

The preliminary investigation revealed that pedal confusion was the cause of the collision, with no evidence of alcohol or drugs being involved.

A motorized bicycle rider was tragically killed in a collision with a vehicle on Friday morning in Hayward, highlighting the dangers of road safety.