Tiny Oakland house moved down street after owner's death 

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Years after a big city sprouted up around a tiny California house and its 87-year-old owner refused to sell the only home he’d ever known, heavy equipment rolled up to the lot.

But it wasn’t there to demolish the three-bedroom Oakland house built by Lawrence Bossola’s parents. It was there to move down the street.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a hospital next door...