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A $75,000 reward is being offered in the Hasanni Campbell case, which, according to CBS 5, will "hopefully bring some fresh leads to the case."

The only thing we know about Sonic Burger is that they have something called a Chili Cheese Wrap. Said wrap with chili and cheese contains Fritos corn chips inside. So, come December of this year, we'll be heading over to Hayward (311187 Mission to be exact) to taste it for the very first time.

Via E.B.: "The east bay is one big sex pigeon post to me anymore."

Yesterday, if you recall, SFist told you about 64-year-old Yvette Harden, the East Bay women who "fatally shot her handicapped daughter at an East Oakland skilled nursing facility Sunday night then killed herself with the same gun."

64-year-old Yvette Harden, according to the Oakland Tribune, "fatally shot her handicapped daughter at an East Oakland skilled nursing facility Sunday night then killed herself with the same gun." Harden had been living at the Oakland Springs Health Center since 2003. She left neither note nor any explanation as to why. This makes this the third incident "of its kind" in less than a week, reports The Chronicle. Apparently, a 17-year-old boy shot and killed his girlfriend before non-fatally shooting himself in Fremont on Friday, two days after a Vallejo resident "shot and gravely wounded a woman before shooting himself to death at the Motel 6 on Edes Avenue in East Oakland."

Oakland's Eat Real Festival, which was founded last year, is a sister event to the San Francisco Street Food Festival and sounds like a much better run event than the SF-based debacle trial run was. Get Real also benefits La Cocina, and there's no entry fee.

TODAY/HAYWARD: Someone was shot in Hayward. (Hi, Hayward!) No arrests have been made. There's a $1,000 reward waiting for anyone with info leading to an arrest. Please call Crime Stoppers at 510-293-7197, or Hayward Police at 510-293-7034.

Five-year-old Hassani Campbell went missing on Monday. The boy, who has cerebral palsy, was last seen in the Rockridge neighborhood, "reported missing from the area of 6000 College Avenue at around 4:15 p.m., according to the Oakland police." According to CBS 5 / BCN, "Hassani is described as a black boy with light complexion, brown hair and brown eyes. He is around 3 feet tall and weighs around 30 pounds. He was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and gray pants." He also wears leg braces. The father was, rightfully, hysterical when he couldn't find his son. Any information about Hassani's whereabouts should call directed to Oakland police youth services: 510-238-3641.

The bodies of a Walnut Creek woman and her son were found on Friday at the top of Mount Diablo. Their deaths appears to be the result of a mother-son murder-suicide. Judith Williams, 51, and her son Adam, 16, were found by authorities late last week after the two went for a hike. According to NBC Bay Area/Bay Area News, the scene looked premeditated as well. "They were there for several hours before Judith Williams apparently shot her son in the chest and the head and then shot herself in the head," NBC reports. Andy, it seems, was also very popular at his high school: played on the football team, played the saxophone. Also, the mom "appeared to have been having some financial problems and was upset about issues in a relationship between her ex-husband, Adam's father, and his new wife," which might have led to her snapping. (Ladies, rumor has it many of you have a multitude of complicated and multilayered feelings/emotions, ones that shouldn't always translate into rational thought or action. Please, if you plan on offing yourself, leave the offspring out of it. Thanks.)

A man in a "dispute over a cellphone and a ring" got super angry in Castro Valley last night and ran his car into five people and a living room, and pinning a poor little Chihuahua under the car before fleeing on foot. No one, including the Chihuahua, was killed, but one person suffered a broken neck. Police caught up with the suspect at the BART station, and the 19-year-old suspect from Pittsburgh is now being held pending felony charges.

A wayward sea lion was found by Oakland police early this morning after it took a stroll onto northbound Interstate Highway 880. The rapscallion sea lion was detained in an Oakland police vehicle for being very, very bad. Eventually, someone from the Marine Mammal Center arrived to take the animal. While the creature's condition is not yet known, judging by the image at right, it looks like it got a good scare. (Adorable little sea lions shouldn't be anywhere near Nimitz Freeway, officials scolded.) According to KRON 4, when the OPD officers pulled up and opened the back door of their squad car, "the sea lion hopped right in."

There was a small 3.2 quake that occurred in the East Bay at 3:30 p.m. today, one kilometer Northeast of El Cerrito. We at SFist felt it in the Tendernob area (the first one we've felt in our eight years in SF), as did many Twitter users. It was quick and felt like a large truck driving by. There have been no immediate reports of injury or damage. Apparently, there was also a 5.2 earthquake in Southern Alaska early this morning and a small quake in Wales last night. Occurrences like these are always good reminders to prepare for the Big One.

Dubbed by the media 'The Craigslist Robber' (who joins the 'Craigslist Killer' in the nascent stage of a Craigslist supergroup), 34-year-old Damien Bell is being held without bail after police uncovered DNA evidence matching Bell to one of his victims. Charged with two counts of armed robbery, Bell is accused of luring people with fake car ads, then stealing their wallet and peace of mind..

Passive-aggressive temper tantrum risking citizen safety? Deft decision to save time and money not prosecuting lesser crimes? Open invitation for anarchistic bedlam? We'll see. After a $1.9 million pruning of his budget, Costa County District Attorney Robert Kochly announced this week that "he would no longer prosecute a host of misdemeanor crimes." Said crimes he will no longer prosecute include burglary, shoplifting, reckless driving, pot smoking, and other misdemeanors. Why? Because his office no longer has the money or staff to try so many low-level cases. As a result of budget-related layoffs, according to SFGate, "there will only be 72 prosecutors in an office with an authorized strength of 100."

During a bout of gunfire at the intersection of International Boulevard at 65th Street yesterday afternoon, a 1-year-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were shot and wounded in broad daylight. According to CBS 5, " a woman and the children were crossing the street after departing a corner grocery store when the gunfight began," which is when the kids came into the crossfire. All three kids are expected to survive. Also, no arrests have been made, so anyone who saw what happened yesterday afternoon, or knows of any further details, should call the Oakland Police Department's homicide team at 510-238-3821.

On Saturday, the arrival of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with an Earth Day festival and "special farmer's market celebrating the elimination of plastic bags" (chortle), means that you'll want to stay as far away from Berkeley streets as possible. For his visit, the city will shutdown Allston Way between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King, Jr., Way from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. At 2 p.m. he'll be at the Greek Theatre, and at 3:45 he'll chat at the Berkeley Community Theater. Also, according to SFGate, "expanded bike parking will be available at Civic Center Park, and the city's car-share fleet will be relocated to the south side of Center Street, east of Milvia, for easier access." What's more, the Earth Day Festival is scheduled to part hard from noon to 5 p.m. at Civic Center Park, 2151 Martin Luther King, Jr. Taking public transit is strongly encouraged. You've been warned.

Three Hayward residents (of course) are sitting in jail facing attempted murder charges after kidnapping and beating a man they met online. The 22-year-old unidentified victim, a San Jose man, had "gone to a Hayward motel to meet a woman after responding to a social networking Web site." (Which site? Who knows. Since they don't flat out mention Craigslist, which MSM loves to do, we're going to call it out as onlinebootycall.com.) According to CBS 5, "When the man arrived at the motel, police say he was beaten by the three suspects. The three then allegedly used the victim's ATM card to get cash, drove him to the Bethany Reservoir and beat him some more. " He was fond the next morning by a fisherman. The three suspects are 28-year-old Rodolfo Aguilar, 32-year-old Salim Ahmed and 20-year-old Lydia Troche. See, this is why online sex hookups just don't work in the heterosexual community. Alas. Update: the online site in question, according to the SJ Merc, was mocospace.com.

This just in: A fire larger than a city block is burning on Alameda's Naval Air Station Alameda Point.

Flames are burning structures at least three stories tall as firefighters work to contain the blaze.

A tall, dense column of smoke is rising from the fire, visible as far south as San Leandro.

Word from the scene by Eli Rosseter:

We're sitting at Jack London Square and it's pretty much the center third of our visual range.

Lovelle Mixon, the Oakland resident who died last Saturday after murdering four Oakland police officers, is being hailed as a hero by some. But certainly not by the woman he (allegedly) raped prior to his timely death. According to Associated Press, Mixon was tied to a February rape. "DNA found at the scene of the rape was a probable match to Lovelle Mixon, Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Monday night." (Cue conspiracy theories!) In related news, the fourth Oakland officer shot by Mixon, 41-year-old John Hege, was finally taken off of support. He had been brain dead since last Saturday's shooting spree.

Due to Saturday's "deadliest day" in Oakland Police history, disgraced BART cop Johannes Mehserle's preliminary hearing, which was scheduled for today, will be postponed. According to CBS 5, "attorneys Alison Berry Wilkinson and Bill Rapoport said the judge told prosecutors and defense attorneys on Sunday that the hearing will be pushed back to May 18 because of Saturday's fatal shooting of [four] Oakland police officers." Mehserle, if you reacall, has pleaded not guilty to the New Year's Day murder of Oscar Grant.

The quiet town of Clayton was shaken over the weekend after Raymond Casso, 73, was murdered at the town's post office. This was Clayton's first murder in over 13 years. According to ABC 7, the alleged suspect, Shannon Bradley Moore, 37, "stabbed Casso inside the post office and then ran outside into the downtown square." Several men tackled Moore after the attack, holding him down until police arrived. Described as a "fun guy to be around" who was always smiling," Casso leaves behind a wife, three kids, and four grandkids.

"Date: Jan 7, 2009 3:41 PM -- There is a station closure at Fruitvale Station in both directions due to civil protest." Oh dear. (Oh, and to get BART updates sent to your phone or inbox, go here.)

After weeks of relative guilt-free robberies in the East Bay, two people were apprehended last night after nail salon was shook down. Last night "two men wearing ski masks, at least one of them armed, burst into the nail salon at 10814 Bancroft Ave. shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday." The two were nabbed after shortly after taking off in a getaway car. According to the Oakland Tribune, authorities believe the two are "responsible for at least some of a series of similar robberies throughout Oakland," including hits at Nomad Cafe on Shattuck Avenue, the Kerry House bar on Piedmont Avenue and the Full; Moon Seafood Restaurant on MacArthur Boulevard. However, it isn't clear at this point if the two are connected to any of the other takeover robberies.

El Cerrito played host to the most recent restaurant takeover at around 9:45 p.m. last night. Two masked men entered Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant and stole cash from employees and patrons "before fleeing on foot toward the Richmond Annex neighborhood in Richmond." (SFGate)

Much to Mayor Dellums relief -- since this means he won't have to make yet another benign, angry-man speech -- a Hayward Chinese restaurant was targeted last night in the East Bay takeover robber spree. Last night a little after 8 p.m., two suspects brandishing handguns entered the Great River restaurant at 22218 Foothill Blvd, demanding cash and phones from patrons and employees. The suspects are described as "black males who were both wearing black clothing." In related news, Mayor Dellums has asked the community "to step up," to be "the eyes and ears"of the area, and "to observe" what's going on. (Yeah, you're pretty much on your own here, East Bay folk. Sorry.) (CBS 5, SFGate)

SUNDAY, MISSION: Over at 23rd and Treat streets, 18-year-old Jorge Hurtado was shot and killed at around 1 a.m. Hurtado, according to the Gate, was "approached by another young man, who briefly exchanged words with Hurtado," killed him, and then escaped in a "dark-colored SUV." No arrests have been made.

So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on Adeline Street in Emeryville, according to CBS 5 (via Bay City News). While police can't be sure that last night's heist is related to the other ones that have been hitting East Bay restaurants, it does follow the same pattern: "[o]ne of the suspects revealed a black semi-automatic handgun and demanded money from both employees and customers."

Everyone's had to do the dreaded parent intro dinner at one point or another and The Gate's Michael Bauer put up his list of suggestions of where to go. On Mike's list, we've got Cafe Majestic, Rubicon and Perbacco among others. Personally, we liked the suggestions of commenters more: Cassis, Zuni Cafe (pictured at left) and Rivoli for East Bay'ers.