The bad news is, the post-Thanksgiving weekend brought Oakland's 2009 homicide count over the 100 mark -- with 52-year-old Enoch Reed shot on Friday in East Oakland, and Jermel Holloway on Sunday night, shot while walking on the street by himself, revisiting his old West Oakland neighborhood to mark the anniversary of the death of a friend. more ›

And a jolly good morning to all! Kicking things off headline-wise this weekend, there was a fatal stabbing late Saturday night/early Sunday at Cesar Chavez and Folsom. Police are looking for witnesses, as well as four or five men suspected in the stabbing of 33-year-old German Fernandez of Daly City. Any possible witnesses to the fight that broke out around 12:30 a.m. are being asked to call the anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444. more ›

A handyman in an East Oakland neighborhood was shot by a female police officer at Tolin's Liquor Store Saturday night after (possibly drunkenly) harassing other customers and refusing to drop his "weapon," which in this case was a 12-inch hatchet. Neighbors say the man, Brownie Polk, always carried tools and was just working on a roofing job that day, and he simply raised the hatchet over his head when the policewoman drew her gun at him. While one witness says he was moving to walk out the door at the time the officer fired three shots at him, the officer claims she fired because he was threatening her and refused to drop his hatchet and that he had moved "inside a threshold area where a suspect can kill an officer if they have a stabbing instrument." Surveillance video shows the man was indeed holding his hatchet, and Oakland police are using this to defend the officer, who's only been on the force for 18 months. more ›