SF News One Suspect Killed, Two Arrested After Struggle With CHP Officer Near San Leandro An incident that began with a police chase involving an allegedly stolen car on I-580 in the East Bay ended early Monday morning with one suspect fatally shot, either by a CHP officer or an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy.
SF News Alameda County Supervisors Vote to Make It Illegal to Even Watch A Sideshow It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
SF News Outside Judge to Rule on Whether Alameda County DA Can Disqualify Judge Who Tossed Plea Deal A judge from outside Alameda County will now step in to decide whether a judge should continue to try a murder case in which he rejected a plea deal that the defense and prosecution had agreed to, because it was too lenient.
SF News Grandmother of Tortured and Murdered Hayward Girl Sues Alameda County for 'Horrifying Inaction' The family of Sophia Mason, the eight-year-old girl whose body was found a year ago in a bathtub in Merced following months of abuse and neglect, has now formally filed suit against Alameda County over social workers' failure to identify and address that abuse.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News New Alameda County DA Pamela Price Reopens Case Against Officers Who Conducted Fatal Arrest of Mario Gonzalez Alameda County's new progressive district attorney is using a similar playbook to SF's former DA Chesa Boudin in announcing possible prosecutions of police officers in her first weeks on the job.
SF Politics Drama In Alameda County DA's Office, As Outgoing DA Tries To Direct $20 Million To Her Own Projects Retiring Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley tried to direct $20 million out incoming DA Pamela Price’s budget and into a set of her own pet nonprofits and projects, but she’s withdrawn that request after blowback.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF Politics Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price Claims Victory as Alameda County's First Black District Attorney Pamela Price has all but certainly been elected to the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County, becoming the first Black person to hold the job — beating out opponent Terry Wiley to take over from retiring DA Nancy O'Malley.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics California Rejected 106,000 Mail Ballots In Last Election, But Alameda County Is Under Fire for Not Rejecting Enough Nearly 2% of California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected in the June primary, which is sad, but Alameda County’s lowest rejection level statewide has anti-tax groups up in arms demanding the county reject more people’s votes.
SF News More Details Emerge About Shocking Double Homicide In Which Sheriff's Deputy Is the Sole Suspect The double homicide that took place earlier this month in a Dublin, California subdivision has sent shockwaves across the law-enforcement community — and sent a cadre of state inspectors to examine the hiring practices of the sheriff's department for whom the suspect was working.
SF News Alameda Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In Double Murder Failed His Psych Exam; Now 47 Other Deputies On Leave Due to Failed Exams We now know that all was perhaps not so well with the Alameda County Sheriff's deputy whom the sheriff's office had previously said had a spotless record, after he turned himself in for a double murder.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In 'Execution-Style' Double Homicide In Dublin A 24-year-old sheriff's deputy in Alameda County was the subject of a brief manhunt on Wednesday before turning himself in to his own bosses and coworkers for a double homicide.
SF News Man Jailed for Not Wearing a Mask Dies in Custody, Family Sues Alameda County Another abuse-of-an-incarcerated-person scandal at the beleaguered Santa Rita jail brings a new lawsuit against Alameda County, after they jailed a man for not wearing a mask on AC Transit, then allegedly denied him his medication and he died behind bars.
SF News Alameda County Opts to Require Masks Again In Most Indoor Settings — Is Anyone Really Listening? As the latest COVID surge persists, with hospitalizations and cases seemingly not yet a crest in Alameda County, county Health Officer Dr. Nicholas Moss has reinstated a broad mask mandate that we haven't seen the likes of for several months.
SF News Death of Man In Alameda Police Custody Ruled a Homicide, But Meth Use Was Contributing Factor The April 19 death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez Arenales while being arrested by Alameda police has been ruled a homicide, however his health, methamphetamine use, and alcohol were also contributing factors, according to a newly released autopsy report.
SF News COVID Cases Are Spiking Once Again In Alameda County Among the Unvaccinated Alameda County, parts of which became early hot spots of COVID-19 infection in 2020, may be poised to become a hot spot once more as unvaccinated pockets of the county are seeking outbreaks of cases that are being mirrored elsewhere in the country.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bao House Opens in Berkeley — and Becomes Alameda County's First Legal Home Restaurant Debuting with an assortment of homemade steam bun entrees and a (very delicious looking) fennel-cucumber-apple salad, Akshay Prabhu’s Bao House became the first legal home restaurant to operate in Alameda County this past Thursday.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Offers Second Pfizer Shots For Anyone Who Missed Theirs (For Limited Time) The Oakland Coliseum mass-vaccination site is winding down on May 23, and Alameda County is putting out a last call for anyone who received a first Pfizer dose and may have missed their second appointment.
SF News Man Who Was Killed In Alameda Police Custody Had Lost His Job Last Year, Became Depressed and Drank Two weeks after he was killed while in the custody of Alameda police — having apparently asphyxiated while pressed to the ground on his stomach, not unlike George Floyd — we are learning a bit more of the story of Mario Arenales Gonzalez.
SF News Man Who Died While Alameda Police Had Him In Prone Position Compared to George Floyd The April 19 death of Oakland resident Mario Arenales Gonzalez while in the custody of Alameda police has garnered national headlines because it occurred just one day before former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd under similar circumstances.
SF News Alameda County Goes 'Orange,' Four Bay Area Counties Remain 'Red' In Latest State Update Napa County remains in the "Red" tier as of Tuesday despite speculation over the last few days that both Napa and Alameda counties would be advancing to "Orange" status.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland and Berkeley Restaurants Prepare to Have Indoor Dining Again as Alameda County Turns 'Red' After only having limited-capacity indoor dining for three short weeks since the pandemic began, restaurants in Alameda County are preparing to once again allow patrons indoors starting on Wednesday.
SF News Dublin Teen Harassed Online by Gun Dealer For Organizing Black Lives Matter Event The gun dealer has since apologized for and taken down his posts with a picture of the teen, with messages like “bring your vests and helmets” and “get ready for a fun couple hours.”
