SF News Sure Enough, COVID-19 Outbreak Hits Tesla Plants After Elon Musk Defies Local Orders We don’t know how many of the 10,000 workers at the Fremont Tesla plant tested positive for coronavirus, but media reports describe the number as “several.”
SF News Alameda County Overtakes Santa Clara For Most COVID Cases, Adds 280 Over Holiday Weekend Over the holiday weekend, Alameda County overtook Santa Clara County in its cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases as new cases appear to be growing faster in the East Bay this month than elsewhere in the region.
Business & Tech Alameda County Backs Down, Lets Tesla Plant Reopen Fully Next Week Following a couple of contentious days in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk was loudly complaining on social media and asking to be arrested, Alameda County authorities have relented and said they will allow Tesla's Fremont plant to reopen for production under a new safety plan.
SF News Judge Issues Directed Verdict In Oakland Murder Trial, Declares Cowell Sane After convicting John Lee Cowell in the 2018 murder of Nia Wilson, an Alameda County jury had returned to deliberations in the "sanity phase" of the trial.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Trial Verdict: Max Harris Acquitted, Jury Hung On Derick Almena Defendant Max Harris has been acquitted of 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, and the jury is hung on Derick Almena's guilt. Prosecutors will now have to decide if they will bring Almena to trial again.
SF News Person Dies In Oakland Police Custody Following Taser Incident A person died while in police custody, Oakland Police have announced, saying that the loss of life happened following the use of a Taser. If that sounds confoundingly vague, you're not wrong: Oakland
SF News Ghost Ship Suspects Plead Not Guilty To 36 Charges Of Involuntary Manslaughter The case against de facto Ghost Ship leaders Max Harris and Derick Almena moved forward on Wednesday as the two defendants each pleaded not guilty to 36 charges of involuntary manslaughter in Alameda
SF News Alt-Right Figure 'Based Stickman' Pleads Not Guilty To Stick-Wielding Charges A beloved figure of the alt-right known for allegedly wielding a stick at a Berkeley rally is apparently turning his back on that identity, entering a plea of not guilty in court Tuesday
SF News $5.5 Million Settlement For Guy Beaten Senseless by Alameda County Deputies The long, strange, ‘everybody looks bad here’ saga of a November 2015 incident wherein the driver of a stolen Mercedes received an absolutely thorough thrashing by Alameda County sheriff’s deputies appears to
SF News Attorneys For Ghost Ship's Derick Almena: 'He Should Not Be Made A Scapegoat' The legal team that will be representing Derick Ion Almena, the founder of Oakland's Ghost Ship collective and the man many say is responsible for the unsafe construction, wiring, and lack of proper
SF News As California Executions Hang In The Balance, Man Convicted Of Oakland Sleepover Murder Sentenced To Death Even as the future of California's death penalty hangs on two November ballot measures, a judge ruled Wednesday that the man convicted of a high-profile double murder in the East Bay should be
SF News Seven East Bay Law Enforcement Officers Charged In Celeste Guap Scandal Alameda County District Attorney Nancy E. O'Malley announced Friday that her office would be pursuing multiple charges, including including sex offenses and obstruction of justice, against seven members of three different law enforcement
SF News Mission Beating Victim Stanislav Petrov Files Civil Rights Suit Against Alameda County Deputies Stanislav Petrov, the man who allegedly led Alameda County sheriff's deputies on a high-speed, 30-mile chase last November from San Leandro to San Francisco's Mission District and was then seen on video being
SF News Key Witness Takes Stand In Trial Of Man Accused In 2013 Killing Of 8-Year-Old Girl In Oakland A major murder trial is ongoing in Alameda County in the case of Darnell Williams Jr., 25, who stands accused of the fatal shooting of eight-year-old Alaysha Carradine in East Oakland in 2013
SF News A BART Director Has A Concealed Gun Permit Because He Fears Activists Since 2010, John McPartland, a member of BART's board of directors, has held a concealed handgun permit from the Alameda County Sheriff's office according to public records obtained by the Chronicle. McPartland appears
SF News Money Covered In Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech Used At Alameda Mexican Restaurant A five dollar bill covered in anti-immigrant slogans was used to buy delicious Mexican food at Alameda's La Penca Azul restaurant this past Friday. The bill, upon which someone had written specific anti-Latino
SF News Oikos University Shooter May Be Too Insane For Trial, But Wants Death Penalty Anyway As we learned in October, three and a half years on since the mass shooing at Oakland's Oikos University that claimed seven lives, confessed shooter One Goh might finally be ready to face
SF News Pleasanton Construction Firm Denied Access To Evidence In Berkeley Balcony Case; Erin Brockovich Joins Fight Against Them The story of the tragic collapse of that balcony on June 16 in Berkeley proceeds on, and as it turns out, the Pleasanton-based company Segue Construction that built the arguably faulty balconies on
SF News Family Of Oakland Girl Pronounced Dead In 2013 Releases Video That They Say Shows Her Alive And Moving Last week, we told you about efforts by the family of an Oakland girl who was pronounced brain dead in December, 2013, to have that pronouncement overturned. And now, the family has released
SF News Decomposing Body Sickens Fifteen At Alameda County Coroner When staffers at the Alameda County Coroner's bureau fell ill Wednesday, the building was evacuated and a hazardous materials team was called to the scene. However, neither toxins or chemicals were to blame
Arts & Entertainment Horror Fans Get To Have Live-Action Horror Campout In Pleasanton Next Month The Great Horror Campout, a "high scare, high startle content experience" that's traveling the country this summer, is coming to the Alameda County Fairgrounds July 11 and 12. And it sounds kind of
SF News Bat-Wielding Man Shot And Killed By Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies Alameda County Sheriff's deputies had been called to a San Lorenzo home 19 times since 2011, for issues ranging from domestic violence to "psychological issues." On their most recent visit, a situation that
SF News Alameda County Is So Hot Right Now As everyone's neighbor, friend and coworker packs up and ships out, overwhelming anecdotal evidence that everyone is moving to Oakland is now confirmed by hard numbers. Alameda and Santa Clara counties gained more
SF News Drunk Driver Plows Into Oakland Gas Pump, Flames Ensue Early Thursday morning, shortly after last call, a driver in a BMW sports utility vehicle set off a two-alarm fire at a 76 station just off of I-880 after speeding away from an
SF News Man's Ex-Wife Arrested For His 1990 Murder In Castro Valley A case that went cold between 1990 and 2010, in part because it was left in the hands of the East Bay Regional Parks police, was reopened and this past week two people
