SF News Illegal Fireworks Spark Dozens of Bay Area Fires on July 4th, Injuring Several and Killing Two Dogs Illegal fireworks ignited dozens of fires across the Bay Area on the Fourth of July — from Oakland and Alameda to Antioch and San Jose — with Oakland Fire Department responding to more than 60 fires.
SF News Tech Bro Wants to Use Federal Land at Alameda Point for 'AI City,' Drafts Sample Executive Order A tech founder is calling for an executive order to fast-track a new “AI city” on 512 acres of federal land at Alameda Point — the site of an existing VA project and nesting grounds for endangered birds. City officials were never contacted, and the mayor called it a "head-scratcher."
sports Oakland Roots and Soul Soccer Teams Secure Permanent Home at Former Raiders Facility The former Oakland Raiders training facility has been rebranded as the UCSF Health Oakland Roots and Soul Performance Center in a deal finalized Friday by SF-based Redco Development, with the revenue split between the City of Oakland and Alameda County.
SF News Ocean-Cleaning Sailboat ‘Kaisei’ Sinks in Oakland Estuary at Alameda Dock A well-known environmental research vessel sank Sunday evening while docked in the Oakland Estuary. No one was onboard, and firefighters worked to contain the nearly 400 gallons of diesel that was onboard.
SF News Saturday Links: Tree Falls During Diablo Valley College Graduation, 12 Injured Alameda is testing for toxic algae after dogs have gotten sick and died from local lagoons; the pilot in the San Diego plane crash was unaware the runway lights and automated weather system were down; and a tree fell during Diablo Valley College’s graduation ceremony, injuring 12.
SF News Charges Against Two Alameda Cops In Mario Gonzalez Case Dropped; Third Officer Still Faces Charges An Alameda County judge sided with defense attorneys Monday and dismissed manslaughter charges against two of the three Alameda police officers involved in the April 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Alameda Quintuple Murder Suspect Faces Victims' Family In Court 54-year-old Shane Killian, the father of two small boys who stands accused of killing his sons, his wife, and his wife's parents in a domestic violence rampage in Alameda two weeks ago, made his second court appearance on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One-Year-Old Boy Who Initially Survived Shooting In Alameda Has Died The one-year-old boy who survived his father's alleged shooting rampage in Alameda last week has died from his injuries; the elderly man who killed a cyclist with his car in SF will not serve any jail time; and 49ers great Jerry Rice told a reporter at a golf tournament, "I will f--- you up!"
SF News Husband Kills Wife, Child, and In-Laws In Alameda, Injures Second Child An Alameda man allegedly went on some kind of domestic rampage Wednesday night, killing his wife, son, and his wife's parents, and also shot and injured another young son.
SF News Three 18-Year-Old Suspects Arrested After Alameda Woman Carjacked With Small Children In Car A trio of 18-year-olds allegedly crashed a BMW in San Francisco on Wednesday after carjacking the vehicle from an Alameda woman who had a two-year-old and four-year-old child in the car.
SF News Alameda Puts Halt To ‘Cloud Brightening’ Experiment on USS Hornet, Saying City Didn’t Really Know About It A seemingly innovative experiment to spray sea salt into clouds to fight global warming has been underway in Alameda, but the city just hit the brakes on it, saying they were not informed of it and don’t appreciate being used as guinea pigs.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Alameda Police Retail-Theft Bust Nets $75,000 In Stolen Merchandise At Oakland Home The February 9 mass robbery of an Old Navy in Alameda was tracked to a house in Oakland, which Alameda police raided, and found $75,000 in merchandise — with the tags still on all of the items.
SF News Alameda Agrees to Pay $11M In Wrongful Death Suit Brought By Family of Mario Gonzalez In a controversial case of a man who died while in custody of Alameda police in 2021, the City of Alameda has agreed to pay $11 million to the man's son in a wrongful death suit.
SF News Entire Cargo Truck Somehow Ended Up Submerged in Water at Oakland Estuary Today in “How did that happen?,” a cargo truck was somehow left completely submerged underwater at the Oakland Estuary. The vehicle has been pulled out, and thankfully no one was inside.
SF News Kids In Alameda Given Fast-Food Sauce Packets as Trick-or-Treating Treats Some jokers in Alameda were just handing out fast-food condiment packages as trick-or-treat candy, according to one puzzled father’s Facebook post.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
Arts & Entertainment City of Alameda Now Wants Portola Music Festival Shut Down Forever After Second Year of Noise Complaints The inaugural Portola Music Festival last year drew some loud complaints from residents across the Bay in Alameda, when the oontz-oontz music went on later than they liked — which was until 11 p.m. Now, the City of Alameda is taking some action after a second year of complaints.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
SF News Past Warning About Construction of Titanic-Bound Submersible Haunts Alameda Engineer in Wake of Implosion Bay Area deep sea engineer Liz Taylor said she warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush years ago against using carbon fiber in the Titan submersible, which imploded and killed five in the deep ocean pressure.
east bay Large Power Outage Affects 50,000 People In East Bay and Leaves Alameda Drawbridge Stuck Half-Open The outage has also affected BART and AC Transit services, as well as stalled passengers going through Oakland Airport.
SF News Someone Slashed Over 200 Car Tires in Alameda Friday Night Hundreds of Alameda residents woke Saturday morning to their cars sitting a bit closer to the ground than they usually would — because some man decided to go on a crime spree, slashing tires around the East Bay city.
SF News Alameda County DA Declines to Charge Alameda Cops In Death of Mario Gonzalez The Alameda police officers implicated in the April 2021 death of Mario Arenales Gonzalez will not face criminal charges, after the Alameda County District Attorney's Office announced a decision Thursday.
