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Video: Tesla Testing Their Model X SUV Hybrid In Alameda

Attention all car geeks and Tesla fans: A couple of eagle-eyed dudes managed to snap photos and a video of Tesla's Model X last Friday out on a former naval air strip in

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Owner Of New Alameda Bar, Capone's Speakeasy, Gets Arrested At His Own Opening Party

Mark Strachan might still be hungover from what sounds like a wild party last Saturday, August 30 at his new bar Capone’s Speakeasy in Alameda. At the very least, he's probably still

Oakland Home Sales Prices Growing Far Faster Than San Francisco's

While the median home sales price for the city of Oakland is far lower than many of its neighboring areas, it might not be that way for long: an analysis of MLS data

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Video: 'Stick This Camera Up Your Ass,' Driver Says To Stanley Roberts

Has Elmo shirt guy met his match? Tagging along with Alameda police during a pedestrian and driver safety campaign this week, local treasure Stanley Roberts came face-to-face with a lady who wasn't having

Four Injured In Christmas Day Sister Knife Fight

In Alameda yesterday, a holiday argument between two sisters apparently got out of hand when one of them grabbed a knife — perhaps the very same one used to carve a Christmas ham or

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Get Your Presidential Sourdough Rounds At Feel Good Bakery

Alameda boulangerie Feel Good Bakery are featuring Presidential Sour Rounds boasting images of presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Each costs $20. If politics isn't the kind of thing you want emblazoned

Authorities Searching For Man Who Sailed Away With Kidnapped Children Aboard Stolen Yacht [Updates]

Police from South San Francisco are searching for a man suspected of kidnapping his own two and three-year-old children and fleeing with them aboard a yacht he stole from an Alameda marina earlier

Attempted Murder Suspect Squats Aboard Aircraft Carrier In Alameda

A man suspected of trying to murder his mother-in-law is in custody after U.S. Marshals found him living aboard a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked in Alameda. Todd Stuart of Washington State had

Feds Accidentally Raid CBS Correspondent And Political Consultant's Home

Oh dear. FBI agents got the wrong address this morning after pouding on the door of noted CBS correspondent Priya David and her husband, esteemed political consultant/friend of SFist Alex Clemens. The

Man Drowns at Alameda Beach While Fire Department, Coast Guard, Watch

The Oakland Tribune (via Mercury News) reports on a tragic story of a 57-year-old man who drowned in the bay in Alameda on Monday after wading chest-high in the water fully clothed for

The Rapture: Harold Camping's House In Alameda at 6:01 PM

Oakland false prophet Harold Camping made headlines over the last few weeks with his prediction that Jesus was returning on May 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm in various time zones around the

Alameda Woman Attacked By Raccoons

After slipping and falling while walking her dog, an Alameda woman was attacked by a gaze of raccoons on Sunday along Central Avenue toward Eighth Street. "I was trying to calm the dog

SFist Blotter: Three East Bay Shootings

Berkeley / Shooting: A 35-year-old man was shot and killed late Saturday night/early Sunday while walking home from a party with his fiancée. The couple was approached near Adeline and Emerson Streets by

Victim of Ferryboat Death Identified

The woman who died yesterday after going overboard the Oakland-Alameda Ferry has been identified as 28-year-old Shayla Hudson, and authorities are still determining whether she fell or jumped. Hudson had boarded the 8:

BART Cop Trial Moved Out of Alameda County

Declaring that he couldn't get a fair trial because of public outrage and we-are-all-Oscar-Grant fetishism, Judge Morris Jacobson ruled that Officer Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of murdering Oscar Grant on New

Bay Bridge Expansion Update

Over at Curbed, we came across Flickr photog sirgious' spectacular industrial age-ish photo of the new Bay Bridge expansion in progress. Above is the "temporary structure that will support the new bridge before

Alameda Schools Approve Curriculum on Gay Tolerance

Parents of students in the Alameda School District are split down the middle regarding the district's decision to proceed with a new set of classes aimed at curbing anti-gay bullying. Starting next year,

BREAKING NEWS: P.S. Alameda Is Burning

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

Mystery Oil Closes Alameda Beach

Crown State Memorial Beach Park in Alameda closed down after "quarter-sized tar balls and an oil sheen" were found along the shoreline, stretching about half-mile long. No one knows yet where the oil

Hundreds of Alameda Students Walk Out in Protest

Students at Encinal High School walked out of their classrooms today in response to proposed budget cuts. Last night the school board held a tense meeting that went well into the wee hours

Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's Killers Sentenced to Camp

The three boys who took part in the shooting death of Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan in Washington Park in Alameda last Halloween, and then reportedly boasted about it, were sentenced in juvenile court today.

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Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Sure Jager makes things all surreal, tequila makes you do things you normally wouldn't do, and whiskey makes things all sh---kicking but if you really want something that brings the crazy, there's absinthe.

Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's Boastful, Alleged Killers

Demian Bulwa at the Chronicle reports on some depressing info found in the search warrant affidavits filed in court by police in the Halloween murder of Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan. The teenagers who supposedly

Three Teen Boys Arrested in Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan's Murder

Three boys -- possibly ruining their lives at the wee ages of 15, 16, and 17 -- were arrested yesterday, all of then booked on suspicion of murder. The fuzz believes that the

Arrests Made in the Halloween Slaying of Teen Rachael Ray Admirer

Although we're not sure at this point whether or not Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's assailant is in custody, according to CBS 5, "at least three boys were taken into custody Tuesday morning after police