SF News High Winds Topple Trees, Cause Two Deaths In Oakland [Photo] A spate of surprisingly high winds, some as gusty as 65 mph or more, hit the East and North Bays overnight leading to a number of falling trees, power outages, and two fatal
SF News 3.4 Earthquake Rattles San Ramon Did you feel it? A 3.4 quake shook San Ramon this morning. It happened at 9:30. No reports yet of any injuries. This comes on the heels of a smaller quake
SF News Fatality On The Tracks At BART El Cerrito Del Norte Service resumed to normal this morning after a three-hour delay as police investigated a death on the tracks at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station. "Police would not say if the dead
SF News Teen Arrested For Setting AC Transit Passenger On Fire We get our fair share of nightmarish public transportation-related crimes around here, but this one may take the cake. Yesterday evening, a sleeping passenger was actually set on fire aboard an AC Transit
SF News Five People Shot, More Shot At, In Oakland On Sunday; Two Year-Old Shot in Friday Drive-By In four separate incidents in different parts of Oakland on Sunday, five people were shot and injured and several more were injured in a vehicle accident in which they were being shot at
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: 'We're A Little Bit Like Brooklyn' In an interview with the National Journal published this week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan discussed her beleaguered city's biggest challenge for the future. Which, surprise, is not "ensuring public safety," but rather the
Arts & Entertainment Matt Werner, Mind Behind 'Oakland Unseen,' Talks About Switching To Print, Faking The News, And More Matt Werner, author and tech writer at Google, has had unbridled success with the advent of Oakland Unseen, a popular parody Tumblr billed as Oakland's answer to The Onion. Last Friday, Werner released
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.1 Quake Gently Rocks Bay Area Sunday Night. According to the US. Geological Survey and several Twitter updates, an earthquake rattled the Bay Area Sunday night at 9:26 pm. The minor tremor, according to SF Appeal, "had a magnitude of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Allegedly There Is Much Great Ice Cream In Walnut Creek As they are wont to do on their homepage, SFGate has spotlighted a fluff piece about a far-flung corner of the Bay Area, namely that shining bastion of suburban dystopia known as Walnut
SF News 23-Year-Old Woman Killed In East Oakland Shooting Violence in East Oakland shows no signs of abatement after a 23-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man were shot Thursday night while sitting a parked car in the 800 block of 100th Avenue
SF News Sandra Coke Identified As Vacaville Homicide Victim A body found in Vacaville last week has been identified as missing Oakland criminal defense investigator Sandra Coke. The 50-year-old criminal defense investigator was last seen on August 4 along with a paroled,
SF News East Bay Currently Experiencing A Rabid Bat Problem Alameda County health officials issued a warning Tuesday for Oakland residents to be on the lookout for rabid animals in the area near the Oakland Zoo after a teenage girl volunteer was bitten
SF News Major BART Delays After Man Climbs Train At MacArthur [PHOTO] A man who climbed the roof of a BART train has caused a huge mess this morning for traffic in the East Bay. At around 5:30 a.m., the unidentified man was
SF News Gov. Brown Announces $1.5 Billion Chinese Investment For Oakland's Waterfront From the American Embassy in Beijing today, Governor Jerry Brown announced a $1.5 billion deal from a Chinese investment group to fund development of Oakland's 65-acre Brooklyn Basin project. The project sits
SF News 'Door Knock' Burglaries on Peninsula Being Blamed on East Bay Hooligans There's been a rash of burglaries in various Peninsula cities in recent months in which teams of thieves knock on the doors of homes to see if anyone answers. If they get no
Arts & Entertainment A Guide For Making A Seamless San Francisco-To-Oakland Transition [Updated] From what we know of Oakland — which is everything — residents stroll around and shoot each other with guns. Lots of guns. In between going to Ike's and Plum, that is. But that's pretty
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Diamond Dave Hosley Word arrived today that Petar's Restaurant & Lounge in Lafayette, with its dancefloor and hipster-approved karaoke-DJ-emcee Diamond Dave Hosley singing his own versions of today's pop hits on weekends, is closing as of
SF News Why Can't Oakland PD Lower The Crime Rate? Because They Can't Catch Criminals What sounds like a bad joke about Oakland's struggling police force is actually the headline to an investigative report by the East Bay Express this week. In the Express' cover story, reporter Ali
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chick-Fil-A Fanatics Camp Out Overnight For Free Chicken With all the fervor of a new iPhone launch, hungry chicken fans not afraid of Chick-Fil-A's homophobic stigma camped out at the chain's new Walnut Creek location overnight last night in hopes of
SF News Piedmont High's 'Fantasy Slut League' Exaggerated By Administration, Says Student Paper After news broke last month of a "Fantasy Slut League" organized by varsity jocks at Piedmont High School in the East Bay, the plucky editorial staff of The Piedmont Highlander student newspaper launched
SF News Varsity Jocks At Piedmont High Organize 'Fantasy Slut League' Male varsity athletes at haughty Piedmont High School have been running an alarming extracurricular activity in which they score points for engaging and documenting in sexual activities with female students. According to a
SF News Big Meteor Brightens Skies Over East Bay, Goes Boom Near Martinez A lot of people in the East Bay saw a big, bright ball of light streak across the sky last night, and it appears to have been a big chunk of meteor. This
SF News Angry Crowd Unleashes On Chevron Refinery Officials Community members lined up to berate and shout at Chevron and government officials at Tuesday's town hall meeting following the refinery fire that sent a mushroom cloud of putrid smoke over the East
SF News Chevron To Pay Residents Affected By Toxic Refinery Fire And finally, in crisis communications news: After Monday's fire at the Chrevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. sent a plume of black, toxic smoke into the air blanketing much of Richmond, North Richmond, and
