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
SF News Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge... Light poles illuminate the new east span of the Bay Bridge during a system lighting preview by Caltrans on Thursday. AP notes. "The custom-made lights will create a safer driving experience for motorists
SF News Obama Welcomed To East Bay With 'I Hella [Heart] Oakland' T-Shirt President Obama swung through the Bay Area on another one of his fundraising campaign stops yesterday. While he was met with medical marijuana demonstrations on the streets of Oakland yesterday afternoon, the President
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits She Screwed Up Something Else Over in the East Bay, Oaklanders skittish from what we can only assume is the constant wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo of Police sirens have been waiting patiently for updates on Mayor Quan's 100 Blocks Initiative. The
SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
Arts & Entertainment Concord Gets Its First Feature-Length Movie: 'Love, Concord' Let's start things off by saying that if you're not reading Claycord, you're not living out loud. Really. It's a formidable site on all things Concord, Clayton, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Martinez.
SF News Three Weeks After Massacre, Oikos University Reopens Three weeks after disgruntled student One Goh allegedly shot 10 people (killing 7), Oikos University will reopen today. "English teacher Lucas Garcia was the first instructor to arrive at the campus on Edgewater
SF News Mission Thought to Be Incredibly Dangerous By East Bay Folk Many older people who reside in the East Bay (and probably elsewhere) continue to believe that the Mission is nothing but a cesspit of crime and poverty, and that "white girls shouldn't be
SF News 4.0 Earthquake Hits East Bay A minor 4.0 quake hit the Bay Area at 5:33 Monday morning, rattling parts of San Francisco and the East Bay. Did you feel it? According to USGS, it was centered
SF News East Bay Motorcyclist Plunges Off Overpass Wall, Dies A motorcyclist, 22, driving along I-80 at around 3 a.m. crashed into an overpass wall, fell over "dozens of feet," and died. "The motorcyclist was transitioning from northbound Interstate 880 to westbound
SF News East Bay BART Train Kills Man A little before 7 p.m. on Monday, a man died after walking on the BART tracks at the MacArthur station. A Richmond-bound train plowed into the unidentified man, killing him instantly. According
