SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot Six Times, Condition Critical A retired Oakland Police Department captain, known for working much of the last decade on the city's Ceasefire strategy to reduce gun violence, was shot six times Thursday in an attempted robbery at a West Oakland gas station.
SF News East Bay Pedophile Says He Paid $55K For Encounter With 10-Year-Old; Authorities Have Not Charged Trafficker A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
SF News Double Homicide Brings Oakland's Count to 102 For the Year; Prayer Vigil Marks Milestone Community members in Oakland gathered for a prayer vigil Sunday to mark the city's 100th homicide last week, and just hours earlier the count rose to 102 with the fatal shootings of two more young men.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Releases Soaring New Crime Stats, Asks the Public For Help Just eight months on the job, Oakland Police chief LeRonne Armstrong decries a 100% increase in carjackings and a 50% increase in shootings compared to this point last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Ale Industries Puts Adorable Adoptable Pets on Beer Cans Oakland's longest running brewery — and one of its most interesting and innovative — Ale Industries has done a new marketing collaboration with the East Bay SPCA that is all but guaranteed to sell a lot of beer and get some cats and pups adopted.
SF News Three Arrested In Solano County For Oakland Teen's Murder Authorities in Solano County arrested three people in connection with the death of an Oakland teenager whose body was found Tuesday in a ditch in Dixon.
SF News Two Hit-and-Run Drivers Sought In East Bay Including One Felony Suspect Who Struck Deputy A hit-and-run driver who allegedly struck and injured a 29-year-old man in the Oakland hills on Sunday is being sought by police, and another suspect driver is being sought in a separate incident Monday involving an Alameda County sheriff's deputy.
SF News Tiny House Village For Oakland Homeless Goes In at Long-Vacant Lot Beside Lake Merritt A village of tiny houses able to give shelter to 79 homeless individuals began construction today on a Lake Merritt-adjacent lot in Oakland, and it should be habitable very quickly.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested for Fatally Setting Homeless Man on Fire A 58-year-old Oakland man is in custody on suspicion of killing another man by fire back in March.
SF News Former Senator Barbara Boxer Got Assaulted and Mugged In Oakland Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was reportedly shoved to the ground and robbed of her cell phone near Oakland's Jack London Square on Monday afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Install Physical Deterrents for Sideshows Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
SF News Oakland Sees Night of Chaos With Massive Sideshow, 'Celebratory' Gunfire and Other Violence Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave a special press briefing Monday to lament the "12 hours of non-stop chaos" that he says officers were dealing with on Sunday night.
SF News Oakland Homicide Rate Is Up 30% Over Last Year After Three Weekend Shootings As we mark the halfway point in the year, Oakland has just marked its 66th homicide of 2021, with someone killed on average every three days in the city so far since January.
SF News Road Show by Julian Assange's Family Makes Stop In Oakland; Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Daniel Ellsberg Speak The family of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is staging events around the country this summer to advocate for the dropping of the United States' extradition request and the Espionage Act charges against him.
SF News Warring San Francisco Gangs Blamed For Lake Merritt Juneteenth Shooting A shooting in Oakland on Saturday is being blamed on gang warfare, specifically an ongoing conflict with two gangs or groups from San Francisco.
SF News East Bay Man Faces Assault Charges for Throwing Bottle of Water at Gavin Newsom A Berkeley man lived the dream and threw a bottle of water at Gavin Newsom, but now faces charges of assaulting a public official and resisting an officer.
SF News Mills College Enters Negotiations to Become Part of Northeastern University After an anouncement this spring that Mills College may cease to exist as an undergraduate college and stop granting degrees in 2023, a new development suggests that Mills may live on after all, albeit as part of a larger institution.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flint’s Barbecue Set to Return As a Travis Kalanick Ghost Kitchen, Community Not Thrilled Legendary Oakland BBQ stop Flint’s Barbecue may finally have its brick-and-mortar reincarnation, but there’s community pushback against the ghost kitchen facility that would house it.
SF News Possible Link Investigated Between Oakland Double Murder and Party Bus Shooting Investigators in Oakland believe there may be a link between a May 16 double homicide in East Oakland that killed two 17-year-old boys, and the shooting up of a party bus that happened about one day later on I-580, killing two more teenagers.
SF News Two Killed, Multiple People Shot When Party Bus Gets Riddled With Bullets During Oakland Birthday Two young women were reportedly killed and possibly seven others were wounded when a party bus traveling on eastbound I-580 was shot up last night, during one woman's 21st birthday celebration.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Homicide Rate Trending Double the 2020 Rate California health officials are getting set to approve giving Pfizer shots to kids 12-15 starting Thursday, a Richmond school has shut back down due to a van with threatening graffiti, and Oakland just had its 49th homicide of the year.
SF News 41-Year-Old Man Killed When Car Jumps Sidewalk In Oakland's Glenview Neighborhood; Driver Flees Scene A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Jack London Square Food Hall Project Thwarted Again As Star Chefs Back Out The hotly anticipated Oakland Assembly food hall at Jack London Square was delayed by the pandemic but now it sounds like they will have to start the tenant hunt all over again.
SF News No Charges Filed In Oakland Liquor Store Shooting That Led to Deadly Arson A fatal shooting in East Oakland on April 10 led to a cascade of retaliatory events, including an arson fire that killed a man and his baby daughter. And now, the man who turned himself in for the shooting is not being charged.
SF News Homicide Investigation Underway After Suspected Arson Fire Kills Father and Daughter in Oakland What's being investigated as an arson fire killed a 37-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter inside their Oakland home early Saturday morning; police have deemed the incident a double homicide.
