SF News Torture Charges Filed In Gambling Den Beating Incident In Oakland Prosecutors say that a patron at an illegal gambling den in Oakland was stripped naked and brutally beaten for six minutes in a January 2022 incident caught on video, and the three men believed responsible now face torture charges.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Declares Victory as Oakland’s New Mayor, Opponent Loren Taylor Has Conceded It took two weeks of vote-counting, but Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao has eked out a razor-thin, 682-vote victory as of Monday night over fellow Councilmember Loren Taylor, and ranked-choice voting tabulations eventually handed her the victory.
SF News State DOJ Probing Oakland School District Over Closing Seven Schools, Citing Civil Rights Violations The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
SF News Alleged Gunman In Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Murder-For-Hire Case Pleads Not Guilty The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF News Two Oakland Men Arrested On 38 (Yes, 38) Counts of Auto Burglary Two men alleged to be affiliated with gangs are in custody and stand accused of an astonishing 38 counts of auto burglary, and they’re both now in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
SF News Repeat Offender Attacks AC Transit Driver With Hammer, Pulls Gun on Him It was not the first time this 45-year-old woman assaulted someone on AC Transit, but security video shows that on Sunday, she bashed a driver on the head with a hammer and tried to shoot him, but the gun malfunctioned.
SF News Oakland-Based Health Justice Lawyer Awarded MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Oakland-based attorney Priti Krishtel was announced today as one of 25 grantees of the MacArthur Foundation's esteemed annual 'genius' fellowships, for her work in the health justice space.
SF News Oakland Records 101st Homicide of Year; State AG Rob Bonta Comes to East Bay to Address Gun Violence Oakland’s 100th homicide of 2022 on Monday was the fatal shooting of a city violence prevention coordinator’s uncle. But then some 12 hours later, the city saw its 101st killing of the year.
SF News Manhunt for Oakland School Shooters Still Fruitless, Police Up Reward Ante to $30,000 More than two days after six people were shot at Oakland's Rudsdale Newcomer High School, among them two students, police are seemingly without leads and increasing the reward for information to $30,000.
SF News Search Continues for Oakland School Shooters; Two Victims Have Life-Threatening Injuries Wednesday's mass shooting on the campus of two Oakland high schools left six people injured, and two of them were reportedly students. Oakland police say the shooting was targeted and arose out of "group and gang conflict."
SF News Shooting at Oakland School Leaves at Least Six Critically Injured There was a school shooting Wednesday in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood of Oakland, the details of which are still coming in — but we know that at least six students or staff were injured.
SF News Manslaughter Charges Have Been Filed Against Alleged Sideshow Participant Who Caused June Death In East Oakland A 19-year-old whose reckless driving was implicated in the death of a 28-year-old Oakland man and injuries to his family members has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter.
SF News Oakland Audit Blasts Inability to Account for What Happened With $70 Million In Homeless Funding The city of Oakland spent $69 million over four years housing unsheltered people, but has no idea if any of those nearly 9,000 people ever found permanent housing, according to a new report from the City Auditor.
SF News Three Homicides Mark Grisly Monday Night In Oakland In the 88th, 89th and 90th homicides of 2022 in Oakland, two men were shot and killed after leaving a mosque near Mosswood, and an hour later, another woman was fatally shot near the Highland Terrace neighborhood.
SF Politics Not One But Two Oakland Mayoral Candidates Have Been Arrested on Gun Charges There are ten candidates vying to be the Mayor of Oakland on the November ballot, and two of them have been arrested on gun charges for incidents that happened in 2021.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Hip Hop Festival Hiero Day Returns for 10th Annual Celebration Monday, But Really All Weekend Multi-platinum Oakland native Keyshia Cole headlines Monday’s 10th annual Hiero Day, with Mistah F.A.B. and of course Hieroglyphics in the mix too, but this year the festival has events all Labor Day weekend long.
SF News Activists Still Occupying Shuttered Oakland Elementary School, District Vows to Crack Down An East Oakland elementary school that was closed down in June has drawn a months-long sit-in protest and occupation, but the school district insists they've had enough of all this, claiming one occupier was carrying “what appears to be a firearm.”
SF News Violent Weekend With Multiple Shootings Leaves Five Dead In Oakland The summertime uptick in street violence in Oakland continued over the weekend with five people killed in three separate and unrelated incidents.
SF News Fatal, Broad Daylight Shooting in Oakland‘s Little Saigon Sunday Draws Outrage A 60-year-old Asian woman was shot and killed in a 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon robbery near Laney College, and Oakland councilmembers are decrying a spike in violence in the Little Saigon neighborhood.
SF News Mushroom- and Weed-Dispensing Church In Oakland Sues Over Police Raid, Confiscated Property A kooky church in Oakland that believes in the spiritual power of hallucinogens has now filed suit against the city and the Oakland Police Department over a raid two years ago in which police took cash, cannabis, and mushrooms.
SF News Oakland Man Causes Panic at Las Vegas Airport Amid Apparent Mental Health Episode A 33-year-old Oakland man who reportedly really wanted to go home and get the eff out of Vegas was arrested twice last weekend at Harry Reid International Airport for causing disturbances that police compared to terrorism.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Oakland Food Truck Tacos El Último Baile to Set Up Shop In Former Nyum Bai Space This Fall A highly sought-after taco truck is becoming a brick-and-mortar over in Oakland, with Tacos El Último Baile set to take over the cozy Fruitvale restaurant space that was recently vacated by another popular establishment, Nyum Bai.
