SF News Oakland City Council Approves Additional Police Academies to Staff Up Amid Spike In Violence The Oakland City Council on Tuesday voted to authorize two additional police academies over the next two years in order to help fill vacancies and address attrition in the police department.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland 'Jeopardy!' Champion Amy Schneider Continues Historic Winning Streak With Fourth-Highest Win Total Oakland-based Jeopardy! contestant Amy Schneider remains undefeated as the show launches its first-ever Professors Tournament on Monday, and she got a break from shooting as a result.
SF News Man Shot and Killed Attempting to Thwart Car Burglary Near Lake Merritt Pergola It’s unclear whether he tried to disrupt the burglary of his own car, or someone else’s, but an unidentified man was killed Sunday afternoon trying to stop a car burglary around Lake Merritt.
SF News Oakland Police Head to Sacramento and Houston to Arrest Three Men Suspected In Gas Station Robbery/Shooting Oakland police on Monday announced three arrests in connection with a violent armed robbery attempt at a West Oakland gas station that ended with one of the suspects shot and the victim critically wounded.
SF News 'Caravans' of Cars With Some Armed Suspects Targeted Oakland Cannabis Businesses Amid Weekend Robberies Mobs of organized thieves targeted retail businesses in multiple corners of the Bay Area. But some incidents in Oakland suggest a more loose affiliation between suspects, and group tactics that perhaps came together on social media.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Trans Woman Heads Into Monday Night's 'Jeopardy!' a Three-Day Champion An Oakland-based computer scientist and standup comedian is Monday's returning champion on 'Jeopardy!', and she's hoping to champion trans awareness while also making a bit more money to pad her already considerable total.
SF News Arrest Made In High-Rise Double-Homicide In Oakland The killing of two people in an Oakland high-rise on Wednesday night may have been a "domestic incident," and Oakland police say they now have one suspect in custody.
SF News Two Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds In Uptown Oakland High-rise A man and a woman were found dead of gunshot wounds in an Oakland high-rise apartment just after midnight on Wednesday night, and the circumstances have not yet been explained.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two More People Shot On Oakland's Lakeshore Ave. A man and a woman were shot and injured near Lake Merritt early Monday, Mission porn shop Mission Secrets has seen a lot of threats over masks etc., and there's been a COVID outbreak at the Santa Cruz County Jail.
SF News More Details Emerge on Fox Theater Shooting, and Another Woman Was Shot Nearby Just Hours Later Two women were shot in separate incidents Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning in Oakland, and while the Fox Theater victim is expected to recover, the other woman is reportedly in grave condition.
SF News Still No Suspects In Random Oakland Freeway Shooting That Killed Toddler; City Marks Three New Killings Police still don't have any suspects to tie to a stray bullet that struck and killed a two-year-old child inside a car on I-880 in Oakland on Saturday, and there were three fatal shootings in a 24-hour period in the city between Friday and Saturday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Influential Oakland Restaurant Oliveto Plans New Year's Closing After 35 Years Oliveto, one of the most lauded and influential Italian restaurants in the United States — and one credited with extending Chez Panisse's local-and-sustainable ethos to Italian cuisine — has announced it will close at the end of the year, after 35 years in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
SF News Oakland Oral Surgeon Gets 16 Years For Child Sex Crimes, Blames Ecstasy For One Particularly Crazy Incident Former Oakland-based oral surgeon Cassidy Lavorini-Doyle, who's been in jail for nearly two years already after being arrested on charges of attempted child sex trafficking among others, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in federal prison.
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.