SF News Oakland Police Arrest Trio In Connection With Carjacking Spree, Including Attempt Caught on Video While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
SF News SF Does Not Have Highest Homelessness Rate In California — We’re No. 3 A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
SF News Street-Racing Suspect Arrested In Last Month’s Oakland Hit-and-Run That Killed Immigrant Grandmother Oakland police have made an arrest in the June 16 hit-and-run that killed 73-year-old woman Santu Maya, and the suspect, 28-year-old convicted car thief Josue Ortega, also has pending shooting charges from a separate incident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Horn’s Burger Joint ‘Matty’s Old Fashioned’ Is Now Taking Reservations, Starting Wednesday Night You can finally sink your teeth into the long-awaited burger concept from celebrated Oakland chef Matt Horn, as Matty’s Old Fashioned is taking reservations for Wednesday night and beyond at their new brick-and-mortar Downtown Oakland location.
Business & Tech Four More East Bay Chain Hotels Being Surrendered to Lenders In Nationwide Loan Default This is not just a Bay Area “doom loop” story, as Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust is handing back the keys to 19 U.S. hotels, four of which are in Oakland, Newark, and Walnut Creek.
SF News As East Bay Gun Injuries Spike By 180%, the Region’s Congressional Reps Call For Federal Report It seems unlikely some blue-ribbon commission would change the trajectory of gun injuries, up 180% in the East Bay compared to pre-pandemic, but some congressional representatives say a Surgeon General report could turn the tide like it did with cigarettes.
SF News Oakland’s 911 System Fails After Thursday Afternoon Technical Glitch What started as a PG&E outage turned into a hobbled 911 system for the city of Oakland, and the city’s 911 call center had trouble routing calls throughout Thursday afternoon and evening.
SF News US Marshals Help Oakland Police Make Arrest In Chicago In Shooting of Flower Delivery Man Oakland police announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the June 21 fatal shooting of Brazilian flower delivery man Matheus Gaidos in Oakland's Koreatown.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
SF News 73-Year-Old Oakland Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Suspected of Street Racing A Friday night hit-and-run near Fruitvale in Oakland took the life of 73-year-old Santu Maya, and police believe the suspect vehicle was engaged in illegal street racing.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested For Mission Shooting Was Wanted for Oakland Music Video Shooting That Killed One 22-year-old Javier Campos was arrested Wednesday night in Santa Cruz County and he's been linked to both Friday's Mission District shooting and the shootout at a gas station in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old man in January.
SF News Oakland Woman Reunited With French Bulldog Stolen In April Toya Zheng, the Oakland-based lawyer who went on local television to plea for the return of her two-year-old French bulldog Boba after he was stolen out of her car in April, now says the dog has been returned to her.
SF News Oakland Woman Charged In Horrific Death of 10-Year-Old Daughter An Oakland woman whose daughter was found dead in her apartment last month has been charged with the girl's murder, in addition to several enhancements. And a relative says this was the sad result of a home plagued by domestic violence.
SF News Driver Plows Car Into Oakland Wise Sons Deli After High-Speed Chase An alarming high-speed car chase through the streets of downtown Oakland Sunday afternoon ended with an Acura SUV hitting a fire hydrant and crashing through the front of Wise Sons Deli, though the shop was closed and no one was injured.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Perpetuates Idea That Homeless Are Coming From Elsewhere, Wants to Charge Other Cities Oakland's mayor of five months Sheng Thao has now made some controversial statements about addressing the city's homelessness crisis, perpetuating an often-shared misconception that homeless people are moving to the Bay Area for its better homeless services.
SF News City of Oakland Employees Launch Class Action Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack Furious that gobs of their personal data are now available on the dark web, some Oakland employees are suing the city in a class action lawsuit over the February ransomware attack that hobbled the city’s IT systems.
SF News Hundreds of Angry North Oakland Residents Bring Out the Pitchforks at Town Hall On Crime Oakland District 1 city councilmember Dan Kalb and other city officials had plenty of shouting directed their way at a Tuesday night meeting about the recent crime spike in the North Oakland area, and Kalb seems to be drawing some political battle lines in response.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Felicia Closing After One Year In Oakland, Owner Blames Break-In After loads of media coverage for "vulgar fine dining" concept Hi Felicia, and just three weeks after chef-owner Imana announced a switch to an à la carte format, the Oakland restaurant is now closed for good.
SF News Nine Deplorable Teens Arrested In Connection With 35 Robberies; Oakland Police Vow New Approach Amid Crime Wave It sounds like the Oakland Police Department has solved the case of a string of robberies across multiple neighborhoods, and the culprits are a group of juveniles. But the 35 robberies they've been connected to represent only a fraction of a recent wave of crime in Oakland.
SF News Oakland’s Homelessness-Focused Newspaper Street Spirit to Cease Publication After Losing Funding The 28-year-old Oakland newspaper Street Spirit, which chronicles homelessness issues and is sold by unhoused vendors, will publish its last issue on June 1 because they’ve lost their nonprofit funding.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Multiple Suspects In Alleged Robbery Spree That Included Injury to Toddler After several days of high tension in Oakland's typically quiet Trestle Glen neighborhood following an attempted robbery that injured a toddler with bullet shrapnel, Oakland police did a full-court press with undercover officers and they say they've made multiple arrests, or at least one arrest.
Arts & Entertainment Tupac Shakur Getting A Street Named After Him In Oakland Near Lake Merritt All eyes will be on a block of MacArthur Boulevard north of Lake Merritt, as the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to rename a block of that street “Tupac Shakur Way.”
