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.
SF News Maserati Attempting to Flee From CHP Pursuit In Oakland Launches Up and Under Overpass In Crazy Crash A Maserati SUV that was reportedly speeding above 100 miles per hour in Oakland on Sunday morning ended up wedged in the elbow of an embankment and a freeway overpass, but remarkably the driver escaped unharmed.
SF News Amtrak Train Strikes Truck In Oakland, 111 Crew and Passengers Evacuated An Amtrak train carrying 111 passengers and crew, en route to Los Angeles, collided with a maintenance truck that was parked too close to the train tracks on Thursday morning. No injuries have been reported.
SF News Oakland's Mills College Calls It Quits After Several Rough Years, Will Accept No Incoming First-Years After 2021 Historic East Bay women's college Mills, which was founded in 1852, is ending its run as a degree-granting institution and won't be taking on any new students after this fall.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
SF News Homeless Man In Critical Condition After Apparently Being Set on Fire In Oakland A man whose age and identity are still not known was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night after apparently being set ablaze in East Oakland.
SF News Liquor Store Owner In Oakland Chinatown Arrested for Vigilante Firearm Action During Street Robbery On Monday evening, one business owner in Oakland's Chinatown who tried to take matters into his own hands — by way of shooting a weapon while intervening in a robbery that was occurring outside his store — was arrested for his actions.
SF News 22-Year Department Vet LeRonne Armstrong Named New Oakland Police Chief After an almost year-long search process, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong as the next chief of the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
SF News Derick Almena Pleads Guilty In Ghost Ship Fire Case, Will Likely Not Serve Any More Time Behind Bars Families of the victims of the tragic December 2016 Ghost Ship fire are not all pleased with a plea agreement that was offered recently to the remaining criminal defendant in the case, Derick Almena. But on Friday, he pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
SF News Two Men Arrested In Tracy For Broad Daylight Murder Of Oakland Man Oakland police have arrested two men in connection with a January 11 murder of 58-year-old man in West Oakland, and both men were arrested outside the county, in Tracy.
