SF News Pickup Truck Collides With BART Train In Oakland, Three Injured Including Train Operator An accident occurred Monday night near E. 8th Street in Oakland in which a pickup truck crashed through a fence and collided with a northbound BART train between Fruitvale and Lake Merritt stations.
SF News North Bay Man Charged as an Accessory In Death of Two-Year-Old Found Buried In Napa County Gets Released on Bail There have been some new developments in the case of the murder of two-year-old Ja'mari Madkins, whose lifeless body was found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County back in December.
SF News Oakland Schools Reach Partial Agreement with Striking Teachers on 'Common Good' Initiatives The union representing Oakland educators and Oakland Unified School District have agreed upon four "common good" terms, including reparations and closures, but not on salaries.
SF News Detectives Detail How They Found the Alleged Killers In the Freeway Shooting of Toddler Jasper Wu Highway Patrol officers took the stand and detailed their sleuthwork on how they found the alleged shooters in the Oakland freeway shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, describing an elaborate investigation involving jail calls, wiretaps, and even car advertisements.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy as 330 Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Loom With a substantial 330 sexual abuse lawsuits looming against their priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, hoping to stem financial losses from all these abuse cases.
SF News Cars Set On Fire And Rammed Into As Multiple Sideshows Rollicked Oakland Friday At least three large sideshows brought mayhem to Oakland streets Friday night and Saturday morning, and in one of them two cars set on fire and rammed into for sport by other cars.
SF News Final Section of Wood Street Encampment Cleared In West Oakland, Ending Five-Year Saga Following many months of court battles and years in which the encampment grew to house hundreds of people in makeshift shelters and RVs, the sprawling encampment around Wood Street in West Oakland has been entirely removed.
SF News Oakland Teachers Officially On Strike Over Pay and Working Conditions It is now Day One of the 2023 Oakland Unified School District teachers’ strike, and schools are still open, but attendance is sparse as teachers are out on the picket lines
SF News 21-Year-Old Oakland Woman Was Killed By Angry Man Who Was Randomly Shooting at 'Noisy' Cars A 21-year-old woman was fatally shot last weekend in East Oakland by a man, prosecutors say, who had come out of his house mad at "noisy" cars coming down his street late at night, and began randomly shooting at them.
SF News Oakland Sideshow In Which Frustrated Man Was Beaten and Hydrant Was Sheared Off Sparks 'Outrage' From Mayor Video emerged over the weekend of an Oakland man attempting to scold and yell at participants in a chaotic sideshow, only to get beaten bloody by the crowd — and at that same sideshow a car careened into the crowd and sheered off a fire hydrant, sending a fountain of water into the air.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Year In, Oakland's Hi Felicia Adds A La Carte Menu A year after opening as a brick-and-mortar restaurant, and two years after its mid-pandemic launch as a pop-up in chef-owner Imana's apartment, Oakland restaurant Hi Felicia is pivoting a bit to offer à la carte dishes for the first time.
SF News Mother and Daughter Killed In Domestic Dispute In Oakland, Another Child Injured A mother of four and her teen daughter were both fatally shot in an Oakland apartment Saturday night, and the daughter's friend, who was at the home for a sleepover, was also wounded.
SF News Random Loose Horse Spotted Near Oakland Coliseum We have another incident in the annals of roving farm animals in Bay Area cities, this time in Oakland, and nowhere near any farms.
SF News Another Freeway Shooting on I-580 Killed One Person Wednesday Night A yet-unidentified driver of a Toyota Tacoma died after being shot and colliding with another vehicle just before midnight Wednesday night, in a shooting that happened on I-580 but whose aftermath spilled into a gas station on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland.
SF News Car Flies Off I-580 Freeway, Crashes Into Oakland Apartment A car careened off I-580 in Oakland Monday morning, flying off the freeway and crashing into an apartment building in the Upper Peralta Creek neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Body Found Near Highway 24 in Oakland A double shooting near Fruitvale Station in Oakland on Sunday was largely caught on camera; a man's body was found Monday near Highway 24 in North Oakland behind Children's Hospital; and SF City Hall isn't paying for blue check-marks on Twitter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Raising Cane's Restaurant In Oakland Closes Dining Room Due to Crime Less than a year after the opening of the first Bay Area location of popular chicken-finger chain Raising Cane's in East Oakland, that location has decided to close its dining room to patrons out of safety concerns.
SF News Late-Night High-Speed Chase Knocks Down Power Pole in East Oakland, 6,000 Households Lose Power An estimated 6,000 East Oakland PG&E customers were without power between 3:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, all because of the wreckage caused by a 125 mph chase on I-880 near Fruitvale.
SF News Oakland Mother Says Body of Woman Found Wrapped In Plastic and Carpet Is Her Daughter Oakland police aren't saying much about the “suspicious death” of a victim found Monday in the city's Uptown neighborhood, but a mother has come forward and said it was her 33-year-old daughter, and that the body was found wrapped in plastic and rolled in a carpet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
SF News Deplorable Human Flees Crash Scene On Oakland Freeway Leaving Behind Injured Dog In Car A trash pile of a person got into a multi-car crash early Thursday on I-580 in Oakland, and when police arrived, they found the person had abandoned their car with an injured, bleeding dog inside.
SF News Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese May File For Bankruptcy Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which critics say is just a tactic to avoid testifying and paying damages.
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
