Arts & Entertainment Oakland Artists Follow D.C. In Painting 'Black Lives Matter' on City Street Three blocks of 15th Street in downtown Oakland are now painted in big, bold yellow letters "#BlackLivesMatter," much like a street near the White House in Washington, D.C. as of last week.
SF News Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.
SF News Three Dead, Two Wounded In Multiple Shootings in East Oakland Three people including a 15-year-old boy were killed Monday night in a string of shootings in different parts of East Oakland.
SF News 100 Arrested In Oakland Following Peaceful March; Empty Hilltop Mall Looted In Richmond Tear gas was deployed Monday against protesters in both Walnut Creek and Oakland, where around 100 people were arrested, 80 of them for violating the city's 8 p.m. curfew.
SF News Protest In Oakland Turns Violent, 22 Arrested, Looters Detained, Officers Injured, Federal Officer Killed The scenes of protest followed by some scenes of destruction and confrontations with law enforcement were echoed across the country Friday night. But scenes like this are fairly familiar in Oakland, and not all the vandalism and looting was necessarily done by "protesters," per se.
SF News Second Protest Planned Friday Evening In Oakland Over George Floyd Death Following a small, peaceful protest in downtown Oakland Thursday night, a second night of protest is taking shape that could be larger, following the chaotic scenes in Minneapolis last night — and following President Trump's outrageous call for the National Guard to shoot looters.
SF News East Oakland Quickly Becoming Hardest Hit COVID-19 Hot Spot In the Bay Area The Fruitvale zip code, 94601, has one of the highest per capita rates of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, and today we learn that 12 workers at the Fruitvale location of Cardenas Markets have tested positive for the virus.
Arts & Entertainment Aggressive Wild Turkey Terrorizes Visitors at Oakland Rose Garden Wild animals all over the Bay Area have been feeling emboldened and entitled as humans have retreated more and more indoors. And one wild turkey named Gerald is making life hell for anyone who tries to picnic at Morcom Rose Garden.
SF News Oakland Couple Together 34 Years Shares Harrowing Story Of Surviving COVID-19 Kevin and Martin Jones met in 1986 at The Stud in San Francisco. In March, when Kevin returned from a trip to Paris and almost immediately came down with COVID-19 symptoms, he walked into an Oakland hospital and his partner of 34 years thought he might never walk out.
SF News Two Freeway Shootings On Opposite Sides of the Bay Injure Two Within Two Hours Hopefully it's not a sign of more to come, but there were two, unrelated freeway shootings within two hours of each other on Tuesday afternoon, one in Santa Clara County and one in Oakland, each of which left a person injured.
SF Politics Fired Oakland Police Chief Turns Whistleblower, More OPD Drama On the Way Ousted chief Anne Kirkpatrick has already been replaced (twice!) and now cites “inappropriate and unlawful conduct” by the Oakland Police Commission.
SF News Oakland Murder Suspect Killed By Police After Allegedly Leaving Beaten Woman On Roadside A police pursuit that began in Oakland ended Thursday night in Richmond with an officer-involved shooting that left a kidnapping and murder suspect dead.
Arts & Entertainment After Eight-Year Hiatus, Gnome Paintings Return to Oakland With COVID Themes New gnomes are now appearing with coronavirus themes, attached to Oakland utility poles, seemingly by a new artist hoping to amuse their Oakland neighbors and inspired by another artist who did a series of these in 2012.
SF News Oakland Is Shutting Down 74 Miles of City Streets to Make More Room For Runners and Cyclists Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Thursday that the city will be closing 10 percent of its roadways to vehicle traffic during the coronavirus lockdown in order to create more social-distancing space for people trying to stay fit and active.
SF News Hundreds Gathered In Oakland For Illegal Sideshows On Sunday Defying stay-at-home orders and clearly unconcerned about spreading the coronavirus, around 400 to 450 people gathered in East Oakland Saturday to watch an illegal sideshow in an intersection.
SF Politics Biden Pops by Oakland Diner, Greeted by Protesters, Sex Toy Shop Owner Biden’s Super Tuesday swing through Oakland featured “Sully” Sullenberger, an encounter with a sex toy purveyor, and a few protesting Democratic Socialists.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Pop-Up BBQ Pitmaster Gets Charred by Oakland, Permanent Restaurant Delayed A “slab of concrete” is indefinitely delaying slabs of ribs in West Oakland, as Horn Barbecue’s smoker for their brick-and-mortar restaurant has voided their permit application.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Fired After Spats With Police Commission The newly emboldened, three-year-old Oakland Police Commission has fired the city's chief of police, Anne Kirkpatrick, following extended tensions and a decision to exonerate five police officers whom the commission wanted to fire.
SF News John Lee Cowell's Testimony May Get Tossed If He Refuses To Come Back To Court The suspect in the 2018 BART station murder of 18-year-old Nia Wilson was thrown out of court last week after an expletive-laced outburst at a prosecutor, and now he is apparently refusing to come back to complete his cross-examination.
SF News Suspect In East Bay Armed Robberies Cuts Hair, Gets Arrested In Central Valley One of two suspects wanted in what are believed to be a pair of connected, violent daylight robberies in Oakland and Richmond on February 10, was arrested after an all-points bulletin went out — and he was likely trying to flee the state.
SF News [Update] Accused BART Station Murderer John Lee Cowell Says Wilson Sisters Were Aliens 29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF News Nia Wilson Murder Trial Begins With Gruesome Surveillance Video, Outburst From Accused Killer The murder trial of 29-year-old John Lee Cowell, the mentally unstable transient man accused of killing an 18-year-old woman in an Oakland BART station two years ago, got off to an inauspicious start Wednesday morning.
SF News Sanctioned RV Lot for Homeless In Oakland Delayed After Some Encampment Dwellers Refuse to Leave A planned RV and vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless in West Oakland, similar to one that opened last year in SF, is getting delayed as the property owner is now entering an eviction fight with a group of encampment residents who refused to leave under the city's orders last fall.
SF News Car Passenger In Critical Condition After I-580 Freeway Shooting In Oakland An unidentified passenger in a vehicle traveling on eastbound I-580 in Oakland this morning was shot and critically wounded in what's being characterized by authorities as a targeted hit.
