SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF News Ransomware Attack On City of Oakland Leaves City Hall Closed, Many Systems Still Paralyzed A ransomware attack on the City of Oakland is now dragging into its sixth day, and the city’s IT department “has taken affected systems offline” to try to minimize the damage.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
SF News Oakland Unveils 100-Person Tiny-Home Village at Troubled Wood Street Encampment What was once northern California’s largest homeless encampment at Wood Street in Oakland now has a collection of tiny homes to house 100 people. But on the flip side, the clearing of the encampment continues.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Once Again Sees Big Protest Over Police Killing Many hundreds (thousands?) gathered in Downtown Oakland Sunday to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis; Elon Musk has apologized for linking to a conspiracy story about the Paul Pelosi attack; and three years ago today the WHO first declared COVID a global emergency.
SF News Monday Shootout In Oakland Took Place During Music Video Shoot, Appears Gang Related Because it occurred in such close succession with two mass shootings in California, a shooting incident in Oakland Monday night has been called a third "mass shooting," but the evidence points to something different involving more than one shooter and possible gang conflict.
SF Politics Suspended Oakland Police Chief Swings Back, Mounts Campaign to Be Reinstated Placed on paid administrative leave over alleged mishandling of internal discipline, Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong is going on offense with a lawyer, PR representative, and allies he’s rounded up.
SF News Oakland School Board Reverses Course, Won't Shut Down Six Schools That Were On the Chopping Block Many of the Oakland schools that were ordered to close last year will now remain open, thanks to the new school board’s reversal of that decision, though the few schools already closed will remain shuttered.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Arrest Oakland Man With Slew of Ghost Guns Oakland police arrested a man shooting off weapons in his driveway who had a slew of crazy looking ghost guns, robbers are targeting Mike's Camera stores in the East Bay, and Lake Mendocino is filling up.
SF News Remains of Two-Year-Old Boy Who Police Say Was Killed In Oakland Found In Napa Oakland police are investigating the possible murder of a toddler two days before Christmas, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
SF News Torture Charges Filed In Gambling Den Beating Incident In Oakland Prosecutors say that a patron at an illegal gambling den in Oakland was stripped naked and brutally beaten for six minutes in a January 2022 incident caught on video, and the three men believed responsible now face torture charges.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Declares Victory as Oakland’s New Mayor, Opponent Loren Taylor Has Conceded It took two weeks of vote-counting, but Oakland City Councilmember Sheng Thao has eked out a razor-thin, 682-vote victory as of Monday night over fellow Councilmember Loren Taylor, and ranked-choice voting tabulations eventually handed her the victory.
SF News State DOJ Probing Oakland School District Over Closing Seven Schools, Citing Civil Rights Violations The California Department of Justice has launched a “fact-finding mission” into the Oakland Unified School District over its plan to close seven schools and merge two others, as the closures may violate students’ rights to equal access to education.
SF News Alleged Gunman In Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Murder-For-Hire Case Pleads Not Guilty The suspected hitman who stands accused of pulling the trigger on Oakland dentist Lili Xu pleaded not guilty Wednesday, but prosecutors appear to be seeking a life sentence with no parole for the 33-year-old alleged killer Hasheem Bason.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
SF News Oakland Police Mull Acquiring Robots Armed With Shotguns The shotgun-toting robots prefer to be called “percussion actuated nonelectric disruptors,” and the Oakland Police Department wants some, though is currently offering a compromise measure where they’d only be armed with pepper spray.
SF News Two Oakland Men Arrested On 38 (Yes, 38) Counts of Auto Burglary Two men alleged to be affiliated with gangs are in custody and stand accused of an astonishing 38 counts of auto burglary, and they’re both now in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
SF News Repeat Offender Attacks AC Transit Driver With Hammer, Pulls Gun on Him It was not the first time this 45-year-old woman assaulted someone on AC Transit, but security video shows that on Sunday, she bashed a driver on the head with a hammer and tried to shoot him, but the gun malfunctioned.
SF News Oakland-Based Health Justice Lawyer Awarded MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Oakland-based attorney Priti Krishtel was announced today as one of 25 grantees of the MacArthur Foundation's esteemed annual 'genius' fellowships, for her work in the health justice space.
SF News Oakland Records 101st Homicide of Year; State AG Rob Bonta Comes to East Bay to Address Gun Violence Oakland’s 100th homicide of 2022 on Monday was the fatal shooting of a city violence prevention coordinator’s uncle. But then some 12 hours later, the city saw its 101st killing of the year.
SF News Manhunt for Oakland School Shooters Still Fruitless, Police Up Reward Ante to $30,000 More than two days after six people were shot at Oakland's Rudsdale Newcomer High School, among them two students, police are seemingly without leads and increasing the reward for information to $30,000.
