SF News Starbucks Near Oakland Airport an Apparent Hot Spot for Smash-and-Grab Thieves Right Now Don't stop for coffee on your way to or from Oakland Airport with a car full of luggage, because opportunistic thieves may just smash in and grab it all.
SF News Shooting at Oakland Sports Bar Kills One; Same Bar Saw a Shooting In 2019 One person was fatally shot and at least three others were injured in a shooting at an Oakland sports bar Thursday night, not long after the Warriors clinched the NBA Championship.
SF News Investigation Into Oakland Sideshows Leads to Arrest of Alleged Ghost Gun Peddler It's not clear why the FBI would have been investigating sideshows in Oakland, or if the Oakland PD just handed the case off. But an investigation into illegal sideshows in Oakland led directly to a man federal prosecutors say was selling ghost guns.
SF News Oakland’s Little Saigon Shop Owners Say Crime 'Increasing Exponentially,’ Crowdfund for Cameras, Improvements A strip of International Boulevard near Lake Merritt that is packed with Vietnamese-owned businesses says they’re seeing a surge in crime, and want the same help from City Hall given to Oakland’s Chinatown.
SF News 16-Year-Old Oakland Teen Shot and Killed Visiting Grandfather, 18-Year-Old Cousin Survived Shooting A seemingly random shooting with no apparent motive killed one teen and left another hospitalized early Thursday night in Oakland’s Frick neighborhood.
SF Politics Supreme Court Rejects Oakland Couple's Case Opposing Tenant Payouts, In Win For Tenants' Rights The U.S. Supreme Court has denied review for a case brought by an Oakland couple regarding their owner move-in eviction, in a blow to all landlords who want to legally challenge city requirements regarding tenant buyouts in no-fault evictions.
SF News Beleaguered Oakland Encampment Getting $4.7 Million Grant From State to Try ‘New Model’ West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.
SF News Cinco de Mayo Brings Sideshows to Oakland and Santa Rosa; One Man Shot In Santa Rosa Sideshow events erupted in the East and North Bay on Thursday night, as revelers came out to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in full force — and a massive sideshow in Santa Rosa ended with one man getting shot multiple times.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Schools Closed Due to Strike Oakland teachers are striking today to protest the planned closure of multiple schools, a woman was shot at while confronting burglars breaking into her car, and two suspects have now been charged in the San Jose infant abduction.
SF News Oakland Police Department Wants Out of Their 20-Year-Long Federal Oversight, Will Get Their Day in Court The Oakland police have been under the oversight of a federal monitor for nearly 20 years after the long-ago “Riders” scandal, but on Wednesday will make their case to end this arrangement.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Identified as Missing Homeless Man A 42-year-old man who was known to frequent homeless encampments in Oakland and who was reported missing in August 2020 was the person who met with misadventure inside the abandoned Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center by Lake Merritt.
SF News Oakland’s Top Cop Says Lenient Bail is To Blame for Oakland Crime Spike Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is pleading with the Alameda County Superior Court to end the pandemic-era loosening of bail fees, saying this is responsible for an alleged Oakland crime spike.
SF News 15-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot During Violent Weekend In Oakland A 15-year-old girl from Antioch who was visiting a friend in East Oakland was fatally shot Saturday night, and in separate incidents eight other people were shot and injured in the city over the course of the weekend.
Business & Tech Oakland's Cannabis Delivery & Dispensary Industry Plagued By Crime; Leaders Fear Loss Of Minority Business Owners Some local leaders say that crime plaguing Oakland's cannabis delivery and dispensary industry over the past few years puts minority business owners at greater risk of closure.
SF News Another Person Has Died In an Encampment Fire, This Time In West Oakland One person has been reported dead in an encampment fire at a longstanding West Oakland encampment involving several RVs.
SF News Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation at Oakland Courthouse There was a bomb scare Monday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland after a man came in off the street carrying a small, homemade explosive device that he said had been planted on his car.
SF News Murder and Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Oakland Gas Station Shooting Charges have now been filed and more details are emerging in a March 19 shooting at an East Oakland gas station, caught on video, in which a 64-year-old Army veteran was killed and a 21-year-old woman was paralyzed.
SF News Fatal Shooting of Elderly Man In Oakland Leads to Multi-Car Collision A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday in Oakland's Fruitvale District looks to be the result of a fatal shooting in a different location, and now has become a homicide investigation.
SF News East Oakland Gas Station Shooting Leaves Innocent Bystander Dead, Another Woman Injured A 64-year-old Army veteran from San Joaquin County was caught in the crossfire and killed in a Saturday night double-shooting near San Leandro, and while another woman was shot too, police are detaining her because they say “She is a person who is involved in this crime.”
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF News Mummified Body Found In Oakland Convention Center Wall Was Likely Three to Five Years Old, Foul Play Not Suspected The story of the mummified body discovered inside a wall at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland has taken a turn for the less dramatic, and perhaps more tragic.
SF News Ack! Mummified Body Found Inside Wall of Old Oakland Convention Center Construction workers tearing down walls at the long defunct Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland made a gruesome discovery Wednesday: a mummified corpse of indeterminate age or sex.
SF News Sacramento Man Convicted of Trafficking Oakland Teen Whom He Busted Out of a Group Home In a story that involves both a jailbreak and breaking a minor out of a group home, the dust has finally settled, and the feds won a conviction of Sacramento man Robert Pierre Duncan.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fan Beaten in L.A. is Out of Coma, Standing On Own Two Feet Oakland chef and 49ers fan Daniel Luna is out of his medically induced coma after a parking lot beating during the Niners-Rams game in late January, and while he has plenty of rehab ahead, his recovery is exceeding expectations.
SF News Thieves Use SUV to Ram Metal Door of Oakland Dispensary, Clean the Place Out of Product A group of pot burglars targeted a dispensary inside the old Parkway Theater space in Oakland, and the way they got inside involved using a Lexus SUV to slam a roll-up door.
