SF News Oakland Mother and Five-Year-Old Son Have Been Missing For Nine Days, Police Asking Public’s Help 29-year-old Mikala King, and her five-year-old son King Scott, were last seen in Oakland on September 24. Both have disappeared since, and the Oakland Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating them.
SF News Man Shot and Killed at McClymonds High School Reunion in West Oakland Park A 38-year-old man was shot and killed at a McClymonds High School alumni gathering early Saturday evening at West Oakland’s De Fremery Park, and the victim was just two days away from his 39th birthday.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Issues Executive Order to Ramp Up Oakland Encampment Sweeps Facing a recall election and a slew of scandals, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is seizing on a recent Supreme Court decision to proclaim that the city will get a lot more aggressive in clearing homeless encampments.
SF News Kidnapped at Age 6 in 1951, Man Finally Reunited With Oakland Family 73 Years Later It's a stunning happy ending to a 73-year-old cold case, as a man who was kidnapped in Oakland when he was six years old was finally reunited with his family once he was 79 years old.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Will Skip Tie-Breaking Vote on City Contract to Business Associate of Possible FBI Probe Target Confronted with the very messy optics of steering millions of dollars to someone whose business partner may be a target of the very same FBI investigation that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may be a target of, Thao is choosing to merely duck the vote.
SF News Four People Shot In Oakland in Four-Hour Span Saturday Night, Three of Them Killed While the big sideshow that shut down the Bay Bridge at 3:30 am Sunday morning is all over the news, we’re also learning that there were four shootings with three fatalities in Oakland early Saturday night, plus reports that another TV camera crew was robbed.
SF News Oakland Man Charged In Fatal Dog Mauling Sunday Near Fruitvale Three 100-pound dogs attacked and killed a 53-year-old man in Oakland Sunday, and the owner has been charged with a felony, as the dogs apparently had a history of attacks.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Chinatown Throwing a Night Market Saturday, On Heels of Successful SF Night Markets Following some wildly successful night markets in San Francisco, Oakland’s Chinatown will make its mark with the Chinatown Night Market this Saturday night, with a “Dumpling Olympics” and more.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Reportedly Using an SUV the City Hasn't Paid For The City of Oakland has yet to make a single payment on the vehicle in the 16 months since acquiring it, according to reporting published earlier this week from The Oaklandside.
crime oakland Oakland Quadruple Shooting Leaves Two Dead Two people have died and two others were critically wounded this afternoon by a gunman, according to the Oakland Police Department. The violence, which authorities say arose from a verbal altercation, occurred somewhere on 83rd Avenue.
SF News Plea Deal Comes In Case of Murdered Oakland Maintenance Man; Trial to Come For Second Suspect A Sacramento man has pleaded no contest to the January 2023 murder of Julio Chavez-Montoya, a 63-year-old building maintenance man who lived in a downtown Oakland office tower.
SF News East Oakland Residents Create Their Own Renegade Barriers to Stop Sideshows, City Promptly Removes Them Tired of sideshows and reckless driving, residents of Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood put tires filled with rocks and dirt in their streets as a deterrent. The City of Oakland quickly removed them.
SF News Woman Shot and Killed in Oakland Identified, Was Mother of Eight Confronting Alleged Drug Dealers We now know the identity of the woman who was fatally shot in East Oakland last Wednesday, as 33-year-old mother of eight Maria Ramos was shot while attempting to confront a group of alleged drug dealers.
SF News Two-Alarm Wednesday Morning Fire Displaces Nearly 40 Residents in Oakland Chinatown While the two-alarm fire on Oakland’s Ninth Street was contained pretty quickly after starting around 5:30 am Wednesday morning, the building no longer has power, and 38 residents are currently without a place to live.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Roots Soccer Team Will Play at the Oakland Coliseum Starting Next Year There will be pro sports at the Oakland Coliseum after the A’s leave, as Oakland’s men’s professional soccer team the Oakland Roots will play their home games there starting in 2025.
SF Politics Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.
SF News Oakland Father of Two Clings to Life After Being Shot In Head by Stray Bullet East Oakland resident Run Hua Kuang was struck in the head by a stray bullet last Thursday, and his wife and two children are distraught as he remains on life support in intensive care.
SF News Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Strikes Two Pedestrians While Driving on the Job In New Orleans The new gig is not currently working out too well for former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, as she apparently ran her car into two pedestrians in New Orleans on Saturday night.
SF News Popular Bookstore on Oakland's College Avenue Destroyed By Fire An early morning fire Tuesday destroyed a popular bookstore on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, and displaced five people who lived upstairs.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Boyfriend Also Had Phone Seized in FBI Raid, Questions Swirl About His Role in Her Administration We’re learning that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's boyfriend also had his phone seized amidst last month’s stunning FBI raids, and while that doesn’t mean he’s a target of the investigation, he sure seems to have some nebulous but powerful role in her office.
SF News 'Scholar-Activist' Indicted By Grand Jury for Arsons at UC Berkeley; Arson Attempt at Oakland Federal Building Comes to Light Casey Goonan, the 34-year-old self-described "scholar-activist" who was arrested last month in connection with a series of small arson fires on the UC Berkeley campus that appeared to be Gaza-related acts of protest, has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SF News Oakland Moves to Clear Encampment at Toll Plaza Beach, Displacing About a Dozen As officials warned they would do in recent weeks, police and Public Works staffers arrived Tuesday morning to do a sweep at an encampment near the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza that had grown to around a dozen residents.
SF News Fellow Rapper Arrested In Oakland Shooting Death of Tan DaGod An arrest has been made in the July 13 shooting of up-and-coming Oakland rapper Tan DaGod, whose given name was Alliauna Green.
SF News FBI’s Sheng Thao Raid Investigation Has Now Expanded to the Oakland Police Department It may just be a legal technicality, or it may be a sign that the FBI smells something fishy with the Oakland PD, as the latest federal subpoena in “Sheng Thao raid-gate” asks for a slew of records from the Oakland Police Department.
