SF News 41-Year-Old Man Killed When Car Jumps Sidewalk In Oakland's Glenview Neighborhood; Driver Flees Scene A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Jack London Square Food Hall Project Thwarted Again As Star Chefs Back Out The hotly anticipated Oakland Assembly food hall at Jack London Square was delayed by the pandemic but now it sounds like they will have to start the tenant hunt all over again.
SF News No Charges Filed In Oakland Liquor Store Shooting That Led to Deadly Arson A fatal shooting in East Oakland on April 10 led to a cascade of retaliatory events, including an arson fire that killed a man and his baby daughter. And now, the man who turned himself in for the shooting is not being charged.
SF News Homicide Investigation Underway After Suspected Arson Fire Kills Father and Daughter in Oakland What's being investigated as an arson fire killed a 37-year-old father and his one-year-old daughter inside their Oakland home early Saturday morning; police have deemed the incident a double homicide.
SF News Maserati Attempting to Flee From CHP Pursuit In Oakland Launches Up and Under Overpass In Crazy Crash A Maserati SUV that was reportedly speeding above 100 miles per hour in Oakland on Sunday morning ended up wedged in the elbow of an embankment and a freeway overpass, but remarkably the driver escaped unharmed.
SF News Amtrak Train Strikes Truck In Oakland, 111 Crew and Passengers Evacuated An Amtrak train carrying 111 passengers and crew, en route to Los Angeles, collided with a maintenance truck that was parked too close to the train tracks on Thursday morning. No injuries have been reported.
SF News Oakland's Mills College Calls It Quits After Several Rough Years, Will Accept No Incoming First-Years After 2021 Historic East Bay women's college Mills, which was founded in 1852, is ending its run as a degree-granting institution and won't be taking on any new students after this fall.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
SF News Homeless Man In Critical Condition After Apparently Being Set on Fire In Oakland A man whose age and identity are still not known was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday night after apparently being set ablaze in East Oakland.
SF News Liquor Store Owner In Oakland Chinatown Arrested for Vigilante Firearm Action During Street Robbery On Monday evening, one business owner in Oakland's Chinatown who tried to take matters into his own hands — by way of shooting a weapon while intervening in a robbery that was occurring outside his store — was arrested for his actions.
SF News 22-Year Department Vet LeRonne Armstrong Named New Oakland Police Chief After an almost year-long search process, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong as the next chief of the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Oakland Developer Evicting People Like Mad During Eviction Moratorium The owner of Vulcan Lofts and nearly two dozen other East Bay apartment complexes is singularly responsible for nearly a third of all Oakland eviction notices filed during the eviction moratorium.
SF News Derick Almena Pleads Guilty In Ghost Ship Fire Case, Will Likely Not Serve Any More Time Behind Bars Families of the victims of the tragic December 2016 Ghost Ship fire are not all pleased with a plea agreement that was offered recently to the remaining criminal defendant in the case, Derick Almena. But on Friday, he pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
SF News Two Men Arrested In Tracy For Broad Daylight Murder Of Oakland Man Oakland police have arrested two men in connection with a January 11 murder of 58-year-old man in West Oakland, and both men were arrested outside the county, in Tracy.
SF News Alameda County DA Won't Be Charging BART Cop in Oscar Grant Shooting Three months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office was reopening an investigation into former BART police officer Anthony Pirone and his role in the shooting of Oscar Grant, O'Malley announced there would be no new charges.
SF News Video Captures Moment That Helicopter Drops Enormous A/C Unit On Downtown Oakland Street A construction crew had a bit of a bad morning on Saturday when in the process of lifting a cooling unit the approximate size of a box truck, a helicopter accidentally dropped the thing about 40 feet onto a downtown Oakland Street.
SF News Port of Oakland to Receive Three Giant New Container Cranes As Tall As 40-Story Buildings Three giant new container cranes, among the largest ever installed at a U.S. port, are on their way across the ocean from China, and they are set make the Port of Oakland home by late December.
SF News Oakland and San Francisco Police Arrest Pair of Rape Suspects Two men were arrested this week on sexual assault and other charges in unrelated cases, with witnesses on a San Francisco Muni helping to identify one of the suspects.
Bay Area Sports Steph and Ayesha Curry Reward Oakland Mom for Her Volunteering Work Kai is a mother of two living in Oakland who's spent the pandemic volunteering at an organization that gives diapers to mothers in need. Now she's the latest recipient of "A Gift of Joy" from Steph and Ayesha Curry and Rakuten.
SF News 25-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Killed In East Oakland Saturday Night A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
SF News Oakland Homicide Count Hits 100 Following Another Violent Weekend There were five violent deaths in Oakland between Saturday and Monday, including four fatal shootings, bringing the city's total for the year to 100 — putting it on track to match or exceed homicide numbers not seen in a decade.
SF Politics Moms 4 Housing Organizer Wins Oakland City Council Seat, Beating Incumbent The woman who's credited with being the mastermind behind last fall's Moms 4 Housing protest in West Oakland, Carroll Fife, has unseated incumbent City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, marking a shift toward a more progressive electorate in parts of Oakland.
SF News Oakland Sees Night Of Chaos With Multiple Shootings, Pot Burglaries Rumors and fears of potential unrest gave way to at least two burglaries at marijuana businesses in Oakland, one of which led to an officer-involved shooting. Other shootings elsewhere in Oakland resulted in six people being injured.
