SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
SF News Two Men Including One Nicknamed 'Hitler' Sentenced In Louisiana-to-Oakland Racketeering Case Two men were sentenced Tuesday to a collective 66 years in federal prison for their roles in a whole slew of criminal activity stretching from Louisiana to California, including a murder-for-hire scheme that resulted in the death of an Oakland man.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
Arts & Entertainment Daveed Diggs and 'Blindspotting' Costar Rafael Casal Hosting Saturday Fundraiser For Oakland's Fairyland Children's Fairyland, on the shore of Lake Merritt, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this weekend with the launch of a digital library called "Celebrity Storytime."
SF News Oakland Police Raid Church That Was Allegedly Selling Mushrooms and Weed to Congregants Following some neighbor complaints, an East Oakland church dedicated to psychedelics was raided by police in mid-August, and the founder of the church wants people to know he has nothing to hide.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Citing Corruption Allegations Against Police Commission As Kirkpatrick warned she would, she has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that her firing came after she had sought to challenge "corruption and abuse of power" by members of the city's police commission.
SF News San Leandro Police Officer Fatally Shoots Car Theft Suspect In Oakland A San Leandro Police officer shot and killed a suspect in an allegedly stolen vehicle following a chase into Oakland Wednesday night, after the suspect allegedly emerged from the car with an assault weapon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lake Merritt Parties Blamed For COVID Spread Nancy Pelosi slammed Republicans today for pushing back on extended jobless aid, the UC Davis researcher from China accused of visa fraud has been arrested after hiding out in the consulate, and Oakland parties are being blamed for COVID spread.
SF Politics Vandals Tag the Hell Out of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s House Messages of "Cancel Rent," "Defund OPD," and "Wake Up, Libby" were among the less profane messages in a 2 a.m. graffiti and fireworks hit job on Libby Schaaf’s house.
SF News New Bay Trail Expansion Offers Glorious SF Bay Views and Connects Oakland to Richmond The multi-million-dollar East Bay Regional Park District project opened a new segment to the Bay Trail this weekend that gives walkers, cyclists, and runners breathtaking views of the San Francisco Bay — all while creating a passageway between Oakland and Richmond.
SF News John Lee Cowell Sentenced to Life In Prison for BART Station Murder of Nia Wilson Convicted killer John Lee Cowell, who was found guilty in March of first-degree murder in the July 2018 stabbing of Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station, was sentenced today to life in prison.
SF News East Bay Black Residents' Property Defaced In Two Separate 'All Live Matter' Graffiti Incidents The home of a black woman in a traditionally black neighborhood in Oakland as well at the vehicles belonging to a black family in Alameda were both targeted with "All Lives Matter" graffiti over the weekend in two apparently separate incidents.
SF News Oakland Residents Divided On Saving/Euthanizing Aggressive Wild Turkey In Rose Garden The park has been closed by the city out of concerns for peoples' safety, and the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a "depredation" permit that would allow the city to humanely euthanize the bird if its behavior does not change.
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.
