SF News Woman Arrested For Allegedly Abusing Her Kids At BART Station A woman was arrested Saturday at BART's MacArthur station, after witnesses say she was physically abusing her two young children as she stood on the platform. Bay City News reports that 28-year-old Oakland
SF News Oakland Police Release Photo Of Person Of Interest In Murder Of Musician The case of a laptop robbery that turned into a homicide in Oakland last month still does not have a suspect. Now the Oakland Police Department is seeking the public's help in finding
SF News Uber Ditches Much Publicized Plan For Oakland HQ Two years ago, Uber delighted Oakland commercial real estate brokers with the news that they had bought the former Sears department store property at Broadway and 19th Street with plans to have a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Show Up For 'American Idol' Audition In Oakland On Sunday, the American Idol crew swung through the Bay Area sans celebrity judges to hear some local folks audition for the (is it still popular?) ABC singing competition. As local affiliate KGO
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's West Edge Opera Creates a Monster In 'Frankenstein' Frankenstein, by Libby Larsen is an opera in fifteen scenes based on the well known Mary Shelley story: Victor Frankenstein in his lab, possessed with the hubristic desire to create life, animates a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Arab Bakery In Oakland Targeted With Racist Attacks Over Mural Nothing like a giant mural of terrorist #RasmeaOdeh to enhance your appetite - in #Oakland eatery https://t.co/es3PHbLMvi pic.twitter.com/SwWUzDCu9J— (((ArchitectGuy))) (@architectguy) June 19, 2017 Recently opened Oakland bakery
SF News Protest In Oakland Over Charlottesville Shuts Down 580 About 450 people joined a demonstration Saturday night in Oakland in solidarity with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, some of whom were victims of a violent vehicular attack in which a lone 20-year-old man
SF News Investigators Can't Figure Out What Started Massive Oakland Construction Fire An early morning construction fire in Oakland on July 7 that became a four-alarm conflagration the heat of which was detected from space and caused glass from a nearby building to spontaneously fall
SF News Local Musician Dies In Oakland After Chasing Laptop Thief, Getting Dragged By Car #DEVELOPING Local musician Dave Deporis may have died trying to save his music...killed after chasing thief who stole laptop. #Abc7now pic.twitter.com/znby3bymco— Laura Anthony (@LauraAnthony7) August 10, 2017 Well known
Arts & Entertainment Noted Sensational 'Rape Rock' Band The Mentors Coming To Oakland's Stork Club Next Month Attention-getting, sensationally (and perhaps actually) chauvinist heavy-metal/punk band The Mentors, who are now men in their 50s and still shilling what they dubbed "rape rock" going back to the 1980s, are scheduled
SF News Two Men Suspected In Strange Chicago Murder Come To Bay Area, Turn Themselves In Two middle-aged men, one a university professor from Chicago and the other a university employee from England, appear to have taken a long road trip to the Bay Area after they were both
SF News Arson Suspected In Oakland/Berkeley Hills Fire, Which Is Now 70% Contained The #GrizzlyFire in the East Bay Hills is now 70% contained, and crews hope to put it out by tonight. https://t.co/EHbKYu8VyB— Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) August 4, 2017 A suspected arsonist who
SF News Imaginative 911 Callers Mistake 'Enormous' Raccoon For Kangaroo Multiple 911 callers summoned the California Highway Patrol to an Oakland-area freeway Wednesday on reports of at least two dead kangaroos, but responding officers found that the deceased animals were far less exotic
SF News 20-Acre Fire Breaks Out In Berkeley Hills, Now 50 Percent Contained The latest on the fire near Grizzly Peak in the hills above #Oakland and #Berkeley: https://t.co/YtSihgLxcG pic.twitter.com/coKLWBryVT— KPIX 5 (@CBSSF) August 3, 2017 A 20-acre wildfire broke
SF News 68-Year-Old Oakland Man Suspected Of Dealing Drugs Out Of Senior Housing Facility An elderly man who's been living in an Oakland senior citizens' housing complex in Oakland was arrested last month on suspicion of dealing cocaine, black tar heroin, and marijuana out of his apartment.
Arts & Entertainment Local Hip-Hop Duo Zion I Robbed Of $90,000 Camera During West Oakland Video Shoot Baba Zumbi of Oakland hip-hop group Zion I was shooting a music video with about 15 other people in West Oakland on July 10 when they were robbed of a very expensive video
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Proposition Chicken Expands To Oakland Fast-casual chicken joint Proposition Chicken just announced the opening of their second location, in Oakland's Lakeshore neighborhood, in September. Serving what they say is "the best damn chicken and pretty yummy people too"
SF News West Oakland Man Charged With Trying To Join ISIS A federal grand jury indicted a West Oakland man Thursday on terrorism charges for allegedly creating social media accounts and planning an attack in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and
SF News Oakland Man Busted For Allegedly Running Brothel In Airbnb A crackdown on hourly rentals in Tennessee hotels has apparently sent sex workers into area Airbnbs, with one Oakland man allegedly traveling south to cash in on the brave new brothel world. ABC
SF News Reality TV Crew Robbed Of $50,000 In Cameras And Equipment In Oakland Yet again, a TV crew finds out the hard way that their cameras are not safe on the streets of Oakland. A four-person crew shooting a reality TV series for teens was robbed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Haven To Pivot, Become Third Location Of Alta Followers of food news were scratching their heads in May when a press release revealed that Daniel Patterson's growing restaurant group had plans for a third location of his Alta CA concept in
SF News Pro-Development 'YIMBYtown' Conference Kicks Off In Oakland The YIMBY movement is not just a San Francisco thing, and this weekend in Oakland, self-described YIMBYs are gathering in Oakland for the second annual YIMBYtown conference, sharing ideas about how to get
SF News Mills College In Oakland Votes To Lay Off Faculty Rather Than Admit Men The Bay Area's oldest (and now only) women's college, Mills College in Oakland, faced another crossroads this year as they've seen a steady decline in enrollment and are now facing a $9 million
SF News Videos: Drone Surveys Oakland Fire Damage New drone video from KRON 4's QuadCopter4 gives us a picture of the extent of the damage following Friday's fire at the Alta Waverly complex in Oakland. The mixed-use development had been set
SF News Oakland Police Department Chastised In Federal Court Over Recent Sex Scandal A judge who ordered reforms and imposed federal oversight on the Oakland Police Department nearly a decade and a half ago took the city and department to task again Monday at least verbally
