Arts & Entertainment East Bay Cat Lover Dresses Up As Cat, Walks Around Lake Merritt For 24 Hours For Charity An East Bay man who volunteers at the popular Cat Town cat cafe in downtown Oakland spent part of his Memorial Day weekend in a cat costume, circling Lake Merritt on foot for
SF News Oakland To Settle With Woman At Center Of Police Sex Scandal For Nearly $1 Million Jasmine Abuslin, the 19-year-old woman at the heart of a drama-filled sex scandal that rocked several Bay Area police departments who previously went by the pseudonym Celeste Guap, will probably settle her lawsuit
SF News Workers Injured In Construction Site Collapse In Oakland 9 workers injured in building collapse at downtown #Oakland construction site. via @SarRavani, @KVeklerov https://t.co/FioriQ7RTV pic.twitter.com/uAp9Zgri6Q— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 26, 2017 Between eight and 13 construction workers
SF News Celeste Guap Testifies For First Time Against Accused Oakland Officer In Sex Scandal The young woman and former sex worker who became widely known as Celeste Guap via salacious news stories about a sex scandal that touched six different East Bay law enforcement agencies appeared as
Arts & Entertainment Would You Walk Your Dog In A Cemetery? Oakland's Mountain View cemetery is well-known for the number of luminaries who count it as their final resting place. Folgers (of coffee fame), a Ghirardelli (of chocolate renown) and Elizabeth Short (the Black
Arts & Entertainment Impressive Genius Tapes Himself To Outside Of Car, Heads Down 880 A post shared by FUNNY VIDEOS AND PRANKS‼️ (@zashtv) on May 14, 2017 at 7:25pm PDT One man's desperate bid for social media attention ended in three citations, after a man was
SF News Oakland Landlords Evict Tenants, Allegedly Destroy Their Stuff, Hang Trump Banner Jahahara Alkebulan-Ma'at received an eviction notice from his Oakland apartment on Christmas Day 2016. The residence in question is a home near Lake Merritt that was converted into three separate apartments. Alkebulan-Ma'at went
SF News World's Bravest Kitten Lives In Oakland, Rides CHP Patrol Cars Brace yourselves, cat people. A kitten was discovered clinging to the underside of a California Highway Patrol car as officers responded to the scene of an accident on I-880 Sunday morning. The officers
SF News Oakland CHP Mocks Carpool Cheater's Disconcerting Doll If you're going to use a fake child to avoid carpool rules, at least buckle them in properly! #AttentionToDetail #Busted pic.twitter.com/JpEHNcWKRe— CHP Oakland (@CHPoakland) May 11, 2017 An alleged carpool
SF News One Goh, Shooter In 2012 Oikos University Massacre, Pleads No Contest Though he had previously pleaded not guilty and suggested to the court that he hoped for the death penalty, accused Oikos University shooter One Goh pleaded no contest in Alameda County court this
SF News Burned Out Shell Of A Home In East Oakland Hits Market For $100,000 A two-bedroom, six-room Oakland home that was ravaged by fire in 2015 and has sat empty ever since has hit the market for a relative steal at $99,000 and obviously that's just
SF News BART Identifies Some Suspects In Mob Robbery As Woman Comes Forward With Separate Teen Attack Story The swarm robbery by a large group of teenagers that occurred at BART's Coliseum Station Saturday night continues to make the local news as KRON 4, CBS 5, and NBC Bay Area all
SF News No Arrests Yet As BART Catches Flak For Not Publicizing 'Flash Mob' Robbery Should BART have been faster to alert the public about the mob of 40+ teens who bum-rushed fare gates, stormed the platform, and roughed up and robbed a bunch of people at Coliseum
SF News One Goh, Shooter Accused In 2012 Oikos University Massacre, Finally Ruled Fit To Stand Trial Five years in, and the 48-year-old man accused in the April 2012 killing of seven people at Oikos University in Oakland is finally headed for trial, with a hearing scheduled Wednesday of this
SF News The Great Tree Fight: How Eucalyptus Trees Have Divided Bay Area Environmentalists For Decades If you're relatively new to the Bay Area, and particularly if you've never lived or spent much time in the East Bay, it will be news to you that a great many people
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Salumi Spot Adesso Set To Close Popular Dopo spinoff, the eight-year-old salumi-and-cocktails bar Adesso at the end of Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, is calling it quits as Inside Scoop is reporting. They get the news via an email to
SF News Emails Show Oakland Fire Officials Considered West Oakland Building A Known Fire Hazard With Oakland's second deadly fire in four months, new evidence shows that a fire captain called to have the building at 2551 San Pablo Avenue shut down for safety reasons as of January
SF News Candle Blamed For Deadly West Oakland Fire Though suspicions of arson were quickly raised this week following news of an unfolding showdown between the landlord and a nonprofit tenant, an initial investigation has concluded that an unattended candle was the
SF News 'Tech Bar And Lounge' Applies For Liquor License In Former Oakland SRO A former single-resident occupancy hotel in Oakland that's being renovated by an upstart San Francisco real estate company could sport a literally luxe first floor bar and lounge. According to an East Bay
SF News West Oakland Building That Burned Monday Was A Halfway House With A Troubled History A fourth victim has been confirmed in the deadly fire that burned down a three-story building on San Pablo Avenue in West Oakland on Monday, and as the investigation into the fire gets
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healthy Fast-Food Chain Locol Opening West Oakland Bakery On Friday A post shared by LocoL (@welocol) on Mar 25, 2017 at 4:58pm PDT California chef celebs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi are adding a new direction to their nascent fast-food chain Locol
SF News Arson Suspected In Deadly West Oakland Fire Where Landlord Was Trying To Evict Low-Income Tenants The four-alarm fire that broke out early Monday morning in a West Oakland building, killing at least three people and displacing over 80, may not have been accidental as a lawyer for a
SF News At Least One Feared Dead As Four-Alarm Fire Burns In Oakland #BREAKING: Fire burning in #Oakland on corner of Meade Ave and San Pablo Ave. Are you seeing this if you're in the East Bay? #abc7now pic.twitter.com/jMIul5LYd3— Natasha Zouves ABC7 (@NatashaABC7)
SF News Two-Year-Old Emails Prove That Ghost Ship Landlord Was Aware Of Electrical Issues The potential for a criminal case relating to the December 2 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland has just grown bigger as emails surface that show that the landlords knew of electrical problems at
Arts & Entertainment Inspired By Japan, Oakland Artist Installs 'Wind Telephone' For Mourners Of Ghost Ship Victims On the porch of a community arts space in Oakland stands a new phone booth built by local artist Jordan Stern. In it is an antique telephone that is not connected to anything,
