SF News Three Take Plea Deals In 2021 Kidnap and Murder Case In Alameda County Three men are getting relatively lenient sentences in a case involving a home-invasion robbery, and a victim who was bound, gagged, taunted, and strangled before being dumped by the side of a road.
SF News More Details Emerge on Last Week’s Graduation Shooting In Oakland, Four Suspects Taken Into Custody There are now four suspects who’ve been taken into custody in connection with the shooting that followed graduation ceremonies at Oakland's Skyline High School, and their getaway car may have been a stolen Maserati.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leads to Crash Near Oakland-San Leandro Border A man was found fatally shot Monday night after he crashed his car in San Leandro, near the Oakland border.
SF News Oakland Firefighters Contain Huge Four-Alarm Blaze at Lumber Warehouse A massive fire broke out at the Economy Lumber warehouse in East Oakland Sunday night, sending thick smoke billowing over the city.
SF News Update: Shooting Follows Graduation Ceremony at Oakland's Skyline High; Three Injured, One Person Arrested Graduation ceremonies went terribly wrong at Skyline High School in Oakland Thursday night, as a shooting after the ceremony left three people injured, and one suspect has reportedly been arrested.
SF News Port of Oakland Lithium Battery Fire Sent Plumes of Black Smoke Over the Bay Sunday A black smoke cloud spread over the San Francisco Bay on the Sunday afternoon of Mother’s Day, as a reported lithium battery fire broke out at the Port of Oakland.
SF News Oakland Approves $365,100 Salary For New Chief of Police Floyd Mitchell, Who Starts Next Week The City of Oakland's 15-month saga of not having a full-time police chief will officially end next week when former Lubbock, Texas chief of police Floyd Mitchell takes over the job, but his compensation package is already drawing some complaints.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue Reopens Friday In Old Oakland, In Matty's Old Fashioned Space Chef Matt Horn is moving his Horn Barbecue operation into the restaurant space he opened last year as Matty's Old Fashioned, and while some Matty's menu items will carry over, Matty's Old Fashioned is no more.
SF News Motorcyclist Injured Amid Dirt Bike and ATV Sideshow Near Lake Merritt A Sunday evening sideshow near Oakland's Lake Merritt ended with one motorcyclist needing medical attention.
SF News Oakland Man Charged With Hate Crime For Threatening and Screaming Epithets at Gay Couple A 60-year-old Oakland man is now facing hate-crime charges for criminal threats and vulgar statements he made to a gay couple who are his neighbors, and there is video showing him threatening to kill them if they didn't move within two weeks.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
SF News Antioch Mayor Says Police Got Drone Footage of This Weekend’s Sideshows, Vows Arrests and Impoundings A rash of East Bay sideshows this weekend involved one in Oakland with a hit-and-run, but the mayor of Antioch claims he sicced drones on one of the sideshows, and he’ll bring the daredevil drivers to justice.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Offers the A’s Five-Year Lease Extension for $97 Million to Keep Playing In Usually Empty Coliseum The Oakland A’s need a ballpark for the next three years while their proposed Las Vegas stadium is getting built, but the City of Oakland hopes to charge them nearly $100 million if they want to play those three years at the Oakland Coliseum.
SF News Newsom Announces He’s Putting 480 More Street Cameras Up In Oakland to Go After Suspected Criminals A new batch of 480 car-surveilling security cameras are going up on the streets and highways of Oakland, in Gavin Newsom’s latest effort to crack down on Oakland crime.
SF News Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.”
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s First Fridays Announces Its Return From Hiatus Next Weekend For First Friday April The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Putting ‘Free Blockbuster’ Kiosks Around the Bay Area, and Really the Whole Country Retro movie lovers are creating their own DIY “Free Blockbuster” kiosks so people can borrow or leave DVD and VHS movies for free, and a smattering of these lending libraries are popping up around the Bay Area.
SF Politics Silicon Valley Lawyer (and Sergey Brin's Ex) Nicole Shanahan Named as RFK Jr.'s Running Mate The spoiler third-party presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a running mate from the Bay Area: Silicon Valley lawyer and previous Democratic donor Nicole Shanahan.
SF News Alleged Lululemon Thieves In Napa Chased By CHP Plane to Oakland, Where They Crashed Their Car A car crash on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue Monday afternoon was apparently connected to a retail theft at a Lululemon store in Napa and a law enforcement chase across four counties.
SF News Elderly Woman Attacked and Beaten at Oakland Laundromat, Suspects Let Go and Only Charged With Misdemeanor Despite there being video footage of an obvious assault with several punches landed on an 65-year-old, 88-pound woman at a laundromat near Lake Merritt, only one of the two suspects was cited for a misdemeanor, and police released them.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced to 18 Months For Helping Launder Drug Money, Wire It to Mexico and Honduras An Oakland man who owns a money-wiring service has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a plea deal, after pleading guilty to money-laundering charges.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Rise In Smash-and-Grabs of Occupied Vehicles The Oakland Police Department says that it's deploying more officers in response to the uptick in crime, but department-wide response times still lag.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Multiple Oakland Taco Bell Restaurant Shut Down Their Indoor Dining Rooms, Probably Due to Crime Four Oakland Taco Bell restaurants appear to have gone drive-thru only, though some only in the evening, in the latest hit to Oakland’s fast-food landscape.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Candidates Appear Virtually at Public Forum The four candidates for the next chief of police in Oakland that were put forward this week by the city's police commission addressed the public and introduced themselves at a candidate forum Thursday night.
