SF News Video: Watch Nelson Mandela Give Props To Oakland, Bay Area The death of inspirational anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela has prompted an international response as communities around the world remember his legacy. Here at home, Mandela forged a special relationship with the Bay Area,
SF News Drop In Murders In Oakland Attributed To Police Consultant The number of murders this year in Oakland is on track to be 25 percent lower than last year, and in the most violent part of East Oakland murders are down 50 percent.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Oakland Fast Food Workers Go Full Ronald, Strike For Better Wages Earlier today, as part of a nationwide fast food workers' strike, employees from several East Bay fast food chains walked off the job. The strike convened on a McDonald's location on Jackson Street
SF News Agender Teen Burned On Oakland Bus Speaks Out For The First Time For the first time since the terrible incident in which Oakland teenager Sasha Fleishman had his clothing burned at the hands of another teenager in what appears, by all accounts, to be a
SF News East Oakland Shooting Marks Oakland's 84th Homicide Of 2013 An Oakland resident was shot outside his home on the 3100 block of Coolidge Avenue at about 10 p.m. Sunday night. The victim has not yet been identified. A suspect or suspects
SF News Elderly Oakland Man Who Spoke No English Arrested And Held Several Days For Collecting Recycling You would think Oakland cops had better things to do than arrest frail elderly people who are sorting through trash and trying to make a few nickels by collecting cans and bottles. But,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penrose, Latest Venture From Oakland Chef Charlie Hallowell, Debuts Next Week The long-awaited third restaurant from Pizzaiolo/Boot & Shoe Service chef-owner Charlie Hallowell is finally set to open in the next week, and the name has been shortened to just Penrose (3311 Grand
SF News Father Of Teenage Hate Crime Victim In Oakland Writes Touching Open Letter The father of the agender teen whose skirt was lit on fire aboard an AC Transit bus last week has just penned a sweet open letter to his community and colleagues at Sequoia
SF News Classmates Wear Skirts In Solidarity For 'Agender' Oakland Teen Lit On Fire On City Bus We neglected to follow up on this story from last week, in which 18-year-old Luke "Sasha" Fleischman was lit on fire aboard an AC Transit bus*. He was in the habit of wearing
SF News Instagram Blocks Drug Search Terms To Avoid Becoming Another Silk Road Did you know that Instagram is being widely used as an open-air drug market? It is. Vice just covered the story of the vast Instagram trade of lean a.k.a sizzurp a.
SF News Shooting Near Oakland Coliseum BART Station Kills One Sunday afternoon, a man was shot to death near the Oakland Coliseum BART station. The fatal bout of gunplay happened at 72nd Avenue and Hawley Street near the station's parking lot. While some
Arts & Entertainment Joe Montana On Niners Santa Clara Move: 'It's Not Like They Went To Oakland' At a forum for European NFL fans, of which there are apparently some, legendary 49ers quarterback Joe Montana broke his silence on the team's move 40 miles south to Santa Clara. While he
SF News Five People Shot, More Shot At, In Oakland On Sunday; Two Year-Old Shot in Friday Drive-By In four separate incidents in different parts of Oakland on Sunday, five people were shot and injured and several more were injured in a vehicle accident in which they were being shot at
SF News Raiders Fan Tazed After Stripping, Urinating At UK Airport A man dressed in a Raiders t-shirt made a lasting international impression when he stripped naked on the tarmac at Manchester Airport. The 52-year-old man, who appears to be British (unless Oakland residents
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: 'We're A Little Bit Like Brooklyn' In an interview with the National Journal published this week, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan discussed her beleaguered city's biggest challenge for the future. Which, surprise, is not "ensuring public safety," but rather the
SF News AC Transit Rider Shoots Himself In The Leg, Gets Transfer To Hospital Tuesday afternoon a male victim apparently shot himself in the leg while riding an AC Transit bus through the Oakland Hills. The bus was not injured in the shooting. The gun went off
Arts & Entertainment Matt Werner, Mind Behind 'Oakland Unseen,' Talks About Switching To Print, Faking The News, And More Matt Werner, author and tech writer at Google, has had unbridled success with the advent of Oakland Unseen, a popular parody Tumblr billed as Oakland's answer to The Onion. Last Friday, Werner released
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Cuckoo For Coco The Inadvertent Gardener snapped this shot of an A's fan giving it up for Covelli Loyce "Coco" Crisp at Saturday's ALDS game 2 in Oakland.
SF News Habitat For Humanity Crew Robbed At Gunpoint Eight members of the Habitat for Humanity crew in Oakland were robbed at gunpoint Tuesday afternoon while preparing for a visit by former President Jimmy Carter next week. Hardworking Habitat and AmeriCorps crew
SF News Oakland Attracts Big New Investors to Coliseum City Project Just in time for the playoffs this weekend, in which the A's are going to take their shot at the World Series, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan announced yesterday that there's big new money
SF News Arrests Made In Slaying Of 8-Year-Old Oakland Girl Eight-year-old Alaysha Carradine became collateral damage in a Oakland gang war when she was shot and killed during a sleepover back in July. Oakland Police announced today that two suspects have been arrested
SF News Two Oakland Men Found Guilty In 2006 Murder Of Young S.F. Woman A case based mostly on circumstantial evidence in which three men were accused in the robbery, rape, and murder of a young San Francisco mother in 2006, has almost come to a conclusion
SF News Oakland Sideshow Shooting Caught On Video; Suspects Sought Here's a video of an illegal sideshow that ended with a shooting on Seventh Street in Oakland Saturday morning. "Police said that about 4:15 a.m. a Mazda and a Camaro involved
Arts & Entertainment Once Again, The A's Are AL West Champions! During the third inning at the Coliseum on Sunday, the A's found out that they were the American League West champions, their first another back-to-back title win, and then poured booze all over
SF News Two Shot In Oakland Over Weekend The violence in Oakland showed no signs of sluggishness over the weekend. Two men, who were shot in separate incidents, are expected to survive the most recent reports of East Bay terror. First
