SF News More Oakland Neighborhoods Hiring Private Security Firms To Reduce Crime If the cops don't show up, what's a worried neighborhood to do? As cash-strapped, crime-challenged cities like Detroit, L.A., Atlanta, and Oakland face continually dwindling budgets and smaller police forces, there's been
SF News MacArthur BART Transit Village Breaks Ground (Again) Next Week It's finally happening, Oaklanders. The long-awaited, two-decades-in-the-making MacArthur Transit Village, adjacent to the MacArthur BART station, is finally starting residential construction next week. The developer of the first, affordable phase of the construction
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hog's Apothecary, A Big New Beer Hall, Opens In Oakland Beer has been like the thing over in the East Bay in the last couple of years, with a veritable explosion of beer gardens and beer bars just in the last six months.
SF News Oakland Man Convicted Of First Degree Murder For Weed- and Coke-Fueled Argument Over God 33-year-old Douglas Yim is currently looking at 126 years to life in prison for the murder of his friend 25-year-old Dzuy Duhn Phan. The two started arguing over the existence of a higher
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Fast Food Workers Strike For Better Pay Although potentially less debilitating than a BART strike, hundreds fast food workers walked out of their low-paying jobs at McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations in Oakland today to demand better pay and
SF News Photos: A View From The New Bay Bridge After years of political battles, and then years more of construction, the new east span of the Bay Bridge will finally open early next week. Before the entire bridge closes to allow Caltrans
SF News Mother And Two Daughters Injured In Oakland Shooting Another shooting in East Oakland happened Sunday afternoon, injuring the intended target, a 17-year-old boy, as well as a mother and two daughters, aged 8 and 12, who happened to be standing outside
SF News Elderly Oakland Couple Punked, Robbed By Fake PG&E Guys Oakland needs to be on the alert for two dudes (or anyone for that matter) posing as PG&E workers with clipboards and claiming they need to "check an easement" on your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cronut-spotting: Oakland's 'Croughnut' Inside Scoop's faux-Cronut beat takes us to Oakland today, reporting that "Alexeis Filipello of Stag's Lunchette and Bar Dogwood in Oakland is hopping on the bandwagon. Along with independent pastry chef Amie Bailey,
SF News Oakland Man Claims City Workers Assaulted Him Over Discarded Gum 36-year-old Oakland resident Joshua Daniels claims he was assaulted by city workers at Frank Ogawa Plaza right outside of Oakland City Hall after he tossed his used chewing gum into a trash bin.
SF News Weekend Violence Leaves Three Dead, Nine Others Shot In Oakland Over the weekend, 12 people were shot in Oakland in three separate incidents during the 24-hour period between Friday evening and Saturday night. Three of the victims died. The first shooting happened around
SF News 23-Year-Old Woman Killed In East Oakland Shooting Violence in East Oakland shows no signs of abatement after a 23-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man were shot Thursday night while sitting a parked car in the 800 block of 100th Avenue
SF News $30,000 Reward In Slaying Of 20-Year-Old Father And Son Andrew "Drew" Thomas, 20, and his son, Drew Jackson, 16 months old, were shot and killed on August 7 when someone fired shots into their Brookfield Village home on Ghormley Avenue. The reward
SF News Sandra Coke Identified As Vacaville Homicide Victim A body found in Vacaville last week has been identified as missing Oakland criminal defense investigator Sandra Coke. The 50-year-old criminal defense investigator was last seen on August 4 along with a paroled,
SF News Oakland: Suspect, Victim Wounded In Home-Invasion Shoot Out A homeowner, 56, was injured after exchanging gunfire with an intruder, 23, on Wednesday night in Oakland. "The violent confrontation happened about 10:50 p.m. Wednesday at the home in the 3100
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Schoolchildren Fight Truancy With Adorable Rihanna Parody In Oakland's Unified School District, one in six kindergartners is chronically absent from class. Luckily for everyone involved, these youngsters are doing something about it with an adorable take on Rihanna's "Don't Stop
SF News Oakland: Father, 20, And Son, 1, Fatally Shot While Sleeping While a 20-year-old father and his 1-year-old son, Drew Jackson, slept inside a bedroom of a Brookfield Village home Wednesday night, someone entered the backyard and fired into the house. Both father and
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Pay-What-You-Wish At The Parkway There's no shame in being cheap, but there are also benefits to being magnanimous, especially when local charities are on the line. Luckily, you can choose between the two for the whole month
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Teenage Girls Crying, Puking Over One Direction's Mall Appearance Teen boy band One Direction played Oakland's Oracle Arena last night, and by all accounts they were OMG so awesome and Harry's hair looked amazing and every tween and teenage girl in the
SF News Well-Loved Neighbor Killed In Broad Daylight In East Oakland; City Leaders React A 66-year-old woman known well to her neighbors as someone who would gladly watch over your pets if you were out of town was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon while driving her car
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alum Jen Biesty To Open Shakewell Bar & Kitchen In Oakland Local chef Jen Biesty and her partner in (pastry) crime Tim Nugent have nailed down a location near Oakland's Grand Lake district for a new Mediterranean-influenced, "Americlectic" spot they're called Shakewell Bar &
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Set By Vandals Closes Popular Oakland Spot Hawker Fare [Update] A fire set by possibly anarchist vandals in trash cans outside of Oakland's Hawker Fare has led to the indefinite closure of the restaurant. As the Inside Scoop reports, owner James Syhabout (who
SF News Oakland Police Release Photos Of Protest Vandalism Suspects The search is on for several suspects wanted for vandalizing city streets and local businesses during last weekend's Justice for Trayvon rallies. Police have asked the public to help identify suspects and have
SF News Oakland: 8-Year-Old Girl Shot, Killed During Sleepover Marking Oakland's 54th homicide of the year, an 8-year-old girl was shot and killed inside an apartment last night during a sleepover. Alaysha Carradine was killed after "someone fired into the apartment's front
SF News Missing Oakland Toddler Maybe Went Missing Weeks Earlier 21-month-old Daphne Viola-Webb had not been seen by any of her closest relatives except, presumably, her father for two weeks prior to the day her father said she was abducted from a store
