SF News Oakland Student In Wheelchair Smacked By Security Guard Was Known Troublemaker Despite having cerebral palsy and being confined to a wheelchair, 17-year-old Oakland high school freshman Francisco Martinez was known to fellow students as a troublemaker, and a number of them have come out
SF News Oakland Elementary School Mom Allegedly Attacked 9-Year-Old With A Hammer The mother of a second grader at Lafayette Elementary School in Oakland is accused of attacking a 9-year-old girl with a hammer in a school restroom. The crime was reported as a sexual
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Tour To the Top of Oakland's Tribune Tower One of Northern California's most glorious buildings is the Tribune Tower in Oakland, which has been through many hands in the past century and is now undergoing a slow-but-swanky renovation. As part of
SF News Video: Oakland School Security Officer Beats The Hell Out Of Student In Wheelchair Oakland High School released disturbing video capturing the moments where a freshman with cerebral palsy, handcuffed to a wheelchair, was brutally beaten by a security guard. This student's offense? Moving too slowly to
Arts & Entertainment Casting Call: Real Redheads Wanted For Oakland Video Shoot As a natural redhead, one who has reaped both the benefits and the woes of being a prized/loathed ginger, it is my duty to inform my rouge-topped kin that our presence is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland In-N-Out Allegedly Refuses To Call 911 For Injured Patron Though the UC Berkeley community was thrown into a spiral of despair after a hopes of an In-N-Out Burger's new location near campus were dashed, there's one recent grad who's probably happy that
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Enjoy Josh Reddick's Sultry New Walk-Up Music: 'Careless Whisper' Your browser does not support iframes. It may be hot outside today, but inside it's getting even hotter after catching a ripe whiff of Josh Reddick's sexy new walk-up music: "Careless Whisper" by
SF News Father Of Toddler Who Disappeared From Oakland Parking Lot Commits Suicide Nearly a year after the high-profile disappearance of his young daughter, the father of the still-missing toddler has taken his own life, family members say. John Anthony Webb, 50 (pictured above left), had
SF News BART Connector To The Oakland Airport, By The Numbers 3.2: The number of miles BART's Oakland Airport Connector, an elevated transit line that will run from the Coliseum/Oakland Airport BART Station to the Oakland Airport, will travel 4: The number
SF News Map Says There Are Hardly Any A's Fans In The Bay Area, Even In Oakland Although you see many A's caps around town and can't help but notice their green-and-yellow costumery while riding BART, this map says there are basically no A's fans in the Bay Area, not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Grilled Squid With Green Strawberries at Plum Fans of chef Kim Alter's food at Haven in Jack London Square were sad to learn that she was no longer in the kitchen there as of last fall. But owner Daniel Patterson
SF News Oakland Man Charged In Rape, Murder Of Young Mother Prince F. Tsetse, 40, was charged with murder this week after allegedly beating to death Kimberly Robertson, 23, during a sexual assault inside his SUV. Robertson's body was discovered earlier this month at
SF News 28th Oakland Homicide Means Rate On Track With Last Year A Monday night homicide in Oakland, near the San Leandro border, marks the 28th in the city so far this year, putting it almost exactly on par with last year which saw the
SF News The A's Probably Stuck In Oakland For Good Over the past five years there's been a lot of grumbling over at the Oakland Coliseum and rumblings from the owners of the Oakland A's that they were going to high-tail it to
SF News Refrigerator Full Of Weed Blazes In Oakland A blazing refrigerator full of weed sent area firefighters to an East Oakland warehouse this morning, but so far, the owner of the pot and the cause of the fire remain a mystery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This: Meet Chronicle Wine Scribe Jon Bonné Wednesday At Camino Longtime Chronicle wine columnist Jon Bonné has a new coffeetable book called The New California Wine, in which he profiles the latest generation of growers and winemakers who have drawn new sophistication and
SF News Protestors Block Tech Shuttles With Actual Barf RT @revscript: 3 #techbus blockaded at MacArthur Bart, police on scene #googlebus pic.twitter.com/M46aczU3Q5— Casey Aldridge (@CaseyJAldridge) April 2, 2014 Taking a cue from Lady Gaga's latest performance piece/Doritos product
SF News $7,500 Reward For Capture Of Tattooed Man Who Sexually Assaulted Six-Year-Old A $7,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the capture of a man who sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl after luring her from an Oakland school. The Oakland Police Department
SF News Oakland Mulling Law To Protect Cyclists From Aggressive Drivers Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles and Berkeley, the Oakland City Council's public safety committee last night considered a new law that would give cyclists recourse to sue following incidents of road
SF News Oakland To Pay Out $4.5 Million To Occupy Protester Scott Olsen Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen will receive a $4.5 million settlement from the city of Oakland after being hit and critically injured by a beanbag round to the
SF News Oakland Cyclist Wins $3.25 Million Pothole Payday The city of Oakland (and its insurance carrier) has agreed to payout $3.25 million to a woman who was seriously injured after she slammed into a pothole while riding her bike on
SF News One Of Two Convicted Gang Members Sentenced To Life In 2011 Jack London Square Restaurant Shooting 25-year-old Clem Thompkins, one of two convicted co-defendants in a highly publicized 2011 double-murder in an Oakland restaurant, was sentenced today to life in prison without parole. He and fellow reputed gang member
Arts & Entertainment 'Real World: Ex-Plosion' Cast Gets Education On Trans Identities The cast of this final season of The Real World, which was shot last year in San Francisco, got schooled in the varieties of trans identity and what it means to be genderqueer,
SF News Have You Seen This Violent Sex Offender? Police are asking help finding Kevin Briggs, a convicted felon and registered sex offender, who violently assaulted a female and police officer in Montana. Briggs was seen in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland
SF News 'Mutilation And Mayhem' In Oakland After Man Allegedly Kills Roommate With Pick-Axe Last Friday was quite a night for professional recycler Jeff Girard. According to Oakland police, he began his evening with “a lot of alcoholic beverages," and ended it trying—and failing—to dismember
