SF News Another East Oakland Shooting A 19-year-old man, a suspected gang member and barely, was shot multiple times on Thursday afternoon in East Oakland. The all too familiar incident, according to the victim, happened near 98th Avenue and
SF News Mother Shot Inside Oakland Church On Christmas Eve Let's just give you the facts since it's all so depressing yet unsurprising: On Christmas Eve, a woman was shot in the arm while praying inside Centro Evangelistico Bethel Church in East Oakland
SF News Two Killed In Oakland Over Holiday Weekend Over on the 700 block of Market Street in Oakland on Sunday night, 26-year-old Brittan Sneed was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Acorn housing complex. Meanwhile, Oakland police identified
SF News Grandmother Shot, Killed While Walking Into Oakland Store Ramona Rochelle Foreman, 49. was walking into a store on the 9100 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland on Wednesday when a stray bullet hit her. She died instantly. The bullet, according
SF News Columnist Urges Drones To Make Oakland Flyovers For years now, Oakland Police and the Oakland Mayor's Office haven't been able to come up with a solution (much less work together like adults) on the city's glaring crime problem. In 2012,
SF News This Is What Bank Loot Looks Like After The Dye Pack Explodes Super sharp CHOW editor John Birdsall tweeting the following item late Thursday afternoon: "Holy Crap! Bank next to our shop in Oakland got robbed today, guys tossed the cash out of their car
SF News Oakland Dog Owners Debate Dog Park With City Council; Four People Shot Near Lake Merritt On a night that saw four people shot near Lake Merritt and no arrests made, a legion of passionate dog owners occupied most of the evening's public comment at the Oakland City Council
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News Man Arrested For Assault On Missing Autistic Teen A man has been arrested in connection with a case involving a severely mentally disabled 16-year-old girl who went missing from an Oakland group home last week. The girl was found badly beaten
SF News Help Find This Mentally-Disabled Missing Teen Police are asking the public to help find a 17-year-old girl, with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, who was last seen at a housing facility on in Oakland on Tuesday night. Shyanne
SF News Kevin Grant of Oakland Wins California Peace Prize Former convict Kevin Grant as one of the 2012 California Peace Prize recipients. Grant, in and out of the jail system as a youth until 1989, now acts as a consultant for parole
SF News Man Searching For Lost Cat Dies In Piedmont Quarry A man who went out in the rain to search for his lost cat died last night after apparently slipping and falling into a quarry on the edge of the Rockridge and Piedmont
SF News Why Can't Oakland PD Lower The Crime Rate? Because They Can't Catch Criminals What sounds like a bad joke about Oakland's struggling police force is actually the headline to an investigative report by the East Bay Express this week. In the Express' cover story, reporter Ali
SF News Oakland Woman Gives Birth at Gas Station With Help of Several Cops Sometimes you go into labor, and it all happens way too fast. Not that we'd know. But that's what happened to Kimberly Thomas of Oakland, whose baby son was waiting for no trip
SF News Two Men Wanted In Connection With Attempted Teen Kidnapping Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Oakland this week. The girl in question was walking home from school alone at around 4:
SF News Human Filth Shoots Dog During East Oakland Robbery Police need your helping finding the horrible human being(s) who shot a dog during an armed robbery. See, a little after 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of 41st Avenue,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plum Scores Manfred Wrembel As Their New Executive Chef A year after opening Plum in Oakland, Daniel Patterson (he of Coi) hired a new executive chef to guide the menu at his other acclaimed joint. Manfred Wrembel, who just finished a six-year
SF News Spate Of Shootings In Oakland Kills 1, Wounds 3 Several separate shootings occurred in Oakland within a seven-hour span on Sunday night. Out of those bouts of gunfire, three were wounded and one was killed. "The fatal shooting happened about 10:30
SF News Oakland Tries Operation Ceasefire Once Again Gun violence in Oakland is on the uptick again. The homicide count in the city stands at 102 and is on track to be the highest in five years, unless something changes in
SF News Oakland, Stockton Most Violent American Cities, Says Forbes On the heels of Forbes annual Priciest ZIP Codes List comes their annual list of America's Most Dangerous Cities — and, surprise, there is no overlap between the two. As for the latter, the
SF News Gunman On Oakland College Campus? Reports of a gunman on the Holy Names University in the Oakland has prompted a search for a man initially described as "a heavyset white man wearing a blue suit, bald and wearing
SF News Young Man's Murder Marks Oakland's 100th Homicide Of The Year A little before 1 a.m. today, a 21-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed in East Oakland, making it the city's 100th reported homicide of 2012. This particularly brutal shooting occurred
Arts & Entertainment Giants, A's Take On Game 5 Today, You Guys! Well, well, hell's bell. Who would have thought that both the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's would make it to the postseason, much less today's Game 5 (happening in Cincinnati and
SF News Two Shot While Driving In West Oakland Monday night, two men were shot to death while driving near the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland. The men, ages 19 and 28, had been driving on the 1000
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The A's Celebrating With Pie, Champagne On Monday night, the Oakland A's nabbed the AL wildcard berth after beating the Texas Rangers, 4-3. They celebrated the win with champagne, pie, and goosebumps. Here are a few AP images of
