SF News Oakland Tribune Photog Robbed While On Assignment An Oakland Tribune photographer was robbed of her equipment while on assignment on Monday. She wasn't hurt, but certainly shaken. The Tribune reports: "Laura Oda, a chief photographer for the Bay Area News
SF News BART-Crippling Fire Officially Ruled As Arson The four-alarm fire that stopped transbay service on BART for nearly 12 hours earlier this month has officially been ruled as arson, according to the team of ATF agents and local authorities tasked
SF News Cyclist Robbed At Gunpoint In Oakland Hills [UPDATED] SFist previously published a post on an alleged armed robbery that took place in the Oakland Hills, via an email sent to us from a Berkeley cycling mailing group. We now believe that,
SF News Bomb Hoax Scares Downtown Oakland With Menacing Lunchbox Four blocks around the police headquarters in downtown Oakland were evacuated earlier today after something looking like a bomb appeared on the loading dock of a Salvation Army location. According to the Salvation
SF News Two Shot Near MacArthur BART During Evening Commute Wednesday Around 5:20 p.m. yesterday evening, two men were shot while walking on Apgar street about a block and a half from the MacArthur BART Station in Oakland. According to police, two
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits She Screwed Up Something Else Over in the East Bay, Oaklanders skittish from what we can only assume is the constant wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo of Police sirens have been waiting patiently for updates on Mayor Quan's 100 Blocks Initiative. The
SF News Big Rig Spontaneously Combusts On Oakland Off-Ramp A big rig on its way to the Port of Oakland at 5 a.m. this morning, just arrived from Long Beach, suffered a sudden engine fire that basically reduced the truck to
SF News Woman's Body Found By On-Ramp In Oakland Hills A woman's body was discovered last night by people driving near an on-ramp on Highway 13 in the Oakland hills, at Joaquin Miller Road. Someone in a passing vehicle spotted the body in
SF News Cops Follow Stolen iPhone To Cache Of Illegal Weapons, Oakland Pot Operation While it's not quite as big as the iPad that led to the meth bust of the century down in San Jose, cops serving a search warrant for a stolen iPhone yesterday entered
SF News 3 People, Possibly Terrible Teenagers, Sought In BART Fire Thursday morning's inferno that crippled BART service between Oakland and San Francisco might have been intentionally set, according to investigators. Police are now asking the public for help in finding three suspicious people
SF News BART-Crippling Fire Deemed 'Suspicious,' PG&E Experienced More Gas Shutoff Problems As BART continues to deal with the fallout from this morning's disastrous commute, investigators from the Oakland Fire Department have started to shed some light on the literal meltdown that occurred in West
SF News Oakland Sees 50th Homicide of 2012, Multiple Sunday Shootings Unfortunately, there are still a lot of shootings in Oakland. This past warm weekend saw a spate of seven separate incidents in different parts of East Oakland that left one 26-year-old Alameda resident
SF News Oakland Hills Brushfire Breaks Out Near 580 [Updates] A smokey brushfire broke out in the Oakland Hills around 1:45 p.m. this afternoon. The fire was apparently started by fallen power lines on an access road by the freeway. The
SF News Friends Gather for Memorial Service for Slain Oakland Trans Activist Brandy Martell Oakland North has a melancholy but excellent account of a small celebration of life held over the weekend for slain trans woman Brandy Martell. Friends and acquaintances gathered to look at pictures and
Arts & Entertainment Screw Yoga, ISO Tanks Are All the Rage Again Like a scene out of Ab Fab, Bay Area residents are once again seeking the next new thing in relaxation and enlightenment, and it's actually a very old thing. Isolation tanks, also known
SF News Bone Marrow Drive For 14-Year-Old Oakland Teen This Thursday Cynthia Rodriguez (AKA "C-Rod") is, according to the Oakland Tribune, athletic and enjoys playing softball, soccer and basketball. She's also only 14-years-old. And her life could be cut short if you don't help.
SF News Another Day, Another Marijuana Grow House Discovered By Firefighters If recent incidents are any indicator, the biggest threat to the local marijuana industry is shoddy electrical work in their grow houses. After a 3-alarm fire torched a grow house in Oakland last
SF News Fire Breaks Out At Marijuana Grow House In Oakland A three-alarm blaze occurred early Saturday morning, around 4 a.m., in a small industrial space at 3050 Broadway on Oakland's Auto Row. Firefighters arrived to find flames shooting 20 feet in the
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On A Lake... Giuseppe Lanzone leads the United States eight man crew team boat for practice in Oakland. Their tight yet rigorous schedule includes 11 rowing workouts a week as they look to secure the last
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: God Likes Wood Accents Too "Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're My Only Hope" by Bob Horowitz.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Kreayshawn Joins 2 Chainz on 'Murder' Here's a musical update on the whereabouts of Oakland girl Kreayshawn. She brings some of her white-girl rapping to Atlanta-based rapper 2 Chainz new track "Murder," which maybe kind of glorifies murder? Well,
SF News Oakland Not Just 'Cooler,' It's Also Great for Business? The Guardian tried to tell us Oakland was cooler than San Francisco a few weeks ago, and now Fast Company is selling folks on the idea that Oakland is where it's at for
SF News Live: Oakland Cops Prepare For General Strike Showdown [Updated] Justin Beck's live coverage of today's May Day occupation continues. Right now, at around 3 p.m., cops have arrived in Oakland near Broadway and 14th, demanded protesters to leave or face "removal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Buttermilk Southern Fried Chicken At Pican Who would of thought that, with all of the melee set to go down tonight, one could get so excited about going to Oakland. But it happened. How so? With buttermilk friend chicken,
Arts & Entertainment 7 Spectacular Photos Of The New Bay Bridge Span Photographer Bhautik Joshi was invited by Caltrans to check out the progress of the Bay Bridge's new eastern span. He captured several astounding shots of the span back in 2009, but these new
