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
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,
