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
SF News 9 Arrested in Oakland Zimmerman Protests It was the third consecutive night of unrest, vandalism, and protest in Oakland over the verdict in the Zimmerman trial, and this time nine people were arrested for various offenses including assault with
SF News Justice For Trayvon: Rallies In S.F. And Oakland To Protest Zimmerman Verdict After George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, several rallies sparked up shortly after the not-guilty verdict was read. In San Francisco, authorities temporarily shut down
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, On The New Bay Bridge Span... Although the new eastern span has its fair share of snafus going on at the moment, today its roads were give a microdermabrasion scrub. On Friday, workers pave the new deck. The bridge
SF News Vallejo, Oakland Named Among Most Diverse Cities In U.S. We always knew that the demographics of Oakland made it one of the most diverse cities in the country, but we did not know that Vallejo is, by the numbers, even more evenly
SF News Oakland Police Release Suspect Description In Toddler's Abduction, Arrest Father An update in the search for 21-month-old Daphne Viola Webb, who was abducted from her father's car outside of a liquor store on Oakland's International Boulevard yesterday: Oakland Police believe the girl was
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Google Google Apps Apps' Yes, it's less a palate cleanser than a main course of anti-gentrification, but Esta Noche drag star Persia's (probably NSFW) video "Google Google Apps Apps" might be just the afternoon brain tickler you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Umami Burger Oakland's Queso Fundido Burger Umami Burger Oakland will have its soft opening starting today at 11 AM. So get over there right now. Why? Oh, we'll tell you why: the Queso Fundido Burger. In addition to Umami
SF News Oakland Settles With Injured Occupy Protesters For $1.17M In a high-profile case dealing with police misconduct, the City of Oakland has decided to settle lawsuits brought by a dozen protesters from Occupy Oakland, all to the tune of $1.17 million.
SF News Bart Strike: Scenes From A Public Transit Meltdown Today's BART strike, announced at midnight, snarled traffic and forced denizens into finding alternate routes. Trains were packed, buses, jammed, and lines grew long. Here are some images from today's BART meltdown. Unless
SF News Oakland City Workers Also On Strike [UPDATED] Coincidentally, or not, two unions representing 2,470 city employees in Oakland are staging a one-day walkout today, the same day as the BART strike, in protest of what they say are stagnant
SF News Car Crashes into Oakland Church After S.F. Gunplay, Epic Chase It was an eventful day in the Civic Center area last night. Around 8:30 p.m., shots were fired around Leavenworth and McAllister Streets. Police gave chase to a silver Mercedes containing
SF News An Update On Possible New Oakland A's Stadium, In Oakland Since the Oakland A's first announced in 2009 that they might consider a move south, to San Jose, Oakland has been desperately trying to hold on to the team. Now there's some movement
