SF News Cyclist Shot, Killed In East Oakland An unidentified man riding his bike early this morning in East Oakland was shot and killed. Responding to Shot Spotter, police received calls from residents at around 5:30 a.m. on the
SF News Raw Sewage At Oakland Coliseum Forces Teams To Shower Together On the heels of an overflow that had Oakland Police Headquarters quite literally in the crapper, another venerable Oakland institution has gone to sh*t. On Sunday, a raw sewage leak flooded both
SF News Child Shot While Home Sleeping in West Oakland Drive-By An 11-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet while at home sleeping in his bed around 5 a.m. Sunday morning in Oakland. The shot came from a passing car on the 1100
SF News Oakland Teen Who Confessed To Pulling Trigger In Paramedic Shooting Pleads Not Guilty A 16-year-old Oakland High School student who previously admitted to the April 2 shooting of 34-year-old Quinn Boyer has entered a not guilty plea in the case, and his father is telling media
SF News Oakland Police Headquarters Literally In The Crapper All day Tuesday, the Oakland Police Department's headquarters on Seventh Street in downtown Oakland were closed to the public due to severe flooding from an overflowing toilet on the third floor. An employee
SF News Oakland Strip Mall Perforated With Bullet Holes More gunfire hit Oakland this week. Early Wednesday morning in the city's Dimond District, a robbery attempt outside a Oakland strip mall left one man injured, as well as said mall riddled with
SF News Oakland: Couple Shot While Sitting In Car Violence continues to plague parts of Oakland. Two people, a man and a woman, were shot Monday morning while sitting in a car. The shooting happened just after midnight in the 9100 block
SF News Two Warriors Fans Shot, Killed On I-880 Two men, reportedly on their way home from the Golden State Warriors playoff game, were killed last night after a gunman riddled their Porsche with bullets along the 880 in Oakland. When police
SF News Major BART Delays After Man Climbs Train At MacArthur [PHOTO] A man who climbed the roof of a BART train has caused a huge mess this morning for traffic in the East Bay. At around 5:30 a.m., the unidentified man was
SF News Oakland Woman Sentenced For String Of Violent 2010 Robberies 36-year-old Althea Housley was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison today for four armed robberies in Oakland that left one man dead. In a plea deal in which she testified
SF News 'Fruitvale Station' Trailer Released -- Watch It Fruitvale Station released the first trailer today. The indie movie, which picked up the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, is based on the moments leading up to the murder of Oscar
SF News Oakland Police Chief's 'Medical' Retirement Might Not Be So Medical The embattled, controversial, and less-than-effective Oakland Police Department made headlines again yesterday when Chief of Police Howard Jordan abruptly announced his retirement. The official word was that he is on medical leave, and
SF News 'Mummified Skull' Found In Oakland Recycling Center The remains of a heavily decomposed human head were found among a load of recycling at a West Oakland processing center around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Employees at the California Waste
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Beloved Merritt Restaurant & Bakery Closed After Major Fire The Merritt Bakery in Oakland, popular especially with the elderly but embraced by hipsters too, is closed today after an early morning fire that started in a storage room at the rear of
SF News Oakland Cops Shoot A Lot Of People A new piece in the Oakland Tribune by Thomas Peele the author of a recent book about the murder of Chauncey Bailey suggests that the OPD are, in fact, more trigger-happy than cops
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Oakland... Brandon Moss of the A's gets a cream pie to the face during an interview after his game winning two-run home run against the Angels on Tuesday.
SF News 19-Year-Old Man Killed In Drive-By Near Oakland Children's Hospital Friday evening, around 9:30 p.m. 19-year-old Ceejay Reed was fatally shot after he and two friends stepped out of their car on 53rd Street about a block away from Children's Hospital
SF News Digital Citizens Create Virtual Oakland Online On Minecraft, an immensely popular online virtual world that is something like Second Life meets an infinite supply of Legos, a certain type of digital escapist that has emerged. Minecraft players — there are
Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Go To Oakland No, you won't get shot if you go there. Really. Probably not. Our sister city to the east has long gotten a bad rap for a higher-than-average crime rate, which tends to dominate
SF News S.F. Rapper K.O. Da Bandit Shot, Killed In Oakland San Francisco rapper K.O. Da Bandit (AKA Keith Head) was shot and killed in downtown Oakland Tuesday night. The 22-year-old was shot at 13th Street and Broadway near the 12th Street BART
SF News Five Teens Arrested In Killing of Paramedic in Oakland In case you had not caught the story on the local news, Dublin resident Quinn Boyer, a 34-year-old paramedic, was shot and killed at point blank range while driving in Oakland on April
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Is Getting The Biggest Blue Bottle Location Yet Additional proof that Oakland has more hip cred (or at least more available square footage) than San Francisco at this point: the East Bay will soon get the largest Blue Bottle Coffee outpost
SF News Fake Plumber Molests 7-Year-Old Girl Near Lake Merritt Police are searching for a white man in his fifties who allegedly posed as a plumber Saturday afternoon to gain access to an apartment near Lake Merritt in Oakland's Chinatown. According to OPD,
SF News Gov. Brown Announces $1.5 Billion Chinese Investment For Oakland's Waterfront From the American Embassy in Beijing today, Governor Jerry Brown announced a $1.5 billion deal from a Chinese investment group to fund development of Oakland's 65-acre Brooklyn Basin project. The project sits
