SF News Federal Judge Has Had It With Oakland Taking So Long to Find New Police Chief The U.S. District Court judge in charge of the Oakland Police Department's federal oversight says he’s “concerned” that the city hasn’t had a police chief for a full year now. Well, how do you think 450,000 Oakland residents feel, pal?
SF News The Only In-N-Out in Oakland Is Closing ‘Due to Ongoing Issues With Crime’ The Oakland In-N-Out at 8300 Oakport Street has stunningly reported more crimes than any address in the entire city of Oakland over the last five years, so In-N-Out corporate has decided to just shut the place down entirely, even though the location is profitable.
Arts & Entertainment Sheila E. and Father Pete Escovedo Get Street Named After Them In Oakland The glamorous life is coming to Oakland’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, where a block of East 21st Street has been honorarily renamed “Escovedo Way” in honor of 80s pop star Sheila E. and her groundbreaking percussionist father Pete Escovedo.
SF News Oakland Recorded Three Homicides In a 24-Hour Period on Saturday and Sunday Three people were shot and killed in separate incidents Saturday night and Sunday morning in Oakland, and Oakland has now seen four homicides in just the first week of 2024.
SF News Now Even the Mother of Man Accused of Killing Oakland PD Officer Has Been Arrested as an Accessory A highly unusual development in last week's fatal shooting of undercover Oakland police officer Tuan Le, as the mother of the man accused of pulling the trigger has herself been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
SF Politics Very Predictably, Effort to Recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Now Afoot It’s unclear whether this is a real grassroots movement, or just sour grapes from defeated candidates in the last mayoral election, but the signature gathering is underway to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF Politics Oakland City Councilmember Pushing Mayor to Declare State of Emergency, Push Aside Police Commission Tensions are mounting in Oakland over the nearly yearlong selection process that has still not resulted in a satisfactory nominee to be the city's next chief of police. And following the on-duty death of a police officer last week, one city council member is urging the mayor to take decisive action.
SF News New Details on Killing of OPD Officer: He Was a Four-Year Veteran, Shooting Was Over Dispensary Robbed Twice Friday We still don’t know the identity of the undercover Oakland police officer who was shot and killed this morning, but at a Friday press conference, we learned he was shot by suspects who robbed an Oakland cannabis dispensary for the second time in one night.
SF News [Updated] Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed In 'Ambush' Near Jack London Square Details are starting to emerge in an early Friday confrontation near Oakland's Jack London Square, which ended in a crashed pickup truck and one Oakland police officer shot and critically wounded.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong Was One of Three Candidates for Chief That Mayor Thao Rejected The latest drama in the long fight between the mayor and the police commission came with the mayor's rejection of a slate of three finalist candidates for the next chief of police that the commission sent to her desk earlier this month.
SF News Alameda County DA Pursuing Murder Charges Against Men Accused of Killing Retired Officer Kevin Nishita It’s probably not going to win Alameda County DA Pamela Price any converts in the recall campaign against her, but she’s throwing the book at the men charged with killing a retired officer who was shot while providing security for a KRON4 cameraman.
SF News Car Theft Suspects Caught In Oakland After Leading Police on 40-Mile Chase, Throwing Tools at Cop Cars A 2:30 a.m. Friday morning car chase started when two auto theft suspects were allegedly casing cars in Napa County, and police chased them all the way to Oakland, despite that the suspects were hurling construction tools at the police vehicles along the way.
SF News Lake Merritt’s Menorah Vandalized, Thrown Into Lake In Act Being Investigated as Hate Crime Vandals destroyed the Lake Merritt Hanukkah menorah early Wednesday morning, tossing its pieces into the lake and scrawling vulgar graffiti on its remains. But the rabbi whose Jewish center put the menorah up says “For every menorah they take down, we are going to put up ten.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Storied, 24-Year-Old Ruby Room to Close After New Year's Eve One of downtown Oakland's most hallowed dive bars — and, at points in the last two decades, one of the only things going on in downtown Oakland after dark — the Ruby Room is now set to close for good after the new year.
SF News Pro-Palestine, Anti-Israel Teach-In Begins In Oakland, Garnering National Headlines A controversial teach-in, endorsed by the Oakland teachers' union but opposed by the school district, was set to begin Wednesday, and parts of the curriculum have been revealed to be misleading and take a hardline anti-Israel approach.
SF News Oakland Man Arrested in Alleged $137,000 Stolen Cigarette Fencing Operation Cartons upon cartons of stolen cigarettes were being sold in East Bay convenience stores, as the California Highway Patrol just learned in busting up a fencing operation with well over $100,000 in stolen cigarettes.
SF News One Dead After Sunday Night Double Hit-and-Run In East Bay California Highway Patrol officers are searching for two hit-and-run drivers, one who crashed into a Zipcar, and another who struck and killed a passenger of that Zipcar who was seeking help, in a late-night Sunday incident on Highway 13 near the Oakmore neighborhood.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
SF News Body Found In Suitcase at Lake Merritt Identified, Police Seeking Information About Victim The grisly Halloween day discovery of a human body in a suitcase floating in Lake Merritt now has now resulted in the victim being identified as a 23-year-old man, but there’s not much information about him, and police are asking for help in that regard.
SF News CHP Busts Huge Retail Theft Ring In East Bay, Seizes $350K In Stolen Goods The California Highway Patrol's Organized Retail Crime Task Force made a major bust last week of a fencing operation for stolen retail merchandise — the kinds of stuff taken in brazen robberies at Walgreens stores, Target, and the like.
Arts & Entertainment Cult-Hit Lake Merritt Dance Party Ordered Shut Down, Its Future In Limbo A grassroots weekly dance party called Days Like This was issued a cease-and-desist letter from the City of Oakland, and while the party apparently still happens informally, the situation illustrates the contemporary conflicts over use of public space.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed After Crashing Into SUV, Bike Bursting Into Flames In East Oakland A 32-year-old motorcyclist died Wednesday afternoon in a fiery collision with an SUV on Oakland’s International Boulevard, while a mother and three teens in the SUV were hospitalized.
SF News Oakland Police Internal Affairs Officer Kills Man He Says Shot at Him Tuesday Morning What sounds like it was a targeted attack on an Oakland police officer ended with a man fatally shot outside the headquarters of the Oakland Police Department's Internal Affairs division.
SF News Car Flies Into Two Other Cars and Then a House In Oakland, Possibly Pregnant Driver Hospitalized A reportedly speeding driver crashed into two cars and a house near the Oakland Coliseum Monday night, and while there are unconfirmed reports the injured driver might have been pregnant, it is confirmed by neighbors that the 911 response was awfully slow.
SF News Protesters at Port of Oakland Try to Block Ship They Say Is Carrying Military Supplies to Israel A demonstration of some 200 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is attempting to block a ship at the Port of Oakland that they say is carrying military supplies to Israel, though longshoremen say there’s nothing on the ship.
