SF News Oakland Terrorist Bank Bombing Thwarted By FBI A terrorist bombing didn't go according to plans over in Oakland on Thursday night. Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was taken into custody near a Bank of America building at 303
SF News Anti-Smoking Crusaders Seek To Ban Smoking Around Lake Merritt Some "chemically sensitive" and otherwise smoke-averse individuals in Oakland have just filed a petition with city councilperson Rebecca Kaplan to ban smoking around the perimeter of Lake Merritt. Once again, smokers, in case
SF News Suspect in Friday's Fatal Art Murmur Shooting Is In Custody The suspected gunman in Friday's despicable and tragic shooting during Art Murmur/First Fridays is now in custody. Oakland police arrested him on Saturday night but have not yet released his name, pending
SF News City In Crisis: Little Girl Shot In Oakland [Updated] Oakland crime problem shows no signs of abating. On Monday afternoon, an 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg, the victim of a drive-by shooting. According to Oakland Tribune, "The girl was standing
SF News More Footage of Saturday's 880 Sideshow Call it a souped-up auto flash mob, but here's yet more footage of the sideshow that briefly shut down the northbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland in the middle of Saturday afternoon, shot
SF News Video: Damn Fools Doing Donuts On 880 In Oakland [UPDATED] UPDATE: Original footage pulled overnight. Luckily, we found a copy of it, which you can find below. UPDATE 2: Here's more footage via the other side of the freeway. A few cretins took
SF News Latest Gang War in Oakland Tied to August Murder of Teenage Girl The recent uptick in gun violence in Oakland, including last weekend's shocking number of shootings (fifteen), can be tied back, in large part, to the August murder of a 16-year-old East Oakland girl.
SF News Gov. Brown To Oakland: Solve Your Own Problems When it comes to the recent surge in violent crime in Oakland, California Governor and Oakland Hills homeowner Jerry Brown told his told his home city to just deal with it, basically. Oakland
SF News Seriously: Fifteen Shot, Four Dead This Weekend In Oakland Four people were killed Friday in separate incidents in Oakland within six hours. This gave way to an extraordinarily violent weekend in Oakland in which another eleven people were shot, some likely in
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Hyenas Join The Oakland Zoo Family Three spotted hyenas moved into the Oakland Zoo. Here are two of them! The hyenas (two males and one female) relocated from the Berkeley Hyena Center, where they were part of a colony
SF News Oakland Now Gayer Than San Francisco, Says 'Advocate' There's been a lot of talk lately about how hip Oakland is these days, but you know what no one has been talking about in the neverending San Francisco vs. Oakland debate? Just
Arts & Entertainment $12,000 Gold Rush Artifact Stolen From Oakland Museum In the second break-in in two months, a man stole a gold- and quartz-lined box from a display case in the Oakland Museum that is rumored to be worth $800,000. The box
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This Thing Tonight: Go To Oakland, Get Crabs As dungeness crab is still very much in season, Oakland chef Russ Moore of Camino on Grand Avenue will continue firing up locally caught crustaceans on his nine-foot-wide wood-fired grill every Monday throughout
Arts & Entertainment A Guide For Making A Seamless San Francisco-To-Oakland Transition [Updated] From what we know of Oakland — which is everything — residents stroll around and shoot each other with guns. Lots of guns. In between going to Ike's and Plum, that is. But that's pretty
SF News Oakland Man Shot Multiple Times On New Year's Eve While the East Bay city has, as far as we know, been able to stave off any murders in 2013, Oakland played host to their final attempted murder of 2012 on New Year's
SF News Oakland Hires Former L.A. Police Chief to Consult on Crime It's been a rough year for murders in Oakland, and critics have been saying the department can't catch criminals anymore and calling for a federal takeover of the department. Now, the City Council
SF News Another East Oakland Shooting A 19-year-old man, a suspected gang member and barely, was shot multiple times on Thursday afternoon in East Oakland. The all too familiar incident, according to the victim, happened near 98th Avenue and
SF News Mother Shot Inside Oakland Church On Christmas Eve Let's just give you the facts since it's all so depressing yet unsurprising: On Christmas Eve, a woman was shot in the arm while praying inside Centro Evangelistico Bethel Church in East Oakland
SF News Two Killed In Oakland Over Holiday Weekend Over on the 700 block of Market Street in Oakland on Sunday night, 26-year-old Brittan Sneed was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Acorn housing complex. Meanwhile, Oakland police identified
SF News Grandmother Shot, Killed While Walking Into Oakland Store Ramona Rochelle Foreman, 49. was walking into a store on the 9100 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland on Wednesday when a stray bullet hit her. She died instantly. The bullet, according
SF News Columnist Urges Drones To Make Oakland Flyovers For years now, Oakland Police and the Oakland Mayor's Office haven't been able to come up with a solution (much less work together like adults) on the city's glaring crime problem. In 2012,
SF News This Is What Bank Loot Looks Like After The Dye Pack Explodes Super sharp CHOW editor John Birdsall tweeting the following item late Thursday afternoon: "Holy Crap! Bank next to our shop in Oakland got robbed today, guys tossed the cash out of their car
SF News Oakland Dog Owners Debate Dog Park With City Council; Four People Shot Near Lake Merritt On a night that saw four people shot near Lake Merritt and no arrests made, a legion of passionate dog owners occupied most of the evening's public comment at the Oakland City Council
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News Man Arrested For Assault On Missing Autistic Teen A man has been arrested in connection with a case involving a severely mentally disabled 16-year-old girl who went missing from an Oakland group home last week. The girl was found badly beaten
