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
SF News Help Find This Mentally-Disabled Missing Teen Police are asking the public to help find a 17-year-old girl, with the mental capacity of a 7-year-old, who was last seen at a housing facility on in Oakland on Tuesday night. Shyanne
SF News Kevin Grant of Oakland Wins California Peace Prize Former convict Kevin Grant as one of the 2012 California Peace Prize recipients. Grant, in and out of the jail system as a youth until 1989, now acts as a consultant for parole
SF News Man Searching For Lost Cat Dies In Piedmont Quarry A man who went out in the rain to search for his lost cat died last night after apparently slipping and falling into a quarry on the edge of the Rockridge and Piedmont
SF News Why Can't Oakland PD Lower The Crime Rate? Because They Can't Catch Criminals What sounds like a bad joke about Oakland's struggling police force is actually the headline to an investigative report by the East Bay Express this week. In the Express' cover story, reporter Ali
