SF News Oakland Woman Gives Birth at Gas Station With Help of Several Cops Sometimes you go into labor, and it all happens way too fast. Not that we'd know. But that's what happened to Kimberly Thomas of Oakland, whose baby son was waiting for no trip
SF News Two Men Wanted In Connection With Attempted Teen Kidnapping Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Oakland this week. The girl in question was walking home from school alone at around 4:
SF News Human Filth Shoots Dog During East Oakland Robbery Police need your helping finding the horrible human being(s) who shot a dog during an armed robbery. See, a little after 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 1500 block of 41st Avenue,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plum Scores Manfred Wrembel As Their New Executive Chef A year after opening Plum in Oakland, Daniel Patterson (he of Coi) hired a new executive chef to guide the menu at his other acclaimed joint. Manfred Wrembel, who just finished a six-year
SF News Spate Of Shootings In Oakland Kills 1, Wounds 3 Several separate shootings occurred in Oakland within a seven-hour span on Sunday night. Out of those bouts of gunfire, three were wounded and one was killed. "The fatal shooting happened about 10:30
SF News Oakland Tries Operation Ceasefire Once Again Gun violence in Oakland is on the uptick again. The homicide count in the city stands at 102 and is on track to be the highest in five years, unless something changes in
SF News Oakland, Stockton Most Violent American Cities, Says Forbes On the heels of Forbes annual Priciest ZIP Codes List comes their annual list of America's Most Dangerous Cities — and, surprise, there is no overlap between the two. As for the latter, the
SF News Gunman On Oakland College Campus? Reports of a gunman on the Holy Names University in the Oakland has prompted a search for a man initially described as "a heavyset white man wearing a blue suit, bald and wearing
SF News Young Man's Murder Marks Oakland's 100th Homicide Of The Year A little before 1 a.m. today, a 21-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed in East Oakland, making it the city's 100th reported homicide of 2012. This particularly brutal shooting occurred
Arts & Entertainment Giants, A's Take On Game 5 Today, You Guys! Well, well, hell's bell. Who would have thought that both the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland A's would make it to the postseason, much less today's Game 5 (happening in Cincinnati and
SF News Two Shot While Driving In West Oakland Monday night, two men were shot to death while driving near the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland. The men, ages 19 and 28, had been driving on the 1000
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Check Out The A's Celebrating With Pie, Champagne On Monday night, the Oakland A's nabbed the AL wildcard berth after beating the Texas Rangers, 4-3. They celebrated the win with champagne, pie, and goosebumps. Here are a few AP images of
SF News Four Dead In Three Separate Oakland Shootings Shots rang out multiple times across East Oakland over the course of twelve hours last night, leaving four victims dead in three separate incidents. The first occurred around 9 p.m. on MacArthur
Arts & Entertainment A's Are Going To The Playoffs! Well, fancy that. The Oakland Athletics, if they win the series against the Rangers tonight, they could take the AL West. If they don't? They'll claim the second wild-card spot at least. But
SF News Feet Shot In Hayes Valley; Two Shot In Oakland A man managed to get shot in both feet on Sunday night in Hayes Valley. The incident occurred near the intersection of Buchanan and Hayes streets a little before 9 p.m. SF
SF News Three People Shot, Fourth Injured In Two Separate Oakland Drive-Bys Wednesday Night Late last night between 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m., gunfire rang out twice in Oakland, leaving two young women and an 11-year-old boy in the hospital with gunshot wounds. The
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Michael Chabon's New Oakland-Set Novel, <em>Telegraph Avenue</em> We haven't yet had the time to read it ourselves, but the reviews are coming in for Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue, which is set in 2004 in Oakland but which reaches
SF News Group Of Men Sexually Assaulting Women In Frutivale This really should be the No. 1 news story right now with regard to local MSM, but for whatever reason it isn't. (Clint Eastwood and an empty chair seem more important, sadly.) Anyway,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hopscotch Happy Hour Boasts $2 Drinks, Jam-packed Menu If you're heading to Oakland for Labor Day Weekend -- and why shouldn't you? -- get lit right and good at Hopscotch. One of the East Bay's newest restaurants, it opened in June
SF News High-Speed Chase From Vallejo to Oakland Ends in Crash, Two Arrests A car containing a burglary suspect or suspects took off at high speeds this afternoon on I-780 in Vallejo, ultimately crashing near Oakland's Rockridge district on Highway 24, and causing an elementary school
SF News Colon Blows It: A's Pitcher Benched 50 Games For Doping Barely a week after Giants All-Star MVP Melky Cabrera was busted with high amounts of testosterone in his system, Oakland A's starting pitcher Bartolo Colon has also been suspended for being in violation
SF News Man Fatally Shot At Oakland KFC Drive-Thru A man was shot and killed around 6:15 p.m. Thursday evening while picking up some chicken at a KFC drive-thru near Hegenberger and International Boulevard. Details are scarce, but the 20-something
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
SF News EBX: Oakland Police Are the Worst The public outrage about the mismanagement and misconduct of the Oakland Police Department is getting louder as a judge considers initiating an unprecedented federal takeover of the department. Today the East Bay Express's
SF News 16-Year-Old Girl Killed In East Oakland Shooting Wednesday Night A teenage girl was left dead on the sidewalk and another man was wounded when an unidentified gunman opened fire on a group of people outside of a liquor store in East Oakland
