SF News Man Shot, KIlled Outside Oakland Church Outside St. Anthony's Church in Oakland, near East 15th Street and 16th Avenue, an unidentified 19-year-old man was shot and killed last night around 10 pm. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
SF News Oakland Raiders Head Coach Tom Cable Out Raiders coach Tom "I'm Going To Kill You" Cable is out. "The Raiders announced their decision not to exercise a two-year, $5 million option on Cable's contract for 2011 and '12, two days
SF News Child, Adults Killed In Oakland Fire Three people died two others were "forced to jump from a second-story window" after an East Oakland apartment fire this morning at around 2 a.m."Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Eleanor Bolin-Chew said
SF News Second Dead Woman Found in East Bay Park The nude body of a woman was found Friday near the entrance to a bike trail on Skyline Boulevard in the Oakland Hills. The woman appeared to have died several hours before, and
SF News Teen Boy Kidnapped In Haight, Released In Oakland Egads, this sure sounds scary: a 14-year-old boy was allegedly kidnapped in the Haight last night, robbed, and then dropped off in Oakland. "According to police, the boy said he had just gotten
SF News Oakland Fining Hotels for Tolerating Prostitution, Sex Trafficking Whipping out a law that's been on the books since 1914, the City of Oakland is assessing penalties of up to $25,000 on the owners of three ghetto hotels -- the National
SF News Oakland City Council backs off plan for wholesale pot farms Apparently spooked by warnings from the Alameda County DA that city officials could face prosecution if they approved permits for possibly-illegal, "industrial-scale pot farms", the Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to put the
SF News Oakland Police Chase Ends in Wrecked Home, Shooting, Pow! Yesterday afternoon, undercover Oakland PD officers in East Oakland spotted two suspects from a "shooting in a vehicle" (so, a drive-by then?) incident that occurred in the same neighborhood last week. Uniformed cops
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Temescal NIMBYs Shun McDonald's Redo A few residents in all-that Oakland neighborhood Temescal have helped appeal a decision by the Oakland Planning Commission who approved the rebuilding of a McDonald's spore at 4514 Telegraph Avenue. According to Christopher
SF News Missing 12-Year-Old Girl Lies About Sexual Assault Oh dear. A 12-year-old Oakland girl who showed up at Oakland Children's Hospital on Sunday "after disappearing for several days admitted to authorities that she lied about being sexually assaulted." According to KTVU,
SF News Oakland Again Among Top 5 'Most Dangerous' Cities Everyone loves a ranking! In an annual ranking by the CQ Press (pdf), Oakland now stands as the fifth most dangerous city in the country for 2009, just below St. Louis (#1), Camden,
SF News Another Sex Abuse Lawsuit Hits Oakland Diocese In addition to "at least five other lawsuits stemming from allegations of abuse," the Oakland Diocese faces yet another lawsuit for sex abuse. A woman claims that she was abused by a monsignor
SF News Oakland Mayoral Race: Quan Takes Lead Over Perata Although they won't name a mayor until later this week, it seems likely that we'll be typing "Oakland Mayor Quan" for the next four years. According to reports, Oakland Councilwoman Jean Quan might
SF News Unruly Protesters Arrested In Oakland After Mehserle Sentencing After Johannes Mehserle received the minimum sentence of 2 years jail time, as many as 500 people gathered outside Oakland City Hall to sing songs and present speeches in protest. However, according to
SF News Grant Family Attorney Gives a Statement on Mehserle Sentence John Burris, the Grant family's civil attorney, gave a lengthy statement for the press following the sentencing of Johannes Mehserle. Burris, who has been present at the trial along with the Grant family,
SF News (UPDATED) Oakland Prepares After Mehserle Sentencing After today's (light?) two-year-sentencing of former BART cop Johannes Mehserle, Oakland is preparing itself for any possible melee. The scene outside Oakland City hall is growing in numbers, but, as of this afternoon,
SF News Scenes After Johannes Mehserle Sentencing As many of you know by now, Johannes Mehserle received the minimum sentence of 2 years jail time, with time-served credit attached. In all, the former BART cop, convicted of killing Oscar Grant
SF News Mehserle Sentencing On Friday BART cop Johannes Mehserle, convicted of killing Oscar Grant on a Fruitvale platform on New Year's Day2009, will finally hear his sentence on Friday. "The sentence could range from 14 years in prison
SF News 9 Shot In Halloween Party Mess In Oakland Just after midnight Saturday, a gunman opened fire on the crowd at a big costume party at this historic Sweet's Ballroom in downtown Oakland. Nine people were hit in all, and all are
SF News Two Gold Teeth Thieves, Two Graffiti Artists Sued by City of Oakland Relating to Mehserle Verdict Night Remember how we all thought Oakland was going to burn the night Johannes Mehserle got convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oscar Grant? And the press got super excited and all
SF News CNN Discovers Just How Easy It Is to Get a Medical Marijuana Card Oh, this is amusing: CNN does some hard-hitting reporting today on the topic of how easy it is get a medical marijuana card, and whether we should all be outraged that "90 to
SF News Late Night Blaze Erupts at Oakland Tiki Bar by Andrew Dalton Tiki bar aficionados lost a watering hole late last night as a fire at Tiki Tom's in Oakland quickly erupted from one-alarm to a three-alarm status. About 80 firefighters with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over No Worries (1442 Franklin) It's VEGAN FILIPINO FOOD. Veganism and Filipino food go together like Sonny and Cher and Cher divorced Sonny and then he skied into a tree (RIP), you feel us?
SF News Federal Jury Believes Oakland Police Planted Gun on Rapper A federal jury awarded $175,000 to a parolee who spent 22 months in the clink after police found him illegally in possession of a handgun. Local rap star Lorenzo Hall has maintained
misc Take a Virtual Tour of Oakland's Pot Manufacturing Future by Andrew Dalton A month ago, we took you inside the Apple store of Pot Dispensaries, now The Atlantic brings us a preview of something more like the Ikea of weed growers. Behold,
