SF News Scenes from Oakland Amid Johannes Mehserle Verdict Hoopla While we wait for the Johannes Mehserle case to conclude--for those of you who recently rose from a coma, the BART cop is on trial for the shooting death of Oscar Grant on
SF News Oakland Riot Speculation Swirls as Mehserle Verdict Looms Oakland riots, will they or won't they happen? Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of killing Oscar Grant at the Frutivale station, could face 2nd degree murder (15 years - life), voluntary manslaughter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jeremy Fox and Daniel Patterson Do It Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi has word that former Ubuntu superstar chef Jeremy Fox "has found a new home: Daniel Patterson’s upcoming Oakland restaurant, Plum." Promising to be more casual than the now-sacred
SF News Oakland Teens Plead 'Not Guilty' In Beating Death Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis, the 18-year-old Oakland residents accused of beating to death 59-year-old Tian Sheng Yu of San Francisco, pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Monday. Yu and his son,
SF News Oakland A.M. Fire Reveals Pot House A house fire was reported a little before 7 a.m. this morning at a house on the 3900 block of Angelo Avenue in Oakland. During the blaze, neighbors and firefighters learned that
SF News Nancy Pelosi to Speak at Mills College Speaking of commencement speeches, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will deliver the main address at Mills College in Oakland on Saturday. According to BCN (via CBS 5), "Pelosi, the first female speaker of the
SF News Oakland to Lift Ban On Cross-Dressing Oakland went ahead and finally banned one of the city'/s most bizarre and benign laws: cross-dressing. Today, the Oakland council voted 7-0 to remove the ban from the city's municipal code. CBS
SF News Oakland to Join Arizona Boycott Oakland will join San Francisco in boycotting Arizona over anti-immigration/anti-illegal alien law SB 1070. Oakland Council President Jane Brunner, Vice Mayor Jean Quan and Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente will "join clergy
SF News Father Beaten in Random Downtown Oakland Attack Dies Tian Sheng Yu, 59, was badly beaten on Friday right near the Fox Theater, in broad daylight, on the 1800 block of Telegraph Avenue. There was no apparent motive for the attack, and
misc Why Aren't You Visiting Your Friends In Oakland? So. Your friends decided to buy property in Oakland. Great. And, you promised you'd visit often. In fact, you swore to it well over a year ago. But? You never made the 10
SF News Parents Picket Outside Oakland School In Teacher Protest Parents picketed outside Lazear Elementary School in Oakland yesterday over an allegedly unfit teacher. Parents claim the teacher in question "took a smoking break during class, leaving his students unattended; that he locked
SF News 4 Dead In 2 Days In Oakland Last night at around 10:40 p.m., a 57-year-old was shot and killed during an argument over a woman. An unidentified 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with his murder. The
SF News Missing Oakland Rock Climber Found Dead Oakland climber Thomas Bennett, 26, was found dead Thursday on Mt. Shasta. Area rangers discovered his body inside a snow cave "where his friend had left him before going for help." CBS 5
SF News Racist Street Art Found at Oakland Church The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension on Lincoln Avenue in Oakland was vandalized with hateful graffiti over the weekend. A giant swastika, dirty words and "other racial epithets" were, according to CBS
SF News Two Sought In Kidnapping, Robbery In Oakland Over in Oakland yesterday, two men are wanted in connection with an alleged kidnapping and robbery. According to reports: "Two men, one who had a handgun, approached another man in the 4200 block
SF News Oakland Car Crash Prompts Stabbing After two car had gotten into an accident on Sunday night in Oakland, "a passenger in one car stabbed an individual in the other car." Occurring a little before 9 p.m. last
SF News Mom Suspected of Murdering Two-Year-Old Daughter An Oakland woman sits in jail this morning on suspicion of murdering her 2-year-old daughter. Tiffany Lopez, 19, who is three months pregnant and was arrested on child endangerment charges in December, is
SF News Video: Police Attack I-880 Takeover Protesters Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content. The spirited folks over at Indybay.org bring our attention to this video, one that chronicles last week's I-880 protest that resulted in
SF News Victim of Ferryboat Death Identified The woman who died yesterday after going overboard the Oakland-Alameda Ferry has been identified as 28-year-old Shayla Hudson, and authorities are still determining whether she fell or jumped. Hudson had boarded the 8:
SF News Oakland Day of Action Protesters Shut Down 980/880 Freeway You saw the photos of the Civic Center rally protesting education cuts, but across the Bay they weren't fucking around. A group of a few hundred protesters who had gathered at Frank Ogawa
SF News Woman Tells Off Dave Chappelle, He Responds By Calling Her "Titties" "Real" Oh dear. From the editor's inxbox comes this heated missive over today's 'Photo du Jour' featuring gifted comedian Dave Chappelle. Black Betty writes: I can't believe you have that bigot's picture on your
SF News The Oakland 49ers? Last Friday, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Authority approved $125,000 to conduct a "feasibility study" into the possibility of building a new football stadium that could host both the Raiders and the 49ers.
SF News Oakland Seeks Injunction Against Street Gang Oakland City Attorney John Russo is seeking a court injunction against an unnamed North Oakland street gang that has "terrorized" the neighborhoods bordering Berkeley and Emeryville. As the Tribune reports, "The injunction is
SF News AC Transit Bus Fight Video Director Apologies Iyanna Washington, the woman who directed this enthralling video showing two men fighting on an AC Transit bus, posted an explanatory YouTube video today, apologizing to the many trolls going after her due
