SF News Oakland Standoff Ends Starting at a little before 4:15 a.m. this morning, Oakland police officers peacefully ended a standoff with four gunmen. One suspect reportedly shot at officers who initially responded to a robbery,
SF News Male Oakland A's Fans, Claim Your Just Rewards Ladies, please sit down for this one. Hell, you guys should sit too. See, San Diego resident Alfred G. Rava sued the Oakland A's. Why? Well, on Mother's Day of 2004, the Oakland
SF News Quote du Jour: Judicial Misconduct in Mehserle Hearing? After ruling today that disgraced BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle will, in fact, stand trial for the New Year's Day killing of Oscar Grant, Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay said the following.
Arts & Entertainment Scribe at Chron Baby Blog Thinks He Found the 'Up' House We've heard the new Disney/Pixar movie Up is fantastic, and we're not going to knock it or sing its praises here because we haven't seen it, and, well, we don't usually do
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Places to Eat Near Fox Theatre in Oakland? The Decemberists are playing a sold-out show at Fox Theatre in Oakland tonight, which we hear is lovely, and SFist commenter periqueblend (currently Top SFist User #9) posed the question on Twitter regarding
SF News SFist Blotter BERKELEY-OAKLAND/SATURDAY: Three people died after a murder and car chase through the East Bay Saturday night. "It all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports of gunfire
SF News Johannes Mehserle's Murder Prelim Hearing Starts Today At 9 a.m. today, the preliminary hearing for BART officer Johannes Mehserle began. Mehserle is charged with the murder of Oscar Grant. The former officer's defense, most likely, will center around the
SF News Elderly Lake Merritt Woman's Brutal Death Increases Oakland Residents' Fears The murder of Ivarene Lett, Oakland's oldest homicide victim in history, in a secure, high-rise apartment building in the Lake Merritt neighborhood earlier this week, not to mention the recent, notorious Lovelle Mixon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's On: LA vs. SF Burritos LA Weekly baits San Franciscans in Ask Mr. Gold's most recent column. Erica, a Los Angeles-based reader, writes in to ask about her "friend in town from Berkeley" who loves burritos but is
SF News People Behind Your Black Muslim Bakery Open Second Location Much to almost everyone's surprise, the lunatics behind the murder of Chauncey Bailey, health code violations, numerous rape and torture allegations, and the original Your Black Muslim Bakery have, according to East Bay
SF News Oakland Mayor Seeking Federal Grant to Avoid Laying Off Police Officers The latest Oakland City Budget document dropped yesterday, and in it Mayor Ron Dellums is proposing laying off 140 of the city's 803 police officers in order to help meet an estimated $80
SF News 3 Oakland Kids Shot in Broad Daylight During a bout of gunfire at the intersection of International Boulevard at 65th Street yesterday afternoon, a 1-year-old girl, a 4-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were shot and wounded in broad daylight.
SF News Images: Memorial of Slain OPD Officers Photographs of the makeshift memorial for Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai, the four officers gunned down by Lovelle Mixon on Saturday, March 21.
SF News Indybay's Fetishization of the African-American Male Continues Oh, Indybay.org, you know we like you. Why? Because you're so hot-headed and loopy; the flipside to zombietime, if you will. But this takes the soy-based vegan carrot cake. Your most recent
SF News "He's Not a Monster," Says Oakland Cop Killer's Family New information is coming out about Lovelle Mixon, the man accused of shooting four Oakland police officers during a routine traffic stop Saturday afternoon. The Oakland parolee, according to SF Chronicle, "was a
SF News Four Police Officers Shot, Killed in East Oakland A routine traffic stop in East Oakland on Saturday afternoon resulted in the violent shooting deaths of four police officers. According to reports, "a 26-year-old gunman shot two motorcycle officers after being pulled
SF News Kaiser Kills 275 Bay Area Jobs Chipping away at the employment rate in the Bay Area, health corporation Kaiser Permanente plans to eliminate 275 jobs in Walnut Creek, Napa, and Pleasanton as it "restructures its information technology operations." The
SF News Oakland Activist Injured in West Bank by Lisa Hix Tristan Anderson, a 38-year-old Oakland resident, is in stable condition today after he was critically injured in the aftermath of a protest in Israel's West Bank on Friday when he
SF News A's Want Out of Oakland It seems like Bay Area sports teams think the grass is greener on the other side of the park. First, the 49ers pretended they were going to runaway. After mommy and daddy told
SF News Afternoon Shooting in Oakland According to the breaking news red box over at CBS 5, "3 people were shot on Hillside St. in Oakland around 1 p.m. The shooting took place near Castlemont School. No details
SF News Bart Officer Back in Court Former Bart officer Johannes Mehserle was back in court today in order to ask a judge for bail. If you recall, the 27-year-old disgraced cop pleaded not guilty to the murder of Oscar
SF News Oakland Police Chief Tucker to Resign In a humiliating week for Bay Area police forces, Oakland Police Chief Wayne Tucker announced his resignation yesterday. His last day will be at the end of February. According to reports, "Tucker said
SF News Oakland to Fire Fibbing Cops Two sergeants and nine officers in the Oakland Police Department will be looking for fresh new careers soon. Why? It seems said law enforcement officials lied on sworn affidavits in order to get
