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
SF News Woman Struck, Killed by Amtrak Train in Oakland Vanessa Hunt, 55, of Oakland died Wednesday while running to cross the train tracks. Hunt, it seems, "tried to beat the train and run across the tracks, bypassing lowered crossing barriers at 85th
SF News Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums Continues Downward Spiral While we love to poke fun at Mayor Gavin Newsom now and then (which we're sure he finds nothing short of adorable, right?) we can all agree on one thing: at least he's
SF News Oakland Raiders Coach Set to Get the Axe After not beating and choking of his ex-assistant coach, Randy Hansen, Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable is ready to get the boot from owner Al Davis. The impending firing, it seems, is due
SF News Oakland Woman's Attack Circulates On Internet After Oakland female rapper Mina Mack was beaten in the doorway of an Oakland recording studio on Monday night, according to CBS 5, "a friend told her that video of the punching and
Arts & Entertainment Doing More With Less - Oakland’s DIY Bike Shop: The Bikery by Natalie Cadranel One upside to a lagging economy is that it encourages people to become more resourceful and creative about how they spend their time and money. After a recent move to
SF News Oakland Shootout Kills One, Injures One Oakland, ranked no. 3 in the U.S. when it comes to crime, played host to a police shootout last night. "Oakland police officers opened fire on two armed suspects Thursday evening in
SF News <em>Wall Street Journal</em> On Temescal "Oakland's answer to San Francisco's Mission District," Temescal is, arguably, one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. As Curbed noted earlier today, the WSJ review is downright intriguing, not to mention highly informative, when praising
SF News Oakland Beats SF In Mayoral Vanishing Acts The feud between San Francisco and Oakland just got hotter. Oakland, thinking it's all that, creams San Francisco when it comes to having an absent mayor. SFGate's Chip Johnson boasts, "While everyone was
misc Builder of Oakland's Fox Theater Once Imprisoned For 'White Slavery' On this relatively slow local news day in which most everyone is out of the office, the Oakland Tribune is running this amusing scandal from the archives about Maury Diggs, the builder of
SF News Oakland Murder #99 According to BCN/KTVU, a fatal shooting was reported to Oakland police at 2:48 this morning. The victim, 31-year-old man, was found in the1900 block of 85th Avenue, near Birch Street. He
SF News Police Need Your Help In Solving BART Shooting Involving Teen Girl Speaking of BART, police are asking for the public's help involving the shooting of a teen girl over the weekend. The incident in question, which happened at around 10:20 p.m. on
SF News Oakland, Full of Crime CQ Press released their annual list of the hottest crime cities in the U.S. And the Bay Area scored in the top 20. Twice! Coming in behind Camden, NJ, and St. Louis,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and
SF News Car Thief Steals Vehicle To Get To Auto-Theft Trial Now this? Is our kind of criminal. With no way to get to his auto-theft trial in Vallejo, tenacious Oakland resident Samuel George Botchvaroff did what comes naturally to him: he stole a
SF News Oakland Mayor Dellums & Wife Owe IRS $239K Oh oh. Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums owes the IRS in back taxes. Lots and lots of back taxes. According to CBS 5, "Alameda County records show the IRS has placed a lien on
