SF News Trio of Sideshows Rollicked East Bay Sunday Morning, One Car Ruthlessly Tagged and Set on Fire The East Bay saw three sideshows in a two-and-half-hour span between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, and at one in Oakland's Redwood Heights, one of the cars was left consumed by flames.
SF News Crime in Oakland Soaring Across the Board, According to New Statistics It’s not just sideshows, as every major crime category shows sharp increases in Oakland, with spikes of 20%, 40%, or even 90% in specific crime categories compared to before the pandemic.
SF News Three Months After Wood Street Encampment Cleared, Few Have Found Permanent Housing After the controversial clearing of the enormous Wood Street encampment in West Oakland. The New York Times takes a look at what happened to the hundreds of people who were swept out.
SF News Eight-Year-Old Boy Struck In Freeway Shooting Crossfire In Oakland Is Paralyzed A young boy who became the second child victim of a freeway shooting in the East Bay in three months is now permanently paralyzed from the neck down, and his family is hoping to raise funds for his homecoming and ongoing care.
Arts & Entertainment Children’s Fairyland in Oakland to Host ‘After-Hours’ Music Festival Featuring Sun Ra Arkestra The Bay Area’s music festival-mania is coming to Lake Merritt’s Children’s Fairyland, which will play host to a September nighttime festival called “Through the Looking Glass,” with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Oakland-based pop star Spellling.
SF News Dead Body Found In West Oakland After Fire Is Set Near Freway Off-Ramp CHP is investigating the death of a person whose body was found near the I-980 off-ramp at 17th Street early Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Dead at 25, Found at Home In Oakland It appears that actor Angus Cloud, who played Fezco on two seasons of the HBO series 'Euphoria,' has taken his own life at age 25, and he was found dead in his family's home in Oakland.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Trio In Connection With Carjacking Spree, Including Attempt Caught on Video While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
SF News SF Does Not Have Highest Homelessness Rate In California — We’re No. 3 A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News Carjackings, Robberies, Juvenile Crimes On Rise — Just Another Pandemic Hangover? Two recent, violent carjackings — one of which ended shortly thereafter in a spectacular crash in a normally quiet part of San Francisco's Castro District — are examples of what seems to be an uptick in these types of crimes, many of which appear to be committed by juveniles.
SF News Street-Racing Suspect Arrested In Last Month’s Oakland Hit-and-Run That Killed Immigrant Grandmother Oakland police have made an arrest in the June 16 hit-and-run that killed 73-year-old woman Santu Maya, and the suspect, 28-year-old convicted car thief Josue Ortega, also has pending shooting charges from a separate incident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matt Horn’s Burger Joint ‘Matty’s Old Fashioned’ Is Now Taking Reservations, Starting Wednesday Night You can finally sink your teeth into the long-awaited burger concept from celebrated Oakland chef Matt Horn, as Matty’s Old Fashioned is taking reservations for Wednesday night and beyond at their new brick-and-mortar Downtown Oakland location.
Business & Tech Four More East Bay Chain Hotels Being Surrendered to Lenders In Nationwide Loan Default This is not just a Bay Area “doom loop” story, as Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust is handing back the keys to 19 U.S. hotels, four of which are in Oakland, Newark, and Walnut Creek.
SF News As East Bay Gun Injuries Spike By 180%, the Region’s Congressional Reps Call For Federal Report It seems unlikely some blue-ribbon commission would change the trajectory of gun injuries, up 180% in the East Bay compared to pre-pandemic, but some congressional representatives say a Surgeon General report could turn the tide like it did with cigarettes.
SF News Oakland’s 911 System Fails After Thursday Afternoon Technical Glitch What started as a PG&E outage turned into a hobbled 911 system for the city of Oakland, and the city’s 911 call center had trouble routing calls throughout Thursday afternoon and evening.
SF News US Marshals Help Oakland Police Make Arrest In Chicago In Shooting of Flower Delivery Man Oakland police announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the June 21 fatal shooting of Brazilian flower delivery man Matheus Gaidos in Oakland's Koreatown.
SF News Oakland’s 24-Hour Colonial Donuts On Lakeshore Avenue Rocked by Armed Robbery No one was injured in the early Friday morning armed robbery of the Colonial Donuts on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, but four employees were held at gunpoint, and the three suspects are still at large.
SF News 73-Year-Old Oakland Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Suspected of Street Racing A Friday night hit-and-run near Fruitvale in Oakland took the life of 73-year-old Santu Maya, and police believe the suspect vehicle was engaged in illegal street racing.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested For Mission Shooting Was Wanted for Oakland Music Video Shooting That Killed One 22-year-old Javier Campos was arrested Wednesday night in Santa Cruz County and he's been linked to both Friday's Mission District shooting and the shootout at a gas station in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old man in January.
SF News Oakland Woman Reunited With French Bulldog Stolen In April Toya Zheng, the Oakland-based lawyer who went on local television to plea for the return of her two-year-old French bulldog Boba after he was stolen out of her car in April, now says the dog has been returned to her.
SF News Oakland Woman Charged In Horrific Death of 10-Year-Old Daughter An Oakland woman whose daughter was found dead in her apartment last month has been charged with the girl's murder, in addition to several enhancements. And a relative says this was the sad result of a home plagued by domestic violence.
SF News Driver Plows Car Into Oakland Wise Sons Deli After High-Speed Chase An alarming high-speed car chase through the streets of downtown Oakland Sunday afternoon ended with an Acura SUV hitting a fire hydrant and crashing through the front of Wise Sons Deli, though the shop was closed and no one was injured.
