SF Politics Sheng Thao Insists She Was Not a Target of FBI Raid in Fiery Chronicle Interview Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao gave an interview to the Chronicle, claiming the FBI has informed her she was not a target in the raid on her home, and insisting that the recall effort against her is 80% funded by one donor who does not even live in Oakland.
SF Politics Minor Figure in Sheng Thao FBI Raid Claims DA Pamela Price Tried to Shake Him Down for $25,000 Bribe Two of the East Bay’s strangest political stories just collided head-on, as a very colorful character from the FBI probe that led to the Sheng Thao raid now says that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. But oh, this fellow has credibility issues.
SF News Oakland City Council to Decide Whether to Renew Controversial ShotSpotter Gunfire Detection System Several US cities have recently ditched the police surveillance tool ShotSpotter that’s used to detect gunfire, and Oakland could become the latest, as critics say it bogs police down with false-positive notifications.
SF News Dramatic Video Shows Oakland Police Rescue Drowning Man From Lake Merritt Channel Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
SF News Oakland Mother and Five-Year-Old Son Have Been Missing For Nine Days, Police Asking Public’s Help 29-year-old Mikala King, and her five-year-old son King Scott, were last seen in Oakland on September 24. Both have disappeared since, and the Oakland Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating them.
SF News Man Shot and Killed at McClymonds High School Reunion in West Oakland Park A 38-year-old man was shot and killed at a McClymonds High School alumni gathering early Saturday evening at West Oakland’s De Fremery Park, and the victim was just two days away from his 39th birthday.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Issues Executive Order to Ramp Up Oakland Encampment Sweeps Facing a recall election and a slew of scandals, Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is seizing on a recent Supreme Court decision to proclaim that the city will get a lot more aggressive in clearing homeless encampments.
SF News Kidnapped at Age 6 in 1951, Man Finally Reunited With Oakland Family 73 Years Later It's a stunning happy ending to a 73-year-old cold case, as a man who was kidnapped in Oakland when he was six years old was finally reunited with his family once he was 79 years old.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Will Skip Tie-Breaking Vote on City Contract to Business Associate of Possible FBI Probe Target Confronted with the very messy optics of steering millions of dollars to someone whose business partner may be a target of the very same FBI investigation that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao may be a target of, Thao is choosing to merely duck the vote.
SF News Four People Shot In Oakland in Four-Hour Span Saturday Night, Three of Them Killed While the big sideshow that shut down the Bay Bridge at 3:30 am Sunday morning is all over the news, we’re also learning that there were four shootings with three fatalities in Oakland early Saturday night, plus reports that another TV camera crew was robbed.
SF News Oakland Man Charged In Fatal Dog Mauling Sunday Near Fruitvale Three 100-pound dogs attacked and killed a 53-year-old man in Oakland Sunday, and the owner has been charged with a felony, as the dogs apparently had a history of attacks.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s Chinatown Throwing a Night Market Saturday, On Heels of Successful SF Night Markets Following some wildly successful night markets in San Francisco, Oakland’s Chinatown will make its mark with the Chinatown Night Market this Saturday night, with a “Dumpling Olympics” and more.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Is Reportedly Using an SUV the City Hasn't Paid For The City of Oakland has yet to make a single payment on the vehicle in the 16 months since acquiring it, according to reporting published earlier this week from The Oaklandside.
crime oakland Oakland Quadruple Shooting Leaves Two Dead Two people have died and two others were critically wounded this afternoon by a gunman, according to the Oakland Police Department. The violence, which authorities say arose from a verbal altercation, occurred somewhere on 83rd Avenue.
SF News Plea Deal Comes In Case of Murdered Oakland Maintenance Man; Trial to Come For Second Suspect A Sacramento man has pleaded no contest to the January 2023 murder of Julio Chavez-Montoya, a 63-year-old building maintenance man who lived in a downtown Oakland office tower.
SF News East Oakland Residents Create Their Own Renegade Barriers to Stop Sideshows, City Promptly Removes Them Tired of sideshows and reckless driving, residents of Oakland’s San Antonio neighborhood put tires filled with rocks and dirt in their streets as a deterrent. The City of Oakland quickly removed them.
SF News Woman Shot and Killed in Oakland Identified, Was Mother of Eight Confronting Alleged Drug Dealers We now know the identity of the woman who was fatally shot in East Oakland last Wednesday, as 33-year-old mother of eight Maria Ramos was shot while attempting to confront a group of alleged drug dealers.
SF News Two-Alarm Wednesday Morning Fire Displaces Nearly 40 Residents in Oakland Chinatown While the two-alarm fire on Oakland’s Ninth Street was contained pretty quickly after starting around 5:30 am Wednesday morning, the building no longer has power, and 38 residents are currently without a place to live.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Roots Soccer Team Will Play at the Oakland Coliseum Starting Next Year There will be pro sports at the Oakland Coliseum after the A’s leave, as Oakland’s men’s professional soccer team the Oakland Roots will play their home games there starting in 2025.
SF Politics Accused ‘Straw Donor’ In Sheng Thao Raid Under Investigation for Allegedly Bilking $4 Million From Investors One of the many characters in whatever scandal prompted the FBI raid on Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home is businessman Mario Juarez, who’s under a separate Alameda County investigation into allegations that he conned $4.25 million from investors.
SF News Oakland Father of Two Clings to Life After Being Shot In Head by Stray Bullet East Oakland resident Run Hua Kuang was struck in the head by a stray bullet last Thursday, and his wife and two children are distraught as he remains on life support in intensive care.
SF News Former Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick Strikes Two Pedestrians While Driving on the Job In New Orleans The new gig is not currently working out too well for former Oakland Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, as she apparently ran her car into two pedestrians in New Orleans on Saturday night.
SF News Popular Bookstore on Oakland's College Avenue Destroyed By Fire An early morning fire Tuesday destroyed a popular bookstore on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood, and displaced five people who lived upstairs.
SF Politics Sheng Thao’s Boyfriend Also Had Phone Seized in FBI Raid, Questions Swirl About His Role in Her Administration We’re learning that Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's boyfriend also had his phone seized amidst last month’s stunning FBI raids, and while that doesn’t mean he’s a target of the investigation, he sure seems to have some nebulous but powerful role in her office.
