SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Body Found Near Highway 24 in Oakland A double shooting near Fruitvale Station in Oakland on Sunday was largely caught on camera; a man's body was found Monday near Highway 24 in North Oakland behind Children's Hospital; and SF City Hall isn't paying for blue check-marks on Twitter.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Raising Cane's Restaurant In Oakland Closes Dining Room Due to Crime Less than a year after the opening of the first Bay Area location of popular chicken-finger chain Raising Cane's in East Oakland, that location has decided to close its dining room to patrons out of safety concerns.
SF News Late-Night High-Speed Chase Knocks Down Power Pole in East Oakland, 6,000 Households Lose Power An estimated 6,000 East Oakland PG&E customers were without power between 3:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. Friday morning, all because of the wreckage caused by a 125 mph chase on I-880 near Fruitvale.
SF News Oakland Mother Says Body of Woman Found Wrapped In Plastic and Carpet Is Her Daughter Oakland police aren't saying much about the “suspicious death” of a victim found Monday in the city's Uptown neighborhood, but a mother has come forward and said it was her 33-year-old daughter, and that the body was found wrapped in plastic and rolled in a carpet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Elbo Room Was Slated to Close Permanently, But Has Found New Buyers at the Last Minute Just seven days before it was set to host its final show, the Elbo Room Jack London has announced new buyers. The club will still have its final show Friday night, but is scheduled to reopen under the new owners in June.
SF News Deplorable Human Flees Crash Scene On Oakland Freeway Leaving Behind Injured Dog In Car A trash pile of a person got into a multi-car crash early Thursday on I-580 in Oakland, and when police arrived, they found the person had abandoned their car with an injured, bleeding dog inside.
SF News Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese May File For Bankruptcy Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which critics say is just a tactic to avoid testifying and paying damages.
SF News Oakland Gay Men's Chorus Member Stabbed And Killed In His Own Lake Merritt Apartment Building We now have more information on a bizarre fatal stabbing near Lake Merritt this past weekend, and the victim was Curtis Marsh, a 53-year-old member of the Oakland Gay Men's Chorus and occasional drag performer.
SF News The Oakland Ransomware Attack Files Have Been Leaked The hacker group taking responsibility for the ransomware attack on the City of Oakland has leaked their first batch of files, leaving city employees’ personal data potentially exposed while the hack continues to cripple city systems.
SF News 21-Year-Old San Leandro Man On Probation For Gun Charge Arrested For Gun Battle at Music Video Shoot One suspect is now in custody facing a murder charge for a January 23 shootout that injured four people and killed one, 18-year-old Mario Navarro, during a music video shoot at an East Oakland gas station.
SF News Violent Weekend In Oakland Leaves Five Dead, Police Address the Public Three people were fatally shot in Oakland in separate incidents in the same three-hour period on Friday, and that burst of violence was followed by multiple other incidents throughout the weekend that left two more people dead and five others wounded.
SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF News Ransomware Attack On City of Oakland Leaves City Hall Closed, Many Systems Still Paralyzed A ransomware attack on the City of Oakland is now dragging into its sixth day, and the city’s IT department “has taken affected systems offline” to try to minimize the damage.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
SF News Oakland Unveils 100-Person Tiny-Home Village at Troubled Wood Street Encampment What was once northern California’s largest homeless encampment at Wood Street in Oakland now has a collection of tiny homes to house 100 people. But on the flip side, the clearing of the encampment continues.
SF News Oakland Homeless Woman Found Dead In Tent Following Cold Night The Bay Area saw a major cold snap overnight with frost and hard-freeze warnings in various locales. And in Oakland, CHP officers found a homeless woman dead this morning in her tent, possibly because of the cold.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Once Again Sees Big Protest Over Police Killing Many hundreds (thousands?) gathered in Downtown Oakland Sunday to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis; Elon Musk has apologized for linking to a conspiracy story about the Paul Pelosi attack; and three years ago today the WHO first declared COVID a global emergency.
SF News Monday Shootout In Oakland Took Place During Music Video Shoot, Appears Gang Related Because it occurred in such close succession with two mass shootings in California, a shooting incident in Oakland Monday night has been called a third "mass shooting," but the evidence points to something different involving more than one shooter and possible gang conflict.
SF Politics Suspended Oakland Police Chief Swings Back, Mounts Campaign to Be Reinstated Placed on paid administrative leave over alleged mishandling of internal discipline, Oakland police chief LeRonne Armstrong is going on offense with a lawyer, PR representative, and allies he’s rounded up.
SF News Oakland School Board Reverses Course, Won't Shut Down Six Schools That Were On the Chopping Block Many of the Oakland schools that were ordered to close last year will now remain open, thanks to the new school board’s reversal of that decision, though the few schools already closed will remain shuttered.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Arrest Oakland Man With Slew of Ghost Guns Oakland police arrested a man shooting off weapons in his driveway who had a slew of crazy looking ghost guns, robbers are targeting Mike's Camera stores in the East Bay, and Lake Mendocino is filling up.
SF News Remains of Two-Year-Old Boy Who Police Say Was Killed In Oakland Found In Napa Oakland police are investigating the possible murder of a toddler two days before Christmas, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County.
SF News Too $hort Movie Shooting In Oakland, But Businesses Blow the Whistle Over Disruption, Lack of Notice There is no shortage of frustration over Too $hort’s 'Freaky Tales' filming in Oakland, where business owners say film crews blocking their storefronts have cost them tens of thousands of dollars — and they were not given much notice that all this would be happening.
