SF News Giant Oakland Apartment Fire Displaces 13, Thick Smoke Was Visible for Miles A Fruitvale District fire early Sunday afternoon destroyed one residential building and damaged another, displacing 13 residents in the two-alarm fire whose smoke was visible from nearly five miles away.
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.
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 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 Building That Was Site of Ghost Ship Fire Finally Razed, Site May Become Affordable Housing Six-and-a-half years after the Ghost Ship fire took the lives of 36 people, the Ghost Ship building has finally been torn down. And a low-income housing nonprofit may be turning it into an affordable housing site.
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 Fatal Shooting of Elderly Man In Oakland Leads to Multi-Car Collision A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday in Oakland's Fruitvale District looks to be the result of a fatal shooting in a different location, and now has become a homicide investigation.
SF News Kids' Exposure To Lead In Oakland's Fruitvale District Draws Comparisons To Flint Children in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland are exposed to dangerous levels of lead, and a new report finds that contamination levels are even higher than those of Flint, Michigan. Reuters reported on
SF News In Wake Of Murder, Broken And Dummy Surveillance Cameras Found Across Oakland BART is not the only one with a security camera problem. According to CBS 5, Oakland city officials are scrambling this week to replace broken and dummy cameras across the city after it
SF News Google To Open Youth Education Center In Oakland Fruitvale Village, a transit-adjacent 255,000 square-foot real estate development with 47 housing units owned by a local nonprofit and completed in 2003, is getting a new commercial tenant: Google, the Alphabet, Inc.
SF News East Bay BART Riders Traveling Past Fruitvale Will Be Screwed Through Spring And Summer BART is planning some major track repair work on weekends starting April 5 that will shut down service completely between Coliseum and Fruitvale stations. This means a "bus bridge" will be necessary to
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale' Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize At Sundance, the momentum behind Ryan Coogler's debut feature about the last days in the life of Oscar Grant proved strong enough to propel the film to the festival's top Grand Jury Prize
SF News Filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Forest Whitaker Talk Oscar Grant, 'Fruitvale' In the wake of a huge buzzwave at Sundance and a $2.5 million distribution deal with the Weinstein Co., Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale has already sparked debate about the what it means to
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Grant Movie 'Fruitvale' Buzzes At Sundance, Sells For $2.5 Million [Updated] Fruitvale, the feature film starring Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant has been a big hit with the Hollywood bigshots in Park City for this year's Sundance Film Festival. After a successful premiere
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale': Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant For some of us, Michael B. Jordan will forever be known as Lions' quarterback Vince Howard on the greatest TV show of all time. But for many, he will soon be known as
SF News Group Of Men Sexually Assaulting Women In Frutivale This really should be the No. 1 news story right now with regard to local MSM, but for whatever reason it isn't. (Clint Eastwood and an empty chair seem more important, sadly.) Anyway,
SF News Fruitvale Taco Truck Stickup Ends In Shootout A couple of attempted robbers and the owner of the taco truck they tried to stickup got in to a gun battle in a heavily-armed corner of Oakland late last night. According to
SF News Refugees Compare East Oakland Unfavorably To Iraq The cause of Iraqi refugees, thousands of whom aided the U.S. military during the Iraq War in exchange for visas, was much in the news in the last 24 hours. There was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Otaez Mexicatessen Owner Shot To Death Jesus "Chuy" Campos, owner of Fruitvale's Otaez Mexicatessen, was shot to death a little after 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. He arrived early to help out with the breakfast service. He was
SF News Fruitvale stabbing death "self defense," says BART You know the 18-year-old who was stabbed to death last night the Fruitvale BART station? Well, it turns out he was killed in self-defense. The two assailants, it seems, had the tables turned
SF News BART Update "Date: Jan 7, 2009 3:41 PM -- There is a station closure at Fruitvale Station in both directions due to civil protest." Oh dear. (Oh, and to get BART updates sent to
