SF News Two Oakland Teens Charged In Beating Death Of 55-Year-Old Man In Park Two Oakland teenagers have been charged with murder in connection with the beating and stomping of 55-year-old Piliip Fai Low, who may have been sleeping in a West Oakland park and who was
SF News Will $10,000 Bounty Help Police Find The West Oakland BART Train Shooter? Nearly a month after a man was shot and killed while riding BART, it appears the police are no nearer to finding his killer. Will a cash reward help develop a lead to
SF News Shooting Aboard BART In West Oakland Was Not Random, Suspect Still At Large According to witnesses aboard a BART train headed to San Francisco on Saturday night just before 8 p.m., right before the doors would open at the West Oakland Station, a "disheveled looking
SF News Oakland Gospel Choir Threatened With Nuisance Fee, Daily Fines For Singing Too Loud “The music of the church reveals the life of the church, the enthusiasm of the church,” Michael Wright, an Oakland pastor, tells CBS SF. But that's not how it's seen, or heard, by
SF News Evicted Social Club Snaps Up Gingerbread House Property In Oakland A nonprofit sexy social club evicted from their Mission District space two years ago is doing the quintessential San Francisco thing — moving to Oakland. They've successfully rounded up a team of investors to
SF News BART Police To Seek Attempted Murder Charges For Man Who Allegedly Shot Himself On West Oakland Platform Just witnessed a shooting at West Oakland Bart station. 2 police men. 1 black man. pic.twitter.com/GijZ40ARq3— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja) September 2, 2015 BART police announced Wednesday that they plan on
SF News Man Claims BART Police Shot Him At West Oakland Station Tuesday Night, But Cops Say He Shot Himself He was also tazed. I heard a pop then saw man on ground with 2 cops on him. Man yelled "they shot me.. They shot me" pic.twitter.com/TqLaDMeW4M— Akshay Dodeja (@dodeja)
Arts & Entertainment Oaklanders Break Longest Soul Train Record With 337 Dancers KTVU - Over the weekend and I'm shocked that I somehow didn't hear about this earlier a group of 337 Oaklanders broke the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous soul train. This
SF News 25-Year-Old Injured In West Oakland Collision Awakens From Coma Maggie Lowrie kisses her son Greg Lowrie as he recovers at Highland http://t.co/0QfRF1PsY6 #oakland @daviddebolt pic.twitter.com/BRedthLFni— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) March 21, 2015 Greg Lowrie, the 25-year-old
SF News If You Get In A Vehicle Accident In West Oakland You Will Get Robbed Proving that West Oakland is in fact still a rough place in which you don't want to take any unnecessary pauses, a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck there on Tuesday, and
SF News West Oakland Market Sends Posse Of Goons To Rough Up Thief Who Stole Liquor A tipster sent in this video of a group of men, identified as owners or employees of Ideal Market at 21st and Market Streets in West Oakland, chasing down and roughing up a
SF News Real Estate Investors Target West Oakland For Gentrification As gentrification finger-pointing reaches a fever pitch in the Bay Area, the Wall Street Journal has found a new culprit: real estate investors who are pumping money in spots like West Oakland in
SF News 97-Year-Old West Oakland Church Goes Up In Flames Zion's First Church of God in Christ, which has stood on the same West Oakland corner in different forms for almost 100 years, was largely destroyed in a three-alarm fire Monday afternoon. The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Stanley Roberts Busts West Oakland Poop Vandals Stanley Roberts, the Bay Area's most watchable man-on-the-street reporter and harbinger of bad behavior, may have been sidelined at Bay to Breakers this year, but he's back again with the most sordid sort
SF News 'Mummified Skull' Found In Oakland Recycling Center The remains of a heavily decomposed human head were found among a load of recycling at a West Oakland processing center around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Employees at the California Waste
SF News Two Shot While Driving In West Oakland Monday night, two men were shot to death while driving near the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in West Oakland. The men, ages 19 and 28, had been driving on the 1000
SF News Fire Halts BART Service Between Oakland and S.F. [Updates] A three-alarm fire at a construction site near the West Oakland BART station has shut down the Transbay Tube this morning, completely halting service in both directions between the East Bay and San
SF News 14-Year-Old Oakland Boy Wanted for Pair of Sexual Assaults A 14-year-old boy is wanted for two separate incidents of robbery and sexual assault in West Oakland, one on January 6 and one last Thursday. The first incident occurred in the 1200 block
Arts & Entertainment HBO Helps Spruce Up West Oakland's Central Station for Hemingway Movie Oakland's Central Station was once the western terminus of the Transcontinental Railway, and the Beaux Arts train station that still stands at the end of 16th Street near the 980 freeway has seen
SF News Man Shot Killed While Sitting In Car In West Oakland A little after 10 p.m. last night, a man was fatally shot while sitting in his car parked in the 800 block of 37th Street at West Street. "Police said the car
SF News Two Men Rob, Assault Woman and Her Two Roommates in Oakland News is just coming out of the Oakland PD today about a robbery and triple rape on Saturday night, near the West Oakland BART station. Two men sexually assaulted a young woman just
SF News Sniper Takes Aim at Police in West Oakland We might want to chalk this up to some copycat anti-cop rage following on that major shootout with the CHP on 580, but last night around 11:30 p.m. the Oakland PD
Arts & Entertainment Pics from 'Sand By The Ton' Party, Saturday 7/11 in West Oakland Apparently if you weren't at this enormous grand opening party/fundraiser at the American Steel warehouse in West Oakland on Saturday, then you missed something pretty huge and fun. We, alas, were not,
misc Day Around the Bay -- Fallout from yesterday's tiger-ian death of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. continues. [CBS 5, SFGate, Spotswood, FCJ, SF MetBlog, Peta (cuckoo!)] -- We simply refuse to believe that One Rincon Hill is anything
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
