A 19-year-old man was fatally shot a couple hours before dawn Monday in East Oakland, marking the city’s first homicide of 2024. The killing punctuated a violent start to the …
Cities and counties can’t outlaw cruising anymore. Cops can’t pull you over just because your registration tag is past due. Officers now have more legal means to go after thieves …
The fatal shooting of an Oakland police officer responding to a burglary at a cannabis shop brought renewed calls Saturday for the city to confront a plague of violent robberies …
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has rejected all finalists for the city’s police chief job, leaving the vacant position in limbo again, nearly a year after she placed the last permanent …
FREMONT — A man once convicted of attempted murder as a juvenile was charged Friday with murder and other crimes in a Tuesday night fatal shooting at an apartment complex …
A Hindu temple in Newark was found vandalized with graffiti on Friday morning, in what authorities are investigating as a potential hate crime. The defacement of the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir …
Just two days after 23-month-old Kristofer Ferreyra died of a suspected fentanyl overdose, an Alameda County social worker recommended keeping his three young siblings in the care of his mother, …
A grand jury in Oregon indicted an East Bay pilot for Alaska Airlines on charges of endangering an aircraft and recklessly endangering others during an October flight when he allegedly …
By David Voreacos | Bloomberg Two Jewish groups sued the University of California at Berkeley and its law school over the “longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism” they say has escalated …
Three people died at BART stations on Wednesday night, authorities reported Thursday. Two of the cases were suspected to have been related to fentanyl/other drugs, given that Narcan — a …