DA charges driver who struck Oakland officer, motorcycle
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has charged a 28-year-old man arrested this week after injuring an Oakland police officer and damaging her motorcycle while fleeing a traffic stop,...
View ArticleWest Oakland BART station reopens after shooting
OAKLAND — BART reopened its West Oakland station Thursday night after about a half-hour’s closure due to a shooting nearby, authorities said. Shortly after 10:50 p.m., BART issued a statement that the...
View ArticleOpinion: Why four Alameda council members back homeless center
We’ve seen a lot of misinformation and fear-mongering about the proposed Alameda Wellness Center, which is at the center of the city’s April 9 special election. So, we want to set the record straight....
View ArticleFormer East Bay firefighter arrested; suspected of lewd acts on child
A former firefighter in the East Bay is suspected of committing lewd acts upon a child under 14 years old, authorities said. Detectives with the Placer County Sheriff’s Crimes Against Persons Unit...
View ArticleWoman fatally shot outside West Oakland BART station
A woman was shot to death late Thursday night outside the West Oakland BART station, the transit agency said. The shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. in the parking lot on the 7th Street side of the...
View ArticleSondheim’s musical ‘Company’ finds a host in Alameda
The Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” made a splash when it debuted in 1970 with its fragmented structure of vignettes about love and marriage. Nowadays it mostly seems like a very 1970s musical,...
View ArticleNovato man suspected of rape in East Bay hotel
EMERYVILLE — A 55-year-old Novato man has been arrested on suspicion of raping an 18-year-old woman, police said. Officers found Dewayne Crossman at the scene of the assault and booked him into the...
View ArticleIke’s Sandwiches (with boxer Andre Ward) opening Hayward shop
It’s a sandwich pairing, like Godfather Sauce on a Dutch crunch roll. CEO Ike Shehadeh and retired boxing champion Andre Ward will, in partnership, open the next Ike’s Love & Sandwiches location....
View ArticleJose Canseco on new podcast: I turned down Madonna, injected Sasquatch with...
Jose Canseco launched a podcast Wednesday. Sasquatch, you’ve been warned. You, too, dear reader. “This is going to be such a different type of podcast,” Canseco said on the inaugural post of “The Truth...
View ArticleOakland man wounded in daytime shooting near San Leandro border
OAKLAND — A man was shot in East Oakland Friday afternoon and police were searching for the gunman, authorities said. The man was wounded in the upper body at around 12:15 p.m. in the area of 105th...
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Man charged in shooting of 4-year-old boy in Oakland
OAKLAND — A man has been charged in the shooting of a 4-year-old boy who was wounded in the head of a residence in East Oakland. The boy remains in critical condition. Terrence L. Wilson, 37, of...
View ArticleBowling: Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl
Earl Anthony’s Dublin Bowl March 25 K5 Signs & Graphics Monday Madness: James Bowling had a 290 game and a 973 4 game series, 169 pins over average. Trailriders: Tyson Hughes had a 289 game and a...
View ArticleCal hires Mark Fox (well, that was fast … perhaps a little too fast)
Cal spent more time deciding whether to fire Wyking Jones than it did deciding how to replace Wyking Jones. Shouldn’t it have been the other way around? The program was in the gutter and headed...
View ArticleA’s anniversary: The night the baseballs turned orange
On the A’s first Green Friday of the new season we look way back to when their eccentric owner turned a night in the desert to orange. Today In 1973: Oakland A’s owner Charles O. Finley's orange...
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A home run? Not quite. Lots of hurdles before the A’s new ballpark rises at...
Click HERE if you’re unable to view the photos or video on a mobile device. OAKLAND — There is no Coliseum BART train, no walkway over Damon Slough, no parking or tailgating in A Lot or B Lot. The new...
View ArticleMan shot, killed in East Oakland; second man wounded in unrelated shooting
OAKLAND — A 25-year-old San Leandro man was shot in East Oakland Saturday morning and later died from his wounds, police said. The man’s name is not being released, pending notification of next-of-kin....
View ArticleLetter: Declawed cats cry in pain all night at the vet clinic I worked at
Declawed cats cry in painthrough the night at vet’s Re: “Clawed cats are put down for causing extreme harm” (Letter to the editor, March 8): This torture needs to stop. I worked at a veterinary clinic...
View ArticleIn rebuke of feds, judge frees East Bay man once accused of terrorism
SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, a federal judge ruled that the Department of Justice had failed to prove something it insisted for years was true: that a Fremont man tried to travel to Syria in 2015, to...
View ArticleDriver hits East Bay deputies’ patrol cars, police say
SAN LEANDRO — A man led police on a chase onto the freeway, then struck a patrol car head-on early Saturday morning, according to a statement released by the Alameda County Sheriff’s office. Police say...
View ArticlePark It: Scottish Fair returning to Fremont’s Ardenwood
The pipes are calling, and Scots will gather April 6 at Ardenwood Historic Farm in Fremont for the annual Tartan Day Scottish Fair. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., it’s a full day of celebrating things...
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