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Patch.com
April 28, 2018
Standoff; Waitresses Robbed: Oakland, East Bay Police Log. Suspected Golden ... EAST BAY, CA – The following is this week's collection of weekly police, court and fire stories from around the East Bay. ... Decades after the serial killer and rapist terrorized California, police say he's in custody. He was inÃâà...
Patch.com
April 28, 2018
OAKLAND, CA – Port of Oakland commissioners on Thursday approved a one-year agreement for exclusive negotiations with the Oakland A's baseball team about the Howard Terminal site as the possible location for a new ballpark, port officials said today. The waterfront Howard Terminal, locatedÃâà...
Patch.com
April 28, 2018
OAKLAND,CA – Three critically ill, orphaned mountain lion cubs have come roaring, or at least purring, back to health and are thriving in their new ... The people who found Coloma in December contacted Sierra Wildlife Rescue workers, who in turn contacted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Patch.com
April 27, 2018
PIEDMONT, CA — A Union Pacific locomotive collided with a man on a motorcycle in East Oakland this afternoon, a railroad spokesman said. The collision occurred near 99th Avenue, along Union Pacific's Niles Subdivision, at about 2:10 p.m., according to Union Pacific spokesman Justin Jacobs.
San Francisco Chronicle
April 27, 2018
A's starter Daniel Mengden pitches in 2nd inning against San Francisco Giants during Bay Bridge Series game at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., ... OAKLAND, CA - APRIL 05: Daniel Mengden #33 of the Oakland Athletics pitches against the Texas Rangers during the first inning at the OaklandÃâà...
Patch.com
April 26, 2018
OAKLAND, CA — Oakland police today released the names of three people who recently were fatally shot in their city. A man who was fatally shot while he was riding his motorcycle on 42nd Avenue near the High Street exit off Interstate Highway 880 at about 1 a.m. on April 14 has been identified as CarlosÃâà...
Patch.com
April 25, 2018
EAST BAY AREA — Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Albany and two municipal districts in the East Bay have been fined almost $400,000 for allowing untreated sewage to enter the Bay, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said today. The East Bay Municipal Utility District and the Stege SanitaryÃâà...
KHON2
April 13, 2018
HONOLULU (KHON2) - Guests aboard Hawaiian Airlines flights from Oakland, California to Honolulu and Maui received special treatment Thursday. That's because the carrier celebrated its 10-year anniversary of service between Oakland and the Hawaiian islands. In the past decade, more than 1.5 millionÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? Here's the sign-up.) The Oakland Cannery is just the type of place that the city likes to promote as its heart and soul. The former Del Monte fruit processing facility has for several decades served as a live/work space for painters, musicians, fashionÃâà...
Patch.com
March 27, 2018
"If consummated, our offer would end the long-standing cash drain from the city and county's general funds caused by ownership of the Coliseum, and ensure that the A's possess one assured route to a new privately financed stadium in Oakland," he wrote. Kaval wrote that the team is still looking into theÃâà...
KQED
March 25, 2018
At the Oakland march, which began at 10:00 a.m. this morning, demonstrators in Frank Ogawa Plaza sang, clapped and chanted as speakers called for a "culture of kindness and resistance." Clip Petty, 13, holds a sign at a March for Our Lives protest in Oakland, CA. Petty is a student at Albany MiddleÃâà...
Patch.com
March 22, 2018
OAKLAND, CA — Fremont High School in Oakland was on lockdown Wednesday morning after a student brought a loaded gun to campus, but everyone on the campus is safe, according to the Oakland Unified School District. A student was called to the administration office for an unrelated discussion,Ãâà...
KGO-TV
March 21, 2018
Oakland Unified Schools spokesman John Sasaki told us a student was brought into the office this morning on an unrelated issue with administrators and a school resource officer present. "The student started acting somewhat suspiciously. The police officer asked if the student has any weapons andÃâà...
East Bay Times
March 19, 2018
The state delivered to the California Highway Patrol's Santa Ana, CA, office a new patrol car, a 2016 Dodge Charger Pursuit, on Monday, March 20, 2017. (Photo by KEN ... OAKLAND — California Highway Patrol officers responded to the scene of a possible vehicle collision, authorities said Sunday.
Los Angeles Times
March 19, 2018
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf stirred a national backlash, but also seemed to secure her reelection, by tipping off the community to an immigration raid. ... "In California, being the mayor that stood up to Donald Trump is as good as it gets," said Jim Ross, a Democratic campaign consultant who lives inÃâà...
EdSource
March 14, 2018
From Oakland to San Diego, California students demand gun control and safe schools ... Students at Oakland Technical High School in Oakland, Calif. ... Still, demonstration co-organizer Rhea Calva-Despard said no student in California or across the nation can really feel secure from violence unless newÃâà...
Patch.com
March 14, 2018
OAKLAND, CA — One month after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 people dead, students in Oakland will walk out of class as part of a nationwide effort to push lawmakers to come up with "common sense gun control laws" and to remember the victims. Thousands ofÃâà...
The Hill
March 14, 2018
Newsom on Tuesday tweeted a cartoon video of President Trump saying the president "has finally worked up the nerve to come to California and visit his ... The administration cracked down on the resistance to ICE this week, when the mayor of Oakland, Calif., warned her residents of a coming federalÃâà...
CNN
March 13, 2018
ICE released a press release on February 27 about the operations in Northern California in which Homan stated that "864 criminal aliens and public ... "Director Homan and the Attorney General said there were 800 people at large and free to roam because of the actions of the Oakland mayor," he told CNN.
East Bay Times
March 13, 2018
OAKLAND — Officers were responding to a report of an shooting in downtown Oakland, authorities said Monday. That shooting was reported just before 10 p.m. in the 1300 block of Broadway, an Oakland police officer said. On social media posts, officers could be seen taping off nearby streets. No wordÃâà...
KGO-TV
March 13, 2018
This undated image shows a sign at the Oakland Police Department in Oakland, Calif. (KGO-TV). Bay City News. Monday, March 12, 2018 10:13AM. OAKLAND, Calif. --. Oakland police shot and killed a man near the MacArthur BART station on Sunday night, police confirmed early this morning. Oakland fire officials came toÃâà...
West Virginia MetroNews
March 8, 2018
Every well-conceived criminal activity needs a lookout or a mole, someone with inside information who can help the criminals know what the police are up to. People in the country illegally who live in and around Oakland, California have a highly-placed lookout in Libby Schaaf. She's in a good position toÃâà...
Patch.com
March 4, 2018
Four suspects were involved in the assault that was reported at 7:55 p.m. in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard. By Patch California, News Partner | Mar 4, 2018 9:20 am ET. 0. Person Cut In Face In Oakland. OAKLAND, CA -- A person suffered a large cut to his face in an assault Friday evening in Oakland, police said.
Earthquake Report
March 3, 2018
Berkeley CA - Low rumble, just enough to wake me up around 3 am. No damage, no visible shaking, husband felt it too. Berkeley - Was just a quick rattle. I happened to be awake. My girlfriend slept through it. Oakland - Around 3am I heard a loud crash sound. I have not yet investigated any damage.
PEOPLE.com
March 2, 2018
Over 230 people have been arrested in a recent immigration sweep in Northern California. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf sent out a tweet last Saturday, Feb. 27, warning the community of raids, which helped hundreds of undocumented immigrants to elude capture, according to authorities. In her tweet, sheÃâà...
Patch.com
March 2, 2018
OAKLAND, CA — California Highway Patrol officers pursued a suspect from Merced to Oakland on Wednesday night but the suspect ultimately got away and is still at large, a CHP spokesman said. At 6:40 p.m. Wednesday, Merced police asked the CHP for assistance in pursuing a vehicle that allegedlyÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 2, 2018
Among those at large are Oakland residents with multiple prior removals, said James Schwab, a spokesman for ICE in San Francisco, a field office that spans 49 counties from Bakersfield to the Oregon border. They include someone convicted of carrying a loaded firearm and selling drugs, and oneÃâà...
Patch.com
March 1, 2018
OAKLAND, CA — Twenty-two California hospitals received Healthgrades' "America's Best Hospitals Award" for 2018. Ten hospitals that received the award were in the top 1 percent of hospitals in the country and the others were in the top 2 percent of hospitals in the country. Among the recipients - KaiserÃâà...
Patch.com
February 28, 2018
OAKLAND, CA —Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf defended her actions regarding an announcement she made over the weekend, warning residents of an ... ICE officials confirmed that agents did in fact begin conducting an operation in Northern California Sunday, in which 150 undocumented immigrantsÃâà...
CNN
February 28, 2018
President Donald Trump's administration has stepped up enforcement of immigration laws in California as an effort to pressure sanctuary cities. A California law that bars state and local law enforcement agencies from using their resources to assist federal immigration authorities, went into effect this year.
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND, CA — Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker said Tuesday that she and Centro Legal de la Raza have filed suit against a landlord who they allege attempted to illegally increase his tenant's rent by pretending he had moved into the downstairs unit of a duplex. Parker said such schemes haveÃâà...
KGO-TV
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) --. A man who was just trying to do a good deed used a knife to stab his would-be robber in the Oakland Hills. Oakland police say it happened on Skyline Boulevard and Joaquin Miller Road around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. RELATED: Chase suspect dances on the freeway in front ofÃâà...
KGO-TV
December 31, 1999
During a press conference at City Hall, the mayor of Oakland said, "It was not my intention to get caught up in a national debate." (KGO-TV). KGO ... Attorney General Jeff Sessions wasted no time slamming Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf during a California Peace Officer's Association event in Sacramento.
East Bay Times
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND — Police officers are not welcome as customers at one East Oakland cafe, according to a report by local television station. A post to that cafe's Instagram account Feb. 22 showed a crossed-out Oakland police seal and badge below the words “Habla con tu vecinxs no con la policia.” The postÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
"Contrary to what you may hear from open-borders radicals, we are not asking California, Oakland or anyone else to actively, effectively enforce ... California Democratic leaders and the state's top law enforcement officer responded with war talk of their own, describing Sessions' actions as unprecedented.
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND, CA — A federal grand jury has indicted six Oakland residents for various drug related crimes, acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse announced Thursday. Timothy Crawford, 55, Alan Johnson, 40, Ridell Lambert, 30, Wilmon Ingram, 40, Karlos Ely, 52 and Keith Woodson, 34, were all indictedÃâà...
Politico
December 31, 1999
“I have full faith that my Southern California Latino community will give Trump's border wall hallucination tour exactly the respect it deserves: Nada, nunca, ... Advance reports of the raids prompted mayors like Oakland's Libby Schaaf to push back against the administration by announcing the ICE strategy inÃâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
NAPA, CA -- A Napa man who was detained by immigration officers was just one out of 11 people reportedly in custody following a weekend sweep in Northern ... The raid for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally came after Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf posted a rare warning on Facebook on Saturday.
MovieWeb
December 31, 1999
In an example of life imitating art, Disney has pledged to donate $1 million to the Boys and Girls Club of America to help fund a STEM center in Oakland, California, just like the end of Black Panther. Wakanda is the most technologically advanced fictitious country in the world and after being isolated forÃâà...
Smart Cities Dive
December 31, 1999
The Hive Parking Structure, a fully-automated parking garage, opened Monday in Oakland, CA. ... While this may be the first fully automated parking garage in Northern California, it is not the first in the nation nor in the world, although this latest opening represents the latest expansion of the technology.
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND, CA — Home builder, philanthropist, former NFL and MLB team owner, husband and father. Ken Hofmann died Sunday at the age of 95, the Oakland A's announced Monday. Hofmann and Stephen Schott purchased the A's in 1995 and sold them a decade later. Their goal was to save the teamÃâà...
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