UPDATE: Oakland Police Chief Hopeful Violence Starting to Trend Down in City
Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is hopeful that violence in Oakland is trending down, he said at a news conference Monday afternoon.
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Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is hopeful that violence in Oakland is trending down, he said at a news conference Monday afternoon.
Gregory TaylorBowie was being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of carjacking the vehicle used in robberies of four UPS employees over three days in December.
Citing concerns about the omicron variant, Contra Costa County officials are requiring first responders and employees at homeless shelters to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster or to undergo weekly testing.
One person has reportedly been shot Sunday evening along Highway 4 near the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station.
Two California Highway Patrol officers suffered minor injuries early Sunday when they were struck by a fleeing suspect's vehicle during a traffic stop in Bay Point.
An Oakland man was shot to death Christmas Eve on a Lakeshore Ave. cul-de-sac next to Lake Merritt where a woman had been previously been fatally shot and seven other people have been wounded.
On what police described as a "violent Friday," an Oakland police officer discharged his firearm when responding to a call regarding an armed suspect but the suspect was not struck and no one was injured, police said.
One of the most in demand Christmas gifts this year just might be a rapid COVID test as new cases of the omicron variant surge across the San Francisco Bay Area.
After coming into contact with an aide who tested positive for COVID-19, Vice President Kamala Harris tested negative Friday, her office said.
A shooting on Interstate 680 in Danville late Thursday night left one person critically injured and shut down all northbound lanes for several hours during the investigation.
Amid a continuing debate over the role and size of urban police departments, 10 years of Oakland police data show that shootings and homicides declined in number as the city's police force grew.
Despite a three-hour effort to rescue her and her vehicle, a woman died after driving off a pier into the Martinez Marina Thursday night.
California Highway Patrol officers scrambled early Thursday, responding to more than two dozen crashes as a potent weather system moved through the San Francisco Bay Area, triggering intense downpours and creating treacherous driving conditions.
A fallen tree is blocking all lanes of northbound state Highway 13 in Oakland on Thursday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
