Beloved Oakland Zoo 50-Year-Old Elephant Dies
Oakland Zoo workers were in mourning Wednesday after a long-time visitor's favorite M'Dunda, the African elephant, collapsed and died inside the facility's elephant habitat.
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Oakland Zoo workers were in mourning Wednesday after a long-time visitor's favorite M'Dunda, the African elephant, collapsed and died inside the facility's elephant habitat.
Former Oakland Coliseum Authority executive director Scott McKibben has been charged with felony conflict of interest for seeking a fee for his role in negotiating the RingCentral naming rights deal, Alameda County prosecutors said.
Fremont police said Tuesday that they believe that the suspect in a hit-and-run collision that killed a 72-year-old woman and her dog on Friday night was driving a light-colored Buick LeSabre from model years 1997 to 1999.
More than 100 large logs, mostly oaks, appeared nearly a year ago on Poplar Street in West Oakland and slowly replaced the crowd of homeless RVs. Neighbors say the logs are not a problem.
A five-time felon was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Berkeley last year.
A lockdown at Coyote Creek Elementary School in San Ramon on Tuesday because of threatening graffiti found in a bathroom has since been lifted, according to a San Ramon Valley Unified School District spokesman.
A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning a few blocks from the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum, according to authorities.
A man was wounded late Monday night after gunfire erupted following a traffic accident on an Oakland street, authorities said.
Deep in East Oakland, two women are serving food to hundreds of people in need each week.
A group of activists called the Housing Justice Village gathered Monday to allow people arrested in a recent homelessness protest to speak about their experiences.
A condemned Fremont home with a collapsing ceiling, mildew and a rotting structure that sold for $1.23 million last year is no more. In its place is a brand new, two-story custom green home that went on the market Thanksgiving Day for $2.88 million.
Monday was the first day back at a Union City Elementary School where two young boys were fatally shot early on a recent Saturday morning as they sat in a van in the school parking lot.
An 86-year-old man in a wheelchair was killed and his wife was injured in a fire at their home in East Oakland early Monday morning, fire officials said.
A 14-year-old and 16-year-old have been arrested for allegedly stealing a female shopper's cell phone and then assaulting her and an off-duty California Highway Patrol officer who came to her aid at Emeryville's Bay Street Mall, authorities said.
A man who police say was attacking his elderly parents with a knife was fatally shot by Concord police officers in the parents' home, authorities said Sunday.
