A's Take Advantage Of Sloppy Tampa Bay Rays For 3-2 Win
Brandon Moss hit a solo homer for Oakland's only hit and the Athletics took advantage of the sloppy Tampa Bay Rays for a 3-2 victory Wednesday night.
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Brandon Moss hit a solo homer for Oakland's only hit and the Athletics took advantage of the sloppy Tampa Bay Rays for a 3-2 victory Wednesday night.
A Bay Point tree trimmer could be facing federal charges for trimming trees outside a downtown Oakland post office earlier this month where protected birds were nesting, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigator said Wednesday.
AC Transit's chief financial officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four felony counts of grand theft for allegedly taking more than $500,000 from one of Oakland's largest and most prominent churches.
Drew Pomeranz won his third consecutive start since moving from the bullpen into the rotation, Coco Crisp drove in two runs before departing with an injury, and the surging Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-0 on Tuesday night.
The Oakland Raiders opened their doors Tuesday to a young, multi-talented genius. He is not their latest draft pick, but an Ivy League-bound teenager who has taken the country by storm with his academic success.
Enticed with better benefits, police departments across the Bay Area are luring Oakland officers fed up with high crime and low morale.
A proposal to build two residential towers on the Oakland waterfront at Jack London Square is drawing the ire of some Oakland residents.
A truck plows into a power pole at the Port of Oakland near 7th and Maritime Streets.
A man was fatally shot Monday night while he was sitting in a car in East Oakland, police said.
Alameda County auditor-controller candidate Kathleen Knox, who faces six felony counts for allegedly lying about where she lives, has withdrawn from the race.
An increase in price during peak morning commute hours doesn't appear to be stopping people from crossing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
The California Highway Patrol's Oakland division says a small cat was spotted jumping into the wheel well of a car that was topped in traffic Monday morning.
Successful gang interventions and an improving economy are among changes Oakland city officials are attributing for a dip in violent crime.
An 8-year-old girl is in critical condition after being struck in the neck by a stray bullet during a drive-by shooting outside her Oakland home on Friday.
In the inner city, a health problem is making it harder for young people to learn. The Centers for Disease Control said 30 percent of inner-city kids suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a medical condition that some observers outside the urban core have taken to calling "hood disease."
A girl and an adult male were shot Friday evening in Oakland, according to police.
After receiving death threats, a Bay Area tree trimmer who was blamed for harming birds during a trimming job in Oakland is trying to smooth ruffled feathers.
The historic California Hotel in West Oakland has officially reopened for business, following a three-year renovation.
A new concern has arisen with some of the bolts used on the new $6.5 billion eastern span of the Bay Bridge. There is now an alignment problem with some of the bolts that attach the main cable on the east side to the deck of the span.
The city hopes to fix thousands of potholes over the next several weeks, part of an annual blitz to fix the streets of Oakland.
Fast-food workers throughout Oakland are walking off the job and joining in on a worldwide campaign Thursday to ask for higher pay and the right to form a union.
The FBI agent who fatally shot the friend of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect in Florida last year had a brief and rocky history at the Oakland Police Department, according to a Boston Globe report.
Bay Area fast food workers planned to participate in a nationwide strike Thursday to protest low wages.
The Bay Area saw record high temperatures in several places Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown San Francisco saw temperatures reach 88 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 87 degrees set in 1922.
Whent was named interim chief last May and has been seen as one of the leading candidates to head the department.
