Power Restored After Seagull Hits Line, Knocks Out Power In Oakland
Power has been restored to all customers after a seagull flew into a power line near Oakland's Jack London Square Tuesday morning.
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Power has been restored to all customers after a seagull flew into a power line near Oakland's Jack London Square Tuesday morning.
A memorial service was held Tuesday for Alaysha Carradine, an 8-year-old girl who was fatally shot while she was at a friend's house in East Oakland for a sleepover earlier this month.
A proposal to ban hammers, wrenches, shields, sling shots, paint projectiles and other potentially destructive items at protests will be considered by the Oakland City Council at its meeting on Tuesday night.
Oakland city leaders joined residents in calling for the police and the mayor to provide more protection after the recent high-profile shooting deaths of a popular dog walker and a young girl attending a sleepover.
66-year-old Judy Salamon was shot and killed while she was driving a few blocks from her home on Fern Street in the Fairfax neighborhood. Police said shots were fired into her car around 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon, sending it rolling down a hill and crashing into a parked vehicle.
Police were reviewing surveillance video on Thursday while investigating the fatal shooting of a 66-year-old woman as she was driving a few blocks from her home in a quiet Oakland neighborhood.
An Oakland man was arrested in connection with a shooting in San Francisco's Bayview District on Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday.
An elderly woman was shot and killed while driving through East Oakland this afternoon, a police officer said.
San Francisco State University Professor and political analyst Joe Tuman announced Wednesday that he will run for mayor of Oakland for a second time in 2014.
A man crashed into a house in Oakland's Chinatown neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, prompting a gas leak and evacuations, a fire captain said.
Oakland Interim Police Chief Sean Whent said the department made mistakes in the handling of the initial protest the night of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial.
Three-year-old Simon has won approval from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to breed, and two new females have been brought in to meet with him and hopefully mate, according to zoo officials.
The BLM will hold a public workshop to solicit ideas on how to protect wild horses from excessive heat at a major holding facility in response to criticism from an Oakland-based advocacy group.
Hundreds fanned out in the streets of Oakland Friday night demanding justice for Trayvon Martin, but much of the talk on the streets was about the need for peaceful protest.
An 8-year-old girl on a sleepover at a friend's apartment was killed and two other children and an adult injured Wednesday night when someone fired shots into the East Oakland apartment, according to authorities.
Longshoremen returning to work Thursday at the Port of Oakland were met by a large back-up of trucks unable to deliver goods when the docks closed earlier in the week because a worker died on the job.
The Oakland Police Department released photos and video surveillance footage of individuals responsible for acts of vandalism in Oakland during protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case in Florida.
Oakland police Chief Sean Whent and Mayor Jean Quan pledged Wednesday that police will change their tactics in future protests to try to prevent the acts of violence that occurred in protests on recent nights.
A waiter at a Downtown Oakland restaurant who was assaulted when Monday's protest over the Trayvon Martin case turned violent spoke to KPIX 5 about the attack.
The Port of Oakland was effectively shut down Wednesday morning after a number of longshore workers skipped worked because of the death of a worker at the port on Tuesday.
Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent said Tuesday that Monday night's protest against the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case spiraled out of control because a small group of violent people were involved.
The maternal grandfather of missing 21-month-old girl Daphne Viola Webb announced Tuesday that her family has set up a website to serve as a central information hub in the search for Daphne.
One of several downtown buildings hit by vandals during Monday night's protests in Oakland was Youth Radio, a non-profit that covers issues important to young people in the area.
Several people were arrested in Oakland overnight as demonstrators took to the streets for a third night to protest George Zimmerman's Florida acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
