Oakland Mayor's Newsletter Includes Promotion For Lock-Picking Class
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan surprised residents with a recent newsletter, including a promotion for a class on how to pick locks.
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Oakland Mayor Jean Quan surprised residents with a recent newsletter, including a promotion for a class on how to pick locks.
In multiple online postings, the man accused of killing three people, including aspiring rapper Kenneth Cherry Jr., boasts of a high-rolling lifestyle of luxury cars, prostitutes and boat trips with scantily clad women.
The U.S. State Department officially confirmed Wednesday that the Oakland couple missing in Peru on a bike trip has been found safe and sound.
A 22-year-old Miami woman with a history of prostitution arrests was identified Tuesday as a person of interest in a Las Vegas Strip shooting that triggered a spectacular fiery crash and left three people dead.
An Oakland couple missing on a bike trip in Peru may have been found safe, according to a family member.
A SWAT team surrounded a home in East Oakland overnight after a shooting in another part of the city on Monday afternoon, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Oakland's crime problems have gotten so bad that some people aren't even bothering to call the cops anymore. Instead, they're trying to solve and prevent crimes themselves.
Family members and friends are worried about an Oakland couple who appear to have disappeared during a bike trip in South America last month.
An Oakland man wrongfully convicted of a 2006 shooting says he's not bitter and wants to work with troubled youth
Police say they have a warrant for the arrest of a 26-year-old ex-convict identified as the prime suspect in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three last week on the Las Vegas Strip.
Deputies used a Taser to subdue a man who was armed with a knife in the lobby of Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland Monday morning, authorities said.
Police in Oakland were investigating what led to a male being found dead in the Oakland Estuary Sunday afternoon.
Four teens had had just gotten off an AC Transit bus at 55th Ave and International Blvd. around 12:45 a.m. when they started shooting at the bus as it pulled away.
An off-duty San Jose police sergeant aboard a BART train with his fiance to get their marriage license detained an Oakland woman for allegedly trying to rob passengers, San Jose police said.
As investigators Friday tried to find the gunman in a black Range Rover SUV who triggered the shocking chain of events, families and friends tried to grasp the blink-of-an-eye finality of it all.
An Oakland man wept in court Friday after a judge dismissed his attempted murder conviction for a 2006 shooting he had no involvement in.
A suspect who was yelling that he was armed with a firearm has surrendered to officers in West Oakland after a brief standoff Friday afternoon, police said.
Sources have confirmed with the CBS station in Las Vegas that a man who was shot to death while driving his Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip was an aspiring rapper from Oakland.
A man is being treated at a hospital for life-threatening injuries after being shot during an apparent home-invasion robbery in East Oakland this morning, according to police.
The hiring of the additional officers comes after many area police departments, including Oakland and San Jose, lost nearly 1,000 officers when the economy began to decline about five years ago.
The Oakland City Council approved spending $162,000 for two more months of the extra patrols.
The crime problem facing Oakland has crept into Mayor Jean Quan's own backyard. Neighbors told KPIX 5 they are frustrated and plan to hire a private guard to improve security.
One victim was injured in a shooting on Fruitvale Avenue in East Oakland early Tuesday morning, according to police.
Bicycle thefts have risen to epidemic levels in much of the Bay Area. With thefts on the rise, cyclists are banding together to get their rides back.
A Bay Area man arrested in an FBI terrorism sting after he allegedly tried to blow up an Oakland bank with an inoperative bomb may need a mental health evaluation, his defense lawyer said Thursday.
