Aspiring Oakland Rapper, Alleged Pimp Killed In Las Vegas Shooting
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.
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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.
A federal magistrate in San Francisco Thursday dismissed a lawsuit in which the city of Oakland was seeking to block a U.S. government bid to forfeit the property rented by California's largest medical marijuana dispensary.
Four Oakland teenagers, several of whom are believed to be cousins, were killed in a car accident in Kern County Monday afternoon, local authorities said Tuesday.
Firefighters quickly doused 2 separate one-alarm fires in Oakland Saturday.
A San Jose man who purportedly wanted to spark a civil war in the U.S. was arrested by federal agents Friday after he allegedly attempted to detonate a car bomb at a bank in Oakland, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Three center lanes of westbound Interstate Highway 80 were blocked following a motorcycle collision on the San Francisco-Bay Bridge Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
An Oakland drug dealer who claimed that he was acting in self-defense was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a friend the friend's home in West Oakland in September 2011.
The Alameda County District Attorney's Office didn't file any charges against 19-year-old Donald Parks Jr. for the shooting of 18-year-old Kiante Campbell of Oakland.
A woman who was killed in a car crash in East Oakland late Monday morning had stolen the car she was traveling in from a nearby repair shop a few moments earlier, police said Tuesday.
It's been called the step-child of the mighty Bay Bridge: the East Bay span sees no crowds of tourists taking snapshots, but they may remember the segment that failed.
Police were investigating a shooting that killed one person and left another injured late Friday night in the vicinity of the Oakland Art Murmur gallery walk, according to Oakland police.
Reduced parking fees are being offered as part of a pilot program to draw business to Oakland's Chinatown district just in time for the Lunar New Year, which begins Feb. 10.
Police chief Howard Jordan disputed an account in a court-appointed monitor's report that described two Oakland officers pointing their loaded weapons at a sleeping toddler, while serving a search warrant.
An Amber Alert issued early Friday morning has been canceled after investigators determined that a child abduction reported in East Oakland did not happen, police said.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan on Friday hailed her city's first step in issuing municipal identification cards as an important step in "fighting for more equity and justice in our country and having a more perfect union."
The doors of what's considered the world's largest medical marijuana dispensary remain open, as lawsuits over its future continue in a federal court.
