Suspect Sketch Released In Attempted Kidnap Near Fruitvale BART Station
Oakland police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a 25-year-old woman near the Fruitvale BART station last month.
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Oakland police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a 25-year-old woman near the Fruitvale BART station last month.
California Governor Jerry Brown said Oakland will have to "solve its own problems," during a news conference in San Francisco Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Oakland City Hall on Tuesday night as dozens of people spoke out against a controversial plan to bring a former Los Angeles and New York police chief in to advise Oakland's Police Department.
Employees who work at the flood-damaged Oakland Unified School District administration building are expected to not be able to return to the space until later this spring, a district spokesman said.
The Oakland Museum of California released photos Wednesday of an 19th century artifact stolen from the museum last week in the hope of recovering it.
A San Francisco man suspected of abducting and sexually assaulting a 16-year-old at-risk girl who walked away from an Oakland group home in November has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and rape charges.
The department has lost 16 officers since the beginning of December, with many retiring and others by disability.
Occupy Oakland protesters are suing the city and Alameda County, saying arrests last year violated their civil rights.
The family of a Oakland teenage girl shot and killed last summer is taking issue with police who blamed the city's rising violence on her murder and are calling it defamation of character.
Oakland City Council's Finance Committee approved funding to rebuild the police department by unanimous vote on Tuesday. The three-step plan now goes to a vote before city council.
In an interview with CBS 5, William Bratton talked about his crime fighting strategy and his support of the practice called "stop-and-frisk."
Authorities in Oakland held a news conference Monday to discuss the alarming wave of shootings in the city over the weekend that killed four and wounded 11 more.
CBS 5 has learned that 3 more people were shot in Oakland. It is unclear whether this latest spate of gun violence is related to 4 fatal shootings Friday.
The number of homicides in Oakland for 2013 more than doubled Friday. Police have linked the string of murders to several rival groups
The shootings spanned different neighborhoods in Oakland, from West Oakland to deep East Oakland and all took place within a span of about six hours starting Friday afternoon.
An inmate who escaped from Santa Rita Jail Friday morning while being transported to a hospital was an Oakland man in custody on multiple robbery charges, an Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman said.
Oakland police said they detained seven suspected gang members Friday morning when they served multiple search warrants for suspects in a variety of violent crimes.
A KTVU news van parked in West Oakland was robbed Thursday, while a reporter and photographer were on assignment, the latest victims of a string of crimes against news outlets in the Bay Area.
The families of two of seven victims of a shooting rampage at an Oakland Christian university have filed wrongful-death suits against the school.
A suspect who was barricaded inside an East Oakland apartment Thursday morning has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, an Alameda County sheriff's sergeant said.
Police have given the all-clear after a bomb threat forced the evacuation of dozens of people at the Cerebral Palsy Center for the Bay Area in Oakland Thursday morning, police said.
An Oakland man was ordered to stand trial Wednesday on a charge that he murdered a man who allegedly was stalking his sister.
Police were investigating a shooting Friday afternoon that left a victim dead in North Oakland.
Officials said what they're describing as a "valuable artifact" has been stolen in a break-in from the Oakland Museum of California.
A boy who was fatally shot in East Oakland on Monday afternoon was identified by police Tuesday as 17-year-old Tyronta Mickens.
