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Employees arriving for work at the Oakland Unified School District's administration building Tuesday morning discovered that the building had been flooded overnight, a school district spokesman said.
Police have released photos of two suspects in the latest robbery at an Oakland bank branch that was robbed twice in December.
Getting rid of open-air drug sales will reduce violence—particularly in Oakland, which recently hired a consultant known for adopting that tactic as New York City's top cop, a University of California at Berkeley law professor said Monday.
Police arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder and arson Monday night in Oakland after he allegedly threw a flammable liquid on a woman and set her on fire Sunday afternoon in San Francisco's Bayview district.
Video of a mysterious object exploding in the sky above Sacramento baffled astronomers over the holidays. While some speculated the object was a UFO, weather experts said there is a down-to-earth explanation behind the blast.
A medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the nation's largest has won another round in its fight to stay open amid a federal crackdown.
There was a changing of the guard at the Oakland City Council Monday with three new members being sworn in and Councilwoman Pat Kernighan being elected as the council's new president.
An Oakland man was sentenced today to 15 years and 8 months in state prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction for fatally shooting an Antioch man in a scuffle near a taco truck in East Oakland in 2010.
One person was shot and killed in East Oakland Monday afternoon, the city's first homicide of 2013, according to police.
A man accused of killing seven people at a small California Christian college has been deemed mentally unfit for trial.
A hardline stance by the federal government on medical marijuana dispensaries and the reluctance of landlords to rent out their space is being blamed for a delay in the opening of new dispensaries in Oakland.
When Oakland begins issuing municipal identification cards on Feb. 1 it will help residents without legal immigration status and also help fight crime, Mayor Jean Quan and Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente said Wednesday.
A body was spotted floating in the water Saturday morning near Oakland's Jack London Square.
A man and a girl were injured in two separate shootings in Oakland late Friday night.
Three people were killed in two separate incidents in Oakland overnight, police said.
The driver of a BMW M6 is in custody on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and evading arrest following a police chase that ended in a crash that killed a woman in East Oakland late Thursday night, authorities said.
Besieged by spikes in murders and violent crime, Oakland city officials said Thursday they have hired former New York City police commissioner and Los Angeles police chief Bill Bratton as a consultant.
At least two separate shootings were reported in East Oakland Thursday afternoon, including one where a man was hit by gunfire, Oakland police said.
The Alameda County sheriff's bomb squad has safely removed old explosives that a resident had stored at his home in the 900 block of 37th Street near West Oakland, sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J. D. Nelson said.
A man killed in a shooting in West Oakland on Christmas Day was identified by police Wednesday as 32-year-old Ronald Lewis.
Oakland police say an attacker began shooting outside a church on Christmas Eve, wounding a parishioner and a teenager.
No apparel is Raider worthy if isn't emblazoned with silver and black.
Christmas came early for the Oakland Zoo this year in the form of an anonymous $1 million check.
A lockdown at an Oakland elementary school was lifted Friday morning after police determined there was not a threat from a caller who said a shooting was going to happen, a school district spokesman said.
A man was injured in a shooting by a known suspect in West Oakland Thursday night, according to police.
