Phil Matier: Poll Shows Low Approval Rating For Oakland Mayor Quan
A new poll finds that three out of four Oakland voters think Mayor Jean Quan is doing a poor or only fair job. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they want her to be recalled.
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A new poll finds that three out of four Oakland voters think Mayor Jean Quan is doing a poor or only fair job. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they want her to be recalled.
A man was shot while sitting in his parked car near a 7-Eleven store in Oakland early Monday morning, a police officer said.
The unlikely comeback began rather innocently, with a pair of hits that didn't make it out of the infield.
A cab driver was robbed at gunpoint and forced into the truck of his cab in Antioch late Thursday night and driven to Oakland where he was released unharmed, Antioch police said.
Occupy Oakland members are calling for a general strike on Tuesday—May Day—as a show of unity between union and non-union workers.
Several people were arrested and thousands of marijuana plants were seized in a massive drug raid Wednesday night at a warehouse in East Oakland, authorities said.
A man was shot dead on an Oakland street early Wednesday morning, according to Oakland Police.
A woman was stabbed by her son in her Oakland home early Wednesday morning. Police responded to reports of a stabbing in the 1000 block of 53rd Street at 4:40 a.m., police said.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the move comes after residents in the wealthier Oakland hills complained about a lack of officers in their neighborhoods, which have seen an uptick in burglaries.
A one-alarm fire caused at least $100,000 in damage to a two-story apartment building in West Oakland Tuesday morning. As firefighters were at the scene of the blaze, a shooting occurred nearby, sending a man to the hospital.
Three people were found shot and wounded in East Oakland on Monday night, an Oakland police officer said.
The man accused of killing seven people and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at Oakland's Oikos University earlier this month is refusing to eat and has been placed in a jail infirmary, an Alameda County sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
The Oakland Police Department is changing its crowd management policies after it received more than a thousand complaints stemming from scuffles during last year's Occupy protests.
Several Bay Area cities have a free or low-cost program to pick up large items such as mattresses, couches or appliances. Customers simply need to schedule a pickup a week in advance in most cases.
Oakland's Oikos University was scheduled to restart classes Monday following a shooting on campus that left seven students dead and three others injured.
Seth Smith hit a two-run homer, helping Tyson Ross get his first win in nearly a year as the Oakland Athletics avoided a series sweep with a 5-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Sunday.
The board that oversees the Oakland Coliseum complex has voted by a narrow 4-3 margin to enter into negotiations with Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company AEG to run the complex for the next five years.
One person was killed in a shooting in East Oakland early Saturday morning, an Oakland police officer said.
Since 2007, the VA has experienced a 35 percent increase in the number of veterans receiving mental health services.
A man who was fatally shot while pushing his 1-year-old son in a toy stroller at a housing project in East Oakland on Wednesday afternoon was identified by police today as 24-year-old Tyrell Omar Smith.
A car plunged off an embankment on eastbound Interstate Highway 580 Thursday morning just east of state Highway 13 in Oakland, officials said.
A youth basketball game in the East Bay last weekend turned violent when a teenage player was punched by an adult, possibly a coach.
Hollywood filmmakers plan to bring the shooting death of Bay Area Rapid Transit passenger Oscar Grant on the Fruitvale Station platform to the big screen. Some well-known actors have apparently signed on for the film.
The famed marijuana trade school is reopening this weekend following a federal raid earlier this month.
A gunfight in an East Oakland store on Monday night left one of the store's clerks injured, an Oakland police officer said.
