Jefferson Awards: Breaking The Cycle Of Domestic Abuse
This week's Jefferson Award winner helps lead Bay Area domestic violence victims down the long path to recovery from her small Oakland office.
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This week's Jefferson Award winner helps lead Bay Area domestic violence victims down the long path to recovery from her small Oakland office.
Rank Choice Voting is not without its critics or champions. Those in favor of the practice claim it saves money, decreases negative campaigning and brings out more voters to the polls.
A Union City gang member was convicted Wednesday of the attempted murder of a police officer and nine other felony counts for firing 10 shots from a 9mm semiautomatic handgun at Fremont police Officer Todd Young last year, nearly killing him.
Measure I, the temporary fiscal emergency parcel tax, lost with 62 percent voting against it, according to preliminary results.
Officials with the Oakland Athletic League said that Fremont High School committed several violations, forcing them to forfeit games and cancel the season finale.
While riot police sweeping through Occupy Wall Street tent cities recently may suggest a coordinated national effort, authorities maintain it was a coincidence.
Oakland residents have now grown divided over the Occupy movement, but continue to have very strong negative opinions of Mayor Jean Quan, according to a newly released KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll.
The Occupy San Francisco encampment is growing, boosted by refugees from the Oakland camp, but protesters in San Francisco fear a police raid on their camp is imminent.
Hundreds of "Occupy Oakland" protesters gathered in Frank Ogawa Plaza Monday evening for a general assembly meeting after their encampment was dismantled by police Monday morning.
Thirty-two people were arrested Monday morning in what appears to have been a largely peaceful police sweep of Frank Ogawa Plaza to clear out the Occupy Oakland encampment that has stood outside City Hall for weeks.
In his first statement since being seriously injured during a clash between Oakland police and Occupy demonstrators, Scott Olsen said he is feeling a lot better.
Notice was issued by the Oakland city administrator on Sunday that Occupy protesters' camps in city parks were a violation of local ordinances and would be removed.
A man was shot in East Oakland on Saturday evening, but his injuries were not life-threatening, police said.
Pressure on Occupy Oakland protesters increased Saturday, with police issuing a third notice Saturday afternoon ordering protesters to vacate the area, and all city parks.
CBS 5 has obtained a series of emails from Dr. Floyd Huen, Mayor Jean Quan's husband and a long-time Oakland activist, brainstorming with fellow activists about how to shut down the encampment without violent clashes.
A $10,000 reward is being offered for information in the shooting death of a man on the edge of the Oakland plaza anti-Wall Street protesters have occupied for the last month.
Oakland police served anti-Wall Street protesters with written notice that they must disband their camp immediately Friday night.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan called on "Occupy Oakland" to voluntarily dismantle their encampment after a man in his early 20s was fatally shot in Frank Ogawa Plaza Thursday night.
About 30 shouting Occupy Oakland protesters disrupted a news conference in which four City Council members and business leaders called for the immediate removal of the encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza.
An Oakland woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition Monday morning after her son allegedly beat her, police said.
Two Oakland community benefit districts are telling Mayor Jean Quan that it's time to clean out the tent city at Frank Ogawa Plaza.
A 30-year-old Oakland man has said a police officer shot him with a rubber bullet or beanbag while he was videotaping last week's standoff between law enforcement and a small group of people who took over a building and lit fires after a day of peaceful anti-Wall Street protests.
Are they an organized political movement or is it pure anarchy inside the encampment at Oakland's Frank Oagawa Plaza?
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan on Tuesday called on Occupy Oakland protesters to designate official representatives to negotiate with the city and take steps to limit violence at future protests.
The controversial topic of gang injunctions was expected to be up for debate again Tuesday before Oakland City Council's public safety committee.
