New SJPD Chief To Face Daunting Budget Issues
Budget cuts and layoffs are just two of the challenges facing San Jose's next chief of police, who could be named by the end of the week.
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Budget cuts and layoffs are just two of the challenges facing San Jose's next chief of police, who could be named by the end of the week.
Police are investigating three shootings that shook Oakland on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, including one in East Oakland that left a man dead, a patrol officer said.
The Oakland Raiders promoted offensive coordinator Hue Jackson to head coach on Monday after he helped the team more than double its scoring output in his first year with the franchise.
Officers are looking for a man suspected of shooting and killing a boy near a church in Oakland late Sunday night,
Investigators are trying to sort things out after a man was killed while trying to run across Interstate 880 in Oakland early Saturday.
Two people were injured in a shooting in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood on Friday afternoon, police said.
Longtime Oakland City Councilman Ignacio De La Fuente won't be prosecuted on misdemeanor drunken driving charges because there is insufficient evidence, an Alameda County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman said Thursday.
Oakland police say they have arrested three people they say are responsible for two dozen home invasion robberies in the last ten months.
Hundreds gathered outside Oakland City Hall Wednesday evening to pay tribute to victims of the Tucson, Arizona shootings and to condemn violence in all its forms.
A crash stemming from a police pursuit from Oakland into San Leandro Wednesday morning prompted the brief lockdown of two elementary schools when suspects fled from the car.
In the last two weeks, three teenagers have been killed on the streets of Oakland, one of them a well respected senior at East Oakland's School of the Arts, which is part of the Castlemont High campus.
Administrators in the Oakland School District are asking campus principals to cut fifteen percent from their budgets.
A 12-year-old boy was arrested in Oakland this weekend after leading police on a chase in a stolen car, a police lieutenant said Tuesday.
The fatal shooting of 15-year-old Lovell Hadnot on Saturday was the latest in a string of violence in Oakland in the past two weeks, much of it involving teenagers.
A boy was shot and killed on a street Saturday evening in Oakland.
One of Oakland's toughest neighborhoods received a visit from Mayor Jean Quan on Saturday in an effort to improve the region one resident at a time.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she wants to improve the city's image, bring more shoppers to town, and visit China to court more business for the port.
Oakland City Attorney John Russo's bid to get an injunction against alleged members of the Norteños gang hit a speed bump Friday when a judge delayed making a ruling on a key procedural issue in the case until Feb. 3.
A man was killed in a shooting in West Oakland on Wednesday night, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.
A $130 million replacement of the rickety 5th Avenue bridge in central Oakland may be loud and dusty, but at age 60-plus, it's more than necessary.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan mentioned east Oakland police beat 33 in an address Monday afternoon.
Nationally, the average age of entry into prostitution is 12 years old. This week's Jefferson Award winner co-founded an organization that helps these children get off the streets.
Six people were wounded, two of them critically, in what Oakland police believe was a gang-related shooting Tuesday night in East Oakland.
One person has been shot dead and six more were hurt - one critically - in separate shootings in Oakland Tuesday night, according to authorities.
Jean Quan said she was looking to improve what's been a tense relationship between elected officials and law enforcement over the last year.
