Candidates Debate Oakland's Problems In Mayoral Forum
Nine Oakland mayoral candidates generally agreed Thursday night that the city's next leader needs to fight crime, create more jobs and find a way to balance the city's budget.
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Nine Oakland mayoral candidates generally agreed Thursday night that the city's next leader needs to fight crime, create more jobs and find a way to balance the city's budget.
A trial date was set Thursday for former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV on three counts of murder for allegedly ordering the killings of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men in Oakland more than three years ago.
A newspaper is reporting that Alameda County prosecutors spent more than $25,000 on airfare and $55,000 on lodging during the Los Angeles trial of a transit officer who officer shot and killed an unarmed passenger.
A suspected gang member accused of attempted murder for allegedly shooting a Fremont officer in Oakland four weeks ago was arraigned Wednesday on two new charges for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
Twenty-two people conspired for a decade to fly cocaine from California to Pennsylvania while bypassing airport security measures but lost a drug-filled bag when it was mistakenly unloaded during a layover, federal authorities say.
AC Transit's board of directors will meet Wednesday night to consider a proposal to cut weekend bus service nearly in half and make other service reductions in order to balance the agency's budget.
Clorox Co. plans to shift hundreds of jobs from its headquarters in Oakland to a new site in Pleasanton.
A 17-year-old student at Oakland's Life Academy of Health and Bioscience was killed in a shooting on Tuesday evening, police and school officials said Wednesday.
A judge said the trial of two men in the slaying of an Oakland journalist will be held in Oakland unless he determines that an impartial jury can't be seated.
Oakland police Tuesday released a sketch of a man believed to have robbed and sexually assaulted two women Sunday in the city's Lake Merritt neighborhood.
Two women were robbed and sexually assaulted in Oakland's Lake Merritt neighborhood on Sunday evening, police said Monday.
Oakland City Councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jean Quan Monday thanked those who have expressed concern after her purse was snatched in the parking lot of her neighborhood Safeway store Saturday night.
Oakland Raiders coach Tom Cable waited only six quarters to turn to Bruce Gradkowski for a spark this season.
Oakland police have arrested two suspected gang members on suspicion of shooting at rivals and leading officers on a high-speed car chase.
Police say an Oakland city councilwoman and mayoral candidate had her purse snatched while walking to her neighborhood supermarket.
A gas leak that prompted the evacuation of buildings just east of Lake Merritt in Oakland Thursday afternoon has been capped, a PG&E spokesman said.
A jury expert testified Tuesday that he thinks there is a "reasonable likelihood" that former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and co-defendant Antoine Mackey could not get a fair trial in Alameda County in their triple murder case.
A nephew of former Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly who has twice been convicted of felony gun charges is now accused of violating his probation by using cocaine, a judge said Tuesday.
Oakland city councilwoman and mayoral candidate Jean Quan Monday called on voters to support a measure on the Nov. 2 ballot that would amend a previous measure that created 63 problem-solving police officers and mandated a total of 803 officers.
Two suspects pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a Virginia man in downtown Oakland two months ago.
The nephew of former Oakland City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, who has twice been convicted of felony gun charges, is back in jail after police found drugs and bullets at his house, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney John Brouhard said Friday.
