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Category Archives: Oakland
Judge Appoints Director to Oversee Oakland Police
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A former police commissioner from Baltimore has been appointed by a federal court to oversee the embattled Oakland Police Department. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson announced Monday that new compliance director Thomas C. Frazier will have … Continue reading
News Pix: Bay Area Faces Sequester Cuts, Bay Lights Magic and Birds of Berkeley's Marina
Artist Leo Villareal controls the Bay Lights with his laptop. (Cy Musiker/KQED) On Wednesday, author and photographer Elaine Miller Bond captured this shot of "hundreds, probably thousands, of seabirds (mostly cormorants) sitting on the old pilings at the far end … Continue reading
Oakland Awaits First Friday: Sorrow, Anxiety Mix With Anticipation for Monthly Party
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For the last several years, the first Friday of every month has been a date Oaklanders, fans of Oakland, art aficionados, and connoisseurs of community celebrations have all looked forward to. Starting with an event called Art Murmur–a gallery walk … Continue reading
Mortgage Fraud in California a Game of Whac-A-Mole for Law Enforcement
In one widely publicized case, the owner spread possum urine around the house, turned up the heat and closed all the windows for a few days. Why?
News Pix: Police Escort Oakland Students to Library, Burrowing Owls in Berkeley, Protests Brew Around the Bay
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Second and third graders from Oakland's New Highland Academy marched to the library with a police escort on Thursday, February 21 to protest the gun violence that halted their weekly trips. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED) Jeremy Beasley is a 43-year-old inmate who … Continue reading
A's Ballpark Watch 2013: Unnamed Sources Say Something Might Have Happened, Maybe
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Back in the day, MAD magazine had a running joke about movie reviews. "This sorry excuse for a film is so awful," a review would read, "if I had to watch it again and again I'd consider moving or even … Continue reading
Oakland Students March to Protest Gun Violence
Elementary school students and teachers from New Highland Academy in Oakland marched to the local library Thursday … with a police escort. They used to take the six-block walk every third Thursday, but gun violence in the neighborhood halted the … Continue reading
San Francisco Bay Area Presidents Day 2013: Transit Service, Parking Enforcement, Closures
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Parking enforcement San Francisco -Commuter towaway – NOT ENFORCED -Residential permit – NOT ENFORCED -M-F street sweeping – NOT ENFORCED -Parking meters – ENFORCED -Seven-day street sweeping – ENFORCED Oakland -Street sweeping – NOT ENFORCED -Parking meters – NOT ENFORCED … Continue reading
News Pix: SF Valentine's Day Protest; Riverside Police Vigil; Berkeley Library's Flying Books
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Several gay and lesbian couples disrupted business at San Francisco's city hall Friday morning. The couples entered the city clerk's office asking for something they knew they couldn't get … a marriage license. Thirteen protesters were detained for just a … Continue reading
City of Oakland's Challenge to Harborside Eviction Rejected by Court
A U.S. magistrate has rejected the city of Oakland's attempt to throw a legal roadblock into the forced closure of the Harborside marijuana dispensary. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California is threatening Harborside's landlord with forfeiture of … Continue reading
