Articles tagged with: Oakland
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Chinatown, Oakland, CA
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Fruitvale District, Oakland
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Oaksterdam University, Oakland
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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A part of Grand Avenue through Oakland’s Lakeshore District was closed to traffic Tuesday evening after a man was fatally struck by an AC Transit bus near Mandana Avenue.
Emergency dispatchers received calls from citizens reporting that a person had been struck by a bus at 6:01 p.m., according to police.
Insight, Oakland »
Two fatal officer-involved shootings, lingering questions about the commitment of its police chief, and startling revelations about a communications meltdown between officers and emergency dispatchers during a dangerous chase last week have stoked public concern about the Oakland Police Department — an agency that appears to be functioning in crisis mode.
Police Chief Anthony Batts said Thursday that he was unsure if he would stay with the beleaguered department — one that has seen its uniformed force shrink from 805 officers when he began his tenure in 2009 to the 656 officers presently serving — after he was not chosen for the vacant police chief position in San Jose.
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OAKLAND – A 61 year-old man was critically burned after a natural gas explosion leveled a portion of an East Oakland home Monday night.
The explosion occurred at 8 p.m. when neighbors reported hearing a loud boom, and seeing a small fire erupt from a two-story home near 87th Avenue and Dowling Street.
Traffic & Transit »
BART will distribute 60,000 free tickets to riders at six of its stations during the morning commute Thursday to encourage the use of its trains during busy holiday shopping weekends this month.
The tickets will be distributed at the system’s busiest transit hubs, Downtown Berkeley, 12th St./Oakland City Center, Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell and Civic Center stations between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m., according to the agency.
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OAKLAND — A Denny’s restaurant near the Oakland Airport was torn apart during a violent Halloween evening fight that was videotaped and uploaded onto YouTube afterwards.
The video shows two groups of costumed women hurling everything — from dining room chairs, plates, cups to salt and pepper shakers — at each other inside the Hegenberger Avenue location.
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
Oakland Police released new information today in the killing of an East Oakland barber, telling reporters that the metal object officers saw the man repeatedly reach for near his waistband was in fact an electronic scale, commonly used to weigh drugs. A small jar of marijuana was also found in his pocket, police said.
Derrick Jones, 37, was fatally shot in the chest by two Oakland Police officers Monday evening after authorities responded to a domestic dispute call between Jones and his ex-girlfriend at a corner laundromat next door to the Kwik Cuts barbershop he owns on Bancroft Avenue.
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Nearly one hundred people marched to the Fruitvale BART station today to protest the fatal shooting of an unarmed East Oakland barber by Oakland Police earlier this week.
Derrick Jones, 37, was fatally shot in the chest by two Oakland Police officers Monday evening after authorities responded to a domestic dispute call between Jones and his ex-girlfriend at a corner laundromat next door to the barbershop he owns on Bancroft Avenue.
