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Take the field Friday, join Oakland youth baseball team for unveiling of new scoreboard
This 1989 " Field of Dreams " classic baseball movie quote highlights the importance of having not only a great place to play a baseball game, but also having someone to play the game with.
5 hrs ago | Contra Costa Times
Longshoreman killed when truck plunges into the bay
The Port of Oakland has temporarily ceased operations after the death of a longshoreman who drove his truck into the bay near TraPac Terminal on Friday afternoon, a port spokesman said.
Oakland woman appears in court for 2012 fatal Lake County crash
An Oakland woman appeared in court for the first time Friday on felony charges for allegedly causing a fatal drunk-driving crash outside Hidden Valley Lake a little more than one year ago.
Mourners gather to remember Malcolm X's grandson
Hundreds gathered Friday to remember the late grandson of slain civil rights leader Malcolm X as mourners said Malcolm Shabazz was well on his way to cementing his own legacy.
What to order at Juhu Beach Club in Oakland
Today, Nicholas Boer reviews Oakland's Juhu Beach Club , the long-awaited Mumbai-inspired restaurant from Top Chef alum Preeti Mistry .
News, notes and reports from the Elite 11 Regional Tryout held May 17, 2013 at the San Francisco 49ers Practice Facility and the Oakland Nike Football Training Camp held May 19, 2013 at Laney College in Oakland.
Double-fatal shooting shuts down Interstate 880 in Oakland
A shooting has left two dead and shut down all lanes on northbound Interstate 880 near Broadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Zendaya on 'Dancing With the Stars': Oakland native has title within grasp
Had you told Claire Stoermer early on during Season 16 of "Dancing With the Stars" that her teen daughter, Zendaya, would land in the show's finale, she might have had a good laugh.
Memoir details a path toward destruction, turned around
God, science and the natural world infuse the poetry of Lucille Lang Day, whose memoir, "Married at Fourteen," is a finalist for a Northern California Book Award in creative nonfiction.
Crews battle Oakland apartment fire
A one-alarm fire displaced three children and two adults from their East Oakland apartment Thursday afternoon, a fire battalion chief said.
UC student faces prison in DUI deaths
A UC Berkeley graduate student faces up to 12 years in prison after pleading no contest to vehicular manslaughter for killing his girlfriend and her 6-year-old son by crashing into a tree last year while intoxicated.
Oakland: Suspect jumping on trains wreaks havoc at MacArthur BART...
Up a shaft and onto a roof. Atop a train. Alongside a freeway. Over barbed wire.
Oakland Effect: Reminiscing on bus route 40 along the Hotspot
This is an excerpt from reporter Scott Johnson's blog, which focuses on the effects of violence and trauma on the community.
Five charged in violent Oakland robbery of elderly woman and two daughters
An 18-year-old Oakland man, who will be prosecuted under three strikes statutes, and four other people including two juveniles, have been charged in a violent robbery last week where an 86-year-old woman was dragged on the ground before giving up her purse, authorities said Wednesday.
Sunny, Surfy, Sweaty Summer Jams
If you've lived in Oakland long enough, chances are, you've run across Ryan Parks - B. Hamilton's frontman, songwriter, and all-purpose id : He's the tall guy at the warehouse/bar/party with a beer permanently affixed to his hand and a theory of some kind constantly leaving his mouth; or the one semi-indecipherably singing-screaming into a mic at ... (more)
Best Indie Film Trailers Of The Week: 'The Congress,'...
We tend to hate on Hollywood studios because of the movie projects they choose to fund .
Mid-Week Menu: Commissar, Bourbon and Beef, and Chop Bar's First Pig Roast of the Season
Sometimes we locals take for granted the fact that we live in such a picturesque area, but really, HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS PLACE IS? One place to soak it all in is the UC Botanical Garden , whose redwood grove - a small sliver of Muir Woods in the Berkeley Hills - is home to a tiny, two-hundred-seat, all-wooden amphitheater.
Privatization And The Attack On Public Services And Public Education In the East Bay
This forum will discuss who is doing the privatization and outsourcing and what labor and working people should do about it.