Oakland News

OAKLAND a ' The public is getting their first glimpse at the Oakland Zooa TMs baby camels.

An Alameda County jury has decided that a drug dealer convicted of two Oakland murders in 2001 should be executed.

An aria from the opera "Turandot" was only fitting to open the festivities Saturday at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Ligure Club, one of Oakland's original Italian associations.

Booking photo for Michael Joseph Gibson after his arrest for assaulting an elderly man on a SamTrans bus earlier on the same day as the BART confrontation OAKLAND a ' Though BART police had arrested Michael Joseph Gibson on felony charges of battery of a police officer with injury, obstruction and resisting an officer, the Alameda County District ...

November 18, 2009 - Oakland, Calif. A- A study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland scientists identifies a new class of therapeutic agents found naturally in soy that can prevent and possibly treat colon cancer, the third most deadly form of cancer.

A man shot in his car Monday afternoon in Emeryville managed to drive several blocks before crashing into a pole and dying, police said.

A protest in the lobby of University of California President Mark Yudof's office in downtown Oakland ended peacefully with no arrests Monday, as UC Berkeley officials said they were investigating allegations of police brutality against students and employees protesting fee hikes and budget cuts last week on campus.

An Alameda County Superior Court jury is recommending the death penalty for Oakland resident Christopher Evans for murdering two people at a hair salon eight years ago.

The sister of an unruly passenger injured after being removed from a San Francisco Bay area commuter train says transit police used excessive force on the mentally ill man.

As 40 people occupied the two-story building Friday, the crowd outside swelled to about 2,000 people and UC campus police called for backup assistance from Berkeley and Oakland police and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Oakland peace activists, safety advocates and criminal justice officials take note: according to a study released today, Oakland's almost dead last in the race towards the safest city in the country.

Two men were arrested in connection with a pair of bank robberies committed over the past two weeks in Lafayette and Orinda, police said.

An Oakland man who was shot on his 24th birthday Friday night died at a hospital Saturday, the Alameda County coroner's bureau reported today.

This image is from a video that captured a BART officer pulling a passenger off a train.

The names of George P. Scotlan and Henry J. Kaiser, two illustrious figures from Oakland's past, surfaced last week when the Oakland City Council, facing an anticipated mid-fiscal year budget shortfall, considered a staff report analyzing whether to sell two city-owned convention facilities, each named for one of the men.

Oakland - Oakland School for the Arts students will "Ease on Down the Road" - from the Fox Theater to Lake Merritt - to raise funds for Oakland-based nonprofit DeafHope and for the charter school's theatrical presentation of "The Wiz." On Dec.

Before he could even open the security-gated front door, however, someone fired several shots through it at 5:10 p.m. Thursday, mortally wounding the Oakland High School junior.

The mysterious death in 1975 of Karen Rose Robinson is a mystery no more. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department says the 21-year-old Oakland woman -- whose body was found off a dark road in Pleasanton 34 years ago -- died of a heroin overdose.

Lori Fogarty, executive director of the Oakland Museum of California, talks about the renovation project under way at a media luncheon at the Oakland Museum of California in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday Nov, 17, 2009.

With his brother already serving 28 years to life for a robbery that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old girl, Anthony Milton learned Friday that he would be spending the rest of his life behind bars for the same crime.