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Oakland liquor store facade a little tipsy
SfgateBay Area News Stories
Feb 07Part of the facade of a liquor store on International Boulevard crumbled and fell to the sidewalk Monday, authorities said. No one was hurt when the brick masonry at the Express Liquor and Market store on International... Presented By: Chicago Booth Bu... »
Occupy Oakland Protest Turns Violent; Police Use Tear Gas
CBS San Francisco
Jan 29Police tear gassed Occupy Oakland protesters Saturday afternoon near Lake Merritt and warned them to leave an area where they had gathered or they would be forcibly removed. »
Man, woman killed near Lake Merritt
East Bay Local News
Jan 28Oakland police are investigating a double homicide that left a man and woman dead Friday night. »
Man, woman found murdered nearby Lake Merritt
KTVU Oakland, San Francisco
Jan 28Oakland police were investigating Saturday morning how two people who were found dead inside a car Friday night were killed. Oakland police Officer J. Moore said a double homicide was reported at 9:34 p.m. in the 200 block of Athol Avenue. Officers sai... »
Children invited to Lake Merritt bird count on Saturday
Contra Costa Times Environment
Jan 28Children from across the Bay Area will join local naturalists for the Winter Bird Count for Kids program around Lake Merritt in Oakland on Saturday.The free event, co-sponsored by naturalists from the Golden Gate Audubon Society and Rotary Nature Cente... »
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Oakland eight graders not high school ready
Examiner Oakland Edition
Feb 05The high school drop out crisis in the Oakland public schools is unlikely to end soon. The eight grade students enrolled in many of the Oakland Unified School District are not high schools ready.In 2010-2011, 27% of ... »
Oakland Teen Charged With Murdering Foster Parents
HuffPost San Francisco
Feb 01OAKLAND, Calif. -- A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult Tuesday with two counts of murder in the strangling of his adoptive parents –... »
Gilberth’s Rotisserie & Grill Opens in Dogpatch; Nojo Launches Lunch; and More
Grub Street San Francisco
Feb 01Dogpatch: Gilberth's Rotisserie & Grill has just softly opened at 2427 3rd Street (at 20th), from the team behind The New Spot around the corner, serving pan-Latin fare, including rotisserie chicken, Cuban baby back ribs with a guava glaze, Argentinian... »
Byron Dorgan On The Beltway Establishment: "A Bunch Of Hogs At A Slop Pail"
Down With Tyranny!
Jan 30God is great! Bill Moyers is back on PBS. The above clip features an interview with Byron Dorgan, the North Dakota populist who warned most strenuously about the sleazy corporatists-- of both parties-- repealing Glass-Steagall. That repeal is, undoubte... »
Police Clash With Occupy Oakland on 'Move-In Day,' Tear Gas Deployed
SFist
Jan 28It was "Move-In Day" for Occupy Oakland today, and as we type protesters have once again met with riot-cop resistance in the form of barricades, smoke bombs, and tear gas as they were attempting to occupy the historic but long underused Henry J... »
