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A California high school student rocked out on the drums for the iconic grunge band Pearl Jam Friday night after the band’s drummer came down with coronavirus.

When a 13-year-old girl in Oakland, California, realized her backpack was stolen on her way to the hospital for surgery, she was devastated. 

25,000 Comcast customers in the Oakland, California, area were unable to watch the 49ers in Sunday’s NFC championship — or anything else — on Sunday after gunfire severed the fiberoptic cables linking them to cable television and Internet services.

OAKLAND, California — Teachers in yet another city are planning to stage a “sickout” in protest at what they say is a lack of safety during the ongoing coronavirus surge — despite the district receiving money for safety from the federal government.

The Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved two new police academies and the hiring of a professional recruiter to find experienced officers.

Journalists who cover crime in Oakland, California, are now becoming the victims of crimes as news crews are being targeting for expensive equipment.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) stated that the city “needs more police” and that “the defund rhetoric is challenging our ability to attract and retain recruits.” Schaaf also called for resources from the state and

The City of Oakland unveiled a bust of Black Panther Party founder and leader Huey P. Newton on Sunday, honoring his legacy in the city that saw the founding of the radical party in 1966 with fellow radical Bobby Seale.

Surveillance video from Thursday shows retried Oakland police captain Ersie Joyner shoot and kill one of three alleged robbers in an exchange of gunfire that left Joyner wounded as well. 

After Oakland, California, recorded its 100th homicide in 2021 the city voted to train more police officers after defunding cops last year.

The president of the Oakland Police Officers Association slammed the Oakland City Council for voting to defund the police.

Carl Chan, president of the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, called on Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to declare a “state of emergency” on the crime wave in the city on Tuesday, after a series of assaults and robberies in Chinatown.

Former President Donald Trump warned of “Communist Democrats” destroying America’s big cities after former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) was assaulted and robbed in Oakland, California, on Monday afternoon.

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) was assaulted and robbed in Oakland, California, on Monday afternoon, according to a statement posted by her Twitter account and confirmed by local police. No gun was involved in the daylight robbery.

A woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted and held against her will for three days by a man she met on the Tinder app was rescued when a good Samaritan heard her cries for help in Oakland, California.

In Oakland, California, in 2021, criminals marked Independence Day by threatening citizens with deadly violence.

Just hours after Oakland, California, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong held a news conference on Monday to slam city officials for cutting the police budget as crimes surge in the municipality, a news crew interviewing the director of the Department of Violence Prevention were the victims of a robbery attempt in broad daylight.

Oakland, California Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus” that the Democrat-led city council voting to remove $18.5 million from a proposed increase to the Oakland Police Department is “inconsistent” with citizens telling him

The Oakland, California, city council diverted over $17 million from the city’s police department Monday, redirecting the funding to social programs.

Oakland Police Department Chief LeRonne Armstrong slammed the city council on Monday after it decided last week to “redirect” $18 million from the police budget to other priorities in the midst of a crime wave and a spike in murders.

Juneteenth celebrations in Oakland, California; Aurora, Colorado; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Clover, South Carolina; and Flint, Michigan, were marred by shootings and death.

Six people were shot, one of whom died, on Saturday evening near a Juneteenth celebration at Oakland’s Lake Merritt.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) during his visit to downtown Oakland, authorities said Friday.

The Northern California city of Oakland is launching its guaranteed income program to give selected families $500 for 18 months.

Leaders of U.S. cities are walking back plans to slash police budgets in the wake of surging crime that threatens public safety.

Some Oakland residents have decided to try and combat the city’s growing housing crisis by building a “community center” at a homeless camp under a highway overpass.

Video captured in Oakland, California, showed the moment an Asian couple’s son chased four alleged robbers away from his parents with a machete.

An ice cream vendor was reportedly robbed and almost run over this week in Oakland, California.

Oakland, California, Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) announced a program that offers poor minority families $500 a month. Poor white families are excluded for the sin of being white. However, illegal aliens qualify.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s new program to give $500 per month to 600 poor “BIPOC” (black, indigenous and people of color) families is a flagrant violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.

The Mayor of Oakland, California, is rolling out a program that awards low-income black families, foreign nationals, and the homeless $500 a month — and apparently excluding white households living in equivalent poverty.

Oakland wants to make single-family home neighborhoods more “diverse” by inserting low-income, multi-family units into those communities.

A 91-year-old man was shoved to the ground in Oakland, California’s, Chinatown, causing him to be hospitalized for his injuries, according to a video.

A sculpture of Breonna Taylor in Oakland, California, was vandalized Saturday, just two weeks after it was first installed.

The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to ban natural gas from all future constructed residential and commercial buildings.

The cities of Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California, filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Trump administration’s effort to maintain law and order in U.S. cities and to protect federal property was unconstitutional.