OPD Arrests Two Sideshow Promoters After 7‑Month Probe
After months of tracing illegal street takeovers across the city, Oakland police say they have arrested two alleged sideshow promoters and searched a home in East Oakland, capping a seven-month investigation into the underground events. According to the department, the operation was led by OPD's Sideshow Reduction Team and backed...
Driver Strikes Multiple Pedestrians on Sidewalk In Oakland Then Flees Scene
Seven people were injured, two of them critically injured, after a driver allegedly struck them on the sidewalk in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood Saturday in an early morning hit-and-run. A driver and two passengers of a red Hyundai sedan allegedly fled the scene on foot after the driver drove onto...
18 stops within 15 minutes of San Ramon for stationery, real greeting cards, and...
The host gift problem is a classic suburban dad situation. You're 20 minutes from the BBQ, the wife says "we are not showing up empty-handed," and the gas station card with the cartoon dog is not going to cut it. The working list of where to actually go in and around San Ramon depends on whether you have 10 minutes or an hour...
8 pedestrians hurt after being hit by vehicle in Oakland
Eight people were injured after being hit by a vehicle in Oakland early Saturday morning, according to the police department. Police said officers were responding to reports of fights near 18th Street and Telegraph Avenue when they received another report regarding a vehicle driving on the sidewalk and striking pedestrians in the 500 block of 18th Street at 1:30 a.m.
Linden Street Ceasefire Stop Nabs Trio And Three Illicit Guns, Two Fully Auto
Ceasefire officers with the Oakland Police Department say a routine enforcement stop on the 4500 block of Linden Street on Wednesday turned into a high-stakes gun bust, ending with three arrests and three seized firearms. According to police, a juvenile was found carrying a loaded handgun with an extended magazine,...
Seven injured after car plows through crowd near Oakland First Friday event
(KRON)– Seven people were injured after a car plowed through a crowd in Oakland’s uptown district, near Oakland’s First Friday event. Around 2 a.m., a car drove onto the sidewalk in the 500 block of 18th Street, striking several people in the crowd. The driver left the scene on foot. After multiple 911 reports of […]
Hayward Robot Plant Gears Up To Crank Out 100,000 Home Helpers
Hayward just turned into one of the Bay Area’s most sci-fi job sites. Robotics firm 1X Technologies has fired up full-scale production of NEO, its home humanoid robot, inside a newly opened 58,000-square-foot factory. The plant already employs more than 200 workers and is initially aiming to roll out about 10,000 NEOs a year, with the company saying it plans...
Nancy Pelosi urges Bay Area graduates to be ‘patriots of our time’
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, told the graduates they must defend democracy from continued attacks.
Deadly 1 a.m. Crash Shuts Down SR 92 Near San Mateo
One man was killed and another seriously injured in a deadly two-vehicle crash early today on State Route 92 near the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge, authorities said. The collision shut down eastbound lanes for hours while fire crews and California Highway Patrol officers worked the scene. Both drivers were adult men, and the vehicles involved were a Cadillac and an Acura. Investigators are...
Oracle cut 700+ jobs in California this week — and 55% of hiring managers...
More than 700 Oracle employees in California learned this week that their jobs are gone. State layoff notices, obtained through a public records request, show the cuts hitting workers in Redwood City and Santa Clara, the Silicon Valley corridor where Oracle built its database empire before moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, in 2020. The... The post Oracle cut 700+ jobs in California this...

















