Oakland Police Arrest Armed Suspect Wanted for Human Trafficking at Liquor Store
This article contains content summarized with GPT-4. Learn more. Police released body camera footage showing officers confronting an armed suspect in an Oakland liquor store. Officers responded to the scene to apprehend a man wanted in connection with human trafficking. During the arrest, the suspect tried to reach...
Bay Area university gets $50M donation from MacKenzie Scott
(KRON) – Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $50 million to a university in the East Bay. Cal State East Bay announced the record-breaking donation – the single largest in the university’s history – on Thursday, calling it a “historic milestone.” Cal State East Bay, the first Bay Area university to receive...
Chairman Fred Hampton Was 21 Years Old…
“A lot of people think the Breakfast for Children program is charity. But what does it do? It takes the people from a stage to another stage. Any program that’s revolutionary is an advancing program. Revolution is change.” – Chairman Fred Hampton. “I Am A Revolutionary!” These...
HUD’s December Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher Program funds are delayed
HUD’s December Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher Program funds are delayed. Times are very uncertain for Section 8-Housing Choice Voucher tenants at the moment, and many are at great risk being a HUD subsidized housing tenant at the moment. The landlord’s subsidized housing shortfall payments for the Section 8...
Recalled Alameda County DA Pamela Price says she plans to run again
Former Alameda County DA Pamela Price, who was recalled last year, said she plans to run again.
McDonald’s closes downtown Oakland site and backlash follows
The only McDonald’s in downtown Oakland has shut its doors, and the fallout is landing hardest on the workers and customers who depended on it. What might look like a single franchise decision is instead turning into a flashpoint over worker treatment, public health failures, and the fragile state of the city’s core...
‘People Behaving Badly’ and Stanley Roberts return to KRON4
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — After a nearly decade-long hiatus, KRON4 has announced the iconic news segment “People Behaving Badly” has returned. That also means legendary reporter Stanley Roberts has rejoined KRON4 to do what he does best — shine a light on people not following the rules. The first drop of new “People...
Teachers strike in large Bay Area school district, demands include help with H1B visas
The strike was the first for teachers in the district’s 60-year history, and could be the first multiple teachers strikes in the Bay Area.
False earthquake alert that alarmed California was ‘unprecedented’
The alert for a 5.9 magnitude Nevada earthquake was a false alarm, and the report was deleted from the U.S.G.S. quake list shortly thereafter.
Claude the alligator’s cause of death revealed: ‘There was nothing we could have done’
As Bay Area residents mourned the death of Claude the albino alligator this week, the California Academy of Sciences received the results of a necropsy.
