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Oakland boy, 11, shot while he slept, hospitalized
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
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Oakland Police were searching for a white car Sunday that was possibly involved in an early morning shooting that wounded an 11-year-old boy while he slept. Police said that at about 5 a.m., several rounds were fired at an apartment on Seventh and
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Oakland police identify man fatally shot by officer
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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A man police say was armed with a gun when he was fatally shot by an officer last month in East Oakland has been identified as Bernard Peters Jr., 22 of San Francisco...May 29 after police received information that some people driving in a car in
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OPD to begin reorganization efforts despite shortage of officers
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 12 days ago
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Blantant violence such as last week's sideshow shooting is causing frustration to peak for residents. "They don't want police to show up only when somebody is dead or somebody is shot and that's the action we're getting today," Among those fed up is
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Family and friends hold tearful vigil for Berkeley High student
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 13 days ago
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Dozens of people gathered in Oakland Wednesday to remember a young life cut short as family and friends paid tribute to a slain junior at Berkeley High School. On May 11th, 17-year-old Isaac Johnson was on his way home from dinner with his mother
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Oakland suspect sought after one-man rampage
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 14 days ago
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Oakland police Tuesday night were searching for one man responsible for a crime wave that included two shootings and three carjackings over the span of just over an hour...He is described as a black man, 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 200 pounds.
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Man slain, woman wounded in shooting and crash in East Oakland
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
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A man was killed and a woman with him wounded late Monday in East Oakland when a gunman opened fire on the van they were driving in, police said. The van crashed into a power pole prompting it to fall and causing a power outage in the area,
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Crime up in Oakland, much of Bay Area
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 15 days ago
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Eleven of the Bay Area's 15 largest cities recorded higher levels of violent crime in 2012 than the year before, according to preliminary totals that the FBI released Monday. The figures represent an abrupt turnaround from a year ago, when data
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Arbitrator reverses discipline against Oakland officers faulted for tragic SWAT operation
Walnut Creek :: NC :: USA | 1 month ago
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The only two officers disciplined in connection with the bloodiest day in Oakland police department history have had their punishments reversed by an arbitrator, who found that department leaders had unfairly singled them out and failed to consider
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May 10 Readers' letters: The Citizens' United decision and the online sales tax
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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On Tuesday it adopted a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment "establishing that money is not speech and campaign contributions and expenditures may be reasonably limited and regulated by Congress and the states without violating the U.S.
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Tammerlin Drummond CHP deal saves Oakland police patrols
Oakland :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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CHP deal saves Oakland police patrols The Interstate 580 overpass named for Sgt...Daniel Sakai and Officer John Hege honors the four Oakland officers who were shot and killed by a parolee in 2009. It is a grim reminder of how dangerous it can be to
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