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What would those people in Oakland do if they weren't happy with the verdict? Would they riot? Would there be looting? Well, there were a number of people [...]

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Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts makes a commitment to work with the HEAT Watch Program to indentify, intervene in, investigate and prosecute child [...]

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By Oakland Local Contributor Oakland Food Policy Council The Oakland Planning Commission is scheduled to hear a report on a proposal to seek a health [...]

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Carrie Prejean married her NFL superstar the Oakland Raiders quarterback boyfriend Kyle Boller in an exotic ceremony at Capella Church, located inside the Grand Del Mar Hotel in San Diego. As Source told the E! News,?It was beautiful. They had cocktails on the lawn right after. Everyone seemed really happy.? [...]

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a narrow lead over Boston's Kevin Youkilis on Wednesday. The Yankees swept a series of three games or more in Oakland for just the third time in 31 years. [...]

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After listening to speeches from the four candidates, legislators chose representative Bob Nutting of Oakland to succeed Democratic speaker Hannah Pingree. [...]

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Former Oakland Raiders JaMarcus Russell fourth was arrested in Mobile, AL today for possession of a controlled substance. The substance was codeine syrup, this according to the Mobile Press-Register. [...]

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The Pittsburgh Steelers look to rebound from a sobering home loss to new England as they host the Oakland Raiders. The Pittsburgh Steelers have lost two of [...]

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In a little-known city program that critics say may be unconstitutional, cops join fire and building inspectors as they enter homes without a warrant and then arrest residents if they find anything illegal. [...]

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A white former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland. [...]

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Republican Meg Whitman is making false claims about Democrat Jerry Brown's lifetime in politics in an attack ad, her first TV spot of the general election campaign. The two are battling to become the next governor of California. The ad claims that crime soared while Brown was mayor of Oakland. That's false. [...]

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Oakland Co. Sheriff Mike Bouchard is running a distant fourth among Republican candidates for Michigan's gubernatorial nomination. It's no surprise this political grandstander is trying to leverage current news on immigration concerns to jump-start his campaign. Playing the sympathy card, Bouchard said don't voters want to get rid of criminals? [...]

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First, though, let's take a look back at the first significant move of this offseason, as the Oakland Athletics dealt promising righty Vin Mazzaro to the [...]

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He was a Grammy Award winning gospel singer and pastor from Oakland. The 61-year-old pastor suffered from pancreatic cancer and died at home in Ripon. [...]

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Mike Issa couldn't believe the "gift" last night's looters left behind in his ransacked Jitters & Shakes coffee shop at 21st and Webster streets in downtown Oakland. [...]

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Video of riots after BART shooting Mehserle verdict. You most likely have seen one of many viral cell phone vids of the shooting. The Oakland officer claimed to have gone for his stun gun, but grabbed his revolver instead. The verdict was released 7-8-10, he received the lessor of three charges against him. Involuntary Man Slaughter. [...]

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Associated Press ATHENS, Ohio -- Ledrick Eackles scored 18 points and Oakland (Mich.) dominated from the free-throw line to defeat Ohio 78-66 on Monday [...]

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Police clashed with protesters who looted the company and broke windows in Oakland, Calif., after a white police officer was convicted on lesser charges of murdering an unarmed black man. [...]

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(07-09) 13:29 PDT OAKLAND -- Three-quarters of the 78 people arrested in Thursday's riot in Oakland came from outside the city, Police Chief Anthony Batts [...]

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A Los Angeles jury convicted former BART officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter July 8, for shooting Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man, in Oakland last January. Prosecutors argued that Mehserle intended to kill when he drew his gun in the Fruitvale BART station while restraining Grant. [...]

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(11-11) 18:53 PST OAKLAND -- Protesters angry about the fatal shooting of a man by Oakland police officers this week marched to BART's Fruitvale Station and [...]

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California is cutting funding for victims' compensation and human services, LA can't afford to pay homicide investigators, Oakland is laying off police, but one government program seems immune from the budget cuts: the death penalty. Why pay millions for the death penalty when we can't pay police? [...]

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Oakland might get away with a season, or they could have Campbell move to another position on the line. But sooner or later, Cooper needs to be replaced. [...]

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The career of a National Football League player has gone from bad to worse. JaMarcus Russell, the former quarterback for the Oakland Raiders, was arre [...]

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By Matt O'Brien and Katy Murphy OAKLAND -- As the hour approaches for a jury to decide the fate of former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, [...]