Lisa Fernandez

Following the recall of progressive Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, her next-in-line, Royl Roberts, was handed the torch to keep the office running. He said he has no desire to run for the actual position in two years.

A legal settlement was reached following years of sexual abuse at a now-shuttered women's prison in Dublin, California, which mandates that the Bureau of Prisons provide better medical and mental healthcare, stop punishing women indiscriminately by putting them in isolation and open its doors and books to a court-appointed monitor who will issue regular reports about what's going on. Here's a closer look at the details.

In an unprecedented decision, the Bureau of Prisons has reached an agreement in a class-action lawsuit brought by women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin in California.

Nine Alameda County sheriff's deputies are now on the state's police decertification list after the District Attorney charged them with the death of an Oakland man, who lay dying in his cell for days until his body was found, amid a pile of bodily fluids and uneaten food trays. 

This fall, Walgreens announced it was closing 1,200 stores nationwide, and now, individual stores are reporting that they're closing their doors, including two in Oakland.

Are two Oakland police officers who conducted an authorized "ghost chase" of a 19-year-old suspect leaving a sideshow liable for the death of an innocent bystander? That is the question before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Laura Denisse Russell is home with her family for Thanksgiving after a federal judge in Oakland helped secure her early freedom through a series of extraordinary letters she's been sending to judges across the country about the sexual abuse and medical neglect at the now-shuttered Federal Correctional Institute at Dublin. 

The 9-year-old Oakland Dynamites football players are feeling pretty grateful this Thanksgiving: They have enough money to go to their championship games in Florida in two weeks. But other teams are in dire need of cash so that they can play, too.

On the day before Thanksgiving, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pardoned 19 people, including Walter Earlonne Woods, who was incarcerated in San Quentin when he started a podcast that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 

Nine-year-old football players from the Oakland Dynamites made it to the national championship games in Florida. But many cannot afford to go.