Former DA employee files FBI complaint over alleged AI video

A former employee of the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has filed a federal complaint accusing a political advocacy group of defamation and illegal manipulation of a recording during last year’s recall campaign of former District Attorney Pamela Price.

Sheng Thao won't ask to move criminal case out of Oakland

Lawyers for former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao told a federal judge that they won't be asking to move her criminal bribery case out of Oakland, something they had brought up as a possibility at a prior court hearing.

OUSD weighs deep budget cuts as district faces $100M deficit

Oakland school board members are weighing deep budget cuts as the district faces a $100 million deficit and the possibility of returning to state receivership if they fail to balance the books before the next school year.