Alameda County

Making sure their child gets to school safely is a concern for any parent. 

The case of eight defendants who were charged for their roles in the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old mother of three children in a wild gunbattle in West Oakland four years ago concluded on Friday with the sentencing of the last defendant in the matter.

You've all seen the video by now— a courageous BART employee lifts an intoxicated man who fell onto the track way back on to the platform right as a train approaches at Oakland's Coliseum Station. But John O'Connor says he doesn't feel like a hero.

Berkeley Humane Society said a service dog has been stolen over the weekend, and said one of its volunteers was last seen with the animal.

The competition was fierce at Oakland Technical High School Sunday morning for the first ever tryout for the Oakland Panthers, the Bay Area’s new and only Indoor Football League team.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating an armed carjacking that happened on Interstate 580 in Oakland Sunday morning.

Witnesses gave descriptions of the suspect to police at the scene of the fire and Eagle 6, the East Bay Regional Park District police helicopter that was actively dropping water on burning areas, spotted a person matching those descriptions.

Two people were injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon in the Eastmont district of Oakland, police said.

Derek Carr threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to rookie Hunter Renfrow with 2:04 remaining and Karl Joseph broke up a fourth-down pass in the end zone with 3 seconds left to give the Raiders a 31-24 victory over the Detroit Lions on Sunday in their first game back in Oakland in seven weeks.

One unit of a two-story residential duplex in unincorporated San Leandro sustained serious damage Saturday night in a fire, the Alameda County Fire Department reported.