Oakland News

A missing 71-year-old man who went missing for five hours was discovered after he called his wife from a car dealership in Oakland, deputies said.

A 15-year-old boy was charged as an adult Tuesday with two counts of murder in the strangling of his adoptive parents - a jail psychologist and a clinic physician's assistant whose bodies were found stuffed in the trunk of the family car.

I visited three Occupy Wall Street encampments on Monday morning, two in Oakland and one in San Francisco, and was struck by the difference in the way the two cities have reacted to the protests.

Police have confirmed the shooting death of a young man i n a gunfight that broke out near 12 Street BART police station, adjacent to Occupy Oakland camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza Thursday evening, the second night the city turned the lights out at the camp .

Developer David O'Keeffe has revived a plan to build a 42-story, 370-unit residential tower near Lake Merritt that could become Oakland's tallest residential building and second-tallest skyscraper.