Alameda County News

Alameda County sheriff's investigators today released a video that shows two vehicles believed to be involved in a February shooting on Interstate 580 that took a motorist's eye and wounded a deputy in the upper right leg while conducting a pedestrian stop.

The dogged determination of a community activist who spent years studying the history of a former railroad property finally paid off Tuesday, when city officials said her work helped clear the way for them to purchase the site's 40 acres for the bargain price of just under $1 million.

A sharp decline is reported in the number of homeless people in Alameda County, and agencies believe they have a winning formula to get people into permanent housing.

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A man who goes by the name of Jesus, 42, reads the bible as he listens to music in front of the Henry J. Kaiser Center on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Oakland, Calif.

A group that works on reducing the number of homeless people in Alameda County says the homeless population in the county dropped by 10 percent since 2007.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is planning on releasing video footage of cars connected to a shooting on Interstate Highway 580 in February.

Oakland's former city administrator is suing over her termination by the city. Deborah Edgerly was fired July 1, 2008 over allegations that she interfered with a police investigation after her nephew was arrested in a sweep of suspected gang members.

The Oakland City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night to approve paying $650,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed drunken-driving suspect who was shot to death by a police officer, according to the family's attorney.

Share + Jul 7, 2009 11:57 am US/Pacific OAKLAND Oakland police have taken over the investigation into the death of an Oakland man who was found injured on the Bay Bridge early Saturday morning.

Three people who are charged in connection with the death of a 91-year-old Dublin woman whose battered body was found in a garbage can outside her house in January pleaded not guilty Monday.

Fireworks were to blame for several East Bay fires last weekend, including a blaze in Union City, and more than half-dozen grass fires in Newark.

A dispute has arisen between Alameda County and the city of Oakland over parking at the Coliseum.

ALAMEDA MILITARY VETERANS as well as their comrades throughout Alameda County are encouraging the city of Alameda to support the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' initiative to build a modern, state of the art outpatient clinic and columbaria at the former Alameda Naval Air Station.

A person was stuck and killed Sunday morning by an Amtrak train in Oakland, the third train-related fatality in the East Bay since Friday, a company spokesman said.

The shootings occurred on the 8300 block of International Boulevard, near 83rd street, Oakland police said.

The Alameda County Fair opened July 1 in Pleasanton with new rides and old favorite attractions.

Two people have been struck and killed by the same Amtrak train, one in Berkeley and the other about two hours later in Oakland.

The Alameda County coroner's bureau today identified a 37-year-old San Rafael man who was fatally shot Tuesday afternoon at the Emeryville Marina.

Police seized 64 pounds of illegal fireworks from a Dublin home Thursday morning in an operation that originated when neighbors complained that the residents were selling them.