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Fruitvale |
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 Police Fatally Shoot Man At BART Station  Map of 3401 E 12th St East Oakland Police confronted several young men at the Fruitvale station departing from SF train and were trying to restrain 22-year-old Oscar Grant
| Police detained a number of people for questioning after the shooting and shut down the station to collect physical evidence. Later a protest over the shooting of an unarmed man on a train platform by BART police turned violent, just hours after 27-year-old officer Johannes Mehserle resigns
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| Jan.3 |
East Oakland |
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 Home Video Surfaces Of BART Shooting A video is showing the events surrounding the shooting death of 22-year-old man by police early New Year's day
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| Jan.4 |
Oakland |
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Family of man slain by officer to sue Moments before Oscar Grant was fatally shot by a transit agency police officer, he pleaded with cops not to harm him, a friend said
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| Jan.5 |
Oakland Hills |
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Small plane crashes; pilot walk away A plane piloted by a single occupant had crashed. Witnesses were seeing an aircraft fly behind a hill and never reappear
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Raiders |
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Raiders Talk With Gilbride About Opening
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Oakland City Hall |
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Brunner its elected new council president
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| Jan.6 |
Oakland |
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Fatal stabbing of a man
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Athletics |
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A's near deal with Giambi
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| Jan.7 |
Highway 24 |
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Person Thrown From Truck In Wreck A person suffered major injuries after being thrown from an overturned Penske rental truck into a parking lot near the Rockridge BART statio...
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Fruitvale |
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Violent BART Shooting Protest A protest over the shooting of an unarmed man on a train platform by BART police turned violent, just hours after the officer resigns
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Oakland |
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Bay Area developer Hal Ellis, 77, dies
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| Jan.8 |
Oakland Downtown |
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Over 100 Arrested In Shooting Protest Map of 2100 Broadway Oakland| The unruly demonstration spurred by the Jan. 1 shooting death of Oscar Grant III at the hands of BART police officer | |
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Oakland Downtown |
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APL moves offices to Arizona The regional headquarters of container shipping line, based in Oakland for more than 30 years, will be moved to Arizona in the second half of...
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| Jan.9 |
Oakland Downtown |
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2nd Night Of Violent BART Protests About 100 protesters were back on the streets, protesting the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by BART police officer
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Oakland |
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Att. Gen. Asked To Probe BART Shooting
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| Jan.10 |
Oakland |
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Health care workers plan vote on split
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East Oakland |
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Balcony collapsed, 5 injured
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Oakland |
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Att. Gen. assigns prosecutor to BART case Jerry Brown would dispatch a state prosecutor to monitor the county's investigation into the New Year's Day slaying of an unarmed man
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| Jan.11 |
Warriors |
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Aldridge Scores 26, Blazers Top Warriors
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North Oakland |
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Shooting sent 3 people to hospital
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Oakland |
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Top Natural Cleaners Share For Clorox
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Oakland |
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BART hears another earful on death
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| Jan.12 |
Fruitvale |
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BART completes prelim probe of shooting
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| Jan.13 |
Oakland |
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DA under pressure in train station death
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Oakland |
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BART Officer Arrested As Protests Loom| Johannes Mehserle, the transit police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man New Year's Day, has been arrested | |
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| Jan.14 |
Oakland |
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BART Officer Charged With Murder
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Oakland Downtown |
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18 arrested in Oscar Grant protest
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| Jan.16 |
Oakland City Hall |
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Plans To Fire 11 Cops Accused Of Lying City attorney said 2 sergeants and 9 officers will be fired for allegedly lying obtain search warrants in drug cases
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Oakland City Hall |
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City to hire guards to boost security
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Coliseum |
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Crawford Leads Warriors Over Hawks
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| Jan.17 |
Fruitvale |
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Naked Woman Found Dead The woman was found beneath a freeway overpass around 4 p.m. and transported to the hospital where she was pronounced dead
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| Jan.18 |
Highway 80 |
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Severly injured in collision after chase
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| Jan.19 |
West Oakland |
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5 officers injured when patrol cars crashed Map of 16th and Peralta street Oakland 5 police officers were injured when 2 patrol cars crashed while attempting to assist in a stolen vehicle pursuit
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West Oakland |
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Hundreds Rally Over BART Shooting
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| Jan.21 |
Coliseum |
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Warriors Lose To Thunder
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| Jan.22 |
Oakland Hills |
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Power Outage Affects 4,000 Customers
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| Jan.23 |
Bay Area |
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Slow economy hitting dockworkers In good times, 300 longshore workers found unloading cargo from across the sea. Now, as few as 90 will find work on Bay Area docks
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Coliseum |
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LeBron stuns Warriors James knocked down a 19-footer to barely beat the final buzzer, lifting the Cleveland to a wild 106-105 victory over the Golden State
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| Jan.26 |
Coliseum |
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Maggette Helps Warriors Past Clippers
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| Jan.27 |
Highway 580 |
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Died after solo-vehicle crash
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Oakland |
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Civil rights lawyer takes on shooting case Burris, 63, was hired by the family of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old black man gunned down by a white transit police officer
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Oakland |
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SEIU takes over Oakland health care union United Healthcare Workers-West, the fastest-growing health care union in the nation, was taken over by its parent union
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| Jan.28 |
Oakland City Hall |
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 Police Chief Blasts City Council, Resigns| Embattled Wayne Tucker is facing criticism over chronic violent crime as city leaders prepared to call for a vote of no-confidence | |
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| Jan.30 |
Oakland |
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BART Cop Remains Jailed| 27-year-old Johannes Mehserle who shot and killed an unarmed man remained jailed, hours after a judge set a $3 million bail | |
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North Oakland |
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Shot and killed The shooting happened at about 5:10 p.m.
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| Jan.31 |
Oakland |
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 Chauncey Bailey murder trial delayed The trial for a man accused of gunning down paper editor will be delayed until at least late April after the man's defense attorney failed to appear
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Oakland |
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New BART Cop Protests Peaceful City streets were quiet after dozens of people angry with a bail for a former officer charged with murder protested for a second straight da...
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