OAKLAND (KPIX) — A new class of graduates from the Oakland Police Basic Academy celebrated finishing the program Friday morning and prepared to begin working as officers on duty. “I always wanted to a be a police officer when I was young. It’s always been a dream of mine,” said Khalil Logan, a graduate of the academy and the class valedictorian. “It’s one of those things where you wake up every morning and you see that there’s a lot of help that can be provided to people and it’s just an honor to think that you can be the person to do that for somebody.” The 187th Basic Academy included 26 fut ..read more

OAKLAND (KPIX) — There were no classes at any of the Oakland Unified schools Friday as teachers participated in a one-day strike and district administrators asked students to stay home. It all has to do with planned school closures. At the end of the current school year, Community Day and Parker K-8 will close and La Escuelita will lose its middle school. In the 2022-2023 school year, Brookfield Elementary, Carl B. Munck Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Horace Mann Elementary and Korematsu Discovery Academy will close. Hillcrest K-8 would close its middle school grades. Rise Community Elem ..read more

OAKLAND (KPIX) — There will be no classes at any of the Oakland Unified schools Friday as teachers are participating in a one-day strike. District administrators have asked students to stay home. It all has to do with planned school closures. At the end of the current school year, Community Day and Parker K-8 will close and La Escuelita will lose its middle school. In the 2022-2023 school year, Brookfield Elementary, Carl B. Munck Elementary, Grass Valley Elementary, Horace Mann Elementary and Korematsu Discovery Academy will close. Hillcrest K-8 would close its middle school grades. Rise Comm ..read more

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Police in Oakland are asking for help from the public in finding a teen who has been missing since last weekend and is believed to be at-risk due to her age. Officers said 15-year-old Aniyah Nelson was last seen around 8 p.m. Sunday on the 4500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way in North Oakland. At the time of her disappearance, police said she was wearing a dark green jacket with fur, along with white pants. Nelson’s family told police she is in good mental and physical condition. Aniyah Nelson, 15, was last seen in North Oakland on April 24, 2022. (Oakland Police Depart ..read more

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) – A federal judge is set to ease decades of federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department. While even one of the department’s harshest critics say progress has been made, others are skeptical of the possible move. For nearly 20 years, a federal monitor has been overseeing the department. “The Riders” police scandal in the early 2000s led to the arranged federal oversight agreement, and the city paying out millions to plaintiffs because of police misconduct. Bishop Bob Jackson has been leading a church congregation in East Oakland for nearly 40 years. He’s seen how st ..read more

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – It is a massive drug bust, by just about any measure. Over the weekend the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department announced the seizure of 92 pounds of fentanyl during raids in Oakland and Hayward, and investigators believe those drugs were bound for San Francisco. It is a massive haul, but even those behind the investigation worry that it won’t put a dent in the drug supply. Fentanyl seized in a bust in Hayward and Oakland. (Alameda County Sheriff’s Office) To try to put 92 pounds in a street-level perspective in San Francisco, consider that Tenderloin police have freq ..read more

OAKLAND (KPIX) — An early Sunday morning burglary at an Oakland dispensary led to a shooting that injured a business owner. Cannabis merchants said this is the latest example of their industry under attack and it’s more dangerous to do business now than before marijuana was legal. Oakanna is a brand new dispensary on Lakeshore Avenue near Lake Merritt that opened a week ago on April 16. Police said that just before 4:30 a.m. a group of burglars tripped an alarm. The owner Joshua Chase received the alert and went to investigate. Police said someone shot him, wounding him in the foot. Cannabis e ..read more

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — A 91-year-old Oakland man died from injuries he suffered Friday morning in the uptown neighborhood of his city, police said Saturday. A vehicle hit the man at 7 a.m. Friday at Telegraph Avenue and 20th Street as he was in a marked crosswalk. Firefighters and paramedics responded and the man was taken to a hospital, police said. He died at about 11 p.m. Friday. Intersection of 20th St. and Telegraph in Oakland. (Google Street View) Police said the driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. According to police, the vehicle was traveling ..read more

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – An arrest has been made in connection with the fatal shooting of 15-year-old Camyla Brown in East Oakland earlier this month. The Oakland Police Department announced Friday that a juvenile suspect was taken into custody with the assistance of U.S. Marshals. No additional details about the suspect or how the suspect was arrested were immediately available. On the evening of April 9, Brown was shot on the 2900 block of 68th Avenue, near the Eastmont Town Center. She died the following day, police said. Brown was among four people who were gunned down on a weekend when more tha ..read more

OAKLAND (CBS SF) – A man was arrested for alleged battery on an Oakland Police officer as authorities cracked down on a large sideshow in East Oakland on Easter Sunday. Police said that at least 200 spectators and 100 vehicles took over multiple intersections of 82nd Avenue between MacArthur Boulevard and Ney Avenue on Sunday night. Some spectators were also reportedly firing fully-automatic weapons into the air. When officers responded, two people began to fight. An officer who tried to intervene was struck in the face by one of the people. Other officers arrested the person, who was not iden ..read more