CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 10, 2005 | Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer
After scattering hundreds of copies of her suicide note from the seventh-floor ledge of a downtown building, Mary Jesus held her nose and raised an arm in the air. Then, like a swimmer taking a plunge, she leapt to her death. "Goodbye cruel world and all that," said the note, which blamed her suicide on an eviction she had battled fiercely -- and unsuccessfully. "Everyone will say what they always say when something totally preventable isn't prevented, 'Why didn't anybody do anything?'
ENTERTAINMENT
September 3, 2004 | Michael J. Ybarra, Special to The Times
Several years ago the Oakland Museum of California was scheduled to host a traveling exhibition about photographers who died in Vietnam. So curator Marcia Eymann began to work on a companion show about the war's effect on the state. The photography show never made it to Oakland. But Eymann was so impressed by what she learned about the repercussions of the Vietnam War on California that the museum decided to make that the subject of a full-blown presentation. The result is "What's Going On?
NEWS
December 1, 1992 | Associated Press
The discovery Monday of a slain kidnap victim pushed to 167 the number of murders in a city that only hours earlier eclipsed the previous single-year homicide record, set last year. Eric Dorrough, 22, was found shot to death near a junior high school, said homicide Lt. Mike Sims. The victim had been taken from his home at gunpoint Sunday night. "We got a call from his wife that the husband was kidnaped but there were no ransom demands," said Sims.
NATIONAL
July 16, 2009 | Robin Abcarian
Just a few blocks off Oakland's busy Jack London Square, Walter Hoye, a soft-spoken Baptist minister, was standing outside an abortion clinic, doing his best not to get arrested. Dressed in black and wearing his "Got Jesus?" ball cap, Hoye, 52, of Union City, Calif., held the hand-lettered sign he always brings: "God loves you and your baby. Let us help you." His black wire-rimmed sunglasses, perched halfway down his nose, gave him a faintly Hollywood air.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 5, 2003 | John M. Glionna, Times Staff Writer
Prosecutors said Tuesday they would retry three former Oakland police officers on charges of beating and framing suspects, even after a jury admitted Sept. 30 that it was hopelessly deadlocked in the controversial case. The graveyard-shift officers, known as the Riders, had allegedly made illegal arrests in the city's tough northwest corner in the summer of 2000 before being turned in by a rookie cop who had followed one of the men for field training.
NEWS
October 23, 1991 | TRACY WILKINSON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
They were a firefighter shielding a woman from a falling power line; a nurse who supervised reviews of patient care; an architectural writer; a police patrol officer. Several were neighbors or belonged to the same family. The people who died in the devastating fire that ravaged the hills above Oakland and Berkeley apparently fell victim to the brutally, unexpectedly swift speed of the flames.