CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 17, 2007 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A prostitution sting scheduled to coincide with major league baseball's All-Star Game netted 131 arrests, authorities said Monday. "Operation Strikeout" resulted in arrests of suspected pimps, prostitutes and customers drawn to the Bay Area July 6-12 for the well-attended All-Star events.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 23, 2006 | Chris Lee, Special to The Times
IN the early morning hours most weekends, finding hyphy isn't difficult, it's just a matter of knowing what to look for. Pull off Interstate 580 near the San Leandro line and head south toward the San Francisco Bay. Along a nearly deserted stretch of Foothill Boulevard you'll find them: scorched black curlicues marking the street every hundred yards or so for nearly 10 miles.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 29, 2009 | Maura Dolan
In the neighborhood where four Oakland police officers were killed last weekend, a large makeshift memorial still adorns a sidewalk with flowers, notes and photographs of the slain police. Across the street lies another, smaller sidewalk memorial -- this one for the parolee who killed the officers. A cluster of African American women in front of the police memorial argued last week about a candlelight vigil planned for the felon, whom police had just linked by DNA to the rape of a 12-year-old.
MAGAZINE
July 6, 2003 | Scott Duke Harris, Scott Duke Harris last wrote for the magazine about Marin County's hot tub legacy.
Fated to live in the sunset shadows of San Francisco, Oakland has often been called an underdog town, but it's an underdog with a growl. People with money live in its hills, but Oakland, at heart, is a tough waterfront place, an unflinching antihero of a city that has earned its scars and the right to be suspicious. Maybe this put-upon feeling is a black thing. Thirty-five percent of Oakland's residents, a slight plurality, are African American, and the political stew boils.
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.
BUSINESS
March 4, 2009 | Roger Vincent
By day, it's far too quiet at the site of a planned housing and retail development on a former Navy base in Oakland. At night, neighbors can hear the thieves come out. They rip out copper wire, haul away pipes and take anything else they can steal from dozens of buildings on the site, abandoned after Irvine developer SunCal Cos. fell victim to the economy.
BUSINESS
March 18, 2009 | Evelyn Larrubia
A new Oakland-based union -- the product of a brutal fight between the elected leaders of healthcare workers in Northern California and their superiors in Washington -- announced Tuesday that it had gained its first members. North American Healthcare agreed to recognize the National Union of Healthcare Workers as the representative of more than 350 nursing home workers at four of the company's facilities in Northern California, the union said.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
August 4, 2007 | John M. Glionna and Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writers
Police investigating the execution-style killing of a journalist raided a bakery run by a Black Muslim splinter group Friday and seized weapons they said linked the group to the crime. Just before dawn, scores of officers in riot gear descended from heavily armed vehicles and stormed Your Black Muslim Bakery and three nearby residences. Seven people were arrested and numerous weapons were seized in the military-style operation.
NEWS
October 21, 1991 | AMY WALLACE and EDWARD J. BOYER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
They lifted up their eyes to the hills where their expensive homes were crumbling under the onslaught of the raging flames. Thousands fled as the blaze advanced through the affluent hilly neighborhoods of Berkeley and Oakland. Many of the escapees wore bandannas, washcloths or surgical masks over their mouths as protection against the thick black soot that filled the air for miles around.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 18, 2006 | John M. Glionna, Times Staff Writer
With each graceful stroke through the water, the sinewy teen leaves one of the nation's lingering stereotypes farther behind in his wake. A fierce competitor, 13-year-old Piankhi Gibson is making waves as an African American swimmer in an arena long dominated by white athletes. In the largely solitary sport, black swimmers are still isolated. But that doesn't bother Gibson.