Fund set up for Oakland girl killed in hit-and-run

• Melee erupts near Eastmont Mall police substation in Oakland
  OAKLAND — A melee involving scores of people broke out about 4:30 p.m. near the Oakland Police Department's Eastmont precinct while the new police chief was speaking to officers inside. Chief Anth [...]
• Alameda police find 200 pot plants at apartment
  Alameda police seized approximately 200 marijuana plants and made one arrest Wednesday after narcotics officers searched an apartment in the city's West End. A bedroom of the apartment was being us [...]
• Woman shot to death in Berkeley
  BERKELEY — Police are investigating the shooting death of a woman in the south end of Aquatic Park in Berkeley. An officer on patrol spotted a body just after 4 a.m. on the shoreline of a pond adj [...]
• Authorities seize more than $2 million of cocaine at Hayward stash pad
  OAKLAND — A Livermore man on probation for a federal narcotics conviction was arrested Thursday evening after the Alameda County Narcotics Task Force seized 11 1/2 kilos of powder cocaine with a stree [...]
• Thieves nab 1,500-pound historic cannon from Vallejo cemetery
  VALLEJO — Local metal thieves have evidently graduated to larger game with the recent snatching of a 1,500-pound cannon from a Vallejo cemetery, officials said this week. The Civil War-era Naval Da [...]