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In a city where football is more than a sport, the gun death of John Beam has provoked an outpouring of emotionFootball in Oakland, California, is more than a sport. It’s a community. In many schools, coaches are like parental figures who get young peo…
Cedric Irving Jr, 27, is alumnus of high school where John Beam taught before gaining fame on Netflix’s Last Change UA 27-year-old Skyline high school alumnus, frequently seen lingering near Laney College, has been taken into custody in connection with…
Mayor Barbara Lee calls John Beam ‘a man who dedicated himself to building up the young people of this city’A US football coach who starred in the Netflix documentary Last Chance U, about struggling college teams, has died after being shot on campus, a…
Troops appeared in US capital Tuesday night as president’s move is widely condemned as an authoritarian power grabThe Washington DC national guard began deploying on the city’s streets on Tuesday night, as the city’s mayor toughened her response to Don…
Lee defeated a moderate backed by outside groups working to push the Bay Area’s progressive politics to the center Barbara Lee, a trailblazing former member of Congress, has been elected as the next mayor of Oakland, California, after fending off an in…
Report says Euphoria actor’s death was due to ‘combined effects of methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and benzodiazepines’The actor Angus Cloud died in July of an accidental overdose of cocaine, fentanyl and other substances, a northern California coro…
Chabot elementary in Oakland received racist and threatening emails, forcing 50 students and staff to vacate the premisesA California elementary school was evacuated on Tuesday in response to a bomb threat, days after the school was targeted online by …
Crowds demand owner sells team rather than relocateFans chant and throw garbage on to field in protestFurious Oakland Athletics fans came en masse with a single message to owner John Fisher. “Sell the team!” they chanted thousands of times during the …
Shakur lived in Oakland in the early 1990s and has other connections to the city, including filming a video thereA northern California street may soon bear the name of late rapper Tupac Shakur.On Tuesday, Oakland’s city council unanimously agreed to na…
Team reach agreement for site of potential stadiumNew arena would sit on site of famous Tropicana hotelThe Oakland Athletics have reached an agreement with Bally’s and Gaming & Leisure Properties to build a potential stadium on the Tropicana hotel …