Jeff Thomason

OAKLAND— Dozens of police maintained a late-night guard around City Hall in Oakland, California, following daylong protests that resulted in 300 arrests. Earlier, Occupy Oakland demonstrators broke into the historic building and burned a U.S. flag,...

OAKLAND -- The foster parents who held vigils pleading for the safe return of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy have been arrested on suspicion of murder, Oakland police said Friday. Louis Ross and Jennifer Campbell, who is the boy's aunt,...

Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts held a news briefing about 7:30 p.m. Friday to say the crowd of protesters had been declared an unlawful assembly and those who refused to disperse would be arrested. One officer had been hit by......

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Friday, some breaking windows and knocking down fences, after a white former transit officer was given the minimum possible prison sentence of two years for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California...

Bay Area Rapid Transit and Oakland police officers fatally shot a man armed with a knife near the Fruitvale BART station Saturday morning, authorities said. The shooting comes about a week after a Los Angeles jury convicted former BART officer......

A man killed in an officer-involved shooting near an Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit station was identified Sunday as Fred Collins, 48, of Oakland. The shooting occurred Saturday morning after Oakland police received reports of a man armed with two......

Police say a California man who engaged in a freeway shootout with authorities was planning to attack people at the American Civil Liberties Union and another nonprofit. Oakland Police Officer Jeff Thomason says Byron Williams told investigators he was...

A day of largely peaceful rallies against cuts in education funding Thursday was disrupted in Los Angeles and Oakland when police and protesters clashed, shutting down roads and freeways as officers made arrests. In Oakland, at least 150 people were......

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Bouquets of flowers from grieving residents were piled up at a growing memorial in front of the Oakland police department after its worst single day death toll. Three officers were killed Saturday during separate confrontations...

Whom to blame now? When Bears quarterback Cade McNown left Sunday's game with a separated throwing shoulder after being tackled on the sideline two minutes into the second quarter, conventional wisdom had it that an injection of Jim Miller would be...

It wasn't just the way it happened or how it happened or where it happened. It was all of it. Beating the Packers. Winning one for Walter. Handing their most despised rivals their second humiliating loss in less than a week. It was so much to...