The mayor of Oakland, California, is demanding a hate crime investigation after a large public menorah was vandalized and destroyed – with pieces of it thrown into Lake Merritt as Jewish communities ...

After 60-year-old retiree David Schneider was shot and killed here while trimming a tree in his yard, his neighbor, Toni Bird, said she retreated indoors. “People aren’t feeling safe out of their ...

It would be easy to mock a grad student who decides to put down roots with her auto-mechanic boyfriend in a sketchy part of Oakland, Calif., better known for its murder rate than fresh produce. But ...