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27
Jan 2011
Oakland police officers Curtis Filbert and John Hargraves spoke to a resident in East Oakland this week after being called to a home break-in. (Brian L. Frank for The Wall Street Journal)
The Oakland Police Department is down to 650...
26
Jan 2011
Lonnie Franklin Jr. in court. (KTLA)
Detectives said Wednesday night that they are investigating two additional killings that may have been committed by Lonnie Franklin Jr., the Grim Sleeper serial slaying suspect.
The revelation came...
26
Jan 2011
Oakland is now abstaining from impounding unlicensed drivers' cars - and from the hundreds of thousands of dollars the controversial seizures generate a year.
Without fanfare, the Oakland Police Department revised its impound policy late...
25
Jan 2011
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Authorities exchanged more than 100 shots with a fugitive holed up in an attic yesterday in a firefight that killed two officers, wounded a deputy US marshal, and led to an hourslong standoff that ended when the...