The Cardinal

A gunman opened fire Monday at a Christian university in California, killing at least seven people, wounding three more and setting off an intense, chaotic manhunt that ended hours later with his capture at a shopping center, authorities said. Oakland police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 10:33 a.m. PDT Monday to a report of multiple victims [...]

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Oakland, California police moved in to break up hundreds of protesters marching to a vacant building they said they wanted to take over. Oakland “will not be bullied by threats of violence or illegal activity. … Breaking into buildings, assaulting police officers, provoking confrontations and vandalizing property are tactics that are counterproductive and divide our [...]

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VIDEO: Get off my foot! A mob fights for 4GB memory cards at Walmart in Oakland, California. Girls and moms were reported to be punching each other over a special deal on yoga pants at the Victoria’s Secret at Monroeville Mall. – CBS Pittsburgh … A woman used pepper spray to get priority access to [...]

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Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment that protesters say was unrelated to the movement. Meanwhile police say a 35-year-old veteran fatally shot himself at an Occupy Wall Street encampment in Burlington, Vermont. Homicide Near Oakland Occupy Camp Oakland, California Oakland police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 5 p.m. Thursday to [...]

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An Iraq War veteran, Scott Olsen, was critically injured by a projectile that struck him in the head during the chaotic conflict between police and protestors in Oakland Tuesday. It’s unclear what the object was or who threw it. Olsen, 24, was unconscious after being struck in the head by an unknown projectile at the [...]

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Dozens of police in riot gear and hundreds of protesters in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement clashed in downtown Oakland Tuesday, with authorities using tear gas to respond to demonstrators’ repeated agitations. Protester crowds in Oakland diminished with each volley of tear gas — about five volleys of tear gas in three hours.

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An Amtrak train traveling 15 to 20 mph crashed into a train unloading passengers at an Oakland, California, station, injuring 17 people, Amtrak and fire officials said. Service at an Oakland train station was restored Thursday morning and an investigation was under way after an Amtrak train crashed into another train that was unloading passengers, [...]

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Police in Oakland, Calif., say a woman sexually assaulted by a man who broke in her home was able to use her cell phone to capture images of her assailant stealing her possessions. Police are hopeful that the video captured on a female victim’s cellphone before a sexual assault, will lead to the man’s arrest. [...]

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Oakland Fire Department and Police Department responded about 6:30 a.m. PT to an accident involving an Amtrak Train and an AC Transit Bus near 66th Avenue and San Leandro Street. The driver escaped the stalled bus about four minutes before impact. There were no passengers on the bus. There were 40 passengers on The Capitol [...]

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