New Orleans named most crime-ridden US city

The city of New Orleans has the highest level of crime in the US, according to an annual ranking of crime rates in American cities.The report from CQ Press draws on data from the FBI on murder, rape, robbery,...

Oakland Tackles Foreclosed Homes With Federal and State Money

Oakland has been granted an allocation of $8.2 million from the U.S. Federal Housing and Economic Recovery Act to rehabilitate foreclosed houses in the city, but it must submit specific proposals by December 1 on how to help residents at risk of foreclosures and on how to...

Boa::Eat You Up - YUM! OUT TODAY!!!

"Boa::Eat You Up - YUM! OUT TODAY!!! 21 10 2008 Update: BoA comes out today!!! Be sure to grab it like its HOTTT! Thanks to BoA’s Jewelry Box for updates! 10.14.2008. That will be the anticipated release date of BoA’s 1st US...

Do you think Cannabis, Marijuana should be legalized?

There are good and bad to both. With it illegal fewer people will choose to use it, simply because it is illegal. But because it is illegal there are tons of people of ill-repute making billions off of its sale and...

NYC Marathon : Brazilian’s Victory Goes Unnoticed by Expats

Brazilians only have eyes to soccer and F1, Santos made a great job again, but most of the expats not even noticed."While Marilson Gomes dos Santos toiled over the Queensboro Bridge on Sunday morning, the pocket of...

Tribute: Nancy Hicks Maynard, thanks for diversifying America's newsrooms

Maynard was one of the first black women to be hired by The New York Times. She worked on the Metro staff and later the Washington bureau, covering major stories, including Robert F. Kennedy's funeral,campus unrest...

Raiders Debut New Head Coach, Same Result, Absolutely Pathetic

The hapless St. Louis Rams captured their first win of the 08 regular season under new Head Coach Jim Hasslet. The Rams, winless through the first five games of the regular season pulled the proverbial wool over the...

Raiderland Drama, Darth Vader Vs Luke Skywalker, Just Adhere Baby?

Things are permanently lost in translation when there coming out of Raiderland. This Tuesday was no exception. A few well whipped member of the Raiders press corp witness an unmasked Darth Vader grab a young blonde...

A Raidernation under siege, Head Coach not fired, Reporter “smoking weed”

Veteran Bay Area sports reporter Tim Kawakami received a rare peek "behind the Raiders curtain" Monday, when confronted by Raiders Official John Herrera following a press conference that shocked most of those who...

Sure it’s crass perhaps even rude, Charlie Manson at Quarterback,

All’s not well in Raiderland Oakland’s performance Monday night against the hated Denver Broncos and cocksure Super Bowl winning coach Mike Shanahan was abysmal. It is true that no one game can represent an...

Minor quake jolts Oakland, California

Here we go again folks, it looks like I moved from California just in time"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck east of Oakland, California, at around 9 p.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was about...

Penguin receives knighthood, inspects the troops

I could think of a few generals he could replace. " Believe it or not, the Norwegian King's Guard has a penguin for a mascot and honorary colonel-in-chief. Fittingly, it's a king penguin. He resides at the...

The End of White Flight

"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...

Blanton Traded to The Phillies

"The A’s shipped Joe Blanton to the Philadelphia Phillies for three minor leaguers Thursday, a trade that was not as surprising as the one Beane made nine days earlier. That was when he traded Rich Harden to the...

Car fire in Oakland

A car fire today slowed traffic through Oakland as people nearly stopped on the freeway to take photographs, causing long delays at the noon hour.

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