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Child labor, mayhem, lewd comments to teen girls alleged at California Popeyes

OAKLAND, California — Children as young as 13 worked illegally, female teen employees were subjected to sexually suggestive comments, and security guards contributed to violent mayhem at a Popeye’s fried-chicken restaurant in Oakland, newly filed worker complaints to state regulators claim.

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Carl Weathers’s acting career fueled by a comment from John Madden

Before he was Apollo Creed or Greef Karga, he was a Raiders linebacker. Now more than 50 years later, Weathers revisits his end in football and start in Hollywood.

Sports Illustrated

Funding gap of $75M holding up A’s stadium deal

LAS VEGAS — The Oakland Athletics are negotiating with Clark County to bridge a $75 million dollar gap in public financing for the proposed $1.5 billion MLB Las Vegas ballpark.

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Tupac Shakur Way: California city to name street after iconic rapper

Shakur lived in Oakland in the early 1990s and has other connections to the city, including filming a video there

The Guardian - US

Tupac Shakur to be honored with a street name in California

The late Tupac Shakur is getting part of an Oakland city street named after him

The Independent UK

MLB fans lashed out at John Fisher after the A’s had their worst attendance since 1979

MLB should never have let this happen.

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Man fatally shot in Woodlawn home

About an hour earlier, another man was shot to death less than four miles away in the Oakland neighborhood.

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Man fatally shot in Oakland neighborhood

Jermone Baker, 34, was outside in the 700 block of East 38th Place about 6:35 a.m. Thursday when someone in a red sedan exited and opened fire, Chicago police said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Oakland A’s Reach Agreement to Build $1.5 Billion Stadium on Las Vegas Strip

The team’s eventual move to the desert cleared a major hurdle Tuesday.

Sports Illustrated

Oakland 2nd California diocese to seek bankruptcy over abuse

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for bankruptcy due to hundreds of new child sex abuse claims, becoming the second diocese in California to do so

The Independent UK

A California panel has called for billions in reparations for descendants of slaves

California's reparations task force has voted to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.

WEKU

Once a refuge, Oakland homeless camp is dismantled: ‘My world was ripped to pieces’

The city has evicted all the residents from Wood Street amid its worst housing and homelessness crisis ever

The Guardian - US

Oakland teachers union on strike; schools open without them

More than 3,000 teachers and other workers in the Oakland Unified School District are on strike after claiming the district failed to bargain in good faith on a new contract

The Independent UK

MLB fans crushed A’s ownership after attendance dropped to 2,500 in the saddest scene at Oakland Coliseum

Oakland deserves so much better.

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More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high

U.S. murder clearance or solve rates have hit an all-time low. Experts say mutual mistrust between police and some communities is creating a vicious cycle where unsolved killings breed more mistrust.

Capital & Main

Wood Street Commons’ Final Stand

Oakland is clearing out what was once the city’s largest unhoused community.

Sports Illustrated

Reggie Jackson Rips Oakland Officials for Botching A’s Stadium Issue

The Hall of Fame outfielder blames the city for what has transpired.

Tribune News Service

Bill Madden: A’s continue to be an embarrassment to MLB, but so do a half-dozen other teams

NEW YORK — The sorry plight of the Oakland Athletics, which came to a head this week with the announcement the team will be pulling up stakes and heading to a new ballpark in Las Vegas, is the most glaring example of the bigger problem vexing baseball — the lack…

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Daily Mirror

Police warn drivers of 'two new tricks' criminals are using in spate of carjackings

The Oakland Police Department revealed thieves are intentionally ramming their vehicles into people's car “in hopes of getting the victim to stop" to try and steal their possessions

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: MLB and A's should do the right thing and keep team in Oakland

If baseball mythology really came to life, if teams really were civic assets and owners really were stewards of those public trusts, Rob Manfred would have issued a starkly different statement when the Oakland Athletics decided they wanted to move to Las Vegas.

Los Angeles Times

Oakland Trader Joe's store becomes first to unionize in California

The campaign to unionize Trader Joe's workers has officially claimed a victory in the company's home state. An Oakland store on Thursday became the first Trader Joe's in California to unionize.

Sports Illustrated

NFL Owner Rips Baseball Team for Plans to Move to Las Vegas

The Raiders and A’s have a contentious history, which Davis won’t let anybody forget.

Tribune News Service

Dieter Kurtenbach: Oakland, the East Bay deserve better than John Fisher’s bush-league A’s

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Around these parts, those who can do.

Sports Illustrated

A’s Display the Ugly Side of Moneyball, On and Off the Field

Ownership’s unwillingness to support their team on and off the field will seemingly lead the Athletics on a shameless path out of Oakland to Las Vegas.

Tribune News Service

On the move? Oakland Athletics announce Las Vegas land deal.

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland A’s, who for five decades built an iconic legacy of baseball and community at the vast concrete Coliseum it called home, have agreed to buy land in Las Vegas and build a new stadium there, team officials confirmed Wednesday.

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