Eight people, including a 1-year-old child, were shot in Oakland, California, on Monday evening, police said.
What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth.
As a vigil was held for a two-time Iraq war veteran whose skull was fractured allegedly during a clash between protesters and Oakland police, Wednesday night's Occupy protests could be a bellwether on whether police have agitated or suppressed the movement, analysts said.
CNN's Maggie Lake discusses historical parallels to the Occupy Wall Street Movement with Nobel Laureate Eric Foner.
Police used tear gas on protesters as they tried to remove them from City Hall in Oakland, California.
Authorities made a series of arrests at Occupy Wall Street protests in California and Georgia on Tuesday and Wednesday, with clashes in one city that involved tear gas being used on demonstrators.
Police are searching for a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman after she used her cell phone to record the suspect burglarizing her Oakland, California, home.
Oakland, California, police hope a cell phone video of a sexual assault suspect will lead to an arrest.
An app called "Hidden" can be used to pinpoint the location of a laptop should it be stolen. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
When Joshua Kaufman returned home March 21 to find his Oakland, California, apartment burglarized, he probably never imagined he'd see his stolen MacBook laptop again.
Two people died and four were wounded early Monday in a shooting outside an Oakland, California, nightclub, police said.
Authorities in Oakland, California, said unruly marchers were "tearing up the city" as they protested a two-year sentence for a former transit police officer convicted for killing an unarmed man.
Richard Lee sits before a classroom in Oakland explaining how the term marijuana has racist origins because it was first popularized to make Mexicans appear criminal and sinister.
In an age when cell phones dominate, calling 911 might not always be the best way to report an emergency.
A man was shot and killed Saturday in Oakland, California, during a confrontation with Bay Area Rapid Transit officers and Oakland police, police spokesman Jeff Thomason said.
Oakland police say several attemps to subdue a knife-weilding man with a Tazer failed.
Police mismanaged a shootout connected to the deaths of four Oakland, California, police officers last March, making a series of poor decisions that might have contributed to the record death toll, an independent board says.
Investigators are trying to determine whether a sweatshirt that volunteer searchers found Sunday is that of a missing California boy with cerebral palsy, Oakland police said.
Volunteers searching for missing Hasanni Campbell find a sweatshirt like the one the boy was reportedly wearing. KRON reports.
CNN's Joe Johns reports on the tense aftermath of gun violence in Oakland that took down four cops.
An Oakland, California, police officer who was critically wounded in a weekend gunbattle with a suspect has died, the Alameda County Coroner's Office told CNN on Tuesday.
An Oakland, California, police officer critically injured in one of two Saturday shootings that killed three fellow officers was pronounced brain dead on Sunday, a police spokesman told CNN.
Three police officers are dead and another is in grave condition. CNN's Kara Finnstrom reports
The FBI has opened an investigation into an undisclosed incident from 2000 involving an Oakland Police Department commander, a department spokesman said Friday.
Police in Oakland, California, try to control riots sparked by a transit officer's shooting of an unarmed suspect.
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