BART's investigation into a police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed rider was plagued with problems from the start, a Chronicle investigation has found. BART police allowed a train full of ...

Ryan Coogler’s remarkable “Fruitvale Station” begins with jittery cellphone footage, and, at first, we’re not quite sure exactly what we’re seeing: a train station, a group of men being subdued by ...

Headlines called attention to the shooting of Oakland man Oscar Grant following an altercation gone awry with some police officers at the Bay Area Rapid Transit train station in the wee hours of the ...

After putting in a full day at UPS, Wanda Johnson rushed to change from her work clothes into a sapphire blue gown. When she arrived at the Grand Lake Theater, she looked red-carpet ready -- her dress ...

In a novel effort to increase surveillance in a crime-plagued area, Oakland city leaders have purchased a batch of cameras for merchants in the Fruitvale district who were unable to afford them. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... R. 84 minutes. At area theaters. Actor Michael B. Jordan has the kind of soft brown eyes that serve complicated characters well. The people can be impossibly ...

There were surveillance cameras up when Campos was murdered in April, but the footage hasn't helped police catch anyone. Business owners here hope that the new cameras, which will be unveiled Friday, ...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- Oakland police said Thursday that they hope video footage will help them identify and arrest the driver and passenger of a vehicle that struck a 14-year-old bicyclist in the ...

%27Fruitvale Station%27 is the debut film of 27-year-old director/writer Ryan Coogler Coogler%27s USC short films got the attention of Forest Whitaker and his ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

I’ve been paying tribute to Fruitvale Station since I first saw this emotional powerhouse at Sundance in January. And why not? It’s a movie that matters. Debuting director Ryan Coogler brings a ...