A paroled felon has been charged with being an accessory in the beating and shooting death of a man near the former Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall, authorities said.

Issac McDaniels, 31, who was arrested Monday, has been charged with assault and being an accessory to the Nov. 10 slaying of Kayode Ola Foster, 25, of Oakland....

A suspected gang member and parolee with a criminal history that includes arrests for grand theft and being a felon in possession of a gun was charged Thursday with murder in the drive-by shooting that killed 3-year-old Carlos Fernando Nava.

Lawrence C. Denard, 26, who could face life in prison, was charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder. Police say he shot at two rival gang members near 65th Avenue and International Boulevard on Monday afternoon but instead hit and killed Carlos, who was in a stroller with his family on the street...

Oakland police say two men, including a parolee released from prison two weeks ago, have been arrested on suspicion of shooting at officers.

Benny Martin and his alleged getaway driver, Anthony Perry, were arrested Saturday.

Police say a report of a man shooting at a car sent officers to a street and the gunman shot at their patrol car...

A state appeals court in San Francisco today ordered the parole release of two men who each served close to three decades in prison for separate second-degree murders committed in Oakland in 1979 and South San Francisco in 1982.

Bennie Moses, 61, was convicted in Alameda County Superior Court of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Willie Rhodes, whose brother had killed Moses’s father five years earlier, in Oakland on 1979. He was sentenced to 17 years to life in prison.

Ernesto Juarez, 50, was found guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court of second-degree murder in killing Bruce Farley in a vehicle collision in South San Francisco in 1982...

A parolee shot a man to death during a street fight Saturday, less than two weeks after his arrest in connection with an unrelated Oakland homicide, Richmond police said.

Warren King, 43, went to jail June 9 after Oakland detectives and Richmond police went to his grandmother's house in south Richmond and arrested him on suspicion of pulling the trigger in a March 2007 shooting that left a man dead in the 5200 block of San Pablo Avenue in Oakland.

Oakland police had issued an arrest warrant for King, who previously had been paroled from state prison after serving time for a manslaughter conviction, and recently learned that he sometimes stayed at an address in the 2200 block of Potrero Avenue in Richmond…

"We've had an upsurge in people that are interested in coming to Oakland within the past week," said acting Police Chief Howard Jordan "They have a sense of dedication and they feel they could help Oakland by coming to work for us."

Jordan says the calls came even before Friday's moving memorial for the four fallen officers killed by a parolee. They came from other police agencies within California even the Department of Corrections.

Head of Recruiting Captain David Downing says they usually get lateral calls every other week. Lateral candidates save the department money because they're already sworn officers…

A four-hour standoff in East Oakland between police and an armed parolee who didn't want to leave his grandfather's home ended peacefully Sunday night after police negotiators succeeded in talking the man into surrendering, officials said.

The incident began shortly after 7 p.m. when the man's grandfather and brother called police to report that after being told to leave the home, the man waved a loaded handgun and threatened violence, according to Lt. Ken Whitman. Police determined that the man was a convicted felon who had served time for assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm…