SAN LEANDRO — Just before Al Lozano was set to make his presentation Thursday night, five large letters flashed across several slides on a projector screen behind him.

A week ago, I prompted people to wax nostalgic about the Key System on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its death. I still find it curious in this day of controversial transit subsidies that a private urban transit system could survive for the first half of the last century.

What began as an attempt to create the next best thing to having a scraper-car — known in Oakland’s hyphy-style rap culture for the matching body and wheel colors — has turned into a mobile mini-arts festival of 26-inch-tall Ferris wheels rolling through the streets of East Oakland.

JOSE IUERDO shot up heroin for the first time at 14 in West Oakland. He didn’t stop shooting up for 46 years, the approximate length of time he spent behind prison walls. That was Jose Iuerdo when he was Jose Querdo.

BERKELEY — Justin Zeigler lives alone with his 18-year-old twin brother, Jonathan, in a studio apartment in Oakland.

California juvenile delinquency courts are plagued by too many cases, too few services for troubled youth and a total bewilderment among many families involved, a two-year study by the state court system has found.

SAN LEANDRO — Just before Al Lozano was set to make his presentation Thursday night, five large letters flashed across several slides on a projector screen behind him.

HAYWARD — More than five years since the brutal murder of a Newark transgender teen, community leaders remain determined to confront the thinking they say turned two seemingly ordinary men into cold-blooded murderers.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Site 300 is home to high-explosives testing, shock physics experiments, hydrodynamic science — and poppies.

OAKLAND — A three-alarm fire that lasted nearly an hour displaced one family and damaged four buildings in East Oakland on Saturday night.