Senai Kidane works as a doctor at Kaiser's emergency room. By: Ryan Phillips | April 16, 2012 – 1:00 pm Many of the 20,000 people from Ethiopia and Eritrea living in the Bay Area call Oakland home. Oakland North is taking a look at the culture and history of the Ethiopian or Eritrean communities in Oakland with “East Africans in Oakland” a series of profiles... 

KTVU OAKLAND, Calif. — Tewodros Gebreselassie was sentenced Wednesday to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the fatal shooting of three in-laws at their Oakland apartment complex on Thanksgiving Day 2006. Prosecutor Joni Leventis said the victims in the case were shot by Tewodros Gebreselassie's older brother, 48-year-old Asmerom Gebreselassie... 

Murder verdict stirs memories for those at Berkeley High Memorial mural in the C Building at Berkeley High School. Photos: Brenda Kahn By Brenda Kahn Flanking the steps leading to the second floor of the C Building at Berkeley High School is a pair of colorful and poignant murals dedicated to students who died in the 1997-98 academic year. Nearby, adjacent to the G/H Building, is a small memorial... 

OAKLAND — Asmerom Gebreselassie and his brother Tewodros will spend the rest of their lives in prison after a jury decided Tuesday both successfully planned and carried out the killings of their sister-in-law, her mother and her brother on Thanksgiving Day 2006. After deliberating for about seven days, the jury of 10 women and two men found the Gebreselassie brothers guilty of all 14 charges... 

Oakland Tribune, By Paul T. Rosynsky, April 6, 2011 OAKLAND — The murder trial against two Eritrean brothers accused of killing three in-laws was postponed Wednesday after a judge agreed with defense attorneys that a translator working the case for the day was failing to properly translate the words of the defendant. The delay came just as Asmerom Gebreselassie was about to explain why he... 

February 14, 2011 OAKLAND (BCN) – A witness in a triple-murder trial testified Monday that an in-law interrupted his family’s Thanksgiving Day dinner at their home in Oakland in 2006 by firing a hail of bullets that struck his brother and mother. Angesom Mehari, 24, testified that Asmerom Gebreselassie, 47, yelled, “Don’t move!” and shot his brother, 17-year-old...