OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- Former Oakland City Councilmember Wilson Riles was arrested earlier this week for battery on a police officer, but he is fighting back against those charges, saying he is the one ...

While some people rebel against the legacy of their fathers, Oakland mayoral hopeful Wilson Riles Jr. never questioned his father's bequest. When he was elected state schools chief in 1970, Wilson ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The city of Oakland has agreed to pay a $360,000 settlement to a former council member who filed a lawsuit alleging the city and police violated his civil rights when officers threw ...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick has ordered an internal affairs investigation into an altercation involving a former city councilman who was thrown to the ground and arrested ...

Wilson Riles Jr., a former Oakland councilman who served the city from 1979 to 1992 and ran for mayor three times, has settled a federal lawsuit for $360,000 in which he claimed Oakland’s city staff ...

OAKLAND — Former City Councilman Wilson Riles Jr. was taken down by police and arrested Thursday after a dispute at the city’s Planning and Zoning office over his backyard sweat lodge. Police Chief ...