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The Alameda County district attorney charged a man on Thursday with vandalism and hate crime enhancement counts for allegedly painting a swastika on Temple Sinai in Oakland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A vandal defaced an Oakland home in a traditionally Black neighborhood, spray-painting "all lives matter" and other graffiti on the exterior of the house late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Fremont police are investigating several reports of offensive graffiti at a construction site as possible hate crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A black woman living in an East Bay community said Wednesday that she and her neighbors were the target of racist graffiti, but the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is not investigating the incident as a hate crime, according to multiple media reports. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Jose man was arrested Thursday for allegedly defacing the city's Veterans Memorial earlier this month, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police are searching for the person who defaced the San Jose Veterans Memorial earlier this week, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California High School in San Ramon will have a heavy police presence Thursday after three instances of graffiti in the past week threatened violence, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Residents in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood awoke Monday to discover someone had painted numerous swastikas all over a popular neighborhood park. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two men and a juvenile were arrested Tuesday afternoon after gang crime detectives said they caught two suspects spray painting their alleged gang name on a fence, officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With his clean-shaven head, all-black outfit and oversize glasses, it's easy to imagine artist David Garibaldi striding into an edgy gallery opening in New York or Berlin. So what's the highly successful "performance painter" doing in a warehouse-style studio in Sacramento's R Street Historic District? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There is no shortage of newness in Sacramento. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On a rare sunny summer day in the Mission District, Nina Wright rolled up Clarion Alley with a large suitcase in hand. She dropped it in front of a group of six teenage girls and unzipped it. Spray cans burst out as the girls watched with a shy glee, eager to get their hands on the aerosol containers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It's not up there with homelessness or housing costs, but graffiti figures on any list of urban gripes. The spray can doodles show up everywhere at any time, and they cost the city and property owners a fortune to scrub away. They're also ugly. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Seven men described as "high-profile" graffiti taggers were indicted Tuesday on 52 felony counts in connection with thousands of dollars worth of property damage to buildings throughout San Francisco. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The walls surrounding Romaldo Esqueda were blank, covered in a layer of glossy gray paint. But in his mind, they already exploded with color. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police officers are adding a new strategy - going undercover - in an effort to combat hate crimes, Interim Police Chief Toney Chaplin said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man arrested on suspicion of spray-painting a racist epithet and symbol on the wall of a business and nearby vehicle in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood was charged with felony vandalism with a hate crime enhancement, officials said Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A student at a public high school in San Ramon admitted to scrawling racist graffiti in a school bathroom that read "whites" above one toilet and "colored" above another, school officials said Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Days after a vandal spray-painted imposing graffiti reading "build the wall higher" and dozens of other references to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a Spanish-language immersion school in Sonoma County, teachers and administrators are trying to calm their shaken classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the historic Hibernia Bank building was hit by graffiti vandals in October 2013, it was one tag too many. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Police are hunting for a vandal who spray-painted racist graffiti at a San Leandro park just hours before families began gathering at the popular open space on Easter Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there's a Hall of Fame for people unclear on the concept, I think we can all agree that we should nominate San Francisco graffiti tagger Cozy Terry. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco has been powerless to stop graffiti tagging. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco man has been convicted of spray-painting anti-Chinese graffiti around the southeast part of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco man was found guilty Thursday of spray-painting anti-Chinese graffiti around the southeast region of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Missing any of the many worthy exhibitions in the galleries this month is sure to feed that end-of-year anxiety we all feel. But two shows closing soon are so rewarding, no one will regret taking time from a busy holiday schedule to see them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco police arrested a 44-year-old man Wednesday suspected of spray painting a symbol on the French American International School in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood earlier this week that set off a brief panic after initial reports mistakenly linked the graffiti to the terrorist group ISIS. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco superior court judge set a high bail for a man accused of spray-painting anti-Chinese graffiti around the southeast region of the city after prosecutors argued that he should be considered a danger to the public because of his access to firearms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Francisco man accused of spray-painting "no more Chinese" graffiti around the southeastern part of the city was charged Thursday with several counts of vandalism and hate crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A string of spray-painted taggings in southeast San Francisco this weekend are being investigated by the police not just as acts of vandalism, but as hate crimes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prosecutors in Contra Costa County filed charges against a teenager who allegedly vandalized a war memorial in Danville earlier this year, officials announced Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Everyone knows how difficult it is to stop the graffiti tagging epidemic in the city. First, it's nearly impossible to catch anyone in the act. And if cops do, a criminal case in the courts often results in minor consequences, like a few hours of community service. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The court hearing for alleged serial graffiti tagger Andrew Yarbrough is going about the way we expected. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Thank you for the phenomenal coverage of the Charleston church shootings. Your newsroom and NPR have been careful to report vetted information, a vast improvement over the hurried and inaccurate news releases over other mass shootings of late. And with the proliferation of body cameras, we can all look forward to full-color video renditions of the very next carnage, sadly, not in your paper. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Almost everything you thought you knew about graffiti tagging in the city is wrong. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal investigators are trying to track down what appears to be a serial — and startlingly clueless — graffiti slinger who left her mark in national parks including Yosemite across five states and then posted photos of her indiscretions on Instagram. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there was ever a case that deeply annoyed Tenderloin residents, it was the graffiti bombing of the old Hibernia Bank last year. Not only was the historic facade marked with spray paint, the perp had the nerve to video himself in mid-tag to show off to his buddies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

If there was ever a case that deeply annoyed Tenderloin residents, it was the graffiti bombing of the old Hibernia Bank last year. Not only was the historic facade marked with spray paint, the perp had the nerve to video himself in mid-tag to show off to his buddies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Art restorers in Santa Barbara began work last week on an unusual canvas: 10 graffiti-covered redwood boards that were ripped from the side of a Victorian home on Haight Street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Art restorers in Santa Barbara began work last week on an unusual canvas: 10 graffiti-covered redwood boards that were ripped from the side of a Victorian home on Haight Street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland's decreasing crime, bustling nightlife and vibrant art scene are fueling talk of a renaissance. But drivers heading through a graffiti-covered section of Interstate 880 from the airport to downtown aren't seeing the city's best side. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Activists who see Silicon Valley's corporate shuttle buses as a symbol of tech-fueled gentrification struck again Friday morning, temporarily blocking four coaches as they picked up workers in San Francisco and Oakland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graffiti used to cover the walls at San Francisco's Lincoln High School. It was carved into tables, etched onto windows and scrawled in restroom stalls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Graffiti used to cover the walls at San Francisco's Lincoln High School. It was carved into tables, etched onto windows and scrawled in restroom stalls. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When self-taught local painter Poesia saw worthy kin falling between the cracks of graffiti and street art, not surprisingly he decided to take matters into his own hands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate over San Francisco's affordability crisis has, in too many ways, devolved into a bitter backlash against "techies." This week we saw protesters blocking a Google bus in the Mission District and last week the industry's workers were treated to more mean-spirited graffiti in the neighborhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

About a year and a half ago, Rebeka Rodriguez had an awful idea. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about San Francisco police Capt. Jason Cherniss' link in his community newsletter to a video showing someone on a balcony of the long-vacant Hibernia Bank in the Tenderloin spray-painting his name on the stone in big block letters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While BART workers and trains were off track for the four days of the recent strike, vandals were busy tagging stations, trains and buildings, including San Francisco's Glen Park Station, which was covered with graffiti. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While BART workers and trains were off track for the four days of the recent strike, vandals were busy tagging stations, trains and buildings, including San Francisco's Glen Park Station, which was covered with graffiti. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]