Oakland police say an Oakland teenager who was shot and killed while answering his front door may have been an unintended victim. Officer Jeff Thomason says 16-year-old Phillip Wright was shot Thursday night while answering a knock at the door of his east Oakland home. Gunmen standing outside shot through the door, hitting Wright.

The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day. Jurors throughout California are typically sympathetic to police, and the former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer could've expected a leg up before the start of trial in most any courtroom in the state's 58 counties. But legal analysts say Los Angeles is atypical and a bad draw for Mehserle.

Oakland police handed out more than 250 flyers Friday morning to  remind residents the department is still looking for leads in the hit-and-run  incident that killed 11-year-old Alana Williams on Oct. 16. Williams was a sixth grader at Frick Middle School when she was  killed nearby at a four-way stop at 64th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.

Beginning in 2010, BART will offer free $50 tickets to active duty  military personnel who are in the Bay Area on leave from the wars in Iraq or  Afghanistan. BART is the first major transportation agency in the nation to  offer free tickets to members of the military on leave from fighting in  Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan,  according to agency officials.

Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs. Demonstrators at UC Berkeley occupied Wheeler Hall on Friday and hung a sign from a window that read "32 Percent Hike, 900 layoffs," with the word "Class" crossed out in red. A group of students also rallied outside the building.

A 19-year old Berkeley man is in jail facing charges in connection with the January murder of a Danville teenager. Walter Bell was arrested at the Santa Rita Jail as he was preparing to be released on unrelated charges.  He is being held without bail on murder and robbery charges in the death of 17-year old Rylan Fuchs.

Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle's murder trial will take place in Los Angeles County. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Morris Jacobson ordered the trial moved to L.A. Thursday.  He had earlier granted the defense's change of venue motion after hearing evidence that it would have been difficult to find an impartial jury in the Bay Area.

The BART board of directors voted Thursday not to give any part of a  $2 million lighting improvement project for two stations to a longtime  associate of the troubled Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland. The BART board voted on Oct. 23 to have Nedir Bey and his firm,  Solar Eclipse, of Oakland, do lighting improvement work at the North Berkeley  station and have LINC Lighting & Electrical Group, of San Jose, do  improvement work at the 12th Street/Oakland City Center station.

Fees for University of California students will be rising over the next two years.  The U.C. Board of Regents voted to approve a finance committee report calling for the fee increases despite loud protests from thousands of U.C. students across the state. The vote to approve the fee increase came after regents defeated a proposal to eliminate the hikes for graduate students.

A big rig carrying organic blood orange soda is back upright after overturning during the Thursday morning commute spilling the liquid onto the roadway. The overturn happened on an on-ramp to westbound I-80 at Buchanan in Albany.  While some crews worked to upright the vehicle, others put down sand to prevent the soda from flowing into storm drains that empty in the Bay.