Update: February 7, 2010:  Afua is home and safe.

Fifteen year old Oakland girl Afua Ayana Vinson has been missing for over 24 hours. She was last on getting on the AC Transit Line 15 bus at 58th and Martin Luther King heading towards downtown Oakland Wed. Feb 3 at 9:30 p.m., according to her family.

Oakland citizens concerned about prostitution and drug dealing in East Oakland spoke at a public hearing downtown at City Hall on December 1st over whether High Street Billiards, a family-owned establishment that has operated in the neighborhood for nearly 40 years, should lose its right to sell alcohol.