Stories for January 2006
Stories for Tuesday, January 31
One Dead, One Wounded In Latest Richmond Shooting
One person is dead and one seriously injured Tuesday night in the wake of a shooting in Richmond that happened just blocks from where a 16-year-old was gunned down Monday afternoon, according to a police spokesman. Richmond police Lt. Mike Gormley said the shooting occurred in the 400 block of ...
SF Supervisors Condemn Persecution Of Falun Gong Practitioners
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this afternoon voted 9-2 to condemn the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Local Falun Gong proponents are currently locked in a bitter dispute with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce over the chamber's exclusion of the spiritual group in the annual Chinese New Year's Parade. ...
Oakland Teachers' Union Accuses School District Of Halting Talks
The union representing 3,100 Oakland school teachers Wednesday accused the Oakland Unified School District of breaking off talks aimed at reaching a new contract. Ben Visnick, president of the Oakland Education Association, said in a statement that the district broke off talks Tuesday night without agreeing to future dates. Visnick ...
Bush Tries To Take Charge Of Policy Agenda With Address
A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq. "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," Bush said as he ...
Foreign Oil Habit, War On Tap For Bush Speech
President George W. Bush hopes his second-term agenda will get a boost from tonight's State of the Union address.Aides are crafting a speech that includes new efforts to contain health-care costs and wean America off its imported oil habit.But with congressional elections later this year, it's unlikely there will be ...
'House' Will Not Been Seen Tonight
The hit Fox TV series 'House' will not be making any housecalls Tuesday night as it will be pre-empted by the network because of President George Bush's State Of The Union Address.However, 'American Idol' will be seen at its regular time.'House' will air at its regular time next week.
Cal Improves Along With Ubaka
Ayinde Ubaka can improvise. Last summer, when Ubaka's California teammates were too beat up to take part in open gym, Ubaka quickly found another way to hone his game. He drove a half-hour each way several days a week to Saint Mary's College, where he played pickup games with the ...
Santa Rosa Cops Bust Up Meth Ring
Police arrested five Santa Rosa area men on narcotics charges Monday following a month-long undercover investigation. Police arrested Eleazar Jarquin Gomez, 21, and his partner Horacio Velazquez Navarro, 25, at a residence at 1787 Petaluma Hill Road after narcotics agents allegedly purchased two ounces of methamphetamine from the suspects. Police ...
Google Misses Wall Street Earnings Expectations
Google Inc.'s rapid financial growth decelerated in the fourth quarter as the online search leader's profit fell below analyst expectation for the first time since its August 2004 initial public offering. The news rattled previously bullish investors, causing Google's stock price to plunge by more than 15 percent. The Mountain ...
Abandoned Baby Found In San Jose Church
Someone abandoned a clothed newborn baby inside a bag at the back of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in San Jose Tuesday morning, police reported. A transient walking past the church at 2020 E. San Antonio St. heard cries and located the baby behind the church.Police arrived at the scene ...
Federal Appellate Court Rules Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Illegal
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a congressional ban on a form of abortion is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's ruling in June 2004, saying the ban on partial-birth abortions lacks an exception for when a woman's health ...
Young Gunmen Driving Up SF Shooting Rate
The number of shootings in the city shot up more than 20 percent last year, an increase police blamed on a crop of impulsive younger gunmen and an influx of firearms into violent neighborhoods. San Francisco police responded to 315 shootings last year, a 21 percent jump over the 260 ...
Kickert Re-Discovers Shooting Touch In Gaels Win
Everyone keeps reminding Daniel Kickert how close he is to becoming the Saint Mary's career scoring leader. If the Gaels can keep playing this well, it will make the milestone that much sweeter. Kickert scored 15 of his 24 points in the final 6:11 and moved within five of breaking ...
No Contest Plead To Running Brothel Across From Police Station
A married couple pleaded no contest to charges they ran a brothel across the street from a Concord police station, Contra Costa County authorities said. Debra Watts, 52, will serve one year of home detention after pleading to three felony counts of pimping and pandering, prosecutor Jose Marin said Monday. ...
Leg Bone Discovery Triggers Search For Missing Chico Residents
Construction workers renovating a home here discovered a partially burned human leg bone, and now police are compiling a list of missing persons dating to 1927. The bone was found Jan. 26 as workers cleaned a fireplace ash box. Chico Police Lt. Greg Keeney said the home was recently sold ...
Illegal ATM Code Scanning Scam Uncovered At Arco Stations
Thieves attached an illegal scanning device to gas pumps at Arco stations from Sacramento to Redding, then used the data to steal at least $110,000 from automatic teller machines, the Placer County Sheriff's Department said. The discreet black plastic faceplates were attached to debit card readers at ampm stations to ...
Videotape Shows Deputy's Shooting Of Air Force Policeman
A videotape released Tuesday shows a sheriff's deputy shooting an unarmed Air Force policeman who recently returned from Iraq as he apparently heeded an order to get up off the ground. KTLA-TV repeatedly aired a 40-second clip it said came from a Chino resident who videotaped Sunday night's shooting, which ...
Tree Falls On El Monte Trailer; Kills One
A big tree fell onto a mobile home in a trailer park early Tuesday, killing one person inside, fire officials said. The 100-foot-tall-tree hit the mobile home about 6 a.m., said Inspector Ron Haralson of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Crews continued searching through the debris for any other ...
Second Victim In El Cerrito Stabbing Attack Dies
A woman who was critically injured in an attack that killed her husband early Tuesday morning in the couple's El Cerrito home has died, according to El Cerrito police.Julie Rogers succumbed to her wounds sometime in the afternoon, according to police Sgt. Wayne Mann. Her husband, Paul Rogers, died at ...
Alito Confirmed As Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. became the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice on Tuesday, confirmed with the most partisan victory in modern history after a fierce battle over the future direction of the high court. The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm Alito -- a former federal appellate judge, U.S. attorney, and ...
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