Stories for February 2009
Stories for Saturday, February 28
Two Die in Small Plane Crash Near Private Airport
A pilot and a passenger died Saturday after their single-engine plane crashed outside a private airport north of Sacramento, authorities said.Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the 1960s Mooney M20E crashed after 9 a.m. west of the Rio Linda Airport. Gregor said the plane was believed to have taken ...
Governor's Staff Traveled On Taxpayers' Dime; Expenses In The Thousands
A news report says in the midst of a budget crisis, top officials in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration charged taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for airfare, hotels and meals despite a ban on nonessential travel.The Los Angeles Times says 10 high-ranking staff members who live in Southern California billed ...
Two Men Shot in Broad Daylight In Bayview District
Two men were shot Saturday afternoon in San Francisco's Bayview District, a police sergeant said.At about 12:10 p.m., police received a call about a shooting in the 100 block of Commer Court.Responding officers found a 24-year-old man who was shot in the face, Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said. His injuries were ...
Body Of Homeless Man Found In Bloomingdale's Bathroom
The San Francisco medical examiner's office is performing an autopsy Monday on a 44-year-old homeless man who was found in a bathroom at a Bloomingdale's department store downtown on Friday.Patrick Callahan Jr. was found in the morning when employees opened the store, San Francisco Police Department Sgt. Lyn Tomioka said ...
Richmond Teen Dies After Being Gunned Down Outside Birthday Party
A 16-year-old Richmond boy was gunned down early Saturday moments after he stepped outside of a family birthday celebration, authorities said. Update: Doctors took the teen off life support Saturday night. His parents donated his organs. Officers responding a reported shooting in the 3100 block of Ohio Avenue at about ...
Stories for Friday, February 27
New Security Measures At Northern California Ports
New regulations begin Saturday, February 28, requiring people working at the Port of Oakland and ten other Northern California ports to carry special identification called a "TWIC" card. It stands for "Transportation Workers Identification Credential." But there have been some snags.Truck drivers, longshore workers, port employees, train operators and other ...
Protesters Mark Oscar Grant's Birthday
Chanting "Justice for Oscar Grant," about a hundred protesters marched through Hayward to city hall on Friday in memory of the man shot to death on New Year's Day by a BART police officer. Grant would have turned 23 on Friday.The demonstration was relatively peaceful. But there was a bit ...
FBI After Serial Bank Robber Who Stuck Up 4 Banks In Bay Area
The FBI announced a reward Friday for information leading to the capture of a serial bank robbery suspect believed responsible for at least four San Francisco heists in the past year.The suspect robbed a Wells Fargo at 1560 Van Ness Ave. on July 31; a U.S. Bank at 2601 Mission ...
Vallejo Men Indicted In Alleged $17 Million-Ponzi Scheme
Two Vallejo men are facing charges for allegedly bilking investors out of more than $17 million in a Ponzi scheme.Federal prosecutors say 55-year-old Robert Cephas Brown Jr. and 49-year-old Duane Allen Eddings were indicted Thursday on multiple felony charges, including mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.Authorities say they operated ...
Man Sentenced To 50 Years For Killing Another Man Who Hit On Him
A Jury sentenced an Oakland man Friday to 50 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting another man he claimed had touched him in a sexually suggestive manner.Bruce Shaw, 25, was convicted on Dec. 9 of first-degree murder for the April 6, 2006, shooting death of 27-year-old Sirron ...
Man Sentenced To 35 Years For Shooting Wife In Church Parking Lot
A man who admitted killing his estranged wife in an Oakland church parking lot will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars.Matthew McCall was sentenced Friday in Alameda County Superior Court to 35 years to life in prison. He would be 78 before becoming eligible for parole.The American ...
Alto Great Blows Funky Jazz In SF
Jazz Alto Saxophonist Lou Donaldson was born on November 1, 1926. A New Yorker via North Carolina, he is best known for his soulful, bluesy saxophone sound but was heavily involved in the bebop era during his formative years. Some of his first recordings on Blue Note Records were with ...
Two Men To Stand Trial In Sonoma Co. Murder And Arson Case
On Friday, a judge ordered two Sonoma men accused of killing a woman and then burning her Santa Rosa-area home to cover up the crime to stand trial.John Michael Wayne, 34, and Steven Joseph King, 28, will stand trial for murder, robbery, burglary, arson and cruelty to animals. Two pets ...
Budget Cuts Could Stop CoCo County DA From Prosecuting Misdemeanors
A severe budget shortfall in Contra Costa County could force the district attorney's office to lay off more than a third of its staff and stop prosecuting misdemeanor cases, District Attorney Robert Kochly said Friday.The county already cut $90 million to balance the budget this year, but because of lower ...
57-Year-Old Beaten By Men In SoMa Attack Dies
A 57-year-old man reportedly assaulted by a group of men Feb. 15 in San Francisco's South of Market district died early Friday morning, police said Friday. The medical examiner's office identified the man as Peter Azadian, of San Francisco. According to police, Azadian and another man were walking in the ...
Five-Year-Old Boy, Now Identified, Killed After Being Hit By Truck
The Alameda County coroner's bureau released the identity Friday of a 5-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a work truck near the University of California at Berkeley's Clark Kerr campus earlier that day.Zachary Cruz, a kindergartner at Le Conte Elementary School and son of a UC Berkeley graduate ...
Schwarzenegger Appoints Several To High-Paid Posts
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reappointed his former scheduler to a $132,000-a-year job as head of a board his office says is redundant and is seeking to eliminate. Margo Reid Brown has been chairwoman of the Integrated Waste Management Board since 2006. Also Friday, Schwarzenegger named a newly termed-out Republican lawmaker, ...
Overturned Big Rig Blocks Highway 101 In SJ For Over Two Hours
An overturned big rig carrying 40 tons of paper blocked southbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose Friday for more than two hours, according to the California Highway Patrol. The crash was reported at about 10:55 a.m. on Highway 101 near an Interstate Highway 880 connector ramp, according to CHP ...
Unemployed Man Arrested After Alleged Burglary Attempt With Switchblade
Police say an unemployed Concord man who attempted to pull off a midday robbery was arrested Thursday in Walnut Creek. Officers responded to a house in the 1300 block of Corona Place where residents stated they heard a man trying to get in their house through a back door just ...
Swedish Band Releases Epic Two-Disc Set
Double albums are a rare breed these days, but Swedish sextet the Soundtrack of Our Lives (TSOOL for short) has never been known to shy away from ambitious noodling and psychedelic rock 'a' thons. With two discs boasting 24 songs altogether, "Communion" is a full-on rhapsodic concept album where, according ...
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