Stories for April 2009
Stories for Thursday, April 30
Man Test-Driving Motorcycle Critically Injured In Crash
A 35-year-old San Mateo man was critically injured Thursday afternoon when he crashed a motorcycle he was test-driving in Fairfield, police said. Fairfield police and fire personnel went to the 1800 block of Deer Spring Court at about 4:10 p.m. and located the victim. He was flown to John Muir ...
Heroic School Nurse Dies After Helping Fallen Coach
Santa Clara High School is mourning the loss this week of a school nurse who likely helped save the life of the school's softball coach suffering from a heart attack just moments before collapsing herself. She later died.On Tuesday, 59-year-old Eileen Bowden gave John Rahbar CPR minutes after he collapsed ...
Petaluma Authorities On Alert After Multiple Black Bear Sightings
Petaluma police and animal control personel were on the lookout Thursday after multiple reports of a black bear roaming the city's streets.The animal has been described as a black bear weighing about 200 pounds. It's been seen in the area of East Washington Street and Maria Drive.Animal control calls the ...
Ska-Funk Giants Land In Berkeley
Combining equal parts of deep funk, high-energy punk, and frantic ska, the Los Angeles-based Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s. With their hyperactive, self-conscious diversity, goofy sense of humor, and sharp social commentary, the group gained a sizable cult following ...
Trumpet Virtuoso Brings Band To Oakland
Multiple-Grammy winning virtuoso trumpeter and international star Arturo Sandoval returns to the Bay Area to join in the musical celebration of the 24th annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. A versatile player of the highest caliber, Sandoval was one of the founding members of the noted Cuban supergroup Irakere that also ...
Local Men Indicted For Alleged $5.3 Million Insider Trading Scheme
Three Bay Area men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for an alleged insider trading scheme of more than $5.3 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The 38-count indictment, unsealed today, charges Maher Fayez Kara, 37, of San Carlos, his brother Mounir Fayez ...
LA Psychic Makes Claim On Cantu Reward Money
A Los Angeles psychic is claiming she should receive some of the reward money in the Sandra Cantu case because of her predictions.Dani Pedlow says she was contacted by a Tracy resident and sent her text and e-mail messages.Pedlow says she described the location of Cantu's body to the woman ...
3.6 Earthquake Strikes Near Morgan Hill
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.6 struck in Santa Clara County Thursday afternoon about 9 miles north of Morgan Hill, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake had a depth of 3.4 miles and struck at about 3:50 p.m., according to the USGS. It was centered 12 ...
'Idol' Finalist Passes On Timberlake Comparisons
"American Idol" finalist Matt Giraud said he appreciates being compared to Justin Timberlake but intends to follow his own musical path. "A white guy with soul, that's just how it works. ... But I think I'm a lot different," Giraud said Thursday, one day after being voted off the Fox ...
Soledad Bus Crash Dead Named; 4 Still In Critical
The Monterey County coroner released the names Thursday of the four French tourists who were killed along with their bus driver in a wreck that's drawn the attention of a team of California Highway Patrol forensic specialists. The coroner said that four French citizens -- three men and one woman ...
San Francisco Cinco de Mayo Festival
One of the city's most spectacular traditions, San Francisco's annual Cinco de Mayo celebration showcases the very best of Mexican and Latin American cultures with a diverse array of music, dance and artistry for the entire family to enjoy in Dolores Park. The eighth annual Cinco de Mayo Festival is ...
California's Population Tops 38 Million
The latest estimates from the state Department of Finance show California's population has topped 38 million. The department said Thursday that California added 409,000 residents in 2008, bringing its population to 38.3 million to start 2009. Los Angeles remains the state's largest city with more than 4 million residents, but ...
Survey Finds Sierra Snow Is 66 Percent Of Normal
The Sierra Nevada snowpack is at two-thirds of normal for this time of year, raising concerns about summer water deliveries to cities and farms. The third straight winter of below-normal precipitation has prompted drought warnings in California. The state depends on its snowpack for much of its summer water supply. ...
Attorney General's Tires Stolen From His Home
A thief stole two tires from California Attorney General Jerry Brown's Toyota Camry hybrid while it was parked outside his home in the Oakland hills last Friday night, his spokesman Scott Gerber said Thursday. Gerber said Brown was in Sacramento attending the state Democratic Party convention at the time. He ...
Woman Gives Birth On Highway 4
A healthy, eight-pound baby boy was born in the back of an ambulance on the side of state Highway 4 near Pittsburg Thursday morming, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokeswoman Emily Hopkins said. An ambulance picked up the mother at her home in Pittsburg after she called to say ...
Berkeley Police Seek Hit-And-Run Driver
Police were investigating a hit-and-run Wednesday night that left a victim in very serious condition at a local hospital, a police dispatcher said. The hit-and-run was reported at about 9:25 p.m. near the intersection of Adeline and Fairview streets, the dispatcher said. The victim was taken to Highland Hospital in ...
Family Drops Wrongful Death Suit Against Scott Peterson
A civil lawsuit filed by the parents of slain Modesto schoolteacher Laci Peterson against her convicted killer – her husband Scott Peterson – has been dropped, court officials said Thursday.A hearing in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Sharon and Dennis Rocha was scheduled for Thursday, but a Stanislaus County ...
San Francisco Residents Give City A C+
Fewer than half of San Francisco residents who participated in a recent city survey think favorably of city government, according to a report released Thursday by the city controller's office. The annual survey by the city polled about 2,700 residents between January and March of this year. The city received ...
$10 Million Worth Of Marijuana Seized In Saratoga Bust
About 7,000 marijuana plants with a street value of roughly $10 million were eradicated and a 28-year-old San Jose man was arrested Tuesday in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County near Saratoga. Deputies from the sheriff's office marijuana eradication team, along with a warden from the California Department of ...
Study: $50 Billion Needed To Fix Aging Rail Transit Systems
More than one-third of the trains, equipment and facilities of the nation's seven largest rail transit agencies are near the end of their useful life or past that point, the government said Thursday. Many have components that are defective or may be critically damaged. A report by the Federal Transit ...
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