Stories for November 2011
Stories for Wednesday, November 30
Occupy Oakland protesters argue city violated crowd control policy
Excessive police force violated the First Amendment rights of Occupy Oakland protesters by creating a "chilling effect" for potential participants, the American Civil Liberties Union argued before a federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday. ACLU staff attorney Linda Lye said that Oakland police twice violated their own crowd control policy ...
Kanye gets 7 Grammy noms; Adele, Mars, Foos get 6
Adele scored six Grammy nominations on Wednesday, including for record, song and album of the year, but the owner of the 2011's best-selling album with "21" wasn't the night's top nominee -- and that wasn't the evening's only surprise. Kanye West came away with a leading seven nominations, including a ...
SF man ordered to stand trial for attacking brother with drill
A man accused of attacking his brother with a power drill at a home in San Francisco last month was ordered to stand trial on assault charges after the sibling testified about the terrifying encounter. Kevin Guerin, 57, is accused of attacking his brother Jeremiah at the brother's home in ...
Howling winds cause power outages statewide
Some of the worst Santa Ana winds in years blasted through California, toppling trees and power lines and delaying flights as a low-pressure front threatened bring fierce gusts throughout Southwestern states, authorities said Thursday. Northern Santa Ana winds sweeping down through canyons created gusts of up to 80 mph through ...
Fallen Danville Marine honored during memorial service
Several hundred mourners packed the East Bay Fellowship church Wednesday afternoon at a memorial service for fallen Danville Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua D. Corral. The 19-year-old San Ramon Valley High graduate was killed Nov. 18 in combat operations in Afghanistan's Helmand province. During an emotional two-and-a-half hour service, family, friends ...
Statewide inmate shift quickly filling some county jails
Two months into California's most far-reaching public safety realignment in decades, some counties are seeing a higher-than-expected influx of inmates who could crowd jails to the breaking point much earlier than expected. State corrections officials say it is too soon to panic and expect the numbers to even out after ...
Body of San Jose soldier killed in Afghanistan returns home
The body of Sean Walsh, a 21-year-old California National Guard soldier from San Jose who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this month, arrived Wednesday afternoon at Moffett Federal Airfield on a white charter jet. Waiting at the airfield for the fallen soldier's arrival was a procession of supporters, members of ...
Los Lobos
Los Angeles-based band Los Lobos has been igniting stages with an incendiary mix of roots-rock, traditional Latin sounds, soulful grooves and heady experimentation for over 30 years. Drawing equally from rock, Tex-Mex, country, R&B, blues, and traditional Spanish and Mexican folk music, Los Lobos grew from its East LA bar ...
Father of wounded 1YO boy speaks: 'He's alright'
The father of the little boy who was shot in west Oakland earlier this week said that the boy was pulling through though he was still in critical condition Wednesday. Family and community members were preparing a vigil at the scene of the crime Wednesday evening. Police were still waiting ...
Mavericks surf contest window delayed until Jan. 1
The opening of the big-wave surfing contest at Mavericks has been delayed by a month, organizers for the event announced Wednesday. The window for the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational, which was due to open Thursday, will now open Jan. 1 and close March. 31, 2012, organizer and big wave surfer ...
Sting
As the most recognizable member of the phenomenally successful pop trio the Police, principle songwriter Sting had already achieved no small measure of global stardom when the band called it quits at the height of its popularity in the early 1983. The artist formerly known as Gordon Sumner didn't waste ...
Jury begins deliberating on lawsuit against Mehserle, other BART officers
A federal jury began deliberating in San Francisco Wednesday in a trial on a civil rights lawsuit in which an Oakland man claims he was beaten by former BART police officer Johannes Mehersele and four other officers after he criticized them at a transit station in 2008. Kenneth Carrethers, 43, ...
Harris: Let NY try convicted '70s serial killer
It's time for New York prosecutors to get a chance to press 1970s murder charges against a convicted serial killer on California's death row, California authorities say in urging a court to OK his extradition. Rodney Alcala -- a former amateur photographer and TV dating-show contestant who's facing execution in ...
Guilty verdict in brutal SF murder and sexual assaults
A man accused of fatally stabbing the mother of his daughter and raping two of the woman's other daughters in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood in 2007 was found guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault charges Wednesday. A jury convicted Umar Hudson, 35, of fatally stabbing Jernell Scott, 32, ...
UCSC’s student services building reopens after protesters' occupation
A student services building at the University of California at Santa Cruz reopened Wednesday following the end of an overnight occupation by protesters earlier this week. The protest at the Hahn Student Services Building ended at about noon on Tuesday, UCSC spokesman Jim Burns said. Nearly three-dozen protesters entered the ...
Thousands mourn slain Vallejo police officer
Thousands of mourners including Gov. Jerry Brown and police officers from across the state gathered in Vallejo Wednesday for the funeral of slain officer James Capoot. Capoot, 45, was fatally shot while chasing a bank robbery suspect on Nov. 17. He is survived by his wife Jennifer and three daughters, ...
Man arrested for intentionally running over firefighter
A man suspected of intentionally running over a Calfire firefighter after a fight in a San Francisco was arrested Wednesday, authorities said. Shortly before midnight, San Francisco Police arrested 22-year-old, Eduardo Shaparo Esquivel at his residence in South San Francisco. An SFPD officer from a district station viewed the surveillance ...
Burglars steal thousands of dollars in food, toys collected for needy families
Burglars on Tuesday stole an estimated $4,000 worth of toys, food and clothing that had been collected for an Oakley charity's annual holiday donation drive, a spokeswoman for the organization said today. The group Friends of Oakley had been collecting the items in barrels located throughout town and planned to ...
Man stabbed during Oakley robbery
A man was stabbed during a robbery after taking a run in an Oakley park on Tuesday evening, East Bay Regional Park District police said. The victim, a 58-year-old Pinole man, was accosted in the parking lot of the Big Break Regional Shoreline at about 6:45 p.m. just ...
Woman badly beaten in SF park
A 64-year-old woman was beaten unconscious by another woman in San Francisco's Outer Parkside neighborhood on Tuesday night, police said. The attack was reported at 10:02 p.m. in the 2200 block of 48th Avenue. A witness saw a woman in her late 20s or early 30s punching and ...
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