Stories for January 2012
Stories for Tuesday, January 31
Berkeley City Council weighs removing all funds from Wells Fargo
The Berkeley City Council Tuesday evening took the first steps in making a $300 million statement against big banks by possibly removing its money from Wells Fargo bank. The city's multi-million dollar account could be moved to a small community institution such as Mechanics Bank, after council members voted against ...
Photographer inspires with portraits of '99 percent'
San Francisco photographer Robert Schultze has documenting the individuals who were taking part in the Occupy Movement. "They're just like you and me," Schultze told KTVU. "It's everyone of every age, race, gender orientation. It's everybody." Schultze said it was four months ago when he took a few portraits at ...
Authorities plan crack down on rowdy Walnut Creek bars after weekend brawls
After another weekend where drunken brawls took center stage at a handful of Downtown Walnut Creek bars, police are stepping up patrols of these establishments in the hopes of ending a disturbing trend. Police Chief Joel Bryden said Tuesday that he would send more patrols downtown to check on these ...
Oakland city council votes to lay off 81 workers
The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday night to lay off dozens of city workers as it struggles to make up for the loss of $28 million in redevelopment funds. Hundreds of people packed into Tuesday night's meeting to hear what city leaders had to say. In sharp contrast to last ...
SF supes pass new regulations for Castro Plazas
A proposal to ban camping and other activities at two plazas in San Francisco's Castro District was approved by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday, but only after the removal of regulations that had angered homeless advocates in the city. Supervisor Scott Wiener had proposed the legislation to prohibit a variety ...
Queensryche's Geoff Tate
Progressive metal band Queensryche rose to popularity from its Seattle, WA, home base during the '80s, but the group had little in common with the majority of its hair-metal peers of the era. Delivering a heavier sound that drew on the traditional metal of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest as ...
Memorial fund set up for slain San Leandro teen
The San Leandro Unified School District has set up a memorial fund for a 15-year-old girl who was stabbed to death on Friday. Myrna Umanzor, 15, of San Leandro, was killed around 6:20 p.m. in the 1900 block of Pacific Avenue, San Leandro police said. Responding officers found Umanzor suffering ...
Professor Alex Bradford -- Black History Month 2012
He was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger, and choir director who was a great influence on artists like Little Richard, Bob Marley, and Ray Charles and helped bring about the modern mass choir movement to gospel. Born in Bessemer, Professor Alex Bradford attended the Snow Hill Institute in Snow ...
Judge sends Occupy protesters home, others face 'Stay Away' orders
More than 80 protesters who took part in last weekend's Occupy Oakland demonstration were scheduled to have their day in court Tuesday, but just moments before court was called into session, dozens were told to go home. “I'm happy to hear that a lot of people have been released but ...
Attorney: Mirkarimi to return to court Friday to fight stay-away order
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will return to court on Friday to try again to modify a court order preventing him from contacting his wife or son because of an alleged domestic violence incident on New Year's Eve, his attorney said Tuesday. Mirkarimi's defense attorney Lidia Stiglich said via email ...
moe.
For the past three decades, the musicians that make up Northeastern jam band favorite moe. have been plying their trade of extended improvisation and rootsy, Americana-tinged songwriting heavily influenced by such '70s acts as The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers (spiked with a solid dose of Zappaesque weirdness). Founded ...
Judge says Oakland officer covering badge was serious misconduct
A federal judge in San Francisco has concluded that an Oakland police officer who taped over his name badge during an Occupy Oakland protest and a lieutenant who failed to report the action engaged in "the most serious level of misconduct." U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson said in a Jan. ...
Police arrest fugitive wanted in 19-year-old's Oakland slaying
A man wanted in the killing of a teenager in Oakland earlier this month was arrested in Pittsburg on Monday, authorities announced this afternoon. Remon McDaniel, 36, is suspected in the killing of 19-year-old Isaac White on Jan. 4. White was shot outside his home in the 1800 block of ...
Officials to review ranger's use of Taser on man walking dogs off-leash
Bay Area dog owners are asking the National Park Service to investigate why a park ranger used a Taser on a dog owner in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area near Montara over the weekend. According to a Montara resident who witnessed the confrontation in the Rancho Corral de Tierra ...
Elderly woman found beaten in Richmond remains in critical condition
An elderly woman who was found beaten in Richmond on Saturday morning remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday, a police lieutenant said. Police have also confirmed that the 81-year-old woman, who was found outside a Big O Tires store at 10733 San Pablo Ave., was sexually assaulted, Lt. Bisa ...
Oakland teen suspect charged with killing parents
15-year-old Moses Kamin was formally charged as an adult Tuesday afternoon with two counts of murder for killing his mother and father last week in the Oakland house where they all lived. The teen was arrested Friday on suspicion of slaying his parents, 50-year-old Susan Poff and 55-year-old Robert Kamin, ...
Congressman John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Lewis, a member of the Democratic Party, has ...
SF police make arrest in 1983 homicide cold case
A 47-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with a murder in San Francisco's McLaren Park nearly three decades ago after a DNA hit linked him to the crime, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. William Payne, of San Francisco, is accused of strangling 41-year-old Nikolaus Crumbley, who was found dead ...
Brown reports $1.7 million for his tax campaign
Gov. Jerry Brown's campaign reported Tuesday that it has raised $1.7 million for his proposed November ballot initiative to raise California's sales and income taxes temporarily to help solve the state's ongoing budget deficits. The largest donor was the California Hospitals Committee, which gave $500,000. A building trades union, the ...
Car slams into condo ending San Pablo police chase
A car smashed into a garage at a San Pablo apartment building on Monday night, causing a gas main to rupture but no major injuries, police said. The crash happened in the 2500 block of El Portal Drive around 8:39 p.m. Monday. The car hit a gas line and caused ...
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