Stories for February 2013
Stories for Thursday, February 28
Red Wings beat Sharks 2-1 in shootout
Damien Brunner scored the lone goal in the shootout and Jonas Gustavsson stopped all three shots in his first start of the season to lead the Detroit Red Wings to their third win in four games, 2-1 over the struggling San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. Patrick Eaves scored the ...
Family mourns man killed in brutal daytime stabbing
A Bay Area family was mourning Thursday night after a man was fatally stabbed in a Vallejo neighborhood that afternoon. The stabbing happened as the victim, 27-year-old Christopher Armstrong, offered to help a neighbor and friend on the 900 block of El Dorado Street at 12:52 p.m. Manuel Medrano, the ...
No. 4 Stanford women surge past Washington 71-36
Chiney Ogwumike scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, Bonnie Samuelson scored 12 of her 15 during a first-half blitz of 3-pointers and No. 4 Stanford raced past short-handed Washington 71-36 on Thursday night. The Cardinal rolled to their 13th straight victory and remained on course for their 22nd regular ...
Peering into the 60's and 70's of San Francisco history
For a homegrown and in-house planned photo exhibition, the San Francisco Public Library is taking a look back at the 60’s and 70’s with nostalgic pics. During the 1960s and 1970s, photographer Phiz Mezey photographed some of the most significant events in San Francisco’s history. An exhibition of her photographs, ...
Memorial service for slain officers moves to HP Pavillion
Thousands of law enforcement and community members are expected to honor to slain Santa Cruz detectives, both gunned down in the line of duty on Tuesday, at a public memorial set for March 7. The joint public memorial for Detective Sgt. Loran "Butch" Baker and Detective Elizabeth Butler was set ...
Garbage truck bin hits utility pole, causes fire, power outage
Several homes were evacuated and power went out in an Antioch neighborhood near Sutter Delta Medical Center Thursday afternoon after a garbage truck hit a utility pole and caught fire, police said. A garbage truck driver was in the process of lowering the truck's front dump bin near the intersection ...
Man allegedly connected to 6 South Bay bank robberies arrested in Modesto
A man who police believe is responsible for a string of six bank robberies in the South Bay has been arrested, a San Jose police officer said. Thomas Rhodes, 45, was wanted for his involvement in six bank robberies that occurred throughout Santa Clara County from Jan. 18 to Feb. ...
4-alarm fire burns Vacaville trailer
Firefighters responded to a 4-alarm structure fire in Vacaville Thursday afternoon. The fire started after 3:30 p.m. Thursday on Maple Road, not far from Leisure Town Road, east of Interstate 80. The Solano County Fire Department said the fire started inside a trailer and spread to a barn. Some witnesses ...
Parts of a human skull found along Alameda Creek trail
A portion of a human skull was found along the Alameda Creek Trail in Union City Wednesday afternoon, an Alameda County sheriff's sergeant said. The skull was found at about 4 p.m. at the creek behind Nevada Street, Sgt. J.D. Nelson said. Nelson said the bone has been in the ...
Woman struck by Muni light rail has life-threatening injuries
A woman who was struck by a San Francisco Municipal Railway light-rail vehicle Thursday afternoon has life-threatening injuries, a fire spokeswoman said. San Francisco fire and police responded to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a Muni light-rail vehicle in the area of 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra ...
Defense attorney wants trial for "insane" client who killed his father
A trial date of April 5 has been set for a Santa Rosa man charged with killing his father in 2011. Houston Herczog, 22, has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of his father Michael Herczog, 63, in their home Nov. 26, ...
GI pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case, faces 20 years
The Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military's "bloodlust" and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military prosecutors ...
3 juveniles arrested in Livermore mom sex case
Three juveniles have been arrested on suspicion of cyberbullying a boy who allegedly had sex with a Northern California mother. Forty-four-year-old Christine Hubbs served prison time after pleading no contest two years ago to having sex with two 14-year-old boys. Livermore police tell the Oakland Tribune the juveniles arrested on ...
Health department warns against eating some shellfish from Marin County
The California Department of Public Health has issued a warning against eating recreationally harvested mussels, clams or whole scallops from Marin County. Dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins have been found in mussels in the county, and clams and scallops may also pose a health risk, the department's spokeswoman ...
Former fire captain charged with stealing from Contra Costa firehouses
Prosecutors have filed felony charges against a former Contra Costa County Fire Protection District captain accused of stealing hundreds of items from the fire district while working there. Jon Wilmot, 51, was charged Wednesday with receiving stolen property, embezzlement, possession of an assault weapon and commercial burglary. Prosecutors allege that ...
Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found. The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in ...
Facebook buying Atlas ad business from Microsoft
Facebook is buying a set of online advertising tools called Atlas from Microsoft in its latest attempt to build a more effective marketing system around its Internet social network. In making the deal announced Thursday, Facebook is betting the acquired technology will bear more fruit under new ownership than it ...
Obama urges court to overturn gay marriage ban
In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the country. The Obama administration's friend-of-the-court brief marked the first time a U.S. president has urged the high court ...
Suspect arrested in Las Vegas Strip shooting
A week after a shooting and spectacular fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip, police said Thursday they have arrested the suspected shooter -- Ammar Harris – in Los Angeles. The announcement came just hours after investigators said they had found and talked with all three women who were in ...
Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has 'friend for life'
Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman hung out Thursday with North Korea's Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey with VICE to Pyongyang, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later dining on sushi and drinking with him at his palace. "You have a friend for life," ...
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