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submitted by Lisa 241 weeks 19 hours 37 minutes ago
A 12-year-old San Jose girl walking home from the store with her kid sister was kidnapped and possibly sexually assaulted today before she was able to get free, police said.
The girl was grabbed off the street around 2:17 p.m. near Gardendale Drive and Barbara Way. The...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 241 weeks 2 days 10 hours 6 minutes ago
The SF Chronicle, your last source for news, has a long feature on the killing of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland. Although it arrives REALLY late, at least it has one or two new pieces of information on this sad event...
"Journalist Chauncey Bailey infused black pride into...(more)
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submitted by Grace 170 weeks 2 days 23 hours 13 minutes ago
San Francisco police are investigating two shootings Friday night in the city's Mission District that left a total of four people injured, two critically.
Police said the first shots rang out at 10 p.m. at 24th and Capp streets, hitting two victims. The unidentified men were both...(more)
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submitted by Augie Brown 230 weeks 2 days 9 hours 59 minutes ago
A New Orleans woman was fatally shot Saturday night shortly after leaving her home in the 7th Ward, police said.
Shortly after 9 p.m., police received a report of shots fired and found the 21-year-old woman on the sidewalk near the corner of North Dorgenois and Onzaga...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 248 weeks 5 days 18 hours 12 minutes ago
Chicago police say another woman was attacked on the North Side last weekend by a man they believe may be linked to three other attacks in the last month.
Police released a composite sketch Wednesday of the man believed responsible.
The latest attack happened about 11:30 p.m. Saturday...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth 209 weeks 2 days 4 hours 57 minutes ago
Former state Treasurer Thomas Ravenel says the cocaine use that got him a 10-month sentence in federal prison was part of a midlife crisis.
The 45-year-old multimillionaire developer tells The (Charleston) Post and Courier that he knew he was going to get caught on the last day...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 218 weeks 4 days 10 hours 4 minutes ago
The former treasurer for the National Republican Congressional Committee diverted hundreds of thousands of dollars -- and possibly as much as $1 million -- of the organization's funds into his personal accounts, GOP officials said yesterday, describing an alleged scheme that could become one of the...(more)
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submitted by Elizabeth 230 weeks 3 days 8 hours 51 minutes ago
In what may have been the latest boil-over of gang tensions in Union City, a 14-year-old youth was chased down Friday by a group of youths and shot to death at the doorstep of his old school, officials and witnesses said.
The teen was hit at least...(more)
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submitted by Grace 242 weeks 6 days 20 hours 3 minutes ago
The travel manager of a Silicon Valley high-tech firm was charged with wire fraud today in federal court for allegedly charging $90,000 in personal expenses to a corporate credit card, including private-school tuition for her son.
Bernadatte Escue, 41, of San Francisco, an employee at Network Appliance...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 91 weeks 3 days 10 hours 46 minutes ago
One or more hooligans cut down 32 rose plants in Golden Gate Park, leaving behind all the trimmings, including the blooms.
The Rose Garden destruction, found by a dog walker early Thursday morning, has left park officials baffled and wondering if the work was that of a...(more)
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submitted by Micca 101 weeks 1 day 2 hours 6 minutes ago
Close to 200 children under the age of eight committed offences in Scotland in the past year, new figures have shown.
Statistics released to the The Herald following a Freedom of Information request, show that two of the children who committed offences were just three years old....(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 2 days 14 hours 35 minutes ago
BRINDISI, Italy (Reuters) - The bomb attack which killed a teenaged girl and wounded 10 others in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably done by an individual with no links to the mafia, a senior official said on Sunday. The attack on the Francesca...(more)
