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U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 11, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- A 46-year-old Santa Rosa man suffered burns when a clothes dryer that he had hooked up to a propane tank exploded, authorities said today. Charles Ballard suffered second-degree burns on his face, neck and right arm during the accident Sunday at his ho.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A 19-year-old man was shot and killed inside a Pinole bowling alley late Tuesday, the second shooting at an East Bay bowling center in a little more than two weeks, police said today. Brandon Young of Bay Point was shot numerous times inside Pinole Lan.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:07am neoform

SF Gate -- A man found shot and killed in a pickup truck in Santa Rosa was identified by the Sonoma County coroner's office today as 26-year-old Juan Carlos Sandoval. Sandoval, who lived in Santa Rosa, and a second man were found shot inside a pickup truck on the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 26, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- An injured man who died after being taken to a California Highway Patrol parking lot in Corte Madera was an associate of the Hells Angels motorcycle club and had been shot on Highway 101, authorities said Sunday. The victim, a 27-year-old San Leandro m.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The grandson of a 77-year-old man found shot and killed in his Sonoma Valley home has been arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said today. Sean Patrick Mooney, 20, of Chico is being held at the Sonoma County Jail in connection with Tuesday nig.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- A 31-year-old Fremont man accused running down and trying to kill pedestrians in San Francisco entered a plea today of not guilty by reason of insanity to 35 felony counts. Omeed Aziz Popal is accused of 16 counts of attempted murder, 16 assault charge.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A man was killed and a woman critically injured during a shooting in East Oakland early Sunday, police said. The victims of the 2:53 a.m. shooting on the 1800 block of 89th Avenue, who were each struck multiple times by bullets, were not immediately id.. Read More

BUSINESS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BusinessWeek -- With Iron Man, the comic book publisher has made an incredible transformation into a movie studio Maybe Iron Man really can fly. The blockbuster superhero movie, starring Robert Downey Jr. as an industrialist who fights terrorists and arms dealers in a.. Read More

ENTERTAINMENT / OPINION Fri May 2, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- You might attribute it to 9/11, or simply blame director Joel Schumacher, whose camp take on "Batman" derailed that franchise for several years. But, lately, Hollywood superhero movies have taken themselves awfully seriously. Ang Lee, Bryan Singer and Chr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 28, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- A 73-year-old man has confessed to holding his daughter captive in his home cellar for nearly 24 years and fathering seven children by her, Austrian police say. Austrian police spokesman Franz Polzer told CNN, the man, known as Mr. F., admitted holding hi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:09am neoform

SF Gate -- A 26-year-old mentally ill man died today following a struggle with four Richmond police officers, authorities said. The altercation occurred after officers were called to a Richmond home for mentally ill people at 3:11 a.m. because the man, Uriah Sams.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 17, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- A Yemeni judge dissolved the marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a man nearly four times her age, and the girl's lawyer said Wednesday that the court also ordered the youngster removed from the control of the father who forced her into the wedding. The l.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Police are investigating whether a man who was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Richmond this afternoon committed suicide. Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority spokeswoman Luna Salaver said the man, whose name was not released, was struck abo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 4, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- Nine people were arrested in Scottsdale on suspicion of selling forged Super Bowl tickets for thousands of dollars. The investigation into the forged tickets began when a Massachusetts couple reported unwittingly buying forged tickets for $2,500 from a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- A man who tried to burn his 6-year-old son to death in 1983 was properly sentenced to 25 years to life in prison under the "three strikes" law for two recent weapons convictions, a state appeals court ruled today. The First District Court of Appeal in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco police officer shot and critically injured a man who fled to avoid a panhandling citation, then pulled out a knife and lunged at one of three officers pursuing him Sunday, a Police Department spokesman said. The man, believed to be in h.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- Two weeks after a Florida man found a rare pearl in his seafood, it's happened again — this time to a New Jersey man who was eating fried oysters. Mike McHenry thought he had chomped down on a piece of shell Wednesday night and instead spit out a pea-.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man claiming to be a Catholic priest was arrested Friday at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after he was caught carrying 7.7 pounds of cocaine under his robes, a spokesman for Dutch border police said. The suspect, whose identity was being traced, initi.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him. Clerks were offended by the message, and the disorderly conduct c.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:44am neoform

SF Gate -- A mental patient who was shot at his home on Wednesday by Santa Rosa police has died from his injuries, authorities said today. The 24-year-old man, whose name was not released, was shot after threatening three police officers with a large kitchen knif.. Read More