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U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:02pm neoform

SF Gate -- A 29-year-old man knifed repeatedly in the face and neck just outside Golden Gate Park was the second homeless person in two months to be stabbed to death in or around the park and the third in a little more than a year, San Francisco police said Thursday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- A 2-year-old male giraffe was killed in an early morning blaze at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo that also destroyed the giraffe barn, officials said today. Two female giraffes had already escaped the blaze when fire crews arrived at the amusem.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 22, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- In the past month, city workers have cleared out 167 camps in Golden Gate Park and have provided services as small as hot showers and as big as housing to 164 homeless people, Newsom administration officials say. And it's not just homeless people recei.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 9:12am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man was acquitted Tuesday after being arrested for refusing to heed a police officer's command he stop singing in a public park. A judge found Anthony Riley not guilty of disorderly conduct, saying "This is America, not Afghanistan." Riley, 20, had f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

FOX News -- The House on Tuesday prodded parks officials to reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to the public — a step the government says is too dangerous. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., for the second year in a row added an amendment to a spending bill giv.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

Mercury News -- Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street. Bratton said he spent the weekend viewing video of the Ma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun May 6, 2007 @ 10:52pm neoform

USA Today -- Police Chief William Bratton said Sunday that up to 60 members of an elite squad that swarmed into a park and fired rubber bullets during a May Day immigration rally are no longer on the street. Bratton said he spent the weekend viewing video of the Ma.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 29, 2007 @ 10:04pm neoform

FOX News -- The family of a molested 3-year-old girl has left College Park Church in Carmel, Ind., after it embraced her attacker — a former church elder — with support and money. The Indianapolis Star reported that the family of the girl wishes to remain anon.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:52pm neoform

CNN -- Authorities have received a radio report from searchers that a 12-year-old Boy Scout who went missing over the weekend during a camping trip was found Tuesday, a park service ranger said. "We did have radio traffic come from one of our searchers on the.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

CNN -- Wildlife officials on Thursday credited a woman with saving her husband's life by clubbing a mountain lion that attacked him while the couple hiked in a California state park... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 22, 2007 @ 9:39am mrmdc

New York Times -- Early last summer the mayor of this small town east of Atlanta issued a decree: no more soccer in the town park... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 1:08am neoform

P.E.E.R. -- Orders to Cater to Creationists Makes National Park Agnostic on Geology. Washington, DC — Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration app.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- A search is under way at Yosemite National Park for a 22-year-old man who disappeared Sunday after telling friends he wanted to be alone for half an hour to read his Bible. More than 100 rescuers from Tuolomne, Mono, Marin and Santa Clara counties resu.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- All lanes of Highway 101 in Menlo Park have reopened after crews cleared a seven-vehicle crash in which a big rig spilled 25 to 30 gallons of diesel fuel, the California Highway Patrol said. Three northbound lanes that had been closed near the Marsh Ro.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- A dolphin died over the weekend at a SeaWorld sister park after colliding with another dolphin during a guest interaction program. About 32 visitors were in the lagoon Saturday afternoon when the two dolphins swam into the deeper center and leapt from.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:05am neoform

SF Gate -- A federal appeals court threw a roadblock in the path of the government's restoration and development plans for Yosemite National Park on Thursday, ruling that the National Park Service has failed to take adequate steps to protect the Merced River. The.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A man is in stable condition today after being shot in Golden Gate Park late Monday night, police said. The victim was found suffering from gunshot wounds near 25th Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive in the park shortly after 11 p.m., according to pol.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 17, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

SF Gate -- A 29-year-old man was found stabbed to death on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park early today, San Francisco police said. Police received calls from residents near 47th Avenue and Fulton Street around 2:55 a.m. reporting that a man was screaming in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- It soon could get pricier in San Francisco to park in front of your favorite restaurant on a Saturday night or in front of your doctor's office during work hours. City officials hope by early next year to start a two-year pilot project that would radic.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Oct 6, 2007 @ 11:34pm neoform

www.afterdowningstreet.org -- Three activists who were arrested at a press conference near Lafayette Park appeared in Washington D.C. Superior Court yesterday where they were given a trial date of January 3, 2008, and face a six-month prison sentence. Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans A.. Read More