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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

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 2, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," was found dead in Florida on Thursday, according to Tarpon Springs police. Palfrey hanged herself in a storage shed on her mother's property, where she had been staying, police said. Palfrey's mother, 76-y.. Read More

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

SF Gate -- A bank teller pregnant with twins was shot in the abdomen during a robbery Tuesday morning, but both the teller and the fetuses survived the attack, authorities said. The masked gunman came into the Huntington Bank branch around 9:30 a.m., jumped over.. 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

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 18, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- A 12-year-old San Francisco girl who disappeared Monday has been found safe with a friend in Oakland, authorities said today. Billie McGee had last been seen Monday, and her family posted flyers and looked for her in and around her neighborhood near Ci.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 9, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

SF Gate -- A 2-year-old girl died after being beaten with a video game controller by her mother's boyfriend, police said Tuesday. Darisabel Baez's mother overheard the beating Sunday but did nothing until she realized the girl was unconscious, police said. The gi.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

SF Gate -- Traces of blood that police say matched Nina Reiser's and were found in her estranged husband's home and car could have been left as a result of intimate contact, a DNA expert testified Thursday in the murder trial of Hans Reiser. Forensic scientist Ke.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 14, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- German police in a Bavarian town shot and killed a U.S. soldier overnight after what appeared to be a violent domestic incident, local police said. Police said the man was armed with a military-style M4 rifle, took his girlfriend hostage in her house a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Feb 25, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- Investigators are eager to interview the 14-year-old lone survivor of what they suspect was a murder-suicide that left five members of a family dead. The teen, recovering from surgery for a gunshot wound to his torso, may hold the key to what happened.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

MSNBC -- A man known for confrontations with city officials killed five people at a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis Thursday night before he was shot to death by police. Two Kirkwood police officers and three people attending the meeting were killed.. 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

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

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:50pm neoform

Examiner -- As Sarah Kreager, 26, tried to sit down on a Baltimore City bus Tuesday, police say, a middle-schooler told her she couldn’t. When she attempted to take another seat, a middle-schooler wouldn’t let her. Finally, according to police, Kreager just sat d.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- A bus hopped a highway median and crashed into a pickup truck before being broadsided by an 18-wheeler, Arkansas police said, killing the pickup driver and two bus riders. Forty people were hurt in Sunday night's crash, which shut down a 13-mile stretch o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 20, 2007 @ 3:42pm neoform

CNN -- Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were charged Monday with raping an 11-year-old girl last week, court officials and police said. "Never in my 20-plus years of law enforcement have I conceived of something like this," Police Chief Michael Wilkie of Acworth, G.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Nov 18, 2007 @ 11:12am neoform

New York Times -- It was done after three men were shot in Queens a year ago in a hail of 50 police bullets. It occurred again on Monday, after five officers fired 20 shots at Khiel Coppin outside his Brooklyn home, killing him. A man is down, on the ground, bleeding, a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 3:52pm neoform

Seattle Times -- An amateur photographer who was taken into custody last year after shooting pictures of two Seattle police officers making an arrest on a public street received an $8,000 settlement this week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington announced Thu.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 22, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

New York Times -- The message came across the police scanner in October 2006 as Alexander Roy was driving his 2000 BMW M5 west on Interstate 44 in Oklahoma: “I have a report of a blue BMW speeding, weaving in and out of traffic and driving recklessly. Be advised.” R.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 22, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

www.news.com -- "Police blotter" is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Teenagers taking risque photos of themselves are prosecuted for violating child pornography laws. When: Florida state appeals court rules on January 19.. Read More

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