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Mission College locked down after cardboard cutout mistaken for gun
Santa Clara's Mission College went into lockdown for about 45 minutes Monday afternoon after a cardboard cutout of a gun was mistaken for the real thing, a school spokesman said. As part of a sociology of criminology class project where students were to dress up as criminals, one student wore ...
Police: Woman arrested for DUI was celebrating end of earlier DUI
Erin James of Illinois is under arrest for driving under the influence for the second time in two years. In fact, Riverside Police say she was out celebrating the return of her driver's license when she was pulled over for speeding and handed the second DUI. That's not irony, that's ...
Victim's mother: Bride among those killed in limo fire
A bride-to-be was one of five women killed Saturday night after a limousine carrying a bridal party caught fire on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, according to a relative of one of the victims. Rosita Guardiano, the mother of one of the nine women riding in the back of the limosine ...
Man questions Dayton cemetery’s burial practices
A man is questioning a Dayton cemetery’s practices after he claims that managers couldn’t verify where his mother was buried. Patrone Cochran, 41, said his family conducted a funeral for his mother, Linda Lewis, last week. But Cochran was disturbed when his sister drove by the Greencastle Cemetery on Nicholas ...
Security guard hitches ride from passing truck to catch Fife shoplifters
A loss prevention officer in Fife hitched a ride from a passing truck in an effort to catch two shoplifters who ran from Sportco after stealing some pants, police said. Fife police Lt. Tom Thompson said two men were spotted leaving the sporting goods store with several stolen pairs of ...
Woman faces attempted murder charge in tainted OJ case
A California woman faces attempted murder charges after police say she tried to sneak orange juice bottles spiked with a lethal amount of rubbing alcohol inside a Starbucks. San Jose Police arrested Ramineh Behbehanian, 50, late Monday. A customer reported seeing the woman take two bottles of orange juice from ...
Sisters face child abuse charges for reportedly binding infants for naps
Two sisters accused of binding babies to their beds with blankets during naptime at a Livermore child care facility were arrested Wednesday morning and were facing a slew of child abuse and neglect charges, a Livermore police spokesman said that day. Nazila Sharaf, 35, of Dublin, and Lida Sharaf, 33, ...
Video shows UC Santa Cruz police confiscating 2-pound joint from 4/20 party
A video posted to the Internet shows police on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus confiscating what is described as a 2-pound marijuana joint Saturday. According to various accounts on the Internet, the incident happened at an annual event that marks April 20, or 4/20, numbers which have become ...
Pilot uninjured after crashing small plane into Santa Rosa vineyard
A Novato man who crashed his small airplane into a Santa Rosa vineyard Saturday morning walked away uninjured, a Bennett Valley Fire engineer said. Personnel from the Bennett Valley Fire Department could hear a plane flying low in the area making an odd sound around 10 a.m. A short time ...
Scenes from the past 48 hours in Boston
Here is a gallery of photos looking back at the past 48 hours in the search for the Boston Marathon bombers.
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