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Wis. manhunt nabs suspect in deadly river ambush Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:19:20 PDT
A gunman suspected of opening fire on a group of young swimmers gathered along a riverbank was arrested Friday after he emerged from woods near the scene where three teenagers were slain and a fourth person was wounded. Scott J. Johnson, 38, was dressed in...

Suspect in 5 anthrax-letter deaths kills himself Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:04:19 PDT
Anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and severely rattled the post-9/11 nation may have been part of an Army scientist's warped plan to test his cure for the deadly toxin, officials said Friday. The brilliant but troubled scientist committed suicide...

Senators offer new bill on offshore drilling Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:29:18 PDT
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators seeking to end the energy wars raging in Congress unveiled new legislation Friday that would allow some offshore oil drilling but also would invest heavily in wind and solar power, electric vehicles and alternative fuels....

Ivins had mild persona, but some saw dark side Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:56:06 PDT
Bruce E. Ivins was a juggler, a gardener, a church musician, a Red Cross volunteer _ and a suspected multiple murderer, according to federal authorities. Some people who knew him scoffed at the government's assertion that Ivins sent the anthrax letters that...

Key events in the anthrax episode Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:25:58 PDT
Key dates in the investigation of the anthrax attacks: ___ 2001: October: Anthrax is mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida. By November, five people are dead and 17 others sickened. The victims include...

Big Oil's biggest quarter ever: $51.5B in all Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:11:46 PDT
Oil giants Chevron Corp. and Total SA wrapped up a string of gargantuan, record-breaking earnings reports Friday, a stretch in which six of the major international oil companies topped $50 billion in combined profit for the first time. While the profits of...

Obama proposes $1,000 emergency rebate checks Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:02:45 PDT
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday pushed for a windfall profits tax to fund $1,000 emergency rebate checks for consumers besieged by high energy costs, a counter to Republican rival John McCain's call for more offshore drilling in...

Who started it? McCain, Obama camps trade barbs Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:49:30 PDT
Trading charges anew over who was guilty of injecting race into the presidential debate, a subject unlikely to fade away, the campaigns of John McCain and Barack Obama also blamed each other Friday for its increasingly negative tone. McCain has accused Obama...

NASA craft probes ice on Mars Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The team controlling the Phoenix lander on Mars reported Thursday they have found the first clear sample of water ice - the essential stuff of life - within the planet's frozen arctic sands and brought it aboard the spacecraft for testing. The discovery...

Mexican Museum may finally have found a home Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
San Francisco's moribund Mexican Museum might be resuscitated as part of a high-rise development near Yerba Buena Gardens, adding to the teeming arts scene and fulfilling a vision to remake the area once seen as downtrodden. More than a decade ago, museum...

U.S. unemployment rate hits 4-year high Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The nation's job market contracted in July and unemployment rose to a four-year high as employers across a broad swath of industries hunkered down. Payrolls outside the farm sector dipped by 51,000, while the jobless rate rose to 5.7 percent, up 0.2...

S.F. parking fines go up $10 today Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
San Francisco's parking cops collectively issue more than three tickets every minute - a big business that will become even more lucrative starting today when higher fines kick in for most violations. In the last fiscal year, which ended June 30, revenue from...

State workers union, prison boss fight governor on pay cuts, layoffs Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
California's largest state workers union filed two challenges Friday to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to lay off thousands of workers and drastically reduce the pay of most other state employees to save cash during the budget impasse. The Service...

S.F. Zoo will restrict free Wednesdays to city residents only Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:45:41 PDT
The San Francisco Zoo will restrict its once-a-month free admission program to city residents only, beginning in September, officials said Friday. Currently, anyone can visit the zoo for free on the first Wednesday of the month. The program is popular,...

Man gets 74 years to life for killing outside S.F. nightclub Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:25:17 PDT
A San Francisco judge reduced a Richmond man's conviction to second-degree murder Friday in a 2005 shooting outside a nightclub, then sentenced him to 74 years to life in prison. Gerry Phongboupha, 25, was charged with murder and attempted murder in the March...

SF to lose millions for border billings Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:05:14 PDT
San Francisco authorities have been able to justify the handling of just 127 border-prosecution cases out of the more than 2,300 that the city billed to the federal government under an anti-crime grant program. Federal auditors said last year that the city...

Little criticism at Yahoo board meeting Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Yahoo Inc.'s leadership faced only a smattering of criticism at the company's annual meeting Friday over its handling of a failed Microsoft takeover bid, largely avoiding the drama the event once promised. Instead of boardroom machinations over the failed...

Insanity ruling in hit-run spree that hurt 16 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The Fremont man accused of a hit-and-run rampage in San Francisco two years ago that injured 16 pedestrians was found not guilty by reason of insanity by a Superior Court judge Thursday, a ruling that will keep him out of state prison but could result in his...

Big money in S.F. supes' race Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Candidates for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors already are raising and spending big-time dollars on the November races. Thursday marked the first deadline for candidates to disclose how much money they have collected, and several have surpassed the $...

Jimmie Johnson will start on second-straight pole Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:35:52 PDT
Jimmie Johnson won his second NASCAR Sprint Cup pole in a row and third of the season Friday at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa., knocking Mark Martin off the top spot in qualifying for Sunday's Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500. Coming off a second-place...

Raiders finally get a good practice from Henderson Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:35:52 PDT
Raiders left tackle Mario Henderson fended off pass rusher Jay Richardson, which is quite the accomplishment. When he shoved aside Richardson on the next play, Friday officially became Henderson's best practice of training camp. No false starts, no clear-cut...

USA Today Top 25 Poll Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:45:42 PDT
Note: The Top 25 teams in the USA Today college football coaches preseason poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, 2007 records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and final ranking. W-...

Stanford football notes Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:35:39 PDT
Allen Smith is optimistic, perhaps more than his coaches, that he will be back on the offensive line sooner than later. As Stanford opened football practice Friday night on campus, Smith, a senior from Arizona, remained a spectator. Smith, Stanford's top...

Wie misses cut at Reno; McLachlin's 62 ties record Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:13:13 PDT
Michelle Wie failed in her eighth attempt to make the cut on the PGA Tour, shooting a second-round 80 at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open Friday. Parker McLachlin tied the course record with a 62 to take a four-stroke lead over 1987 Masters winner Larry Mize and...

No Golden Bear, but a black one visits Senior Open Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:26:09 PDT
The Broadmoor's East Course was quite a bear Friday. Difficult pin placements and faster, drier greens flustered the field and only five golfers managed to shoot below par, including Fred Funk, whose 1-under 69 gave him the lead at the halfway point of the...

3-Dot Lounge: Shades of Barry in Manny's Red Sox finale Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:08:35 PDT
It would seem the party is now officially advancing without Barry Bonds, and that's a shame. In a trading-deadline frenzy built around entertainment value, Bonds would be the perfect choice for some desperate team. The Dodgers picked up Manny Ramirez for two...

Singh takes a one-shot lead over Mickelson Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:13:57 PDT
Without the world's No. 1 player around, Vijay Singh and Phil Mickelson brought some star power Friday to the final World Golf Championship of the year. Singh twice escaped from the trees on his closing holes at Firestone and renewed his affair with a belly...

Americans off to Shanghai, look ready for Beijing Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:35:33 PDT
The Americans are headed for Shanghai. They look ready to go right to Beijing. With Kobe Bryant defending the way he did last summer and Dwyane Wade soaring again, the U.S. Olympic basketball team has easily won its first three exhibition games. Two more...

Sharapova says she'll miss US Open after Olympics Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:28:32 PDT
Maria Sharapova will sit out the U.S. Open because of a bad right shoulder, the first major championship she'll miss since her Grand Slam debut in 2003. The three-time Grand Slam title winner already had announced she's pulling out of the Beijing Olympics...

Dean of the D-line gets his day in Canton Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Perhaps Eddie DeBartolo Jr. saw a little of himself in Fred Dean, the defensive lineman that the coach Bill Walsh told him was about to join the 49ers. The year was 1981. The 49ers, then 3-2, had a stellar offense in place with quarterback Joe Montana. But...

49ers defenders welcome forceout rule Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
As if the NFL isn't violent enough, the elimination of the forceout rule might produce even more forceful hits on sideline plays in which receivers jump up for the ball with defenders bearing down on them. The consensus in the 49ers' locker room is that the...

49ers notes: Goldson looks good at safety Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Dashon Goldson has been given ample opportunity to show his ball-hawking talents in the 49ers' training camp, especially with free safety Mark Roman nursing a hamstring injury this week. He had two interceptions on the first day of practice and just missed...

Bay smashing Red Sox debut Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
The A's ventured into Fenway Park on Friday and found even more of a circus-like atmosphere than usual. Or, depending on your point of view, maybe less of a big-top feel - one Boston reporter said on his way to a pre-game press conference, "The clown has left...

Two charged in scam to sell Countrywide data Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:21:08 PDT
Two men, including a former Countrywide Home Loans employee, were charged Friday in a scam to steal and sell the private financial information of customers of the company, authorities said. Prosecutors suspect the data was eventually sold to companies that...

US firm offers 3-cent songs to raise bar in China Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:15:08 PDT
A U.S. distributor of independent music is offering songs for about 3 cents apiece online in China, where people have easy access to free, pirated music. The Wawawa Music Store site opened for business Friday offering a subscription service that allows 88 MP3...

Disney theme park ticket prices to rise Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:10:07 PDT
As if rising gas and food prices weren't enough, a ticket to the Magic Kingdom will soon cost a few bucks more. The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it is raising one-day ticket prices at its domestic parks starting Sunday. Tickets for those aged 10 and older to...

State agencies affected by Schwarzenegger's order Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:58:06 PDT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's executive order seeks to roll back wages of as many as 200,000 state employees and lay off more than 10,000 of the state's 22,000 temporary, contract and part-time workers. Schwarzenegger does not, however, have direct authority...

San Diego wildfire contained after evacutions Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:36:05 PDT
Firefighters have surrounded a 225-acre wildfire that forced the evacuation of several homes in suburban San Diego. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze started Friday afternoon in Lakeside and was moving toward the Barona...

US officials: Iran rebuffed on nuclear support Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:06:02 PDT
Iran sought but failed to win support from nonaligned nations this week for lifting U.N. sanctions and kicking the U.N. Security Council out of the dispute over its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday. Although Iran did get a broad endorsement of its...

Marketer's suit against Bush to be in open court Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:16:58 PDT
A sports marketer's civil suit against former Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush will proceed in open court instead of going to a confidential arbitration, a judge ruled Friday. Lawyers for the New Orleans Saints' running back petitioned to move the case into...

Stocks pull back after another decline in jobs Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:12:52 PDT
Wall Street retreated again Friday after readings on jobs and manufacturing _ the first reports for the third quarter _ indicated that businesses and workers still face a tough economy. The major indexes ended a turbulent week narrowly mixed. A massive...

Wal-Mart denies that it told employees how to vote Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:12:09 PDT
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, denied a report Friday that it had pressured employees to vote against Democrats in November because of worries that a bill the party supports would make it easier for workers to unionize. The measure,...

Sun expands stock buyback by $1 billion Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:59:12 PDT
Sun Microsystems Inc. said Friday it is expanding its stock buyback program by $1 billion, an indication that the server maker believes its slumping shares are undervalued. Sun, the world's fourth-largest server maker, is mostly finished with the $3 billion...

Comcast violated Web access policy, a divided FCC rules / File-sharing traffic that used more bandwi Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network. In a precedent-setting move, the...

Newspapers assail S.F. news-rack fee hike plan Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Newspaper organizations are incensed by San Francisco's plan to double the annual fees charged to publications distributed in the city's news racks. Fees will increase from $30 to $60 per rack per year, effective Aug. 30. The increase was approved this week...

Chevron posts record profit amid losses Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Soaring crude prices drove Chevron Corp.'s second-quarter profit to a record high of nearly $6 billion, despite the second-largest U.S. oil company losing hundreds of millions on refining oil into gasoline. The San Ramon energy giant on Friday reported net...

Voting machine gets LinuxWorld tryout Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Like many people, Alan Dechert was outraged when the 2000 presidential election was thrown to the Supreme Court because nobody could figure out how Florida's voters had voted. An engineer who has designed and tested software for a living, he thinks the...

Bad Reporter Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Comic strip. The Lies behind the Truth, and the truth behind the Lies that are behind that Truth.

Heeks changes technique to keep works alive Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
Rhode Island painter Willy Heeks, whose recent work hangs at Brian Gross Fine Art, practices what we might call post-Richter abstraction. In 2002, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of German painter Gerhard Richter's work that...

People wins bid for Brangelina baby photos Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 PDT
New York - A person involved in the negotiations for pictures of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins says the rights were sold for $14 million. The person asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the figure. People magazine...

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