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(BECK DIEFENBACH/The Associated Press) A container ship leaves the Port of Oakland after protestors closed several entrances to the port, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.

Protesters halt operations at some Western ports

Marcus Wohlsen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 7:55am

OAKLAND, Calif. — Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they’re hurting wage earners.

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Oakland police search tents in Frank Ogawa Plaza as they disperse Occupy Oakland protesters on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 in Oakland, Calif. City officials had originally been supportive of the protesters, but the city later warned the protesters that they were breaking the law and could not stay in the encampment overnight. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Jane Tyska)

Police arrest 75 protesters at Oakland's City Hall

Marcus Wohlsen The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 2:27pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police in riot gear cleared anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday morning from the plaza in front of Oakland's City Hall where they had been camping for about two weeks, prompting health and safety concerns among city officials.

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Calif rejects legal pot, but cities embrace drug

Marcus Wohlsen, The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 13, 2010 - 5:14pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Californians may have rejected legalizing recreational marijuana, but voters across the state are more than ready to reap revenue from the state's largest cash crop.

On Election Day, all 10 cities with local measures on their ballots approved new or higher taxes on marijuana sales that put the need for cash above the stigma of a federally banned drug.

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Calif woman pleads guilty in Sandra Cantu murder

Marcus Wohlsen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 10, 2010 - 8:17pm

TRACY, Calif.-- A California Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing an 8-year-old playmate of her daughter, then stuffing the body in a suitcase, pleaded guilty Monday to murder.

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(The Associated Press) Marijuana grown for medical purposes is shown inside a greenhouse at a farm in Potter Valley, Calif in May 2009. In the mountain forests along California's North Coast, refugees from San Francisco's Summer of Love have spent four decades hiding from the law as they tended some of the world's most fabled marijuana gardens. After all those years, several statewide efforts to legalize marijuana could finally let those growers come out into the light. But at a community meeting in the heart of Northern California pot country on Tuesday, many growers said they were more worried about the cost of legalization to their bottom lines than about any federal raid.

Outlaw pot growers in California fear legalization

Marcus Wohlsen The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 9:35pm

REDWAY, Calif. -- The smell of pot hung heavy in the air as men with dreadlocks and gray beards contemplated a nightmarish possibility in this legendary region of outlaw marijuana growers: legal weed.

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Men file abuse suits against Mormons, Boy Scouts

Marcus Wohlsen The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, November 16, 2009 - 6:20pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America were named as defendants in lawsuits Monday claiming childhood sexual abuse by youth leaders decades ago.

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