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(THOMAS K. FOWLER/The Associated Press) In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students.

UC Davis launches probe after pepper spray video

Last updated Saturday, November 19, 2011 - 6:02pm

SAN FRANCISCO — “Chilling” video images surfaced online Saturday showing an officer at a California university calmly pepper-spraying a line of several sitting protesters, who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.

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Video shows saggy pants dispute aboard plane in S.F.

Sudhin Thanawala, The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, June 18, 2011 - 4:25pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A University of New Mexico football player who was arrested after wearing saggy pants on a plane at San Francisco airport insists in a video showing part of his exchange with authorities on the aircraft that his pants were up and he had done nothing wrong.

The San Francisco Chronicle obtained the video and a link to it was on the newspaper's website Saturday.

"My pants are up sir," a seated Deshon Marman tells the captain, who along with someone who appears to be a San Francisco police officer, is standing near his seat. "I'm not doing anything. I paid my fees, and I'm ready to go."

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A massive fire is roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Firefighters from San Bruno and surrounding cities are battling the blaze that started on a hillside and is now consuming homes in the residential neighborhood south of San Francisco.

CA crews try to reach smoldering homes after blast

Sudhin Thanawala, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 10, 2010 - 3:24pm

SAN BRUNO, Calif. -- Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through in a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and likely more.

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San Jose police mount cameras on officers' heads

Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 12:03pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.

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Lightning-sparked fires force Calif. evacuations

Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, August 3, 2009 - 3:48pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dozens of residents remained evacuated Monday after a weekend lightning storm sparked multiple wildfires around Northern California.More than 600 firefighters were trying to protect 100 structures from the blazes in northeastern Shasta County. No injuries had been reported in that county.Crews also were fighting blazes in Lassen, Monterey and Tuolumne counties.

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