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May Day protesters clash with police

Last updated Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 5:01pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police.

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Marilyn Daniels, center, an employee at Oikos University, is comforted near the school in Oakland, Calif., following a shooting on Monday, April 2, 2012. A gunman opened fire at the school Monday, killing at least five people, law enforcement sources close to the investigation said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Students fled for their lives, hid as gunman opened fire

Paul Elias, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 9:25am

OAKLAND, Calif. -- One wounded woman cowered in the bushes after the gunman opened fire on the campus of a small Christian university. One student hid in a locked classroom as the shooter banged on the door. Another heard the shots and ran to safety.

All within an hour Monday, police said, a 43-year-old former student named One L. Goh walked into Oikos University, and began a rampage that left seven people dead and three people wounded, trapped some in the building and forced others to flee for their lives.

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This image taken with a cell phone shows the early moments of the scene outside of Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., Monday, April 2, 2012. Police surrounded the Christian university in search of a gunman who reportedly opened fire Monday morning, killing at least five people, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Demian Bulwa)

7 dead, 3 hurt in Christian school shooting

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 9:29am

OAKLAND, Calif. — A gunman opened fire at a Christian university in California Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three more, before being captured hours later at a shopping center in a nearby city, authorities said.

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Suspect held in slayings of 5 has prison record

Jason Dearen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 26, 2012 - 4:46pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The suspect in the slayings of five people in a San Francisco home that police initially thought might have been a murder-suicide served nearly a decade in prison for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, records show.

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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 - 8:55am

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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Protesters block gates at western US ports

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 2:30pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Hundreds of Wall Street protesters blocked gates at some of the busiest ports on the West Coast on Monday, delaying truck traffic in a day of demonstrations that organizers hope will cut into the profits of the corporations that run the docks.

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(AL HARTMANN/The Associated Press) A body is removed from a tent in the Occupy Salt Lake camp in Pioneer Park, Friday Nov. 11, 2011 in Salt Lake City. The Occupy Salt Lake group has been in Pioneer Park for weeks, protesting what they say is corporate greed, in solidarity with the larger Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and elsewhere. Police say the body of a man in his 40s was found Friday morning in a tent. A cause of death was not available, but authorities say it did not immediately appear to be foul play.

Deaths at Occupy camps bring pressure for shutdown

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 4:47pm

OAKLAND, Calif. — Oakland officials have twice issued eviction notices to an anti-Wall Street encampment and officials elsewhere urged an end to similar gatherings as pressures against Occupy protest sites mounted in the wake of three deaths in different cities, including two by gunfire.

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$Zachary Greer holds a photo of Scott Olsen during a candlelight vigil on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. During an Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night, a projectile apparently fired by police struck the Iraq veteran in the head leaving him in critical condition with a fractured skull. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)$

Wall Street protesters hold vigils for injured vet

Jason Dearen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:08am

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Anti-Wall Street demonstrators held vigils for an Iraq War veteran seriously injured during a protest clash with police in California as some Occupy encampments came under growing pressure from authorities to abandon sites in parks and plazas.

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$In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, 24-year-old Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen lays on the ground bleeding from a head wound after being struck by a by a projectile during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Oakland, Calif. Olsen suffered a fractured skull while marching with other protesters attempting to reestablish a presence in the area of the disbanded camp, said Dottie Guy, of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Police Chief Howard Jordan says an internal review board and local prosecutors have been asked to determine if officers on the scene used excessive force. (AP Photo/Jay Finneburgh)$

Occupy protesters rally around wounded veteran

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 9:28am

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Veering around police barricades, anti-Wall Street protesters held a late-night march through Oakland streets, a day after one of their number -- an Iraq War veteran -- was left in critical condition with a fractured skull following a clash with police.

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Riot squads clear Wall St. protests in 2 cities

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 1:21pm

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police in riot gear clashed with anti-Wall Street protesters overnight, firing tear gas and beanbag rounds at hundreds of demonstrators in Oakland and forcibly evicting and arresting more than 50 others in Atlanta.

The moves come as business owners, residents and officials in cities where encampments have sprouted up since the movement began last month are increasingly complaining about crime, sanitation problems and disruptions to business.

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(JANE TYSKA/The Associated Press) Oakland police fire tear gas as they prepare to move in to Frank Ogawa Plaza to disperse Occupy Oakland protesters on Tuesday. Oct. 25, 2011 in Oakland, Calif. Police in riot gear began clearing anti-Wall Street protesters on Tuesday morning from the plaza in front of Oakland’s City Hall where they have been camped out for about two weeks. 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.

Police, protesters clash in Oakland at Occupy camp

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 9:56am

OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of police in riot gear and hundreds of protesters supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse in downtown Oakland on Tuesday, with authorities using tear gas to respond to demonstrators’ repeated agitations.

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(KAREN T. BORCHERS/The Associated Press) Cynthia Mose of Sacramento holds a book written by Shareef Allman as she speaks to members of the media in Sunnyvale, Calif., where Allman was was found and shot dead by law enforcement officers. Mose said Allman was a friend of her son and that she’s sorry for the victims of Allman’s shooting rampage at a California limestone quarry early Wednesday morning, Oct. 5.

Family of quarry shooter expresses condolences

Beth Duff-Brown, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 5:19pm

CUPERTINO, Calif. — The family of the man who shot and killed three colleagues at a Silicon Valley cement plant and wounded six others said Saturday they are shocked and have no explanation for why the shooting happened.

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Officers keep an eye on handcuffed men at the east entrance to John Ascuaga's Nugget after a Sept. 23 shooting in Sparks, Nev. One person was killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a hotel-casino in Sparks that witnesses say involved members of rival motorcycle gangs, the Vagos and Hells Angels. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal)

Vagos gang member accused of killing Hells Angels boss

Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 7:50pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man accused of killing the leader of the San Jose Hells Angels in a shootout at a Nevada casino has been arrested on a college campus in San Francisco, authorities said Friday.

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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 - 9:17pm

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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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) In this April 5, 2010 file photo, former San Francisco lab technician Deborah Madden appears for her arraignment for drug possession in South San Francisco. Forensics experts say Madden is not the first crime lab worker suspected of stealing drugs or other illegality, and San Francisco's lab joins several other cities in suffering a loss of credibility.

SF crime lab at center of growing scandal

Paul Elias, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 19, 2010 - 1:09pm

SAN FRANCISCO -- The tape recorder started rolling as two police investigators sat in their car in a hospital parking lot with Deborah Madden on Feb. 26. "You're causing a huge nightmare for the city," said one officer.

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