Former Palo Alto High student arrested in kidnap-sexual assault
A former Palo Alto High School student who played running back on the football team and once tried to join the Marines was behind bars Friday on suspicion of kidnapping a 17-year-old girl off the street from his old neighborhood and sexually assaulting her.
Oil spill: communication breadkdown
From Cecilia Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer: A series of dispatch recordings between a San Francisco fireboat crew, the Coast Guard and local dispatch operators show a breakdown in communication among emergency personnel in the hour after a container ship struck a Bay Bridge tower on Nov. 7.
- California sues 20 companies for toys with unlawful amounts of lead
- Legislators to seek Homeland Security prope of spill
- S.F. program recycles restaurants cooking oil for use as fuel
- Brothers behind bars
- Hate crimes dropped in S.F. last year, FBI says
- Global estimate of HIV infections falls sharply as counting changes
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