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4 California cops on leave after student beating

AP | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose police say four officers present at the beating of an unarmed student have been placed on leave.

A cell phone video shows police repeatedly hitting 20-year-old Phuong Ho in the Sept. 3 incident. The video prompted a criminal investigation.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis says officers Kenneth Siegel, Steven Payne Jr., Jerome Smith and Gabriel Reyes have been placed on paid leave.

Police reports say Siegel used his baton and Payne used his Taser as Ho kicked and refused to heed orders.

Siegel's attorney, Terry Bowman, says the video leaves out details that would show why the officers acted as they did.

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Honduran interim govt: no authority to accept plan

AP | Posted 08.18.2009 | Home

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A representative of Honduras' interim government says its delegation at talks lacks the authority to accept all the terms of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias' plan to end the crisis.

Vilma Morales says it would be up to Honduras' Congress and its courts to accept Arias' proposals and not up to interim President Roberto Micheletti's government.

Arias on Saturday proposed to resolve the conflict by reinstating ousted President Manuel Zelaya as head of a national unity government, holding early elections and issuing a general amnesty.

Many of the proposals had already been rejected by one side or the other in the dispute over Honduras' coup, which has become a test for democracy in Latin America and for U.S. diplomacy in the region.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

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Coulomb Adds Third Charging Station in San Francisco Bay Area

AllAboutElectric | AllCarsElectric | Posted 07.23.2009 | Home

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The San Francisco Bay area has added its third community to its growing list of public charging stations. The community of Walnut Creek joins San F...

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Will Zoe Loefgrin Vote $108 Billion For European Banks While California Goes Bankrupt?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry McNerney, Sam Farr, San Jose, Boondoggle, Meltdown, Campaign, Mike Thompson, Rahm Emanueal, Election, Zoe Lofgren, Cervical Cancer, 2010, California Bankrupt, Doris Matsui, Monterey, Waste, Supplemental, European Toxic Assets, Pork, Mike Honda, Sacramento, European Bankers, Napa, Breaast Cancer, Pleasanton, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

How will Loefgin justify giving $108 billion in loan guarantees to European banks while her own state goes bankrupt? How will anybody?

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Roman Catholic Female Priests Growing in Numbers: An Insider's Perspective

Greg Archer | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: Theology, Religion, Women's Rights, The Bible, Gay Rights, Priests, Feminism, San Jose, San Jose Diocese, San Francisco, World News
Greg Archer

The holy game plan? To ordain female deacons as womenpriests and womenpriests as bishops.

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Cisco Janitors Take to the Streets

Natasha Chen | Posted 04.29.2009 | Home

Read More: CEO Pay, Paul Fong, San Jose, John Chambers, Stimulus Package, Cisco Systems, Justice for Janitors, American Building Maintenance, Jones Lang LaSalle, Barack Obama, Silicon Valley, Seiu, San Jose-California, Milpitas-California, Home News
Natasha Chen

Chanting "No peace outside, no respect inside" and "Si se puede," workers filed down East Tasman Dr., where Cisco's tens of buildings line both sides of the street.

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Athletics Owner Wants Baseball in Oakland to Fail

Stephen Kaus | Posted 04.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lew Wolff, Baseball, San Jose, Oakland Athletics, Sports, Mlb, Entertainment News
Stephen Kaus

The ownership of the Oakland Athletics does not really want fans to come to the ballpark. There is no other way to explain the systematic downgrading of the experience of attending a game.

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Bay Area Hopes To Be Electric Vehicle Capital Of The United States

gas2.org | Written by Gavin Newsom | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Oakland, Gavin Newsom, San Jose, Cars, San Francisco, Green Politics, Green Cars, California, Green News

Last November, I joined Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed to announce a nine-step policy plan for transforming the Bay Area into...

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Costa Rica Earthquake Kills Child

AP | MARIANELA JIMENEZ | Posted 02.09.2009 | World

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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A strong earthquake shook Costa Rica on Thursday, killing at least three people and sending frightened residents running ...

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Robert Graham and the Homies

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style

Read More: Robert Graham Funeral, Robert Graham, California, San Jose, Incarcerated Teens, Incarcerated Black Youths, Incarceration Rates, Artists, Artist Robert Graham, Los Angeles, Incarceration Rates for Blacks, Robert Graham Death, Style News
Tom Hayden

Robert Graham's fear has come true; LA leads California, California leads America, and America leads the world, in the population of the incarcerated, most of them young men of color.

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Dear Almost President-Elect Obama

Deborah Copaken Kogan | Posted 12.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Google, France, Subsidized Childcare, San Jose, Cabinet, Cost of Childcare, Childcare, Babysitter, Obama, Barack Obama, New York, Tinkertoy, Living News
Deborah Copaken Kogan

We need government-subsidized daycare. We're one of the only industrialized nations in the world that doesn't meet this most basic need for its working families.

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Costa Rica: Still Some of the Greenest Travel Around

Claire Bidwell Smith | Posted 12.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, La Finca Rosa Blanca Country Inn, San Jose, Lapa Rios, Solar Panels, Costa Rica, Sustainable Travel, Osa Peninsula, Gray Water Recycling, Carbon Neutral Vacations, Nature Vacations, Biodiesel, Green News
Claire Bidwell Smith

In August my husband and I traveled to Costa Rica for what was supposed to be one of the world's first "Carbon Neutral Vacations." Our 7 day, 6 night trip began with a stay in San Jose.

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Pride, A Deeper Love

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 06.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Long Beach, Festivals, Gay History, San Jose, Gay, Christopher Street, Pride, Carol Migden, Stonewall, Gay Pride, Gay Marriage, Living News
Charles Karel Bouley

Marriage isn't anybody's right. No one has a right to gay marriage, it's not in the Constitution. So under the law, there's no given right. The only time the "right" comes up is when someone tries to take it away.

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Ten Best Cities For Savings

Forbes | Kurt Badenhausen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: San Francisco, Los Alamos, Torrington, San Jose, Fairfield County, Business News

For two years, we have been hearing about the negative savings rate in this country. Americans spend more than we make, so the chorus goes. The govern...

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