Bay Area briefs

Jockey killed in fall during Alameda race

San Diego fireworks malfunction in big, fast flash; 20-minute show over in seconds

Legislature OKs bill to aid search for Speed Freak Killers' victims

Jails to see 250 more inmates than forecast

Father sues city over homeless son's death

Man acquitted of assaulting retired priest to avoid prison sentence

State news briefs

Body of missing Dodgers fan found floating off SF SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities say they've found the body of a Los Angeles Dodgers fan who vanished after a Giants game in San Francisco. The body of 27-year-old Victor Murillo was found Wednesday morning floating in the bay just off the Embarcadero. Friends said Murillo, a prison guard ...

Lawmakers postpone water bond to 2014

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LAWMAKERS APPROVE 'ANTI-ARIZONA' IMMIGRATION BILL : SACRAMENTO (AP) - Illegal immigrants arrested for minor offenses will no longer have to fear deportation if a bill approved by the state Senate becomes law.

Food abundance luring blue whales to coast

SANTA CRUZ (AP) - Blue whales, the world's largest animal, are being seen in droves off the Northern California coast. The ocean giants are being lured by an increase this year in their favorite food - shrimp-like creatures known as krill, biologists said. In Monterey Bay, whale watching tour operators have reported seeing dozens of blue whales and ...

California Assembly approves high-speed rail

Deputies say 1 dead, 2 injured in LA shooting during fireworks

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A gunman walked up to a crowd watching Fourth of July fireworks and opened fire, killing a 14-year-old girl and wounding a 12-year-old girl and a man, authorities said Thursday. No arrest has been made and the motive for the attack was unclear, Los Angeles County sheriff's homicide Lt. Mike Rosson said. The shooting ...

Man acquitted of assaulting retired priest to avoid prison sentence

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PACK OF DOGS MAULS BICYCLIST IN DELHI: DELHI (AP) - Authorities in the Central Valley say a man suffered serious injuries when he was mauled by a pack of roaming dogs while riding his bike.

State news briefs

6,500 POUNDS OF FIREWORKS SEIZED IN COMPTON : LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies have seized a cache of 6,500 pounds of illegal fireworks, a gun stolen from a police officer and approximately $30,000 in cash at a home in Compton.

State taxes coming in $4B above forecast

SACRAMENTO (AP) - California is on track to collect $4 billion more in personal income taxes than Gov. Jerry Brown had expected, giving a potential boost to education funding, the legislative analyst's office said Tuesday.

Los Angeles settles with women fired on in manhunt

Davis man spends week in wilderness on pine nuts

Burger King delivers it your way in San Francisco & LA

Bay Area briefs

WOMAN UNINJURED AFTER BART TRAIN PASSES OVER HER: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A woman escaped uninjured after a commuter train passed over her but did not hit her on tracks at a San Francisco station, transit officials said.

NY's Weiner back on Twitter 2 years after his disgrace

State news briefs

SF police chief wants more cameras

LA would have key role in tunnel construction

SF: Were patients dumped by Nevada?

Bay Area briefs

WOMAN CONVICTED IN HUEY LEWIS CAR THEFT: MILL VALLEY (AP) - A woman will be sentenced in May in Northern California for the theft of a rental car and laptop from singer Huey Lewis.

Bill bans teen drivers from hands-free texting

State Senate OKs spending $24M for gun seizures

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History experiment uses tech to find new stories of Bay Area’s past

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The photo taken in 1942 shows singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson serenading a sea of black and white workers at Oakland's Moore Dry Dock Corp., one of the San Francisco Bay Area's first integrated shipping yards.