News Archive (6192)
A female bank robber dubbed
the 'Pony-Tail Bandit' by the FBI has hit banks in three different states this
month alone,including a Roseville bank last week. The FBI believes the
unidentified female bank robber is responsible for bank robberies in Austin,
Texas, Lynwood, Washington as well as the Roseville caper. The FBI’s Sacramento
Violent Crimes Task Force, the Roseville Police Department, and law officers in
Washington and Texas are investigating the robberies. The woman is described as a white female, early to mid-20’s, 5’3” to
5’5”, 110 to 120lbs (thin build), blonde hair, with no visible scars, marks, or
tattoos. The 'Pony-Tail
Bandit' demanded cash in all of the robberies. She has worn a white or blue
baseball cap with her blonde hair in a ponytail in all three robberies.She
is suspected in the 5/7/07 robbery of the Wachovia Bank in Austin, Texas, the
5/23/07 robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank in Roseville and yesterday's robbery of
the First Heritage Bank in Lynwood, Washington. Anyone with information
regarding these bank robberies is asked to contact the FBI in Sacramento at
(916) 481-9110, the FBI in San Antonio at (210) 225-6741 or the FBI in Seattle
at (206) 622-0460.
Cindy Sheehan, the "Peace Mom" No Longer Leader of the Anti-War Movement
Written by
Cindy
Sheehan, the "peace mom" who made headlines in 2005 by staging a
marathon protest outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, announced on Memorial Day that
she no longer wants to be seen as a leader of the anti-war movement. In
a 1,245-word letter posted on the liberal DailyKos blog, Sheehan said her campaign to end the war in
Iraq had strained her relationship with her remaining children, cost her a
marriage and left her nearly penniless. "This is my resignation letter as the
'face' of the American anti-war movement," Sheehan wrote. "I am going to take whatever I
have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving
children and try to regain some of what I have lost."
Emergency Declaration With Destruction of I-80 Interchange in the Bay Area
Written by
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has now issued an emergency
declaration after an I-80 interchange connector to the Bay Bridge was hit by a
tractor trailer hauling 8,600 gallons of gasoline. The cost of the repairs will likely run into the tens of millions of dollars,
and the state is now seeking federal disaster aid. The tanker ignited after crashing into a pylon
around 3:45 a.m. Sunday on an interchange connecting westbound lanes of
Interstate 80, which includes the Bay Bridge, to southbound I-880 in Oakland.
Another Presidential Candidate: Radio Talk Show Host Says Maybe
Written by
Michael Savage, the
nation's third-most listened to radio talk-show host, says he may leave his top
rated show to make a bid for the GOP nomination for president. "I know it sounds bizarre
but when you consider the people running for the presidency, none . . . seems
to be qualified," Savage told NewsMax in an exclusive interview. Savage,
based at the San Francisco Bay area's KNEW station, began his syndicated
"Savage Nation" show in 2000. Today his network, Talk Radio Network,
boasts that Savage is heard on over 370 stations across the country by 8
million listeners a week
According to a new study
released this month binge drinking is common among high school students in the
United States and is strongly associated with sexual activity, violence, and
other risky behaviors. The
study, entitled Binge Drinking and Associated Health Risk Behaviors Among High
School Students, has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and published in the January 2007 issue of Pediatrics.
The study analyzed data from the 15,214 high school students who completed the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. CDC scientists found 45 percent of the students reported past-month alcohol consumption, and 64 percent of students who drank reported binge drinking (defined as having five or more drinks of alcohol in a row).
The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop in San Francisco amid heavy security yesterday, a day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s human rights record. The torch’s global journey was supposed to highlight China’s growing economic and political power. But activists opposing China’s human rights policies and a recent crackdown on Tibet have been protesting along the torch’s 85,000-mile route since the start of the flame’s odyssey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The flame arrived in San Francisco shortly before 4 a.m. and was immediately put in a vehicle to be whisked away to a secret location. No protesters greeted the flame at the airport, but hours later hundreds gathered in United Nations Plaza, a pedestrian area near City Hall, to call on China to cease its heavy-handed rule of Tibet. Hundreds of Chinese students from Stanford University also planned to board buses for San Francisco early Wednesday to attend the torch relay to show their support. San Francisco officials said they were developing a plan that strikes a balance between protesters´ rights to express their views and the city’s ability to host a safe torch ceremony. San Francisco was chosen to host the relay in part because of its large Asian population. After San Francisco, the torch is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then to a dozen other countries. It is scheduled to enter mainland China on May 4 for the host country’s portion of the relay.
Republican Congressman Dan
Lungren still represents a Republican district — but just barely. The California secretary of state
says registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats by less than 5 percent in
his Sacramento-area district, which includes parts of Alpine, Amador,
Calaveras, Sacramento and Solano counties. It's the smallest edge for any
California Republican congressman. Lungren's 3rd District is about 42 percent Republican and 37 percent
Democratic. That's down nearly 2 percentage points from two years ago. Democrats
are encouraged by the shift, which is part of a statewide decline in Republican
voters. But a political analyst says Lungren still has the great advantage of being an incumbent when he runs
for re-election in November.
Draft Motorized Vehicle Plan For National Forest One Step Closer
Written by
The Eldorado National Forest is one step closer to having a
system of designated travel routes for wheeled motorized vehicles. On
July 20, the U.S. Forest Service will release a Travel Management Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for a 45 day public review period which will end on September 4. The
Travel Management DEIS examines
five alternative ways to manage a designated system of existing routes
running throughout the Eldorado National Forest. The DEIS describes these alternatives and the public input used to develop them,
the analysis of the alternatives and the effects of implementing each one.
Anti War activist and Mom for peace Cindy Sheehan issued a statement
saying she plans to run against House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless Pelosi introduces articles of impeachment against
President George W. Bush in the next two weeks. Sheehan told The
Associated Press yesterday that she will run in 2008 against the Pelosi, a
democrat from the San Francisco area.
