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         <title><![CDATA[Amgen race: CHP officer collides with car, downtown Livermore evacuated hours later]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An Oakland CHP motorcycle officer was providing traffic control for the cross-state race Saturday when a vehicle apparently made a U-turn and collided with him, according to a spokesman. Just two hours later, a section of downtown Livermore was evacuated due to a suspicious package that was later deemd to be a discarded box of postcards.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Katie Nelson Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 18:06:55 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Antioch police: Horse survived one of city's worst animal cruelty cases, needs home]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Jazmine, an 18-year-old chestnut Arabian mare, was found on an Antioch ranch 300 to 400 pounds underweight, along with many other sick animals, investigators said. She was rescued and her owner arrested on two felony animal abuse counts. All the other surviving animals have been adopted out, except Jazmine.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Matthias Gafni Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 15:38:14 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Walnut Creek police chief retires after 33 years in law enforcement]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[WALNUT CREEK -- In his 33 years in law enforcement, retiring police Chief Joel Bryden has faced some particularly high pressure situations. As a member of the San Diego SWAT team in 1984, he helped take down a man who had killed 21 people -- some of them children -- in a McDonald's restaurant in]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Elisabeth Nardi &lt;br&gt; Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:18 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Police: Arrest made in Antioch homicide]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ANTIOCH -- A man has been arrested in connection with the killing of a 22-year-old Antioch resident whose body was found behind an apartment complex here early Friday.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:03 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Police: Missing 3-year-old Hayward boy found]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Police are questioning a 3-year-old boy's father after the child was taken without permission from his grandfather's house overnight.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:34 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Police: San Jose man arrested for stabbing Fremont motorist in chest with screwdriver]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[FREMONT -- A San Jose man was arrested Friday afternoon for allegedly stabbing a fellow motorist in the chest with a screwdriver at a Fremont gas station earlier this week following a road-rage incident.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 11:28:10 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Concord man who held San Rafael woman captive gets nearly 23-year prison term]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Carlos Ciprano Housh, 50, of Concord could have received a life sentence in the case, which was charged as a third strike. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Gary Klien  Marin Independent Journal</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 08:01:49 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Police: San Leandro youth minister arrested in Florida prostitution operation]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Officials at a San Mateo-based church say Samuel Yoon, 45, resigned his position this week after police said he answered an online advertisement offering sex with a 14-year-old girl.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 21:15:33 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Longshoreman killed when truck plunges into the bay]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The Port of Oakland has temporarily ceased operations after the death of a longshoreman who drove his truck into the bay near TraPac Terminal on Friday afternoon, a port spokesman said. The man, who was said to be 79 or 80 years old, was pronounced dead at the scene. His name was not released. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Harry Harris and Kristin J. Bender  Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 18:25:45 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Homicide in Antioch: Man's body found Friday morning near apartment complex]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Police were called to the 3400 block of Hudson Court in Antioch at 7:57 a.m. after reports that a body was found. This is the city's fourth homicide this year.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Rick Hurd, Paul Burgarino and Katie Nelson Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 17:46:15 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Suspected gang members convicted in Hayward carjacking, shooting at Oakland CHP officer]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sentences for the four, including two brothers, range from 27 years to five years probation. The officer was shot at and has his patrol car rammed during a chase last July that the resulted from a seat belt violation stop]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Harry Harris Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 17:31:45 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Richmond resident Mikaele "Ben" Taito sentenced to six years for the 2011 killing of James Newman Jr. in Rodeo]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Mikaele "Ben" Taito, 36, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of James Newman Jr. at a hearing in March, a few weeks after a Contra Costa County jury hung 8-to-4 in favor of acquitting him on murder charges.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Malaika Fraley Contra Costa Times</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 16:03:01 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Double-fatal shooting shuts down Interstate 880 in Oakland]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[OAKLAND -- A shooting has left two dead and shut down all lanes on northbound Interstate 880 near Broadway, according to the California Highway Patrol.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Katie Nelson Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 06:41:40 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[San Lorenzo: Man hit and killed by Amtrak train Wednesday identified]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[OAKLAND -- A 59-year-old man who was struck and killed by a train Wednesday near San Lorenzo High School has been identified.The man was identified as Luis Sanchez by the Alameda County Coroner's office on Thursday.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 May 2013 21:09:21 PDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Authorities: Alameda man sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in ecstasy trafficking]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO -- An East Bay man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for using his Alameda restaurant as a front to store and distribute thousands of pills of ecstasy.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Kristin J. Bender &lt;br&gt;Oakland Tribune</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 May 2013 20:43:21 PDT]]></pubDate>
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