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Raising confident little gourmets
For impressionable young palates, Judy Shapiro has discovered that the Mill Valley Community Center is offering Little Spoons - Organic Cooking Class for Gourmet Kids.
It was a sweet assignment, to state the obvious: Taking photographs of Cadbury products.
TALK ABOUT double jeopardy. In 1991, Rick Walker, an independent auto mechanic living in East Palo Alto, was wrongfully convicted of murder, mostly on the basis of questionable testimony.
Does San Quentin need a new Death Row?
Does San Quentin need a new Death Row? Calling it the 'Cadillac Death Row', Assemblymen Jared Huffman voiced his strong opposition at a recent public forum, to plans to build a new $400 million expansion of the Death Row facility on the western grounds of San Quentin State Prison.
Paragraphs by Paul Miller A fly on the wall in a cell built for one person, but holding two inmates at San Quentin Prison, taped the following conversation and then emailed me the transcript, some which follows-- Inmate#0001: "The skinny is that those guys on Death Row, the ones who will still be alive then--and that's a lot of people, will be ...
San Quentin: View from the inside part 2
Continuing on the topic of social justice in the prison system, in light of Christian faith... I want society to remember the prison system.
"Night Stalker" Serial Killer Tied to 1984 SF Slaying
San Francisco police said the infamous serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" is a suspect in a 1984 San Francisco homicide of a nine-year old girl.
Pen Pals: Find a friend behind enemy lines
Prisoners of Conscience Committee Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. preaches "One Prisoner, One Contact" because he knows from experience how lonely life behind enemy lines can be and how a letter from a friend - a pen pal - can liberate mind and spirit.
Santa Clara County: No visitors allowed at Elmwood jail over flu...
All visitors are being shooed away from Elmwood jail after swine flu concerns prompted Santa Clara County corrections officials to close visiting hours indefinitely.
No hitchhiker horror stories in my life
Several hitchhiking movies have been filmed that could curdle your blood. Perhaps one of the best is the 1953 classic "The Hitch-Hiker" directed by Ida Lupino.
Killer groupies an unexplained mystery
And of the dozens of people who try to contact him each year, officials say, about 90 percent are women.
Lassen County Times & Westwood Pine P...
Remember When for Sept. 22, 2009
62 years ago The removal of power lines at the ends of two runways at the Susanville Municipal Airport neared completion following an agreement between the Susanville City Council and the California Pacific Utility Company.
Supervisors boost garbage collection fees in unincorporated areas
Residents in several unincorporated areas of Marin will see their garbage collection fees rise due to a franchise fee increase approved by county supervisors Tuesday.
Does Gavin Newsom really have a foster brother who's been in and out of prison?
Mayor Gavin Newsom has been accused of embellishing his accomplishments while campaigning for governor.
Wesson family taking back control
Marcus Wesson is in San Quentin prison, waiting to die. In 2004 he murdered nine of his children, exposing a Fresno family scarred by incest and violence to a horrified world.
Marin woman killed in car accident in Cleveland
Sylvia Bingham, a 2005 graduate of Terra Linda High School who graduated this year from Yale University, was killed Tuesday in Cleveland while riding her bicycle to a job she had just started with a social justice organization.
California bill to clear up prison space
Over-crowded: Several hundred inmates crowd the gymnasium at San Quentin prison in San Quentin, California, recently.
Local: Out of the shadows: the Wesson family
Television reporter Alysia Sofios broke a cardinal rule of journalism ethics: She became personally involved in a news story.
Attorney salutes Bay View's stand on - Black August'
Thirty-eight years after he was assassinated Aug. 21, 1971, by San Quentin guards at age 29, inspiring the first Black August, George Jackson is still Public Enemy No.
Former prison employee charged with sneaking heroin into San Quentin
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