17 people hospitalized at Cow Palace concert

16 reportedly hospitalized during Daly City event
DALY CITY, CALIF. — State Sen. Leland Yee is blasting what he calls a lack of Law Enforcement and emergency personnel at the Cow Palace after 16 people were reportedly hospitalized during an event. The injuries at the Daly City venue apparently occurred at a Halloween concert on Friday sponsored by Live 105. It was not clear what the Victims were hospitalized for or their conditions. Daly City Police had not released any information by mid-Saturday afternoon. No one answered the phone a...

Inquiry into patient drug deaths
Two patients have died from suspected drug Overdoses at a psychiatric unit on Merseyside. Paramedics were called to Taylor ward at the Peasley Cross unit, in St Helens, at 0500 BST on Friday. The men, aged 25 and 36, were pronounced dead. A third man, 30, is being examined as a precaution. Merseyside Police and the Five Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are investigating. Neither would comment on the nature of the drugs. Nick Rowe, a director at the trust, said the patients were found in...

Giants Fans Smoke Weed, Watch Baseball
SAN Francisco - When Rangers Josh Hamilton told reporters he could smell a whiff of marijuana in the outfield during Games 1 and 2, he wasn't joking about his old days of Drug Abuse. Marijuana, which is legal for many people with medical issues, is so commonplace in many parts of California that few Law Enforcement agencies bother to Crack Down on casual users any more. FOX 4 anchor Steve Eagar met several smokers who weren't shy about displaying their buds for the TV cameras. Watch his video to...

Schwarzenegger to Ammiano: 'Y-o-u A-r-e W-e-l-c-o-me'
Last year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger put in an acrostic curse word when vetoing Legislation by Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco dealing with complex “infrastructure financing districts.” This year, the Governor had a change of heart and signed what appears to be nearly identical Ammiano Legislation, AB 1199. And he showed Ammiano a little more love in a personalized acrostic signing message: Y early, I have reflected upon the various pieces of legislat...

India Suspends Search for Dozens Missing After Boat Carrying Muslim Pilgrims Capsizes, 25 Dead
© AP Photo Indian villagers look out from the banks of the Muriganga river at Kakdwip after a boat capsized near near Ghoramara island, south of Calcutta, India, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010. The Indian Navy, Coast Guard and Police suspended their search Sunday night for dozens missing after a boat crowded with Muslim pilgrims capsized near the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 25, Police said. The search will resume at daylight Monday with helicopters and divers scouring the wide mouth of the Ho...

Will Durst: Don't Vote
Don't Vote. You don't have to. No one's going to make you. This isn't the Soviet Union. You won't be forced from your beds and dragged to the polls against your Wills. Relax. Take a chill pill. Let it go. It'll all be fine without you. Things are pretty good the way they are, aren't they? Well, okay, some stuff could be better. Then again, could be worse. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if it is broke, leave it alone; who knows, maybe it'll fix itself. Or let someone who knows what they'r...

Blink On Crime - Kyron Horman Case Update: Blinkoncrime.com Legal Analyst Lea Conner Weighs In
Although I am not licensed in Oregon, I grew up there and was a news reporter for several years in that State, during which time I covered the cops and Courts beat. My practice in Washington State deals in Family Law matters. As such, I can comment as to my knowledge of Family Law and court proceedings, but my comments are general analysis, not legal advice. Kaine Horman’s pleadings of October 25, 2010, unleashed a tempest of charges against his wife, claiming she was a raging drunk whose ...

Identity Theft And Your Social Security Number
SSA Publication No. 05-10064, August 2009, ICN 463270 [View .pdf] (Español) [Audio.MP3] Identity Theft is one of the fastest growing Crimes in America. A dishonest person who has your Social Security number can use it to get other personal information about you. Identity thieves can use your number and your good Credit to apply for more Credit in your name. Then, they use the Credit Cards and do not pay the bills. You may not find out that someone is using your number until you are ...

Guerilla Art Takes on Sit/Lie Measure
Opponents of Proposition L, San Francisco’s sit/lie measure, may be behind in Fundraising, but in the final days before next week's election, they’ve marshaled human resources to spread their message through signs, songs and stealthy takeovers of City billboards. The latter — the work of an anonymous group — is now being scrutinized by the San Francisco Ethics Commission. On Saturday, the group Sidewalks Are for People, which is pushing to defeat Prop. L, began a one-week...

Woman dies trying to slide down stair rail
A 23-year-old Public School Teacher from the Chicago area died at a Halloween party Saturday night when she fell trying to slide down a stair rail. Police told The Chicago Tribune that Megan Duskey was at the Haunted Hotel Ball at a Hilton hotel in Chicago with a group of friends. Preliminary details from Police suggest that Duskey, dressed as Silk Spectre, a superhero from the Watchmen comic books, tried to slide down the stair rail from the mezzanine level but lost her balance and fell four s...

FBI Captured Muslim Brotherhood’s Strategic Plan
Part 14 of a serialization of Shariah - The Threat to America, the report of Team B II of the Center for Security Policy. Here, we look at the contents of the secret Muslim Brotherhood strategic plan for North America, which the FBI uncovered in 2004. The plan explains how the Ikhwan seeks to extend shariah into the United States and Canada. The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategic plan for North America was a closely-held secret until the FBI discovered it during a 2004 Raid of a house i...

Boxer Resurrects Indian Tribe Deemed Defunct 40 Years Ago, Son Profits $8 Million Off It
Doesn’t get any more corrupt than this… F or the past 10 years Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been playing a game that would make Jack Abramoff blush, a game that can best be described using the language of “Get Smart’s” Maxwell Smart as “the ole family-profiting-off-of-the-Indian-tribe-that-you-created trick.” Here’s the story. In 1998, Lynn Woolsey introduced Legislation reinstating an Indian Tribe in the wine country of Northern California that had bee

How to use your power as a senator to send $8 million in cold cash to your son, by Barbara Boxer (D-CA). Also: The Hill scrubs s
Can we call this burgeoning Scandal Boxer-gate yet? After all, when a Democrat finds a way to secretively transfer $8 million in cold cash to her son using unabashed power in the Senate -- which is what The Hill alleges that Barbara Boxer did -- then it seems an apt title indeed. Step 1: Find a defunct American Indian Tribe that officially ceased to exist decades ago. Step 2: Jam Legislation through that reinstate the Tribe and discretely tack on an amendment that gives the Tribe the right to op...

SB 1070: Written by the Prison-Industrial Complex
SB 1070’s legality is set to be debated Monday in a San Francisco appeals Court. An investigation by National Public Radio has brought to light that Arizona’s Controversial Immigration law SB 1070 was partly drafted by Prison companies that were set to make significant gains from the criminalization of immigrants in the state. The companies also helped pass the Legislation, NPR said. The investigation claims that what campaign finance reports, lobbying documents and corporate record...

Berlusconi amid scandal: 'I love women' (AP)
ROME – Premier Silvio Berlusconi issued an unapologetic defense of his lifestyle Friday amid the latest Scandal involving his Personal Life, admitting that he intervened to secure the release from Police custody of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who had previously been at his villa. Berlusconi, 74, denied that he had done anything inappropriate in securing the release of the Moroccan runaway nicknamed Ruby, and scoffed at press reports that portrayed their interaction as improper. The discl...

Multiple ambulances sent to Eisenhower crash
Thirteen people, six of them Children, were hurt this afternoon in a two-vehicle crash on the Eisenhower Expressway at Kostner Avenue, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Nine of the thirteen were taken to the Hospitals in serious-to-critical condition, said Fire Department spokesman Quention Curtis. The other four were transported in fair-to-serious condition. Curtis said six of the thirteen Victims were Children, but he could not say if any of them were taken to Hospitals in serious-to...

Ted Sorensen dead at 82
Ted Sorensen, JFK's famed Speechwriter and one of the last New Frontiersmen, has died at 82, according to The New York Times. Sorensen had been hospitalized following a recent stroke. After helping write Kennedy's Pulitizer Prize-winning "Profiles in Courage" when the future president was still a Massachusetts senator, Sorensen went into the Kennedy White House and served as a counselor and Speechwriter. He helped craft some of Kennedy's most famous speeches, including the former pre...

Reno Walmart gunman surrenders, police say
RENO, Nev. — A gunman who Police said was about to be fired surrendered Friday after shooting three co-workers at a Walmart store in Nevada in a possible retaliation attack, authorities said. The peaceful surrender capped a six-hour standoff during which Police negotiators spoke by telephone with 45-year-old John Dennis Gillane as he was holed up in an office in the back of the store. Gillane was taken into Custody and will be charged with three counts of Attempted Murder, Reno polic...

Illegal alien arrested for molesting 3-year-old-girl in Colorado
On Monday, Police in Colorado Springs arrested Wilson Chilel-Lopez, 22, and charged him with Sexual Assault on a child. Though he is not a relative, Chilel-Lopez was living in the Victim’s apartment at the time of the crime. The Crimes Against Children Unit is still investigating the case and believe that Chilel-Lopez may have molested other Children in the area. Colorado Springs Police Sgt. Steve Noblitt told KRDO News channel 13: “We have information that he may have stayed at othe...

'Text message rapist' Timothy West acquitted of rape despite apology secretly recorded by cops
The accused "Text Message rapist" - who apologized to a Queens woman for raping her in a Phone call that cops secretly recorded - was acquitted on all counts Thursday. The decision shocked the courtroom and the accuser's mother. "I can't believe it. They had all the proof," the mother said last night when she learned of the verdict from reporters. "It's not fair." Timothy West, 26, was cleared of four charges that he entered an Ozone Park home in 2009 through a window and raped and robbed a 21...

Italian surgeons get prison for unneeded surgery
ROME -- A Milan court has convicted three doctors of performing unnecessary surgeries in what the Italian media has dubbed a "clinic of horrors," with the Hospital's chief surgeon sentenced to 15 1/2 years in Prison. The court delivered its verdict late Thursday, in what was one of Italy's most notorious cases of Health Care gone awry. Prosecutors produced evidence that unneeded operations, including amputations, were performed on 83 patients at the Santa Rita clinic in Milan with the aim of get...

In Which We Learn That It Is Unwise to Drink and Handle Snakes
Do not be fooled by this Vietnamese cobra wine--snakes and Alcohol do not mix. One of the first things you learn as a science writer is that even the driest-seeming research papers can hide incredible stories. Sometimes, you just have to look hard. Other times, the story will reach right out of the pages of the journal and grab you by the neck. I recently discovered a research article that did just that. The paper, published in the journal Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, is called “Joseph ...

Vin Baker Addresses Alcoholism:
Former NBA player Vin Baker talked exclusively on "The Stan Simpson Show" about how Alcoholism and personal problems derailed his 13-year NBA career and contributed to him squandering more than $80 million. "[I am] at a point in my life where I want to be educational and spiritual to other people," said Baker. He talked about how straying from his upbringing caused his problems and how people were reluctant to help. "Success came fast for me, and a lot of times people will look at you and say 't...

Tight race for California attorney general
Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris are in a statistical tie for California Attorney General, according to a Field Poll released Saturday. Statewide, according to the Poll, Cooley leads Harris, 39 percent-38 percent. Cooley is at his strongest in the Central Valley, leading Harris by 14 percentage points at 44-30. Harris leads Cooley in his own Los Angeles County, 43-37, and handily defeats Cooley in San Francisco, 52-27. Field said...

San Francisco's Liberal Tea Party
Photo: Tim MurphyThe most dedicated progressive Activist of the 2010 election cycle might be a 63-year-old hippie from Dayton named "Ganja Santa." Ganja (needless to say, a stage name), spent Saturday's Sanity Rally in San Francisco alternatively posing for pictures in a pot-green Santa suit, and riding around Civic Center Plaza on a beer cooler that's been retrofitted with handlebars and four wheels (a nifty contraption he calls "the cruiser cooler"). He moved to California ...