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Victim takes stand at school dance gang rape trial

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:17:12 -0400

MARTINEZ, California - A woman who testified Monday at the trial of two of the men charged with gang raping her at a Northern California high school, told jurors that she doesn't remember the attack, only waking up at a hospital in "excruciating pain."

BART GM says ex-official pay deserves review

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:50:02 -0400

WALNUT CREEK, California - The top administrator for the Bay Area Rapid Transit System says her predecessor's pay of $330,000 last year despite not working a single day warrants a review.

10 women, many in 90s, escape Calif. limo fire

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:23:40 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO - Ten women - some of them in their 90s - escaped unharmed from a limousine that began smoking and caught fire in Northern California just more than a month after five nurses were killed while trapped inside a burning limousine on a nearby bridge.

Woman gets 8 years for kidnapping granddaughter

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:58:22 -0400

MARTINEZ, California - A 60-year-old Southern California woman was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her infant granddaughter from her son's Northern California home.