An unemployed crime lab technician was convicted in Hayward on Friday of two counts of attempted murder for planting bombs under the homes of Fremont's police chief and other city officials. The city's top administrator has told organizers that he won't approve an event permit for next year's Mardi Gras parade because of the event's increasing rowdiness. Police said the cash arrived on an unidentified commercial airliner from Minneapolis. We put up this big wrought-iron fence 8 feet high. He makes clear that he will not usurp the commission's power.
Utility vows to pursue legal challenges.
Fifteen students and janitors were arrested Friday during a protest near UC San Diego in support of the janitors' demand for better pay and benefits. A school district accountant was arrested Friday, accused of embezzling thousands of dollars from a fund designed to help poor families attend district meetings. She was 93. He was 12. Werner J. Fricker, president of the U.S. Soccer Federation from 1984 to 1990 and a man regarded as a pioneer of the sport in this country, died at his home in Horsham, Pa., on Wednesday at age 65 after a yearlong battle with cancer.