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KEMP, TEXAS—Soso Jamabo, the crown jewel of UCLA football's 2015 recruiting class, was arrested Saturday night on charges of evading arrest, minor consumption of alcohol, minor possession of alcohol, speeding, driving without possessing a driver's license, and disregarding a stop sign. The Plano West football star was arrested after he allegedly ran through a stop sign and pulled onto Texas...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, April 20, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi had a 2012 false imprisonment conviction wiped-away by a United States Superior Court Judge. Mirkarimi was convicted in 2012 for an incident in which he inflicted a bruise on his wife's arm after he grabbed her during an argument. He was charged with domestic violence battery, dissuading a witness, and...

SAN FRANCISCO—The 2015 San Francisco Giants are playing-out a script that has haunted many defending champions. The post-championship hangover, an affliction plaguing this season's edition of the Bay Area Bombers havetaken firm hold of the Giants, who, at 4-10 have gotten off to the fourth-worst start of any defending champ in the history of Major League Baseball. Questions about how the...

SAN FRANCISCO—Working to fulfill the Vision Zero Initiative to eliminate all pedestrian deaths in San Francisco by 2024, the city was witness to another pedestrian accident on April 18. At approximately 10:28 p.m., a cab driver fatally struck a teenager in the Nob Hill neighborhood. At 10:30 p.m., officers responded to the scene near the crossing of Pine and Larkin...

SAN FRANCISCO—A four story apartment caught fire in downtown San Francisco on Saturday, April 18. The fire started on a wooden staircase in the building just before 9 a.m. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 45 minutes of their arrival. No injuries were reported, but eight tenants proceeded to request help from the Red Cross for further housing and...

HOLLYWOOD—It has been awhile since we’ve seen a tense-thriller, well that is if you don’t count “It Follows.” Our latest supernatural thriller “Unfriended” takes horror to the Internet to scare audiences. Now this is a subgenre that has rarely been tapped into. I can only recall one prior flick that attempted the notion of using the computer as a death...

SAN FRANCISCO—The efforts of San Francisco Chief of Police Greg Suhr to discipline the group of 14 officers accused of exchanging racist and homophobic text messages have hit a potential roadblock, one that may exempt the accused from dismissal. When the text messages sent in 2012, were initially discovered by a San Francisco police bureau, a choice was made to...

SAN FRANCISCO—A sunken aircraft carrier, used in post World War II Bikini Atoll Atomic Bomb tests, was rediscovered in the San Francisco Bay this week. After it's return from the war on the Pacific, the U.S.S Independence served as an experimental site used to observe the effects of nuclear radiation on ships. The US Navy secretly sunk the ship into the...

HOLLYWOOD—There has been a debate for years that violence on television is reaching epic proportions and I would agree. My interest was peaked this week when I got my first glimpse of the trailer for the upcoming MTV series “Scream.” Yes, that 1996 movie that totally changed everyone’s perception about answering the telephone and watching horror movies is getting...

SAN FRANCISCO—Former San Francisco 49ers running back Lawrence Phillips, an inmate of Kern Valley State Prison, is a suspect in the death of his cellmate, Damion Soward. Phillips, 39, was incarcerated in 2008 on charges of vehicle theft and domestic violence, and false imprisonment, among others. The charges were the result of two reported conflicts in which Phillips throttled his...