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Extra, Extra: Don Imus' Big Payday and SF's Possible Role in Bush's Surveillance Program
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- Free agent Brevin Knight, formerly with the Charlotte Bobcats, has just signed on with the Clippers.
- Where can you find the top 10 taco places on the West Side?
- Don't forget to check out the Sunset Junction Street Fair this upcoming weekend!
- Avowed pedophile Jack McClellan was arrested twice today on the UCLA campus.
- A mechanic was stabbed with a screwdriver when he tried confronting two car burglars a few days ago.
- A tip jar thief ring - that had been hitting various coffee and juice bars around the San Fernando Valley - was shut down yesterday when the last participant was nabbed.
- Disgraced radio jockey Don Imus reached a multi-million dollar settlement with CBS after successfully contesting his firing over calling the Rutgers U. women's b-ball team "nappy-headed ho's."
- Could the heart of Bush's warrantless wiretapping program, the Terrorist Surveillance Program, be located on Folsom Street in San Francisco?
- A proposed initiative that would give Anaheim voters zoning control over Disney's next theme park is gaining momentum, with a second Anaheim City Council member recently signing on.
- As if he hadn't already wrought enough damage: the Justice Department is finalizing regulations that would give Alberto Gonzales new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states - including the power to shorten the time death row inmates have to appeal convictions.
- Yet more progress in the "central front" of the "war on terror": 5 U.S. soldiers were killed today when their Chinook helicopter went down near Baghdad.
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