RICHMOND, Calif. - The gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl on school grounds after her homecoming dance was horrific enough. But even more shocking, police say, was that up to 20 people watched and did nothing to stop it.
The attack over the weekend rattled this crime-ridden city of 120,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, where one police official called it one of the most heinous crimes he has ever seen. Some students have already left the school district in response to the attack.
"It's not safe there at all," said 16-year-old Jennie Steinberg, whose mother let her transfer out of the district Tuesday. "I'm not going back."
The victim, a sophomore, had left the dance and was drinking in a school courtyard with a group of students when she was attacked, police said.
Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as five others ranging in age from 15 to mid-20s attacked the girl for more than two hours at a dimly lit area near benches Saturday night. More than a dozen people saw the rape without notifying police.
The girl was found naked from the waist down near a picnic table. She remains hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
"This was a barbaric act. I still cannot get my head around the fact that numerous people either watched, walked away or participated in her assault," Lt. Mark Gagan said Tuesday. "It's one of the most disturbing crimes in my 15 years as a police officer."
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This is my favorite DIY-fest and craft fair in San Francisco. Sort of like the post-Burning Man party they have here in the fall, the Bazaar Bizarre brings back the crafty side of the Maker Faire in the winter.This is my favorite DIY-fest and craft fair in San Francisco. Sort of like the... more
(10-27) 20:49 PDT San Francisco -- Three pieces of the Bay Bridge's cantilever section that underwent emergency repairs over Labor Day weekend snapped and crashed onto the upper deck of the span Tuesday afternoon, striking three vehicles and forcing the indefinite closure of the region's busiest bridge.
A Bay Area synagogue will host a Grateful Dead-infused Shabbat service next week. For serious.
Congregation Etz Chayim plans to celebrate a Halloween-y Shabbat weekend with "Erev Halloween Grateful Dead Service" at 6:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. The service, which includes a helpful booklet, will explore spiritual interpretations of the Dead's music. There also will be a wine and cheese reception before the service. Sounds like fun times to me!
As many (most?) of you know The Grateful Dead was formed in 1965 in the Bay Area and grew to acquire legions of ultra-fans, known as Dead Heads. The group disbanded when lead guitarist Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995. The music, however, lives on (as do the surviving band members with various reunions and musical incarnations).
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Musica pobre!!! Punk Rock and Hip Hop is the new voice of the latino struggle, a struggle that spans back through genereations.
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Two graduates and one current student of Innovation Democracy’s one-year entrepreneurship course at Kabul University arrived in the Bay Area, seeking to meet and learn from California businesses that “started from zero and are now successful.”
Members of a class of 37, Mr. Jamil Ahmadzai, 31, and Mr. Hedayat Arbab, 25 successfully completed the Innovation Democracy entrepreneurship course in which Ms. Malika Jan Mohammad, 25, is currently enrolled. The one-year course requires students to solve business problems subject to peer review, engage in group work, listen to presentations by local entrepreneurs and prepare a business plan. Summer internships are also available to the students. Ms. Wagma Mohmand teaches the classes in Pashto, Dari and English under the supervision of Dr. Sari Stenfors, formerly of Stanford University and Liisa Valikangas, Professor of Innovation at the Helsinki School of Economics. Ms. Wagma Mohmand is present with the visiting students.
Arbab is from a farming family in eastern Afghanistan, where he worked on the family farm until graduating from high school. While attending Kabul University he developed a desire to pursue business but was frustrated by his lack of practical business training. He enrolled in the Innovation Democracy entrepreneurship course that he describes as a “Dream come true.” Following completion of the course he started his own packaging business, packaging dried fruit for sale in the United Arab Emirates. During his stay here he wants to focus on packaging and design, concepts that are unfamiliar to Afghan farmers and merchants. He also wants to establish a mentorship link between American and Afghan businesses.
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The students are available for interviews. They will be returning to Afghanistan on October 1, 2009. Call Sari Stenfors, CEO, at 650--283-2631 or Jaak Treiman, General Counsel, at 818--340-5766.
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If somebody asked you to name the ten most powerful companies in the Bay Area, would you be able to do it?
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Enzyme Dynamite
StereoVision
Frat House Studios
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Enzyme Dynamite
StereoVision
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