Police believe that a Santa Rosa man, who recently stabbed himself with a homemade spear just seconds before the fuzz burst through his front door early Sunday morning, is possibly connected to last Thursday's carjacking and rape incident involving a 29-year-old mother. According to the Gate, "Aristotle Quadra, 30, faces charges of carjacking, kidnapping, sexual assault and attempted murder. He is being held at a Santa Rosa hospital while being treated for self-inflicted stab......

Danielle Steele, Vanessa & Bill Getty, Trevor & Alexis Traina, and Serge & Tatiana Sorokko are wealthier than you, punk. "A San Francisco family is looking for a personal assistant / household manager to join our team on a long term basis." Are you that someone? But wait, there's more: in addition to joining a family that refers to themselves as a "team," you--a "highly poised, polished, professional, and articulate" cad--will also conduct interviewing,......

Fun video: An officer from the Federal Protective Service gets mad at skaters. Now, granted, this thing was probably highly edited and we certainly only get one side of the story. But, still, unintentional hilarity ensues, as vulgarity is used to show these hardened criminals who's boss. ...

Looks like the UC Registrar's going to have to cut some refund checks -- $33.8 million worth! A San Francisco court has ruled that the UC's fee hikes for professional students were illegal, because the UC had previously promised those students that their fees wouldn't be increased and then went ahead and increased 'em anyways. An angry UC Berkeley Boalt Hall law student then filed suit in 2003 for breach of contract. Plaintiff Mo Kashmiri was forced to drop out his third year of law school because he couldn't afford the higher tuition -- and then agreed to be the lead plaintiff in the class-action law suit filed. Don't mess with law students! Kashmiri later scraped up the money to finish law school, and is now a licensed attorney. Judge Warren (of the dog-maul trial) ruled that the UC did indeed breach its contract with its students: "The terms of this promise were not vague or indefinite. A reasonable person would be entitled to rely on the university's representation that the professional-degree fee would remain the same throughout his or her enrollment." ...

This just in -- a Sacramento jury has found Alex Fagan Jr. not guilty in the Fajitagate trial. The jury found him innocent of two felony assault charges and hung on the misdemeanor assaults. Meanwhile, those of you getting a little Mexican food on Union Street better step lively. ...

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