A Stanford graduate student missing for five days was found dead in the trunk of her car in Santa Rosa, in what authorities are saying looks like a suicide. She was an PhD candidate in electrical engineering with two degrees from MIT and held several patents in the field of digital imaging. Her grieving parents only learned of her death when reporters contacted them. Okay, after that, we're going to keep the rest of the......

-The Chron plays "I Love the Radical '70s" -As Ron Dellums isn't in Davos, he'll be at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. ...

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. Rad dream cartoon this week. Feeding your pets raw meat. Are people trying to sneak into the Berkeley school system? Cover article: not sending juvies to jail. The Dixie Chicks play Oakland this Friday. The Slits are in town. A review of Xyclo -- Oakland Vietnamese restaurant, with a cool name. Old people went to the Rolling Stones show. And Tenacious D. Next up: the Bay Guardian. Nancy......

The hunter becomes the hunted, when an investigator for the Peninsula Humane Society is herself investigated for running an illegal dog breeding farm and keeping illegal livestock at her Colma house. She claims it's all a setup, that all those golden retrievers and goats are her pets, and that people are invading her privacy. Darn varmits! A man trying to shoot a raccoon in his San Jose backyard at 11 p.m. Tuesday night not only......

Our new daily news roundup column! Someone gave Amy Lee (the acting head of the Dept. of Building Inspection, not the lead singer of Evanescence) a dishwasher. Boo hoo, people who bought condos by the ballpark think they're too small. The company providing free wifi in the South Bay is better than what Google's promising SF. There were a lot of tourists in the area this summer. They're building a J-Pop culture center in J-Town,......

Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims it was an unfortunate combination of alcohol and the painkillers she was taking for shin splints. Shin splints? Are they giving people Ambien for that these days? ....and we've always wondered why this doesn't happen more often. A Vallejo man eluding capture......