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San Ramon saw its first murder of the year after 42-year old Kashmir Billon, a mortgage lender who ran Billon Enterprises, was found dead this week. His bullet-riddled body was discovered next to hist burning BMW this past Sunday. According to reports, Billon's business partner Reginald J. Robinson, 41, of El Sobrante was arrested today in connection with his death.

Republican (it goes without saying) Assemblyman Guy Houston of San Ramon wants to slice off more than $3 million in state funding from Berkeley for their stance against Marine recruiting. He will introduce legislation to "withhold state transportation money until Berkeley rescinds its 'war on the U.S. Marine Corps.'"

The results are in! What local highway is the worst to commute on, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Committee? Congratulations, 880! You win!

Gunshots on Market Street! Around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, the SFPD had to close down Market between 8th and 9th after a guy in a white car and another guy in a darker car traded shots. The guy in the white car jumped out and started yelling at the people in the darker car; the darker car tried to make a U but was (of course) blocked by the F-Market trolley, and the guy from the white car pulled out a gun from his waistband and fired five shots into the darker car as it sped off. The shooter then jumped onto the back of the white car as it sped down Larkin, with him hanging onto the trunk. Tourists were horrified, and the SFPD didn't get there until everyone had left the scene.

For those who didn't get enough protesting in yesterday, today there was a bunch of protests throughout the day, probably inspired by the President's channeling of Axl Rose by telling the country that all you need is just a little patience (we didn't watch the speech, but wouldn't it have been great if he did Axl's little snake-dance in the middle of the it)?

Han Shin showed up in court in Contra Costa County yesterday to plead not guilty to the charges that he tried to run over an ex's roommate with his car in San Ramon. He smiled and wished the judge a good day. Meanwhile, the authorities also arrested an Oakland man who's been stalking Schwarzenegger.

-San Francisco is only the 41st most expensive city in the world. -The Parrots of Telegraph Hill get their tree back, still pine for the fjord.

So what's the latest with those two Asian-American embarrassments of last week, racist Kenneth Eng and Gavin-obsessed Han Shin? Or, as we call them around here, Green Dragon and Purple Glove!

So what's the latest with Purple Gloves? Well, Gavin Newsom's stalker Han Shin is now behind bars, after being arrested last night by the Union City cops. Not for the Gavin shenanigans, mind you -- but because yesterday morning, Shin had driven over to a possible ex's house in San Ramon, and when his ex wasn't there, stormed into the house, stolen several items, and then tried three times to run over one of the ex's roommates. (Hey, all of a sudden we're now wondering on the current status of the last mentally ill East Bay man who tried to run people over.)

With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7.

Do people not give swirlies anymore? Four San Ramon teenagers were kicked off the JV football team after they were caught giving a wedgie to another teammate and dragging him around on the floor with a rope tied around his ankle while someone else kicked him in the groin. The second-to-last paragraph states in its entirety, "All those involved in the 30-second attack were sophomores," which kind of tells you all you need to know.

So while SF's mayor dates celebrities, and San Ramon's mayor breaks up fights, Oakland mayor Jerry Brown's on a different level. He's already dated a celebrity! What's left to do? Well, start a fight of his own, allegedly. The Alameda County DA's office is investigating charges made by an African-American Oakland clubgoer that Jerry Brown made racist comments towards her and broke her cameraphone. According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her friend, she alleges that Jerry Brown said, "That's what you get for being here," and that he was making references to "you people." She said she then started recording him on her cell phone, at which point Brown reached over and squeezed her phone until the plastic casing broke. Brown agrees that he was on the scene, but says he only went in to try and mediate the fight, and he vehemently denies having broken anyone's cell phone in the process. The woman also concedes that her phone still works. Cops on the scene watched the phone video she taped, but said they couldn't hear anything and all they could see was a big hand on the screen. Out of all the details of this story, for some reason we think the big hand is the funniest.

Sure, SF's Gavin Newsom's legalized gay marriage, and San Jose's Ron Gonzales built a city hall (and transacted some funny business with garbage collectors, but that's a separate story) -- but they got nothing on San Ramon mayor H. Abram Wilson. Mayor Wilson broke up a parking lot fight two weeks ago! So an 18-year-old security guard at Safeway was trying to stop a guy who walked out of the store with two $75 bottles of wine. (You can buy $75 bottles of wine at Safeway? No more wine in the box for us!) The shoplifter and the guard got into a scuffle as the shoplifter was trying to jump into his SUV and drive away, and the guard got a 13 inch long gash on the leg by the SUV door. In the middle of all this, other shoppers were trying to intervene, thinking the guards were mugging the shoplifter. Madness! Chaos! Blood everywhere! And then..... [chorus of angels!] -- a man appears. He shouts out, "Everybody back up!" The crowd looks up. "Everyone calm down! I'm the mayor of San Ramon!" He then produced a golf towel, which he used to stop the bleeding from the security guard's leg. That guy probably doesn't have any problems balancing his budget either! Unfortunately, the shoplifter got away. Maybe he didn't vote for Wilson. picture of Mayor Wilson, the hero-savior Ross Mirkarimi of San Ramon

We can't get enough of the home alone kids in San Ramon! Their father and stepmother have pled no contest to the claims of child endangerment, and were sentenced to 270 days in jail and 180 days in jail respectively. They also have the option of home detention, which seems peculiarly appropriate. (We gotta say, though, maaaaan, we've always thought it would be excellent to be on house arrest. Do you get Netflix?) Dad and stepmom are sticking by the "we thought Grandma was coming over to pick up the kids" story. And our other obsession, the Starbucks bomber: they've confirmed that the thing that suspect Ronald Schouten left in the bathroom was not a bomb, but he's being held for shoplifting something from one of the electronic stores on Van Ness (Best Buy, maybe?), and was also busted on an outstanding warrant for cocaine possession from last summer. The police also report that Schouten does not appear to be affiliated with any "anti-Starbucks" groups. Also -- an exclusive interview with Schouten on CBS 5, where he says he loves that Starbucks and would never want to hurt it. Wonder what the coffee's like in jail? ...and pot-smoking engineering majors throughout San Francisco mourn, as a local Hayes Valley gallery reports that two of the MC Escher paintings it was showing were stolen some time last week. Since the alarm didn't go off, they suspect the thief snuck the 1 foot x 1 foot paintings out under a coat or something. They say they're going to start looking into affixing art more permanently to the walls in the future.

We are obsessively following the story about the father and stepmother who left the father's two sons alone in their San Ramon house with a bunch of frozen dinners so they could go to Vegas for a weeklong vacation!! The parents were willing to fork out the money for a dogsitter but not anyone for the kids! The younger boy was autistic and was heard shrieking for help from the garage over the weekend! The cops had to gain entry into the house through a second-story sliding door because the boys were told not to open the door for the week! The parents had done this at least once before! The maternal grandparent called the cops and now wants custody! The stepmother's defense is that she loves kids because she gives them free toothbrushes at her dental practice!!! Whew! What does the Chron's Two Cents think about the whole thing? The police in Santa Cruz get a call during last week's wild weather -- a dead body floating by the wharf, face down. Grim. They race out, with lifeguards, rescue boats, and a Coast Guard helicopter. It was a log. And the police are still investigating an anti-Semitic hate crime that happened back in October in front of a Marina pizza parlor. Two roommates, who had recently graduated from Stanford, were attacked outside Pizza Pino by a group of males shouting anti-Jewish slurs. One attacker has been caught but they're looking for two others. The Jewish ADL is offering a $5000 reward for information.

Folks are lining up for rabies shots in San Ramon, after a cute stray kitten turned out to carry the virus. Authorites estimate that about 60 people were in contact with the kitten, and that 35 people would have to get shots (including one person who was bitten). 26 other people are also getting shots as a precaution. One vet noted that the kitten had gotten a lot of attention because it was just so darned cute. "Everyone loves a kitten." Two pit bulls were euthanized in Concord today, after they killed four animals in a neighbor's yard last Friday. The owner had kenneled the two dogs but claims that they escaped when they got spooked by the thunder and lightning last week. The dogs killed their neighbors' two cats, a goat, and a bunny. Animal Control got to the scene right as the dogs were in the rabbit hutch, and they report that the dogs were so intent on the rabbit that they didn't even notice the fuzz. The dogs also killed four other animals in the neighborhood that evening. ...and we know we're stepping a little on SFist Rain's territory here -- but hey! New Animal Cops SF episodes just appeared on our TiVo! Starting next week! Yay, more Lieutenant Michael Scott!