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Tuesday May 18, 2010 Updated 12:03 PM PDT
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Man sues to get passport back to go home to die
Unlike most people caught up in the U.S. immigration system, John Doe Xiong, an 88-year-old Laotian, doesn't want to stay in the United States. He wants to return to his home country to die. First, though, he has to fight immigration officials who seized his passport and won't return it.
Dog at center of shelter break-in is put down
Max, the 70-pound pit bull condemned to die for biting two people then sprung from the Alameda Animal Shelter -- allegedly by his owners -- and spirited to Reno, has been euthanized, an attorney for the city said Monday.
Take a rain check for merry month of May
It is an article of faith for most San Franciscans that the best weather of the year around the bay comes in May and October. But not...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
Navy to showcase trained marine mammals in bay
Dolphins that can detect mines buried on the seafloor. Sea lions trained to cuff the leg of a waterborne saboteur. It sounds like the...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
CITY INSIDER Supes oppose federal program
Five San Francisco supervisors have signed on to a nonbinding resolution that would urge local law enforcement officials to opt out of...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
Oakland literacy program needs your help
An Oakland literacy program designed to address the academic needs of at-risk Oakland families is dealing with a whole lot more than...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
Bay to Breakers 'pirates' run wild at Panhandle
You know those glowing media accounts of how the 99th Bay to Breakers race is no longer a drunken mess? Not so fast. Even race...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
2 plead not guilty in Oakland fatal beating
Two men pleaded not guilty Monday to murder charges in the fatal beating of a 59-year-old San Francisco man on a downtown Oakland...
Chronicle 5.17.10 3:23 PM
Funds likely to save court jobs, end closures
An unexpected infusion of cash from the state should allow California's courts to end their one-day-a-month closures in July and will...
Chronicle 5.18.10 4:00 AM
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- Man sues to get passport back to go home to die
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- Navy to showcase trained marine mammals in bay
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