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The National Park Service revealed the coyote is from Angel IslandThe origins of a coyote that drew international headlines after it was spotted swimming ashore to San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island have been revealed. Initially thought to have made the mile-and-a-quarter journey from San Francisco, which faces the southern edge of Alcatraz, the animal turned out to have made a much longer 2-mile swim from Angel Island State Park, according to new DNA evidence collected by National Park Service ecologists. The coyote’s whereabouts still remain unknown. “We are surprised by the coyote’s origin,” Park Service wildlife ecologist Bill Merkle said in...

ANGEL ISLAND - Her friends call her Judy.Her students call her Professor Yung. Judith Yung appears on her birth certificate.But to Mom and Dad and her Chinese school teacher, she was always Bick Fong.Her original family name, Tom, not Yung, was a secret closely guarded from outsiders for a generation."Within the community and within families people knew what your real names were," Yung said. "I thought it was normal because everyone else was like that."Rebuffed by the Chinese Exclusion Act, nearly an entire generation of Chinese immigrants to the Bay Area came in under assumed or "paper" names and identities,...