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Police say a bystander was shot at a gay pride event in San Francisco’s Civic Center when an argument between several young men turned violent. Officer Carlos Manfredi says several people were detained for questioning after the shooting occurred around 6 p.m. Saturday. […] Manfredi said the argument had nothing to do with the gay pride event. …

Well, it happened friday (July 22nd)when my life came to a sudden stop with me walking on stage at the Atlanta Civic Center with the President of the United States. Just writing this it seems to have been a very sureal moment...I'm having difficulty remembering it all. For some reason I was selected from the state of Georgia to represent seniors and discuss SS reform. It started two weeks ago with repeated phone calls from the WH asking me questions. Funny thing..the first call came in and when I saw it was "unknown caller" I just let the machine pick...

Yet another chapter unfolded Thursday in San Jose's months-long technology scandal involving Cisco Systems. The woman at the center of the controversy -- the city's former chief information officer, Wandzia Grycz -- filed a wrongful termination claim against San Jose alleging City Manager Del Borgsdorf and his deputies made Grycz the scapegoat in the botched deal. The controversy has called into question the leadership of the city's highest-ranking officials and threatened the planned June opening of the new City Hall. Grycz resigned her $174,000-a-year post under pressure in August after a city audit found she and others had flouted city...

San Jose will save millions of dollars, getting a substantially more robust computer network at a lower cost after city leaders were forced to fairly bid a contract that had improperly favored Cisco Systems in the new City Hall. The city council in August was forced to rip up and start over with the $8 million contract after a Mercury News investigation exposed apparent favoritism toward the company and a subsequent city audit revealed San Jose had gone so far as to let the company write the list of 18,000 Cisco parts the city would buy. The new low bidder,...