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OAKLAND, Calif. - An alleged pimp who evaded capture on murder charges by stealing a U.S. Marshals Service van during his eight months as a fugitive was unarmed when he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Kim Saelio, 22, who went by the names "Mr. T." and "Tim-Tim," appeared to be reaching into his waistband for a gun when officers fatally shot him Wednesday in Oakland, police Lt. Ersie Joyner III said Thursday. Saelio had crashed an SUV into parked cars after a short police chase, and refused repeated requests to surrender, Joyner said. But Saelio's family members...

DIXON -- A motorist stopped for speeding and drunken driving on Interstate 80 early today in Dixon bolted from a California Highway Patrol officer, jumped the median and was struck and killed by a sport-utility vehicle, authorities said. Shaun Jones, 26, of Sacramento died shortly after 1 a.m. when he was hit by a woman driving a Ford Expedition on westbound I-80 near Dixon Avenue in Solano County, the CHP said. The incident began when two CHP officers in a patrol car clocked Jones traveling 96 mph in a Cadillac Deville on eastbound I-80 east of Dixon Avenue, authorities said....

NEWARK -- The man fatally shot by Newark police on Tuesday afternoon was armed with a toy gun, though the officers who confronted him were too far away to make that distinction, Police Chief said Wednesday. Officer Anthony Heckman fatally shot Victor Macias, 33, outside Newark Square shopping center on Thornton Avenue near Cedar Boulevard after Macias refused repeated orders in English and Spanish to drop the weapon, said Police Chief Ray Samuels. Heckman, who fired four shots from an AR-15 rifle, was crouched between 40 and 50 feet away from Macias when he fired, the chief said. Heckman and...