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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A driver drove into a MUNI Metro subway tunnel early Thursday, stalling his SUV about half a mile down the tracks, triggering a mass transit nightmare for San Francisco commuters. Scott Mitchell, 40, of Sebastapol, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, driving on train tracks and failure to obey a traffic sign, San Francisco police Officer Albie Esparza said. Muni spokesman Paul Rose says an SUV entered a tunnel on Church Street shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday and drove eastward almost to the Van Ness Station. The driver stopped when the SUV...

Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil' By MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press Writer Friday, August 7, 2009 In her first communication since leaving office, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin described in an Internet posting Friday that President Obama's plan to overhaul the health care system was evil. "Who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course," the former vice presidential candidate wrote on her Facebook page. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in...

U.S. More Accepting of Islam, Less Likely Than Britain to Create Radicals By Patrick Bourland - After Britain assigned culpability to its own citizens in connection with the July subway bombings, a wave of concern crossed the Atlantic and sprinkled the American shore: Could something like that happen here, too?Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Recently, prominent Muslims in Washington have whistled a more hopeful tune: something like that probably won't happen here, and concrete reasons explain why. James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute, expressed the idea in the simplest terms. "You can be a third-generation Kurd...