Top of the morning’s news
- Two people were arrested after as many as 75 protestors upset over tuition hikes occupied Tolman Hall at UC Berkeley for several hours Thursday afternoon. Contra Costa Times
- A candlelight vigil is planned for tonight for slain Vietnamese radio talk show host Cindy Nguyen, killed last Friday during a carjacking at a shopping center. Mercury News
- Similar to what he has done in the past, Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt offered $1 million for dirt on GOP presidential contender Rick Perry. HuffPo
"I think a lot of people like to take hits at me. I would say that my garden may not be the most beautiful garden."-- Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, in response to a resident’s publically calling out her unkempt property in the Oakland hills and referring to her as the “Queen of Residential Blight.”
Other news
- Sexual enslavement victim Jaycee Dugard sued the federal government, saying probation officers’ lax supervision of abductor Phillip Garrido led to her 18 years of captivity. Chronicle
- Even before he became Solyndra’s chief financial officer, Wilbur G. Stover was at the center of one of the largest price-fixing scandals in U. S. history as CFO of Micron Technologies. The Bay Citizen
- On her first day as Hewlett-Packard’s new CEO Meg Whitman vowed to get the company “back on track” but said it won’t happen overnight. Mercury News
- A judge set July 2012 as the date a group of lawsuits against PG&E over the San Bruno pipeline disaster will go to trial. Chronicle
- BART says it will begin replacing grimy cloth seats in its train cars with easy-to-clean seats within the next six to nine months, sooner than anticipated. The Bay Citizen
- A man was arrested in a Novato hotel room on suspicion of ripping off part of his girlfriend’s ear. Marin IJ
- After losing two of three games to the Dodgers the Giants face NL West title elimination as they head into a three-game series at Arizona, trailing the Diamondbacks by six games with six games to play. Mercury News
- Good news for Raiders fans: Sunday’s home opener against the New York Jets sold out before Thursday’s deadline, allowing the game to be televised locally by CBS 5 at 1:05 p.m. BANG
- A judge gave Oakland until January to institute much-delayed police department reforms required to settle a police corruption lawsuit but stopped short of following through on a threat to put the department under federal control. Oakland Tribune
- Alecia DeCoudreaux, the former top attorney for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co., becomes Mills College’s first new president in 20 years today. BANG
- Nearly 17 years after he murdered a 17-year-old girl who disappeared from the South Bay community of Campbell, felon Wilbur Atcherley pleaded guilty to strangling her. Mercury News
- Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison vowed to renew their hunger strike. California Watch
