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SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News)- On Wednesday night, vandals armed with cans of red and black spray paint descended on the Mission district, leaving their tags on buildings along 24th Street from Potrero Avenue to Mission Street.
“There were two sets of tags on 24th Street,” said Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Department of Public Works, which came out Friday to paint over the graffiti. “There are a whole bunch of black tags and then a whole bunch of red tags, so it seemed like these two guys were following each other.”
DPW workers, who labored to remove the graffiti before The City’s annual Carnaval Parade and Festival, also took pictures of the tags and gave them to the police.
Mohammed Nuru, DPW deputy director of operations encouraged the public to call 911 if they witness taggers in action.
Nuru also highlighted The City’s new Graffiti Rewards Fund program, which provides $250 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of graffiti vandals. The program is funded through the collection of fines and penalties levied against other graffiti offenders.
“This is criminal behavior and taggers need to be aware that The City, the courts and the community will not tolerate this behavior,” Nuru said.
In 2007, police made 238 graffiti arrests, an increase from the 139 arrests made the previous year, according to city data. A 2000-01 civil grand jury report estimated the total cost to The City for graffiti damages and removal at $22 million — excluding the costs private property owners in San Francisco pay for such damage.

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(AP Online Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Myanmar cyclone death toll soars past 22,000: state radioYANGON, Myanmar (AP) _ The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country’s deadliest storm on record, state radio reported. Up to 1 million people may be homeless after Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian nation, also known as Burma, early Saturday. Some villages have been almost totally eradicated and vast rice-growing areas are wiped out, the World Food Program said.
Indiana, N.C. voters settling largest remaining contestsEVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) _ Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton once again faced-off in crucial primaries as voters in Indiana and North Carolina crowded polls Tuesday seeking to settle the largest remaining contests in an epic Democratic presidential nomination struggle. Obama was looking to shore up his position as the front-runner, while Clinton was seeking another victory to keep her candidacy competitive in a race that is likely to continue into June and perhaps to the Democratic National Convention in August.
Nearly 100 students at San Diego State arrested in drug bustSAN DIEGO (AP) _ The San Diego County district attorney’s office says nearly 100 students have been arrested at San Diego State University on drug-related charges. Drugs, cash and guns were seized from sellers and buyers in the bust that followed a five-month undercover operation.
3,500 US troops set to leave Iraq in the coming weeksBAGHDAD (AP) _ About 3,500 American soldiers are scheduled to leave Iraq in the coming weeks, the U.S. military announced, as part of the Pentagon’s overall reduction in troop strength following last year’s "surge." Washington plans to trim it forces in Iraq to about 140,000 soldiers by the summer _ from a peak of about 170,000 in October at the height of the troop buildup in Baghdad and surrounding areas.

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A chaplain at San Quentin State Prison has posted bail and is scheduled to appear in court next month on domestic violence charges.
Marin County Sheriff’s Sgt. Keith Boyd said 66-year-old Rafaeeq Hassan allegedly choked his wife with his hands and an electric cord at the couple’s residence on the prison grounds Thursday morning.
The sheriff’s office responded to the domestic violence call at 134 San Quentin Terrace at 11:46 a.m. Thursday, Boyd said. An argument apparently turned physical around 11 a.m., Boyd said, and Hassan was arrested for felony domestic violence, assault and exhibiting a deadly weapon.
Hassan was booked into the Marin County Jail but posted bail Thursday and was assigned a tentative court date of May 5.
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San Diego, CA, April 10, 2008 –(PR.com)– Teachers.Net has taken the work out of searching for Earth Day lesson plans and activities by gathering the best of its best in the April issue of the Teachers.Net Gazette. http://teachers.net/gazette/APR08
Teachers and school administrators looking for creative, meaningful and easy to implement activities to make Earth Day 2008 educational and enjoyable for their preschool, kindergarten, elementary and upper grade students will find a plethora of ideas in the Featured Lessons and Resources section of the current Teachers.Net Gazette.
From a list of primary grade books and corresponding activities, to rainforest theme activities, to an earth measuring activity and instructions for making paper in the classroom, educators will find enough to fill a lesson plan book with cross-curricular activities incorporating math, science, art, reading, games, skits, poems, and songs.
In addition to Earth Day lesson plans, educators will find transcripts of idea-gathering chats where teachers proudly shared their most successful Earth Day and ecology classroom activities. Transcript titles include Earth Day Activities; Going Buggy! An Insect Theme Activities; April Theme Activities; Earth/Eco Books Annotated List; recycling Activities; Teaching Map Skills, and more.
In addition to the many Earth Day and ecology project resources gathered in the Teachers.Net Gazette, Teachers.Net offers two forums where teachers can tap into the network of peer support:
1. Teachers.Net Earth Day/Eco Chatboard
2. Teachers.Net Earth Day Mailring
The Teachers.Net Gazette debuted in March 2000. The current issue and all Gazette back issues are available at http://teachers.net/gazette/

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