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Golden State Killer Sentenced To Life Without Parole

Convicted on 26 felony counts 

DeAngelo, 74, a.k.a. the Golden State Killer, whose crime spree ended in 1986. USA TODAY

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The man who terrorized California as the Golden State Killer apologized to his victims Friday morning before being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. 

Joseph DeAngelo, 74, sat silently next to his defense team as Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman ordered his sentence.

Megan Diskin of the Ventura County Star reported that DeAngelo, a former police officer, admitted in June to being the serial rapist, murderer and burglar who stalked his prey in at least six counties in the 1970s and 1980s. He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of murder and 13 counts of kidnapping with robbery. 

Before his sentencing, DeAngelo stood up, took off his face mask and looked at the survivors in the audience and said: "I've listened to all your statements, each of them. And I'm truly sorry to everyone I've hurt."

     

       

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UCSF Murals Face Unknown Future As Campus Develops

     

Courtesy photo from UCSF

     

By Thomas K. Pendergast

     

“The Life of Washington” murals at George Washington High School in the Richmond District are not alone in their dubious fate. Another set of New Deal-era murals is in danger of destruction – but this time for a different reason and with a different response from Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who has initiated a landmark designation to save them.

In a unanimous vote, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution requesting the SF Planning Department prepare a Landmark Designation Report for the City’s Historic Preservation Commission, who are then requested to consider the 10 mural frescos, dubbed “History of Medicine in California,” for landmark status. The murals are located in Toland Hall at the Parnassus Campus of the University of California, San Francisco. They were painted by artist Bernard Zakheim.

The murals are threatened with destruction because Toland Hall is slated for demolition to make room for new research and academic buildings as part of UCSF’s massive renovation project. The problem, like with the Washington murals, is that they are frescos  painted on the wall plaster of the hall, so they cannot simply be removed like panels. The wall would need to be preserved as well.

      

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Wind Turns Golden Gate Bridge Into World’s Largest Harmonica

       

The Golden Gate Bridge has been creating new sounds since recent engineering updates related to the netting being put in place underneath it to deter suicides from the bridge. Many Richmond District residents – some who like it and some who find it annoying – hear the noises during periods of high winds.

    

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To many people, it sounds as though – under the right wind conditions – the Golden Gate Bridge is singing, humming, whistling or playing the world’s biggest harmonica. Some people like the sound; some hate it. But many agree that the new sound is loud. Really loud. 

Terry Trevino lives in San Francisco and commutes across the bridge to Marin regularly.

“I think it’s probably one of my downfalls, is that I definitely have sensitive ears and I was trained as a musician most of my life, and because of that I think I’m just quite sensitive to the sound,” Trevino said. “And I have to say, going across it as it’s ‘singing,’ it’s incredibly loud. It’s desperately loud, almost to the point where it’s debilitating if you’re really sensitive to sounds.”

Trevino lives on Lone Mountain and was in his home when he first noticed the noise. At first he thought it was a street cleaning truck, but it kept going. So then he thought it was a carpet cleaning machine operating somewhere in his neighborhood.

“I’m on the upslope of Lone Mountain,” Trevino said. “Our house and our land is literally tilted toward the bridge. That may be one reason why,”

And the sound just went on and on and on.

“It literally went on all day long,” he said. “It’s like when you get a bunch of metronomes in the room and they all play at the same time, you get all of them playing together.”

             

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