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Missing Nursing Student, Charges Against Fredriksson's Father Top Past Week's Coverage

Catch up on San Leandro Patch's coverage from the past week.

Here are some highlights of San Leandro Patch’s coverage of news and events in and around the city this past week. 

Monday 

Eric Bush, 29, of San Leandro is killed during a Memorial Day weekend sideshow in East Oakland. A woman from Union City is also killed, and another woman from San Leandro sustains life-threatening injuries. Read it here

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San Leandro native, Sarah Woofter, helps lead the UCSD softball team to a national title. Woofter later tells the San Diego Union Tribune she wants to come back to her alma mater, San Leandro High, to coach. Read it . 

Tuesday 

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A "Confession of Error" issued by the U.S. Solicitor General in the wrongful wartime prosecution of Japanese American Fred Korematsu, an East Bay native, and Gordon Hirabayashi, wins praise from civil rights advocates. Read it . 

Drug and alcohol prevention programs in Castro Valley, San Leandro, Hayward and San Lorenzo lose county funding. Read it . 

In education column, Tessa Atkinson-Adams gives an overview of arts programs in San Leandro Unified School District, and how the public can help keep them operating. Read it . 

Wednesday 

A Bay Citizen analysis of bike crashes in the Bay Area over a period of five years reveals Alameda County to be the second most dangerous. Read it . 

Groups to protest the planned June 15 release of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed Oscar Grant. Read it . 

San Leandro’s new Senior Community Center gets a $100,000 check from the county. Read it . 

Hayward police work multiple leads in the search for missing nursing student Michelle Le. Read it . 

A San Leandro man is arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after allegedly setting off a chain of car crashes that ended in a big rig spilling hundreds of gallons of fuel on I-880. Read it . 

Thursday 

Tens of thousands of dollars in previously unclaimed taxes are headed back to Cherryland after two medical marijuana dispensaries are restored to Eden Area tax rolls. Read it . 

John Fredriksson, father of the San Leandro police detective recently arrested in a marijuana-related case, is arraigned in a Walnut Creek court Thursday on eight counts of child molestation. Read it . 

Former Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy, Lt. Vincent Perez, dies after being injured fighting a fire in San Francisco. Read it . 

Friday

The Alameda County Fire Department seeks to clear the record about its role in the emergency response to a Memorial Day drowning off Alameda. The department says it was never asked to assist. Read it . 

Family, friends and community members gather in Hayward to show their support for missing nursing student Michelle Le. Watch the video . 

San Leandro Unified School District announces nearly $3 million in savings to taxpayers, thanks to an improved rating for Measure M bonds. Read it . 

Patch real estate columnist Wayne Gregori presents the week’s movement in condo and townhome sales . And, in case you missed it, the week’s action in home sales . 

Saturday 

Also from Gregori, tips on what to look for in a real estate agent . 

San Leandro welcomes the Linen Life Gallery, a new space for art, culture and community. Read about it and view photos . Also stayed tuned for a video of the Taste of Freedom event held there on Saturday. 

Sunday 

Read a follow-up on John Fredriksson’s arraignment earlier in the week on charges of child molestation . 

The week’s blogs

Read a news round-up from Mayor Stephen Cassidy . 

Local blogger Craig Williams gives his diagnostic of poor test scores among minority students, and how they can be improved, . 

Michael Barber, the man intrepidly eating his way down East 14 Street, takes us to Hoagy Steak .


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