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All lanes reopen following fatal motorcycle crash on I-880

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash on northbound Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland late Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The solo-vehicle crash was reported at about 11:45 a.m. on northbound Highway 880 south of Washington Street, CHP Officer Kevin Bartlett said.

The motorcyclist apparently crashed into the highway's center divider and was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is not yet being released by the Alameda County coroner's bureau.

The crash caused the two left northbound lanes of Highway 880 to be blocked in the area for nearly two hours. All lanes had reopened by 1:30 p.m., according to the CHP.

_{Fri, 18 May 2012 13:47:53 -0700}

Mad cow quarantines lifted at two California dairies

Officials have lifted quarantines on two Central California dairies linked to a case of mad cow disease, after investigators found the illness didn't come from cattle feed.

Tests performed by the World Organization for Animal Health confirmed what U.S. labs had found: The diseased cow had a form of the illness involving a spontaneous mutation of a protein gene that hasn't caused illness in humans.

The cases of mad cow reported across Great Britain in the 1990s were caused by cattle being fed protein supplements made from the spinal columns and brains of diseased cows. That practice has since been banned.

The case in Tulare County was discovered through random testing.

Officials have not released the names of the affected dairies, which had been shuttered since April 24.

_{Fri, 18 May 2012 12:48:03 -0700}

Police step up patrols after homicides in north, central Richmond

Law enforcement officers in Richmond are beefing up patrols throughout the city in the wake of two fatal shootings there over the past week, a police lieutenant said Friday.

The increased patrols come after a drive-by shooting in unincorporated North Richmond Monday that killed 22-year-old Orlando Yancy and a shooting in central Richmond Wednesday morning that left 27-year-old Richmond resident Donald Washington dead, Lt. Bisa French said.

French said Richmond residents can expect a heightened police presence in some neighborhoods through the weekend, if not longer.

Richmond police are working with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office, which has jurisdiction over North Richmond, to investigate whether the two slayings are related, since North and Central Richmond are home to long-time rival gangs, French said.

"We haven't definitively tied (the shootings) together," she said.

Washington's murder marks Richmond's eighth homicide this year, while Yancy's death is the second murder reported in North Richmond in 2012, according to police.

No suspects have been found in either of the murders.

_{Fri, 18 May 2012 11:53:50 -0700}

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