Police received reports of a man firing a gun near Riverside Elementary School in the 5400 block of Glenn Avenue at around 2:30 p.m.

Officers responded and placed the school on lockdown.

They located the suspect, who had been firing shots in the air and attempting to shoot at passersby. Nobody was hit by gunfire.

One officer fired a Taser to subdue the man, but he was wearing ballistic body armor, and the Taser had no effect. The suspect then charged the officer, police said.

After a brief struggle, police took the man into custody. One officer suffered minor injuries during the scuffle, police said.

Police identified the man as 31-year-old Christopher Trinh. Police said they found the gun Trinh was allegedly firing, and spoke to three witnesses who said Trinh had tried to shoot at them.

A search of Trinh’s apartment turned up more guns and ammunition.

Trinh was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility, police said.

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Now fresh off a 13-3 season, the NFC West title, and a trip to the NFC Championship Game, Harbaugh wants Smith, set to be a free agent in March, back for 2012. Even though the team selected quarterback-of-the-future Colin Kaepernick in the second round of the 2011 draft. Smith finished the season with 3,144 passing yards, 17 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, and ranked 13th in Football Outsiders’ quarterback efficiency metric ahead of Joe Flacco and Cam Newton.

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The seventh annual race, scheduled May 13-20, is expected to include about 140 of cycling’s top riders.

The roughly 800-mile route, which was announced Wednesday, will begin in Santa Rosa and take riders into the rolling hills of Sonoma County.

Stage two of the event will bring it to San Francisco, with cyclists traveling through the Marina district, the Presidio and along the Great Highway.

For the first time in the event’s history, cyclists will climb Mount Diablo during stage three from San Jose to Livermore.

The fourth stage will take riders from Sonora to Clovis during the race’s longest day.

The concluding eighth stage begins on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and finishes in downtown Los Angeles.

Participating teams and individual riders will be announced in the weeks just prior to the race.

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San Rafael sanitation district employees were performing routine cleaning work on a pipeline last month when they came across Ann Aulakh’s necklace.

Aulakh’s friend had left a message with the district after the chain was lost.

Sewer Maintenance Supervisor Kris Ozaki said workers remembered the message and used it to trace the necklace back to Aulakh.

A worker dropped it off at her home.

Aulakh told the Marin Independent Journal said the necklace was a gift from her husband on their first Christmas together in 1993. She said she was convinced it was gone for good after she inadvertently flushed it down the toilet in October.

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Angelic Cisneros, 33, was arrested Wednesday for the blast, which was reported at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday at 1228 Capitol Ave., near Ocean Avenue.

The blast caused a small fire, but by the time firefighters arrived, the blaze was nearly out. Firefighters called police when they suspected that the explosion might have been drug-related.

Police investigators arrived and determined that a butane tank had exploded as drugs were allegedly being manufactured, police spokesman Sgt. Daryl Fong said.

After the explosion, Cisneros and the 12-year-old boy transported themselves to a hospital to be treated for burn injuries. The injuries are not considered life-threatening, but the boy remained at the hospital Wednesday night, Fong said.

When Cisneros was released from the hospital, police took her into custody and booked her into jail on suspicion of recklessly causing a fire that caused bodily injury, recklessly causing a fire in an inhabited dwelling, two counts of child endangerment and possession of marijuana for sale, Fong said.

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The woman who died was identified by the Marin Independent Journal as 59-year-old Aline Shaw of San Rafael.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes a dementia that progresses more rapidly than others such as Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia. Patients eventually go into a coma and die.

The variant form of CJD is the human version of bovine spongiform encephalophathy, commonly known as ‘mad cow disease.’ Human get the variant version of CJD when eating the meat of animals infected with BSE.

Shaw passed away suddenly on Jan. 27 from non-variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, according to the Marin County Health Dept. The non-variant form only two known causes: genetic mutation and contaminants introduced during a medical procedure.

Dr. Craig Lindquist, Marin County’s interim public health officer, said state officials notified him of the 2 cases on Friday. Lindquist could not identify the victims, but confirmed to the newspaper that one had died.

Experts at the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention are aware of only 3 previous U.S. cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. CDC officials said those earlier victims were all exposed to BSE while abroad.

“We know that there have been no mad cow diseases originating in the United States,” said Dr. James Cullor, director of the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Center.

“The processing system, the surveillance system from the farm all the way through, is vigilant,” he said, making a local outbreak of mad cow very unlikely.

Marin County officials have yet to determine the source that infected the two Bay Area victims, but said they are reviewing their histories to determine if there is a link between them.

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According to the report, there were concerns about Jobs’ past drug use and his lack of support for his eldest child, who was born out of wedlock. Jobs died in October after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.

You can read the report here. We’ve pulled a few paragraphs of the information, which you can read below.

Reading through the early pages, we know that Jobs wasn’t a communist or wasn’t connected to any group that wanted to overthrow the government. They really asked him that. According to the Council’s Web site, the group is the “principal national advisory committee on international trade.”

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“I don’t really follow the key pairings, because that’s where everyone else goes,” John Madden told the KCBS morning crew. “It’s so crowded you can’t get close to them…I go to Pebble every day…I kind of hang out at the (CBS) compound, because they always have food and beverage.”

Madden said he also visits the Pebble Beach maintenance shed.

“They barbecue down there and make chili,” he said. “The guy has the best chili, I swear.”

John saw 49er coach Jim Harbaugh play Wednesday.

“For a guy that grinds in football the way he does, he has a pretty good game,” the former coach said. “I’m still surprised that (Patriots coach) Bill Belichick is playing in this. He was here two days after the Super Bowl.”

In NFL news, Baltimore Ravens running back Ricky Williams announced he is retiring after 11 seasons on three teams and more than 10,000 rushing yards.

“He did it quietly,” Madden said. “He was one of those guys you always expected more out of…I’ve always liked him and known him to be good guy. Kind of quiet, maybe a little different… he accumulated a lot of yards, but because he moved around it was kind of quietly.” (7:45)

Listen to the John Madden segment live weekday mornings at 8:15 on KCBS All News 740 AM/106.9 FM.

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The closure next weekend could be one of several before the big ribbon cutting ceremony, which will come nearly 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that collapsed a portion of the existing upper deck.

KCBS’ Doug Sovern Reports:

“We’re going to have to take the existing bridge out of service, both eastbound and westbound, in order to tie in the new Bay Bridge,” said Caltrans spokesman Bart Ney, probably 3 or 4 days before the new bridge opens.

Besides those tie-ins at Yerba Buena Island, crews have a lot of work to do over the next 19 months completing the eastern span itself and building the touchdown into Oakland, Ney said.

“We have a number of massive challenges to get through, but we believe that we can,” he said.

The upcoming closure of the upper deck on Presidents Day Weekend goes from 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 until 5 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21.

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Home Depot stores in the Bay Area have launched an in-store checkout system where customers can pay using only their cell phones and a PayPal account, no cash, debit or credit cards necessary.

San Jose Home Depot shopper Angelina Barron said she would love to be able to leave her wallet at home.

”Right now I don’t have my purse, and I think it would just be easier to be able to whip out my phone because everyone always has their phone in their hands,” said Barron. “It would just be quick and easy. I think it would just be a good idea.”

Actually, customers don’t even have to be carrying their phones, they can simply enter their cell number and a security code to buy items. But that made some customers like Margie Taber leery of quick-and-easy payments.

KCBS’ Matt Bigler Reports:

Customers don’t even have to be carrying their phones; they can simply enter their cell number and a security code to buy items. But that made some customers like Margie Taber leery of quick-and-easy payments.

”My only thing is, is it going to be secured, meaning nobody’s going to hack into my phone or my account,” said Taber.

PayPal spokesperson Amanda Pires said that they do not share your financial information with any of their retail partners.

”Just like how consumers trust PayPal online to protect the information, we’re doing that on mobile devices as well, or when you’re in store,” said Pires.

Home Depot plans to roll out the mobile payment system to more than 2,000 stores next month.

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John Pistole has said the Obama administration’s test run of a program that screens certain travelers based on the risk they pose will expand to 35 more airports around the country. Among them are San Francisco International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Boston’s Logan International Airport, the last three of which were where the 9/11 hijackers departed from in 2001.

KCBS’ Anna Duckworth Reports:

Passengers approved to participate in the program would not have to take off their shoes and belts when they go through security as often as they do now.

“I think that would make it a lot easier,” said frequent SFO flier Morgan Wichman. “The lines aren’t usually too bad, but it would be nice to not have to worry about taking off boots and jackets and sweaters. I would definitely volunteer information for that.”

The TSA pre-check program is already in a test phase at seven major US airports.

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The lenders will have three years to fulfill the terms of the landmark deal that California Attorney General Kamala Harris said could make as much as $18 billion of relief available to thousands of homeowners in the state.

KCBS’ Holly Quan Reports:

Harris and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had been reluctant to sign onto the settlement that did not offer significant help for homeowners.

California walked away from settlement negotiations in September when homeowner relief for California was expected to be $4 billion. Harris said in a written statement the new settlement guarantees as much as $12 billion in principal reductions for California homeowners who are underwater on their loans or behind on payments.

Harris said the additional money allocated for California would help some 28,000 homeowners in the state eligible for refinancing, and another 140,000 eligible for cash restitution because the banks seized their homes.

“This is not the complete conclusion to the foreclosure crisis. It’s not going to reach everybody, but it’s a meaningful start,” said Bruce Mirken with the San Francisco-based Greenlining Institute.

Mirken applauded Harris’ push for the larger settlement, which could ultimately be worth $40 billion nationwide.

“It’s certainly more than folks feared that this deal was going to have,” he said.

The settlement also allows Harris to sue banks who are slow in complying with its terms.

The deal ends a separate investigation into Bank of America and Countrywide for inflating appraisals of loans from 2003 through most of 2009. Bank of America will pay $1 billion to settle that federal probe.

Oklahoma is the lone holdout and will receive no money.

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Kenneth Chin, 73, who suffered from dementia, was found dead last year face down in a park, after he was allegedly dropped off in the wrong location instead of being taken directly to his assisted living facility.

“It’s egregious that this happened to him. It’s outrageous that he wasn’t dropped off at his correct location, and he would have been fine if he had been,” said attorney Ingrid Evans.

KCBS’ Margie Shafer Reports:

Medsam Enterprises, Veolia Transportation, San Francisco Para-transit and the driver are named in the suit, along with Jewish Family and Children’s services, which was Chin’s conservator. Evans claims the agency failed to offer timely notice of the disappearance.

“At four o’clock in the afternoon he was reported missing, at seven o’clock they were notified, and as you know at this time of year it’s dark at 7 o’clock,” said Evans. “And if you’ll remember last year was the coldest day of the year, it was when we were expecting snow in San Francisco, and that was when he went missing.”

Chin’s niece Jennifer Chin, said that her uncle’s disappearance was a nightmare.

“I remember lying there at night and it was pouring and freezing and I was just praying that he was indoors somewhere,” said Chin.

Kenneth Chin was found 10 days later, dead in Lincoln Park.

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Free live music for lovers is being offered in the front room at El Rio where you can toast to romance with $5 margaritas all night long. If you are looking to strike that perfect chord with someone special, jam with Los Trainwreck starting at 8 p.m. They are amped to make you looked like a star.

Surprise your sweetheart with flowers and a night filled with the best entertainment in the East Bay. The Starry Plough Pub is a 35-year-old institution offering live music, poetry slams, open mics and more. They are passionate about their traditional Irish roots. There’s a fine selection of brews with a casual atmosphere making this place most welcoming on the night of love.

Related: Best Bay Area florists.

Nothing screams red hot passion more than jazz and blues. Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers perform two shows at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Before feasting on Smith and her 7-piece band, sink your teeth into the yam fries, pulled pork BBQ or cajun calamari served onsite at the club’s full-service kitchen.

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It always feels like a special occasion sitting inside the Great American Music Hall. The French architecture is incredibly rich and drips of a romantic setting regardless of the event or guest. Artists who have graced the stage include Wild Flag, Roky Erickson, PJ Harvey, Patti Smith, the Grateful Dead, The Melvins and Arcade Fire.

It’s a celebration every night of the week at the Make Out Room. Lose yourself in this intimate spot decorated in tinsel and good tidings. Cheap beer, loud music and the occasional underwear party make this location a city hot spot perfect for romance.

Related: Best Bay Area jazz clubs.

Robyn Chelsea-Seifert is a freelance writer living in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Miami Herald, Creem, Hit Parader, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel and International Musician. Her work can be found at Examiner.com.

The proposal by Supervisor Scott Wiener would alter the city’s planning code, which prohibits food trucks on such campuses if they are outside of commercial districts.

Under the current law, campuses such as San Francisco State University and Kaiser Permanente Medical Center are not allowed to have food trucks on their property.

KCBS’ Barbara Taylor Reports:

“San Francisco values choice in food options, and this legislation will increase choices,” Wiener said in a statement.

“Allowing institutions to provide their employees, students, or patients with additional food options, including food trucks, is a good thing and should be encouraged. It makes no sense to ban these campuses from doing so,” he said.

Wiener’s office said the supervisor also plans to introduce more comprehensive food truck legislation in the future and has convened a working group of stakeholders, including operators of both food trucks and brick-and-mortar businesses, commercial property owners and city department officials.

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It’s a white-hot political issue right now, but the Obama administration is looking for a way to cool things down.

San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer has written what he calls a “letter to the faithful,” which will be given out at all Masses this weekend. In it, he calls the new federal policy “radical” and “insidious.”

KCBS’ Doug Sovern Reports:

Niederauer told KCBS it’s not fair for the government to rule that religiously affiliated hospitals and schools, but not churches themselves, must include contraception coverage in their employees’ health insurance plans.

“Because we hire non-Catholics as well as Catholics, because we serve non-Catholics as well as Catholics, we’re being told that we’re really not a religious institution that can follow the teachings of its faith,” said Niederauer. “For us, it’s not about birth control, it’s about religious freedom.”

California Senator Barbara Boxer points out that church-affiliated hospitals and schools get federal funding and tax benefits.

“We want to make sure that the religious freedom of all Americans is protected, and that means for women who work for institutions which serve the general public,” said Boxer.

There’s talk in Washington of finding a middle path, to end the political controversy.

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It’s a program that is already going gangbusters in Seattle. Russia-born Svetlana Anikeeva is helping fund a development boom in Seattle with an investment of $500,000. For that, she expects a modest return on her money, and something far more valuable; a permanent green card.

It’s called an EB-5 visa. EB stands for Employment Based. Anikeeva invests half a million dollars in a project that creates 10 American jobs, proves her money is clean, and sees the project through to completion.

Or, as Anikeeva explained, “It’s pretty much like a marriage visa. Once you’ve proven it’s for love, they give you permanent residence.”

It’s expensive, but it’s also one of the fastest routes to permanent legal residency.

“If you have the money, you do this,” explained Henry Liebman, an immigration attorney turned real estate developer. Everything he builds is financed with foreign money.

Most investors are Chinese families, many of whom want to send a child to school in the United States. Others include Europeans who would like to retire in a place like Florida.

Just four years ago, fewer than 300 Chinese investors applied for EB-5 visas. Now, that number is approaching 3,000 a year. At 20 years old, the program is just now taking off largely because of the economy.

“Until the bust, it really wasn’t popular at all, then it became one of the few sources of financing,” said Liebman, who is likely the largest EB-5 developer in the country. With more than 1,500 investors, at $500,000 a piece, he has a lot of financing.

The investments are enough to singlehandedly reshape the Seattle area known as SoDo, or “South of Downtown.” His vision is based largely on what has happened in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. Walk by Safeco Field, Seattle’s baseball stadium, and there are several blocks of construction. It’s the result of a massive influx of foreign investment.

Seattle’s EB-5 construction boom doesn’t end with private buildings. The massive upgrade of State Route 520, also known as The Floating Bridge, includes a healthy dose of foreign investment. The highway project is literally a path to American citizenship for 95 families.

The use of foreign money was the brainchild of developer Mike Mattox. He calls the EB-5 program “one of the best tools The United States has for creating jobs and bringing money into this country.” He describes it as “a win-win for everybody.”

In the Bay Area, dozens of new EB-5 investment centers are popping up. Foreigners can put money in Wine Country, Silicon Valley, and maybe even professional baseball. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan wants to keep the A’s from moving by building a new stadium with EB-5 dollars.

There are some catches. If a project goes bust, applicants lose their money, along with their path to that permanent visa. Also, developers are not allowed to solicit investors. The investors have to track down developers like Liebman. That usually happens with help from the Internet and investment advisors abroad.

The EB-5 program is now bringing more than $1 billion into the United States every year. Not only is the economy driving up the number of EB-5 applications, President Barack Obama wants to expand the program. His administration is looking for ways to get as many as 10,000 issued per year.

Back in Seattle, Anikeeva watches her investment grow, as her family settles down for life in America. She has just one wish for the seven-story office building she helped fund across the street from Safeco Field: a brewery.

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Quan didn’t mention the Occupy Oakland protests that have brought national and even international attention to her city except to obliquely say that the city has experienced “lots of turns” and “challenges.”

Quan also didn’t mention the two recall efforts against her or talk about Oakland’s crime problem, which includes five homicides in the past week, until the end of her 50-minute speech, which was 20 minutes longer than the 30-minute goal she set in a briefing with reporters earlier in the day.

When she addressed public safety, which she said was one of the top priorities residents talked to her about in the many community meetings she has held since becoming mayor a year ago, Quan said, “We have to reduce homicides and violence in the city.”

She also said Oakland’s Police Department must comply with reform measures that were mandated in the settlement of a misconduct case nine years ago.

Quan reiterated the goal she first expressed in her inaugural address a year ago of concentrating on reducing crime in the 100 most dangerous blocks in Oakland, where she said 92 percent of the city’s shootings and homicides occur.

Quan called on Oakland residents to volunteer in schools and libraries in those areas to mentor youths who could be prone to lives of crime. She said she had asked for 2,000 volunteers last year and about 1,000 people stepped forward so she is now seeking at least another 1,000 volunteers.

She said reducing crime in those 100 blocks may seem impossible to some people but she said, “It’s noble, it’s doable and it’s something we must do.”

Quan said, “If we do it we’ll change the cycle of violence in this city forever.”

The mayor said she thinks Oakland is on the rise “because the economic numbers look better,” as 5,000 new jobs were generated in the past year, the unemployment rate has dropped by 2 percent, building permits have increased, sales tax revenue increased by 12.4 percent and hotel tax revenues increased by 11.5 percent.

Quan also said, “Oakland has some of the best weather in the world” and she’s excited that the New York Times named it the fifth best place in the world to visit and Newsweek named it the second most “can-do” city in the nation in terms of business development, sustainability, livability, transportation and infrastructure.

Quan added that her city has a thriving restaurant industry and mentioned that the New York Times said it has “the hottest restaurants in the Bay Area.”

“We’re trying to change the face of Oakland,” Quan said. “Oakland is one of the most tolerant and diverse cities in the world and that’s not our reputation.”

Quan said when she became mayor Oakland had a $58 million deficit and few reserves but it has now balanced its budget and has its largest reserve in a decade.

She thanked city employees for taking a 10 percent pay cut, saying, “We balanced the budget with the sacrifices of city workers.”

Quan said that in balancing the budget she and other city leaders reorganized the city’s structure, merged departments and eliminated 350 positions.

Quan said that in addition to reducing crime, her goals for the next year include creating more affordable housing, strengthening mortgage and foreclosure laws, bringing in more retailers and keeping all three of Oakland’s professional sports franchises.

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The shooting occurred around 5 p.m. near Center Street and Grove Way, Alameda County sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson said.

At least two Berkeley police officers were attempting to take a suspect into custody when the man pinned one of the officers between his vehicle and the officers’ unmarked car, Nelson said.

Nelson said that was when another officer shot the suspect.

The suspect was taken to Eden Medical Center and his condition was not immediately known, Nelson said.

The officer who was pinned between the vehicles was taken to a hospital with serious hand and leg injuries that are not considered life-threatening, Nelson said.

Nelson said he did not know why the officers were pursuing the suspect.

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Jokinen also assisted on Jarome Iginla’s second-period goal to help Miikka Kiprusoff earn his 300^th NHL win and end San Jose’s five-game winning streak in the series.

Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski and Michal Handzus scored for the Sharks, who have lost consecutive games following a three-game winning streak.

San Jose overcame deficits of 2-0 and 3-2 before Jokinen gave the Flames the lead for good early in the third period. The winner was set up by a poor clearing attempt by White. He played the puck out from behind the net and it deflected off the boards right to Alex Tanguay, who set up Jokinen for his seventh career hat trick and first since March 14, 2009, at Toronto.

The Sharks had tied the game only minutes earlier when Handzus struck on the power play in the opening minute of the third, following a high-sticking penalty on Mark Giordano.

Handzus beat Blair Jones on the faceoff and went to the front of the net, where he knocked Brent Burns’ rebound off the lively end boards into the net for the equalizer 5 seconds into the power play.

San Jose managed nothing else against Kiprusoff, who made 34 saves to become the 27^th NHL goalie to reach 300 wins. He did it in the same building where he got the first of his career, while playing for the Sharks in 2001. Marc-Edouard Vlasic nearly had the equalizer midway through the third but it was waved off because Patrick Marleau had run into Kiprusoff.

Kiprusoff also made tough stops on Pavelski and Couture in the closing minutes to preserve the win.

The Sharks appeared to take control by scoring two goals in a span of 1:23 midway through the second period to erase a 2-0 deficit. Couture got San Jose started during a delayed penalty when he beat Kiprusoff with a wrist shot from the top of the circle.

Pavelski, playing his 400^th career game, quickly tied it when he slammed home a pass from behind the net by Joe Thornton for his 20^th goal.

With San Jose pressuring Kiprusoff later in the period to take the lead, Iginla and Jokinen broke out of the defensive zone on an odd-man rush. Iginla completed a pretty give-and-go to beat Antti Niemi and make it 3-2.

The Flames, who scored one goal in two losses to San Jose last month, broke through against Niemi midway through the first period.  After Couture had trouble clearing the puck from the defensive zone, Chris Butler got it near the blue line. He sent a blast toward the net that deflected off Jokinen to make it 1-0.

Jokinen added to the lead early in the second just 15 seconds after Benn Ferriero got sent off for interference in the offensive zone. Tanguay’s point shot deflected off the end boards, past White and right to Jokinen, who knocked it in from the side of the net.

Notes: San Jose D Dan Boyle was scratched because of the flu.  … Former Sharks and Flames F Owen Nolan, who announced his retirement on Tuesday, got a lengthy ovation before he dropped the ceremonial first puck. … Calgary D Cory Sarich switched from No.  6 to 65 after his jersey got ripped in a fight with Andrew Desjardins in the second period.

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Jimmy Walker stood in the bunker next to the sea wall along the 18th fairway, soaking up the scenery. Every 15 seconds, waves crashed into the rocks and sent a spectacular splash of white surf some 15 feet high.

There was so much salt water in the front of the bunker that the father of Harris English said to Bob Estes, “Is this played as a waste area?” Estes smiled and pointed to the rakes placed neatly next to the sand. “No, these are bunkers,” he replied.

If the final day of practice for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am was any indication, then this could be a special week.

Not just because Tiger Woods is back at this event for the first time in 10 years. He practiced on the Shore Course at Monterey Peninsula, which he had never seen. The last time he played, Poppy Hills was part of the rotation.

And not just because of the unique blend of amateurs from the world of Hollywood, sports and Wall Street. One group at Pebble featured San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh, quarterback Alex Smith, retired lineman Harris Barton and Deutsche Bank Americas chief executive Seth Waugh.

There are times when the beauty of Pebble Beach makes a six-hour round tolerable.

No one was in any hurry Wednesday.

“If you have a bad experience here, it can feel like the longest week of your life,” Geoff Ogilvy said as he walked up the fourth fairway at Pebble, his head turned to the right to gaze at the sea. “If it’s a good experience, it’s enjoyable. And if it’s like this, it can feel like the greatest week of the year.”

It proved to be a tonic for Spencer Levin.

Only four days ago, Levin was poised to win his first PGA Tour event when he took a six-shot lead into the final round of the Phoenix Open. He found himself rushing, just wanting the final round to be over, and he kept dropping shots. A double bogey on the 15th hole doomed him, and Kyle Stanley rallied from eight shots behind to win.

Levin was heartbroken, which was to be expected.

“I was really bummed out Sunday night, pretty bummed out Monday,” Levin said. “But I got here, and then I was like, ‘Man, I get to play Pebble Beach today, so that’s pretty cool.’ It’s not like you’re going home and playing the muni in your backyard. ‘Wow, I’m at Pebble.’ So I didn’t think about it much playing out here.”

Davis Love III is making his 27th start at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-am.

He was part of the washout in 1996 when the tournament was canceled because only 36 holes could be completed. He was there in 1998, when players had to return in August to get in three rounds and make it official. He won in 2001 and 2003 in good weather. He has been part of 54-hole events won by Payne Stewart and Dustin Johnson.

Even someone of his experience realizes this week is something special.

“I’ve never seen three golf courses in this good of shape,” Love said. “Guys that have played a lot this year said these are the best greens they’ve seen so far this year. You don’t usually hear that when you get to Pebble Spyglass.”

The condition of the greens was one of the things that drove Woods away. Along with the occasional bad weather and six-hour rounds—it’s mostly a lot of standing around on the tees—there was a feeling that bumpy greens from 360 pairs of shoes eroded his confidence.

Then again, Woods is known to putt these poa greens better than most. It’s a skill to get the right pace on the medium-length putts, and having the confidence to drill the short putts.

“I think I’ve had my share of success on poa greens, just because the fact I grew up on it,” Woods said. “To come out here, popping it, it’s like second nature. My stroke does change. I don’t want it to change, but it does. It reverts back to how it was when I was a kid and how I putted. It’s worked out.”

The nasty weather—“Crosby weather” as it was known when Bing Crosby ran the show—can be overrated. After that bad patch of rain more than a decade ago (Woods won in 2000 on a Monday), there has been only one bad week of weather.

“I don’t think of this as a terrible weather tournament in history. Sure, we’ve had some rainouts. But I’ve seen a lot of nice days,” Love said. “It’s fun to play when it’s like this.”

The week will turn serious at some point, at least for the 156 players.

Woods is making his U.S. tour debut, having finished third in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship two weeks ago. It was a rare occasion when Woods had a share of the 54-hole lead and failed to win, yet considered it progress on what he hopes will be the road back to the top.

He is playing this week with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, and they start the three-course rotation Thursday at Spyglass Hill. Woods played a practice round there on Tuesday and had never seen it so dry and fast.

D.A. Points is the defending champion, although no one could be faulted for overlooking him. Woods commands a lot of attention this week, and what made Points’ win so compelling last year was having Bill Murray—comedian, actor, longtime Pebble clown—as his partner.

Among those in the field are Phil Mickelson, whose season is off to a sluggish start, and Padraig Harrington, who has become a regular at this event. Harrington feels the conditions give him a slight advantage because it’s the kind of weather he played in Ireland. He might be one of the few guys disappointed this week.

For everyone else, it’s a week to appreciate.

“This is why we come here,” Love said. “To get days like this.”

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Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Ally Financial agreed to the settlement—for an estimated $37 billion as of Wednesday for lowering homeowners’ mortgage principal, refinancing, a reserve account, and checks to homeowners. However, they were seeking releases from further legal liability, which have been one subject of negotiations for the past several days with state attorneys general who wanted to pursue investigations.

Phil Matier: State AG Decides To Negotiate On Foreclosure Settlement

The settlement grants immunity from civil lawsuits brought by the attorneys general against the lenders over narrowly defined “robo-signing” cases.

The source, who was not authorized to disclose the agreement before an announcement expected Thursday or Friday, said other holdout states—Delaware, Massachusetts and Nevada—all have or are imminently expected to also agree.

The source said the agreement will enable authorities to pursue all claims over mortgage-backed securities that collapsed. It lets them use facts from robo-signing claims in securities, insurance and tax fraud cases.

It also preserves the lawsuit filed last week by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that accused some banks of deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that allegedly put homeowners at a disadvantage in foreclosures.

Schneiderman’s office declined to comment Wednesday night. New York has some 118,000 “underwater” borrowers whose homes are worth less than their mortgages and would expect to get $136 million as a guaranteed cash payment from the settlement.

California, with more than 2 million underwater borrowers, would get $430 million. Florida would get $350 million and Texas $141 million.

Most states had already backed the nationwide settlement stemming from abuses that occurred after the housing bubble burst. Many companies that process foreclosures failed to verify documents. Some employees signed papers they hadn’t read or used fake signatures to speed foreclosures—an action known as robo-signing.

The deal would be the biggest involving a single industry since a 1998 multistate tobacco deal. It would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households. The reduced loans would benefit homeowners who are behind on their payments and owe more than their homes are worth.

The deal includes $2.7 billion in guaranteed cash payments altogether, and estimates of $1.5 billion for payments to victims of wrongful foreclosure, $3 billion from a refinance program and $32.3 billion in homeowner benefits from loan modifications.

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Bonds is appealing his sentence for felony obstruction of justice, but for now he remains free on a few conditions — one of which is that he cannot possess any “firearm, ammunition, destructive device, or other dangerous weapon.”

A federal judge this week approved his request to make an exception to the “dangerous weapon” rule for baseball bats.

The decision now allows Bonds to make batting practice a part of his workout regimen.

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