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		<title>Richmond High competes in E-Bike Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 17:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Whitney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday afternoon at Richmond High School’s football stadium, the air was filled with cheers and applause as racers took their mark on the track field. But instead of relays, hurdles, and sprints, the racers were on electric bicycles they had built from scratch. Technology students at Richmond High School’s Engineering Partnership Academy participated in...]]></description>
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		<title>Richmond police ramp up presence to head off escalating tensions</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/05/18/richmond-police-ramp-up-presence-to-head-off-escalating-tensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 00:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A flare up of deadly shootings in Richmond and unincorporated North Richmond has police and anti-violence workers mobilized in an effort to quell further violence. A version of this article appeared first in the Contra Costa Times. On Monday morning, 22-year-old Orlando Yancy was killed in a drive-by in unincorporated North Richmond, the second homicide...]]></description>
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		<title>Blacknell sentenced to life without parole for 2009 crime spree</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe “Fatter” Blacknell III was sentenced to life in prison plus more than 200 years without possibility of parole for the March 2009 murder of an up-and-coming East Bay rap artist and a September 2009 shooting and carjacking spree in Richmond and Oakland. Blacknell, now 21, was arrested after a brief foot pursuit with Richmond...]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Area Storytelling Festival comes to Richmond</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Hopkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The laughter of more than 100 children echoed through the auditorium of the Craneway Pavillion in Richmond, where students in third to sixth grade gathered Thursday for the first day of the 2012 Bay Area Storytelling Festival. The event continues today until Sunday evening at 4:30 p.m.
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		<title>Ride of Silence raises awareness for Richmond bicyclists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A version of this story first appeared in the Contra Costa Times. David Meza was the victim of a hit-and-run incident in March. A white sedan struck him as he rode his bicycle near Pennsylvania Avenue and Harbour Way, then sped away. The incident left him with abrasions on his face, palms and knees, and...]]></description>
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		<title>Richmond police arrest wanted suspect, investigate homicide, pot cultivation fire</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/05/16/richmond-police-arrest-wanted-suspect-investigate-homicide-pot-cultivation-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 02:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond police have had a busy 18 hours. Since 10 p.m. Tuesday, police and other emergency personnel have dealt with a seven-hour standoff with an attempted murder suspect, an early morning fire at an illegal marijuana cultivation warehouse and a deadly shooting at 10 a.m. Wednesday. The pot fire is the lowest priority investigation, according...]]></description>
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		<title>Soda tax voted on to Richmond ballot</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/05/16/soda-tax-voted-on-to-richmond-ballot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spencer Whitney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City council leaders In Richmond voted 5-2 on Tuesday night to put a special soda tax proposal on the November 6 ballot. The soda tax would add a one cent per ounce surcharge to soda and other sugary fruit drinks that contain less than ten percent juice.
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		<title>Richmond City Council to consider soda tax ballot measure</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/05/15/richmond-city-council-to-consider-soda-tax-ballot-measure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 22:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A version of this story first appeared in the Contra Costa Times Richmond leaders hope to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in the city, and they want voters to approve a fee on local businesses’ sales of those products. The city council on Tuesday will consider placing a measure on the November 6 ballot asking...]]></description>
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		<title>Foster month kicks off with laptop giveaway</title>
		<link>http://richmondconfidential.org/2012/05/15/foster-month-kicks-off-with-laptop-giveaway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyler Orsburn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond High graduate Bernard Naquin, 19, won&#8217;t have to look too far to find a computer these days. The Contra Costa County teenager and Diablo Valley College student was awarded a brand new Dell laptop Monday morning at the Nevin Center. &#8220;I was surprised when they told me I was going to receive the computer,&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<title>Jailhouse interview with Joe &#8216;Fatter&#8217; Blacknell, who faces life in prison for &#8217;09 slaying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Rogers</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you say hello to a convicted murderer? The thought darted through my head as I strode through the Martinez Courthouse jail facility’s winding corridors of concrete and steel. In moments I would be face-to-face—albeit divided by two-inch thick Plexiglas—with Joe Blacknell III, the young man described by police and District Attorney’s Office officials...]]></description>
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