IN BRIEF
CRANK 911 CALLS
False emergencies plague authorities
A serial crank caller using a donated cell phone has plagued 911 with nearly 2,000 fake emergency calls over the past six months in Vallejo, Calif., tying up dispatchers and sending police and firefighters on wild goose chases, authorities said.
A man identifying himself as Nomar started making the calls in March, said the California Highway Patrol, which handles most of the wireless 911 calls for the San Francisco Bay area.
Nomar has reported himself the victim of everything from drug overdose and possible heart attack to robbery and attempted suicide.
Officials said they did not know why nearly all of the incidents he calls in purportedly occur in Vallejo.
Investigators analyzed the cell phone signal to track the caller to an area in San Francisco but have not been able to get a more precise fix.
CALIFORNIA QUAKE
Temblor rattles Riverside County
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake shook California's Riverside County on Sunday, but no injuries or damage were reported, authorities said.
The jolt at 10:29 a.m. was centered near Lake Elsinore, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was felt as far away as San Diego.
The quake struck under the Santa Ana Mountains in a remote area of the Cleveland National Forest along a well-known fault that runs from Mexico to Los Angeles.
Many aftershocks followed in the next few hours, some as big as magnitude 2.5.
SUMMER OF LOVE
Thousands celebrate 40th anniversary
Even the closing of the San Francisco Bay Bridge could not keep thousands of flower children away from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
More than 100 performers, some who were there the first time, were scheduled to take to the stage for the free concert commemorating the year San Francisco became a countercultural capital.
At least 20,000 fans came together to celebrate, organizers said, despite the Labor Day weekend shutdown of the bridge for repairs.
