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San Jose police find missing man where his car crashed days earlier

A man who had been missing for a week is in the hospital after police discovered him in a wooded area by U.S. Highway 101, near where his car had been found days earlier.

The 25-year-old man was first reported missing by his family when he failed to show up for a funeral service on Thursday evening. No one had heard from him since May 8 at around 1:00 a.m., police said.

On Monday police learned that the man's car had been towed on May 8 after being involved in a single-vehicle rollover collision near Highway 101 and Hellyer Avenue. 

Detectives received a detailed location of where the crash occurred on Tuesday and went to the scene. Officers found the man in a wooded area between the on- and off-ramps of the freeway. Police said that he had not been visible from the road.

Although alive, the man was unresponsive and was taken to Regional Medical Center.

San Jose police Officer Jose Garcia said police believe the man had been at the site since his car had crashed and was towed by the California Highway Patrol.

Garcia said he could not give more information about the man's injuries, nor how or why he crawled out of his car into an area that was obscured from site

_{Wed, 16 May 2012 20:09:59 -0700}

Rally highlights need for local HIV/AIDS funding in wake of federal cuts

San Francisco city and community leaders called on Mayor Ed Lee Wednesday to find money in the city's budget for local HIV and AIDS programs that are set to lose about nearly $8 million in federal funding later this year.

Supervisors Scott Wiener, David Campos and Christina Olague were among a few dozen people who gathered outside City Hall that morning to talk about the problems facing the city's programs to help people with HIV and AIDS.

The $7.8 million in funding for care and prevention services from the Ryan White Care Act and the Centers for Disease Control were expected expire at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, forcing the city to try to make up the deficit, Wiener said.

He called the need for funding "one of the most important public health issues that we face as a city" and said that the rally was held to make sure "that San Francisco maintains its 30-year commitment to those living with HIV/AIDS and those at risk for the disease."

The city was ground zero for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. in the 1980s and was the first local jurisdiction with a comprehensive response to the crisis. More than 15,000 people are currently living with HIV or AIDS in San Francisco, according to city officials.

Campos, who along with Wiener and Olague comprise the three LGBT members of the Board of Supervisors, said "San Francisco has been a model for the rest of the country in how HIV patients should be treated."

He said, "We can't move backwards ... restoring these funds has to be a top priority for the city. We don't have much room here, every single cent that we're trying to restore is a cent that's going to save lives."

Lee, who has to present his proposal for next year's budget by June 1, said at an unrelated event Wednesday that the cuts to federal HIV/AIDS funding was unfortunate because "our own budget is very sensitive," with a deficit of about $170 million currently projected for the new fiscal year.

"Obviously it puts a lot of pressure on our budget, but we also care a lot about the people who are defenseless in these programs," he said. "We're going to do our best to figure it out."

Lance Toma, executive director of the city's Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, said at Wednesday's rally that losing the funding wouldhave a dramatic effect on the city's network of nonprofits and programs to assist the population of people living with HIV or AIDS.

"Without this network, HIV will be a death sentence for our most vulnerable residents," Toma said. "It will be the 1980s all over again, and it'll be our fault."

_{Wed, 16 May 2012 19:22:37 -0700}

SF Fire Chief ordered to resume spousal support payments after hearing

In another legal domestic battle involving a San Francisco public official, the city’s fire chief was in court recently after failing to pay alimony to her ex-husband.

Unlike the case against San Francisco's suspended sheriff, City Hall was unusually quiet when it comes to the failure of the city's Fire Chief Joanne Hayes White to pay alimony to her ex-husband.

It's the latest public riff between the couple. Seven years ago, White’s then husband Sean White called 911 after an alleged assault.

"My wife has just hit me in the head with a pint glass twice and I'd like to file charges," Sean White is heard saying in a recording of the 2005 call.

When asked who his wife was, he can be heard to say "Joanne Hayes White. She's the fire chief."

Then Mayor Gavin Newsom put his support behind the chief the next day.

"I continue to have strong support for the chief and I'm confident of the outcome of the review," Newsom said at a 2005 press conference. "This is a personal matter."

Kathy Black is director of La Casa de Las Madras, the women's shelter that put up billboards after Ross Mirkarimi used the term "private matter." She said there should not be a double standard.

"Domestic violence is never a family, private or personal matter," said Black. "Regardless of gender, age, race, sexual orientation. No matter what, all crimes should be investigated."

Police did investigate the fire chief's case. She reportedly passed a lie detector test and the district attorney did not file charges.

Since their divorce in 2009, the chief, who makes $300,000 a year, has paid her ex-husband court-ordered spousal support of $3300 a month until 14 months ago when he assaulted one of their sons while drinking.

He has since pleaded guilty and Friday, a judge ordered the chief to resume paying.

The mayor's press secretary on Wednesday told KTVU that for now, he does not see the fire chief's situation as a case for the ethics commission. Unlike the sheriff, it is civil not criminal and does not relate to her job.

_{Wed, 16 May 2012 19:06:23 -0700}

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