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At Laurel Elementary School on Tuesday afternoon, a giant Alameda County Food Bank truck was parked in the lot.

An Alameda County sheriff's spokesman says the deputy was trying to put Daniel Jordan DeWitt in waist and leg chains for transport from a county psychiatric facility to Napa State Hospital Wednesday morning when DeWitt punched him in the chin.

Competitors in the Bay Area's perennial tug of war over where and how to grow will square off Thursday night in Oakland when regional leaders choose how best to cut air pollution by redirecting new housing, shops and jobs into transit corridors.

"Timely and inspiring." That's how teacher Michael Berry-Berlinski describes "Les Miserables," the popular musical by Claude-Michel Schonberg, which the students of the Oakland School for the Arts will perform Thursday at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Oakland.

D. ROSS CAMERLON/STAFF ARCHIVES Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader John Santos brings his sextet to the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland Sunday.

Firefighters contained a single-alarm fire in a West Oakland convenience store shortly after midnight, a fire battalion chief said.