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Ann and David Collins, parents of missing 10-year-old Kevin Collins, hold one of their posters during a news conference in March 1984 in San Francisco. .

One of the Bay Area's best known child kidnapping cases burst back into the headlines Tuesday.

According to police sources, law enforcement officials moved in with a search warrant in hand to search a home in San Francisco in connection with the 1984 disappearance of then-10-year-old Kevin Collins. Police said the current person who lives in the home is not a suspect in the case.

San Francisco police were at the home near the corner of Masonic Avenue and Page Street from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday.  It is a large three-story light green home.

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Sources said police were searching for possible remains of the missing child.

San Francisco police said in a press release issued late Tuesday that the medical examiner responded to the scene and removed several bones that were located under concrete in the home's garage.

"A preliminary assessment of the bones indicates that they are from an animal and not human in origin," the release read. "However, further analysis of the bones is necessary," police said.

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office said that San Francisco police requested their search cadaver dogs to help them search the home. Spokesman J.D. Nelson did not know if the dogs found anything.

Collins disappeared the evening of Feb. 10, 1984. He was on his way home from a basketball practice at St. Agnes School in the Haight neighborhood and was last seen talking to a man with blonde hair waiting for a bus at the corner Oak Street and Masonic. Normally his older brother would have been with him, but that day his brother was home sick.

The location where Kevin was last seen and the location of the home that was searched Tuesday are within two blocks of each other.

He was one of the first missing children who received national attention. His image was on the cover of magazines and milk cartons.

Kevin Collins' birthday was last Thursday. He would have been 39 years old on Jan. 24.

Anyone with information on this matter is asked to contact the SFPD Major Crimes Unit at (415) 553-1145. Information can be given anonymously at (415) 575-4444, or via text message to Text a Tip at TIP411 and begin the message with SFPD.

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Dexter Oliver, 22, is pictured in this undated photo from the San Francisco Police Department. He is charged with 11 felonies, after allegedly setting his girlfriend on fire.

The San Francisco District Attorney's Office has charged a 22-year-old man with 11 felonies after he allegedly set his girlfriend on fire over a dispute about who would carry the laundry.

"The acts of this defendant are despicable and he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement Thursday. "The cycle of domestic violence must end. This case illustrates how domestic violence is never an isolated incident but rather a pattern of physical and emotional abuse that increases in severity."

Dexter Oliver now faces charges that include attempted murder, aggravated mayhem and torture. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. He is currently on misdemeanor probation for violating a court order from a domestic violence incident in October 2011. His bail was set at $10 million. Attempts to reach Oliver's attorney were not immediately successful.

The charges stem from Jan. 6. Court documents allege Oliver threw flammable liquid on his 25-year-old girlfriend - Starr Lamare - and set her on fire, sending her to the hospital with life-threatening burns, which have rendered her unrecognizable.

Officers were called about noon to Hollister Avenue between Jennings Street and Ingalls Street near the Bayview district in San Francisco on reports of a woman screaming. When they arrived, they found that she had been severely burned.

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Prosecutors revealed this week that the couple had an argument over who would carry the laundry. Lamare had asked Oliver to carry the dirty clothes to the laundromat a few blocks away, and documents allege that Oliver refused. Lamare went to the laundromat anyway.

While she was there, prosecutors said, Oliver grabbed two empty bottles of Pedia-Sure - a nutritional drink for children - and filled them with gasoline. He went to the laundromat, the documents indicate, threw the gas on her and set her on fire.

Those court allegations coincide with what Lamare's sister told NBC Bay Area immediately after the horrific crime.

"She said he had to get out and they were over," Lamare's sister, Precious Craig previously told NBC Bay Area. "And she left the laundromat and 10 minutes later, she was burned."

Family members said that Lamare and Oliver had been dating for six months and had a rocky relationship. Relatives also said that the couple was returning from the laundromat down the street, when Lamare told Oliver she wanted to break it up. Oliver allegedly returned home to get some gasoline, relatives and police said. The family had never before mentioned the incident about who would carry the dirty laundry.

An adult man and a 9-year-old child died Friday after they were swept out to sea in the cold waters off the Golden Gate Bridge. 

The coroner's office released the identities of the victim's Saturday morning.

 The Marin County Sheriff's Office said Juan Escamillo-Rojas, 37, and his son Juan Carlos Escamillo-Monroy died after being swept out while fishing. They were both residents of San Francisco.

The U.S. Coast Guard found the two between Point Bonita and the Marin Headlands. A Coast Guard rescue boat and a Tiburon fire boat responded to the call for help, but with the water temperature a cold 53 degrees, the man and his son did not survive.

Officials says initially three people were swept out by the waters at Lower Fisherman’s around 4 p.m. Only one family member made it back to shore.

“It appears that one subject was able to get out of the surf and make a 911 call who coordinated the rescue units to a more precise location,” Randy Lavasseur, Law Enforcement Deputy Chief with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, said.

A Tiburon fire crew headed to the area for training and the U.S. Coast Guard searched the cold  water and found the pair 25 minutes later.

Locals call Lower Fisherman’s “Black Sands Beach.” Signs at the trail head warn of dangerous conditions. Park police say the picturesque spot turns dangerous quickly.

“If you look at the terrain right now, it’s very rocky, uneven, it’s slippery,” Lavasseur said. “If you go down into the water’s edge, the tides can move up and down and even before you know it your feet are up in water and you can be climbing rocks because that tide moves up so quickly.”

Investigators are still piecing together exactly how the incident happened. 

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A woman apparently gave birth on a San Francisco street overnight, leaving her child behind as police arrived to help her.

San Francisco police said they were called to a Bayview District street corner at 2 a.m.  to do a welfare check on a woman who had arrived at the door of a homeless shelter and said she needed help. They said she was bleeding and told them she had just given birth.

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When officers arrived they said they were flagged down by a man who was holding a newborn baby boy.  He said the mother handed him the baby before she took off.

Initially the baby was unresponsive. One of the officers on the scene was a former paramedic and began CPR. The officers called for an ambulance but decided they could get the baby to the hospital faster, so they drove the infant in their police cruiser to San Francisco General Hospital. 

Meanwhile, other officers searched and found the new mother nearby. She was also rushed to the hospital, according to police.

Both the baby and the mother are now at SF General and expected to survive.

The circumstances surrounding the birth were not immediately clear.

The officers who rushed the baby to the hospital are being called heroes.  They both have been on the force for five years and work the midnight shift by choice, according to Lt. Robert O'Sullivan of the SFPD.

O'Sullivan said the two don't want to talk about what they did because they are upset thinking about their own children.

"If they are not heroes, I don't know who is," O'Sullivan added.

The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call police Sgt. John Keane of the Police Department's special victims unit at (415) 553-9363.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Northern California is bracing for more stormy weather this weekend after heavy rain and strong winds knocked out power to thousands, delayed flights, tied up traffic and flooded some roadways.

After the second in a series of storms slammed the region Friday, scattered showers are expected Saturday before a third storm strikes Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

A flash flood watch will remain in effect for most of the San Francisco Bay Area and the Santa Cruz Mountains throughout the weekend. The storms could cause rock and mud slides in areas already saturated and affected by wildfires this summer, said NWS forecaster Diana Henderson in Monterey.

"It's not a super storm by any measure, but this is pretty significant," Henderson said. "We should see periods of moderate to heavy rains."

Friday's stormy weather may be behind the death of a Pacific Gas & Electric worker in West Sacramento who was killed after his truck crashed into a traffic signal pole during the stormy weather.

Friday's storm delayed flights at San Francisco International Airport and knocked down a large tree that smashed a car and blocked a busy street for hours in the city's affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood.

The North Bay was seemingly hit the hardest, as parts of Sonoma County received more than 7 inches of rain and areas in Napa County received nearly 6 inches, Henderson said.

With rain expected all weekend long, Tony Negro, a contractor from Penngrove, Calif., in Sonoma County, said he is worried about water flooding his workshop.

"I'm on my way to get some sand bags," he said.

Thousands of people were without power in that area after an outage that also affected the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The suspension span of the bridge was briefly in the dark as traffic was backed up longer than usual because of rain and strong wind gusts.

Also, a mudslide shut down a stretch of Highway 84 east of Fremont, the California Highway Patrol reported. There was no estimate on when it would reopen.

In Sacramento, an empty big-rig jackknifed in the southbound lanes and struck the median divider on Interstate 5 south of downtown Friday morning, the CHP said.

"I would definitely say it's weather-related. The reports came in that he hit a water puddle and hydroplaned and couldn't correct," CHP Officer Mike Bradley said. "A lot of high-profile vehicles, especially the lighter ones, are getting windblown and having some problems maintaining their lane."

No one was injured in the crash on I-5, California's main north-south highway. But a second vehicle also was damaged and had to be towed, while workers cleaned up diesel fuel spilled from the tractor-trailer.

In West Sacramento, police say wet conditions may have been a factor when a PG&E worker died after he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a traffic pole. PG&E workers at the scene told KCRA-TV that the driver had been working overtime and was returning from Clarksburg in Yolo County.

In Los Angeles, conditions were wet and gloomy as downtown skyscrapers disappeared in low-hanging clouds.

Elsewhere in the West, a state of emergency was declared in Reno, Sparks and Washoe County in Nevada due to expected flooding as a storm packing heavy rain and strong winds swept through the area. Reno city spokeswoman Michele Anderson said public servants would be working overtime through the weekend to control what's expected to be the worst flooding there since 2005. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning along the Truckee River.

The weather also prompted cancellations of Christmas parades and tree lightings in Sparks and Truckee, just across the border from California.

Also, a storm rushed through southern Oregon this week, lingering inland over the Rogue Valley and dropping record rainfall. It largely spared coastal Curry County and its southernmost city, Brookings, which were still recovering from a storm this month.

"We are still vigilant for landslides and road closures and trees down, but so far — knock on wood — we are still good to go," Curry County Sheriff John Bishop said.

Forecasters said the region should expect more storms over the next few days. 

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Demonstrators gather outside of City Hall in San Francisco on Nov. 14 for a protest against a proposed citywide nudity ban.

Prepare to put your clothes back on in San Francisco, because the city's Board of Supervisors has passed a ban on nudity, NBCBayArea.com reported.

In a 6-to-5 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban public nudity – specifically, exposing one’s genitals on streets and on public transit. In other words, no bare buns on the BART.

Nudists could be fined $100 for a first-time offense; rebel nudists found naked a third time within a year will be fined $500 and could face up to a year in jail. 

Exceptions to the ban: Children under five years and nudists in parades, fairs or festivals held under a city permit.

The ordinance was introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener, who said he had heard increasing complaints from residents in San Francisco’s traditionally gay Castro District about a roaming band of increasingly bold naked men, the AP reported.

(Among the complaints: Men engaging in public sex, men charging tourists for pictures, and men walking around near Harvey Milk Elementary School, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.)

At Tuesday’s meeting, supervisors who opposed the nudity ban suggested that being naked could be a form of public expression. Supervisor David Campos argued that the police should spend their time fighting violent crime, the Chronicle reported.

The ban won’t go into effect until Feb. 1 – after another vote by the Board of Supervisors and the mayor’s approval.

Nudists filed a suit last week against the city and county of San Francisco.

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Demonstrators gather outside City Hall in San Francisco on Wednesday to protest a proposed nudity ban.

San Francisco may be getting ready to shed its image as a city where anything goes, including clothing.

City lawmakers are scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would prohibit nudity in most public places, a blanket ban that represents an escalation of a two-year tiff between a devoted group of men who strut their stuff through the city's famously gay Castro District and the supervisor who represents the area.

Supervisor Scott Wiener's proposal would make it illegal for a person over the age of 5 to "expose his or her genitals, perineum or anal region on any public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet or plaza" or while using public transit.

A first offense would carry a maximum penalty of a $100 fine, but prosecutors would have authority to charge a third violation as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $500 fine and a year in jail. Exemptions would be made for participants at permitted street fairs and parades, such as the city's annual gay pride event and the Folsom Street Fair, which celebrates sadomasochism and other sexual subcultures.

Wiener said he resisted introducing the ordinance, but felt compelled to act after constituents complained about the naked men who gather in a small Castro plaza most days and sometimes walk the streets au naturel. He persuaded his colleagues last year to pass a law requiring a cloth to be placed between public seating and bare rears, yet the complaints have continued.

"I don't think having some guys taking their clothes off and hanging out seven days a week at Castro and Market Street is really what San Francisco is about. I think it's a caricature of what San Francisco is about," Wiener said.

The proposed ban predictably has produced outrage, as well as a lawsuit. Last week, about two dozen people disrobed in front of City Hall and marched around the block to the amusement of gawking tourists and high school students on a field trip.

Stripped down to his sunglasses and hiking boots, McCray Winpsett, 37, said he understands the disgust of residents who would prefer not to see the body modifications and sex enhancement devices sported by some of the Castro nudists. But he thinks Wiener's prohibition goes too far in undermining a tradition "that keeps San Francisco weird."

"A few lewd exhibitionists are really ruining it for the rest of us," he said. "It's my time to come out now to present myself in a light and show what true nudity is all about so people can separate the difference between what a nudist is and an exhibitionist is."

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Because clothes are required to enter City Hall itself, demonstrators who try to disrobe at the Board of Supervisors meeting will be escorted out by sheriff's deputies. That is what happened last Monday when Gypsy Taub removed her dress at a committee hearing where the ban had its first public hearing. Taub, a mother of two, said she got her start as a nudist while hosting a local cable program devoted to the theory that the government was behind the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"I thought if I take my clothes off, I bet they are going to listen," she said.

San Francisco lawyer Christina DiEdoardo filed a federal lawsuit last week on behalf of Taub and three men that seeks to block Weiner's ordinance, if it passes and is signed by Mayor Edwin Lee. The complaint alleges that the ban infringes on the free speech rights of nudists and discriminates against those who cannot afford to obtain a city permit.

While it may seem strange that going out in the buff is not already illegal in San Francisco, most California cities do not have local nudity laws, Wiener said. Instead, they are adequately covered by state indecent exposure laws and societal mores. But indecent exposure technically only applies to lewd behavior, so city officials have had to craft a local solution, he said, adding that the cities of Berkeley and San Jose already have done so.

"I suspect there are a lot of places that maybe don't currently have a local law (and) that if people started getting naked every day would quickly see a local law," Wiener said.

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The Catholic Church on Thursday installed Salvatore Cordileone, a leader in the fight against same-sex marriage, as archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, bishop of Oakland since 2009, is shown in this publicity photo released to Reuters August 27, 2012. Cordileone, renowned for his conservative stance on same-sex marriage, has been arrested in his native San Diego for drunk driving, police said on August 27, 2012.

Following his installation as the religious leader of more than 500,000 Catholics in the largely gay-friendly Bay Area, Cordileone, 56, delivered a sermon and spoke about his recent arrest after failing a sobriety test at a police checkpoint.

"God has always had a way of putting me in my place," he said. "With the last episode in my life, God has outdone himself."

Cordileone spent about 11 hours in a San Diego jail cell in August after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. On Monday, he pleaded guilty to driving with alcohol in his system, said Gina Coburn, spokeswoman for the San Diego City Attorney.

Cordileone has been particularly outspoken in Church opposition to same-sex matrimony as chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, a role that has put him at odds with many Bay Area Catholics.

He also led Church support for the 2008 voter-approved California state constitutional amendment, Proposition 8, that banned gay marriage.

Same-sex marriage, which the majority of Catholics support, according to a report from the Public Religion Research Institute,will likely be a key issue in the upcoming elections. President Barack Obama voiced his support of gay marriage earlier this year.

Other bishops, such as Archbishop John J. Myers of Newark, N.J., have also expressed strong opposition to gay marriage. Myers urged Catholics who support same-sex marriage to refrain from communion, NPR reported. In Maryland, the Archbishop of Baltimore co-hosted a fundraiser to fight gay marriage in that state, according to NPR.

For his part, Cordileone wants to deny communion to Catholics who are in an active gay relationship.

While taking his place as the archbishop of San Francisco and two other area counties, Cordileone called the drunken driving incident a "regrettable mistake."

Pope Benedict appointed Cordileone to preside over the Archdiocese of San Francisco in July.

"The archbishop is an advocate for immigrants and an opponent of the death penalty, but he comes here perceived as a one-issue bishop," Brian Cahill, former San Francisco Catholic Charities executive director, wrote in an editorial published in the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday.

"He can continue to be the aggressive, outspoken leader of the American Catholic bishops in their effort to prevent civil gay marriage, or he can be the shepherd of his flock. He can't be both, and if he tries, he will fail."

Cordileone said his grandfather settled in San Francisco 100 years ago.

"If someone had told him that his grandson would become the archbishop of this place, I'm sure he would think they were out of their mind," he said. "I'm sure there are people who think that today."

About 2,000 people, including 40 bishops, attended the installation and mass in the Cathedral of St. Mary. Outside the church, dozens of supporters carrying welcoming banners mixed with protesters, including the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence -- a group of gay male activists who dress as nuns.

Reuters contributed to this report.

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