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Teenager killed in Richmond 

RICHMOND (AP) — One teen-age boy was fatally shot and another was seriously injured Tuesday while walking home from a friend’s house, police said. 

A bullet fatally struck a 14-year-old boy in the head, while a 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg, arm and back. Both were taken to an area hospital where the younger victim was pronounced dead. The older boy was listed in stable condition, said Richmond Police Sgt. Enos Johnson. 

The youths were walking on Potrero Avenue a few blocks from their home when they were approached by a vehicle carrying at least one gunman. 

The suspects got out of the car and at least one opened fire on the teen-agers, police said. The older boy ran two blocks to safety. 

Police are investigating the incident but do not have a motive for the shooting. 

Gay and lesbian center opening delayed 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The opening of a new gay and lesbian community center in San Francisco has been delayed by the discovery of toxic soil at the Market and Octavia construction site. 

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center was set to open in June during Gay Pride Week. The delay means it likely will not open until fall. 

The delay will also raise the cost of the center. The original price was set at a little more than $14 million, but cleaning up the toxins will add about $1 million to the bill. About $12 million has been raised for the center, first conceived in 1996. 

The center will consist of a 41,000-square-foot glass and steel four-story building connected to a century-old Victorian. It will provide office space to 11 nonprofit groups and will include conference rooms, a cafe and a childcare center. 

BART parking shortage 

OAKLAND (AP) — Commuting by Bay Area Rapid Transit is so popular that parking lots are filling up faster than ever and some riders are so desperate they’re accepting $25 tickets to park illegally. 

Surveys indicate motorists appear willing to pay the fines to park in spaces set aside for car pools and midday travelers. 

Those BART surveys also show illegal parking happens at nearly every station with a parking lot, but the problem seems to be worst at Pittsburg and Dublin-Pleasanton. 

BART officials said the parking problem is made worse by the boom in ridership, up 15 percent in the past year to 345,000 trips on most weekdays. 

BART wrote almost 60,000 tickets in the past year. That’s up from just over 45,000 the previous year. 

No clues to whereabouts of missing woman 

SAN LEANDRO (AP) — Despite an extensive search of the ravines and canyons on Crow Canyon Road there is still no sign of a San Leandro woman who disappeared last week after leaving for work. 

Authorities said they will continue the search Tuesday for Janet Vanden Bos. She was last seen Thursday morning as she left her parents’ San Leandro house and headed for her job in Danville. 

Friends and family say it isn’t like Vanden Bos to disappear without telling anybody. Her family says she has a serious asthma condition and did not have medicine with her for more than a day or two. 

Her family also says she has not been unhappy recently. She drove off in a red Volkswagen convertible with a black top, and the car also has not been seen.