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Lina Magailalio, 33, faces assault and other charges in connection with the confrontation Nov. 21, 2006, that left city parking control officer Angelina Barsi with a dislocated shoulder.

Prosecutors say assaults on parking officers have become a major problem in San Francisco and that, previous record or no, what Magailalio allegedly did merits prison time.

In 2006, the year Magailalio was arrested, the city recorded 28 assaults on parking officers. That number dipped to eight last year, but there has been a bit of an upswing in 2009. Through August, the city has already logged seven attacks.

Magailalio’s legal troubles began when she took her 8-year-old son to see a doctor at St. Luke’s Hospital. When the meter expired, she rushed out with the boy to feed it – but not before Barsi started to write her a ticket.

“My thing is, she had seen me yelling out, but she ignored me,” Magailalio said in an interview.

Barsi, talking to a friend on a cell phone, told her that she could protest the ticket and drove away while Magailalio was still talking, according to Barsi’s testimony in a preliminary hearing.

Magailalio took off in her car after Barsi. She caught up to her three blocks away, and the two exchanged angry words.

Magailalio said she had been angry at Barsi’s dismissive attitude. Barsi testified that Magailalio, a head taller than the parking officer and weighing 280 pounds, had told her, “You’re lucky I don’t f- you up.”

“Yeah, I guess so,” Barsi recalled replying.

But Magailalio did not walk away. She punched Barsi in the face, by Barsi’s account. Barsi testified that she had tried to push Magailalio away, suffering a dislocated shoulder. She was off work for eight months.

“It was a raw deal,” Barsi said in an interview, stressing she did not want to talk about the facts pending the outcome of the case.

Magailalio, who is free on bail, was charged with felony assault with great bodily injury, battery with serious injury and making criminal threats.

Magailalio’s attorney, Joe O’Sullivan, conceded that “my client is much larger than (Barsi)” and that Magailalio “just lost it.”

But he added, “A lot of people lose it with parking control people. … She is a mother, she works, she has never been in trouble in her life.”

O’Sullivan said Magailalio has no previous record and that probation would be appropriate.

A spokeswoman for District Attorney Kamala Harris countered that prison would be better.

“Everyone is entitled to the right to work in a safe environment – parking control officers are no exception,” spokeswoman Erica Derryck said. “They should be able to perform their duties without fear of threat or harm. And when they are attacked, while serving the public, the assailant should be held accountable.”

Magailalio admitted in an interview that she had gone overboard during the confrontation.

She works with the public at San Francisco International Airport and has her fair share of angry customers, she said.

“I should have realized that this was not the way to deal with it,” Magailalio said. “You learn from it. Everybody learns from their mistakes.”

Reporting from Sacramento – The state’s budget crunch so far has not appeared to affect firefighters’ ability to battle the Southern California blazes.

This year’s firefighting efforts, however, could exacerbate the state’s lingering financial problems, increasing the size of the deficit that lawmakers will have to close next year.

A $182-million emergency fund the governor created for fighting wildfires was already half-depleted on Aug. 24 — the last time officials tallied the numbers — with more than 10 months left in the fiscal year and what is typically the worst of fire season yet to arrive.

Any additional emergency funds would come out of the state’s rainy day account, which many analysts say is already too small to keep the state’s books balanced through the year.

The $518-million budget for the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection was one of the few departmental budgets not cut deeply in the spending plan the governor signed last month. The reductions amounted to $27 million, which officials achieved by delaying for one year the purchase of some vehicles and other equipment, canceling a DC-10 aircraft contract and reducing the department’s resource management program.

Officials with the state and California Professional Firefighters, the largest union representing career firefighters, said the equipment at issue would not have been available for battling the current blazes.

“There is a lot of lead time involved in acquiring these things,” said Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer. “We don’t think this would have affected the response time at all.”

But firefighting groups say that if the fires grow bigger and require significantly more evacuations, large cuts that lawmakers and the governor made in the budgets of local governments could come back to haunt them. They borrowed some $1.9 billion in local government funds and do not intend to repay the money for three years.

City and county officials have warned that the move would cause chaos in their budgets, forcing them to cut back services, including funding for firehouses. Local fire chiefs said the cutbacks would leave them short of the resources they need to assist in firefighting efforts outside their districts.

The mutual aid that firefighters provide, under a system called the California Emergency Management Agency Master Mutual Aid Agreement, has accounted for 1,400 of the firefighters and 265 of the fire engines currently at work against the Southern California blazes, according to the governor’s office. Half the engines at the scene are mutual-aid engines.

“The news so far is encouraging, as there does not appear to be a shortage of resources,” said Carroll Wills, communications director for the firefighters union. “If we reach a point where massive numbers of people are needed, we are concerned you will see local departments unable to send local resources, or close their eyes and hope nothing bad happens in their own backyard when they do send resources.”

Wills also noted that although the raid of local funds was approved in Sacramento, cities and counties have not yet accounted for it in their budgets. Once they do, he said, up to half the firehouses in California may opt to stop participating in mutual aid.

Exacerbating the problem for local fire chiefs is the roughly six months the state takes to reimburse them for helping in other parts of California. As firehouse budgets get tighter, Wills says, the lag time makes it tougher for local firefighters to participate in the mutual aid program.

The firefighters union worked with the governor this year on a bid to tax property-insurance premiums to generate funds for mutual aid efforts and other firefighting programs. The proposal, which called for a 4.8% “emergency response surcharge” on the premiums, was rejected by the Legislature.

That lone show, “Days of Our Lives,” scored two trophies. Tamara Braun earned supporting actress honors, the show’s first victory in the category in 23 years. Darin Brooks gave the show just its second win in 21 years in the younger actor category. He used an expletive in his acceptance speech that was bleeped on the telecast.

“I’m so happy to have this for them,” Braun said backstage. “I wasn’t there that long and they opened their hearts to me.”

Betty White introduced the “Guiding Light” tribute, with more than 30 past and present “Guiding Light” actors participating and earning a standing ovation.

“I’ve been watching `Guiding Light’ ever since it went on the air in 1776,” the 87-year-old TV icon said jokingly.

Rachael Ray and Tyra Banks repeated as winners of the entertainment and informative talk show trophies, respectively. The ladies of “The View” ended Ellen DeGeneres’ four-year run as talk show host winner. Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters weren’t on hand to accept.

Neither was game show host winner Meredith Vieira of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.”

“Good Morning America” earned morning program honors for the third time in as many years since the category was introduced.

The lifetime achievement award went to PBS’ “Sesame Street” for 40 years of educating and entertaining children. Sandra Oh helped salute the show, joined by Big Bird, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster, who sang its famous theme song and earned a standing ovation.

Kevin Clash, who portrays Elmo, won for performer in a children’s series.

A “Daytime Gives Back” segment featured a visit to Kenya by Lucci, Anthony Geary, Kelly Monaco and Montel Williams. Lucci was also seen in a runway photo shoot, with actors modeling outfits from their shows.

“Guiding Light” earned one of its last trophies before it leaves the air after 72 years. Jeff Branson, who plays Shayne Lewis on the CBS soap, tied for supporting actor.

“This is so bittersweet,” he said backstage.

He tied with Vincent Irizarry of ABC’s “All My Children,” who got his soap start on “Guiding Light” in the early 1980s.

“I have such affection for that show. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to be a part of television history,” Irizarry said backstage. “What other medium is producing product that lasts 72 years? It has entertained not only generations, but employed generations of people.”

Singing, dancing, comedy and a touch of pathos set against the glitzy backdrop of a historic theatre were part of the 36th annual Daytime Emmys in an attempt to lure an eroding audience for award shows.

Sunday’s broadcast relocated to the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, leaving its recent home at Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre. Opened in 1926, the venue has hosted everyone from Judy Garland and Jack Benny to Duke Ellington and Stevie Wonder.

Honoring everything from soaps to talk shows to game shows, it’s the first time the awards weren’t on one of the major three networks. They had alternated between ABC and CBS the last four years.

Host Vanessa Williams’ singing and dancing chops were on display in the opening number, a parody set to “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” from the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” in which she was comically inserted into scenes from soaps and game shows.

Later, she sang and danced with “Dancing With the Stars” runner-up Gilles Marini.

The Daytime Emmys paid tribute to “Guiding Light,” which CBS canceled after a 72-year run that predates television. The low-rated soap will air its final episode in September, leaving just eight daytime dramas on the air. CBS and ABC will have three weekday soaps, with NBC having one.

“The Bold and the Beautiful” won drama series honors at the Daytime Emmys on Sunday, the CBS soap opera’s first such victory in 22 years on the air.

It was a poignant victory for executive producer Bradley Bell, whose late father William J. Bell co-created “The Young and the Restless,” a show that was honored seven times in the same category. The younger Bell’s mother, Lee Phillip Bell who worked closely with her husband and also on her son’s show, cheered him on.

“It’s incredibly exciting because I grew up going to visit that show,” Bell said backstage. “It’s sweeter after 22 years, it didn’t come in five or 10 or 15 years. I think my dad is here in spirit. He would probably say, `It’s about time.’ I took out the expletive.”

The live telecast on the CW went off the air just as the cast and crew was assembling on the stage to accept its trophy.

“That’s fine with me,” Bell said. “The less of me at a microphone the better. It was your run-of-the-mill acceptance speech.”

Drama series lead acting honors went to Christian LeBlanc of “The Young and the Restless,” and Susan Haskell of ABC’s “One Life to Live.”

LeBlanc scored his third career trophy, taking a playful bite out of the globe on the trophy.

“You cannot resist the excitement,” he said backstage.

A year’s worth of failed job leads prepared Richard Briggs for anything, including night shifts as a Minnesota State Fair custodian.

For $8.50 an hour, the out-of-work financial analyst vacuums and cleans bathrooms in fairground buildings. Briggs, 38, said he’s “something of a curiosity” among his co-workers.

“You know, they don’t hire financial analysts to clean the sidewalks,” Briggs said.

A crippled economy has sent droves of unemployed and underemployed people to fairs nationwide, with many reporting record numbers of applicants to tear tickets, serve food and clean up after crowds.

Iowa’s state fair closed most of its hiring weeks earlier than usual. Colorado’s fair is finished hiring but was still getting more than 50 people a day trying to apply as the fair opened last week. In Indiana, about 2,300 people — at least twice as many as usual — applied for 800 open positions.

“And the nice thing about it for us is that we got, I guess you could say, many overqualified candidates,” said Andy Klotz, a spokesman for the Indiana State Fair.

In Minnesota, more than 10,000 people applied for the fair’s 3,000 jobs. At the same time more people were applying, fair vendors intent on keeping costs down were requesting far fewer employees than in years past.

And, more experienced fair workers were returning. The fair had room for just 1,250 new employees, about one-third the number of last year.

Briggs lives in the Twin Cities suburb of Mendota Heights with his wife and two stepchildren. He lost his job last September, and he’s found few openings in the financial sector since. Over dinner in June, his wife suggested he apply for a job at the Fair, which he hadn’t attended since childhood.

“It’ll get you out of the house, and you’ll be busy for 12 straight days,” Briggs remembers her saying.

After a visit to the State Fair’s employment center, he got an offer. Though the family still has his wife’s income as a regulatory analyst, Briggs said his fair paycheck has given their budget “some breathing space.”

“We have a mortgage to pay and mouths to feed,” he said.

As the fair opened its 12-day run last week, Josh Chaika was working a day shift as a custodian.

Chaika, 27, signed up to work for the first time this year. He has a part-time job for 30 hours a week, but when he saw a newspaper advertisement for fair jobs, he decided to apply because he “just needed the extra cash.”

He was surprised when he heard about the size of the waiting list.

“I didn’t think it would be that tough,” he said.

Jerry Hammer, the general manager of Minnesota’s fair, said it’s not always like this.

“I’ve seen other years where we’re telling staff to go home and tell your friends and neighbors” workers are needed, he said.

The Minnesota State Fair still attracted a large number of teenagers and 20-somethings. Jessica Schoenleber got a job tearing tickets on one of the fair’s parking lots. The 23-year-old from nearby Roseville wanted to make some money before she moves to New Zealand this fall.

“This was more like short-term, high intensity and a lot of fun,” Schoenleber said of the job.

The high demand for state fair jobs is occurring at time when attendance is up as more people cut back on travel and look for attractions close to home. Minnesota set a first-day record Thursday with more than 114,000 attendees.

“We seem to be one of those sectors of the economy that we’re doing quite well,” said Jim Tucker, CEO of the International Association of Fairs and Exhibitions. “Not only are we not down, we’re up.”

Briggs, the financial analyst-turned-custodian, says he’s not ashamed of his new job, even if he seems overqualified.

“It’s fun to be outdoors, and it’s fun to see the results of your work,” Briggs said. “Being a financial analyst, at least in the situation I was in, no matter what kind of report you try to produce … there was always a way around it, whereas you know when you don’t empty the garbage or something.”

Armed with rakes, shovels and chain saws, about 20 officers on Sunday combed the backyard of a couple charged with kidnapping and raping Jaycee Lee Dugard and used cadaver dogs to search an adjoining property where neighbors say one of the suspects once served as a caretaker.

Sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors from two counties and officers from two city police departments were using the dogs, shovels and other tools to inspect the neighboring yard, which sits behind a off-white house with a chain link fence.

“We do consider it a crime scene,” said Jimmy Lee, a spokesman for the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department.

Lee would not elaborate on what kind of evidence investigators were seeking or the nature of the possible crimes involving the second property. The link to the kidnapping case is that Phillip Garrido, the man charged with holding Dugard in captivity for 18 years in his own backyard, had access to the neighboring land when the house that sits on it was vacant three years ago.

“It looks like Garrido lived on the property in a shed,” Lee said.

Damon Robinson, who moved into the vacant house in 2006, and another neighbor say Phillip Garrido served as caretaker of the home before Robinson took occupancy. That same year Robinson’s then-girlfriend called police after she saw tents and children in the backyard, but the responding deputy did not uncover the backyard compound.

A third neighbor, Janice Deitrich, 66, said that Phillip Garrido visited and helped to feed an elderly neighbor who lived in the house before Robinson.

Police in Pittsburg, a Bay Area city near where the Garridos lived, have said they are investigating whether Phillip Garrido may be linked to several unsolved murders of prostitutes in the early 1990s. Antioch police are also looking into unsolved cases but declined further details.

“We will take a close look at if there are any links to open cases,” Lee said.

Investigators also continued clearing brush from the scruffy backyard compound of tents and sheds where Garrido and his wife, Nancy, allegedly took Dugard after abducting her from her family’s street 170 miles away in South Lake Tahoe.

Dugard was 11 when she was kidnapped and no trace had been seen of her until last week, when she showed up with Phillip Garrido at his parole agent’s office in the San Francisco Bay area. Authorities allege she was held as a prisoner in the backyard encampment all these years and gave birth to two daughters, ages 11 and 15, who were fathered by Phillip Garrido.

The series of events that led to Dugard surfac quickly unfolded following a visit by Phillip Garrido to the University of California at Berkeley. He wanted to leaflet and hold an event on the campus, but the events coordinator and a campus police officer thought that he behaved strangely and were concerned about the robotic behavior of the daughters he sired with Dugard.

When the officer found that Garrido was a registered sex offender with a rape conviction in Nevada three decades ago, she contacted his parole officer.

At a meeting with his parole officer, Garrido brought along his wife, Dugard and the two girls. Authorities say he confessed to the kidnapping and was arrested along with his wife.

Dugard, now 29, was reunited with her mother, sister and another relative Thursday.

Phillip and Nancy Garrido pleaded not guilty Friday to a total of 29 counts, including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment.

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DJ AM said his new MTV show, Gone Too Far, could be his redemption after struggles with food and

drug addiction. But that goal came to a sudden end Friday with the celebrity DJ’s death.

DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, was found dead in his New York City apartment. An

autopsy has been performed by the New York Medical Examiner, but an official cause of death is

inconclusive, pending additional toxicology and tissue tests, which could take several weeks, the

medical examiner’s office told TVGuide.com.

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A rep for Goldstein’s MTV show, which was slated to begin airing in October, told TVGuide.com that

no decision about the future of show has been made. Goldstein tweeted on the Tuesday before his

death that filming for the show, which focused on helping young people overcome their addictions,

had just wrapped in Connecticut.

At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour earlier this month, Goldstein described the

new show as his second chance after surviving a plane crash with musical collaborator Travis

Barker in September 2008. “There was no reason why I should have lived or that I lived and they

didn’t,” he told MonstersandCritics.com after the panel. “It is something I struggle with every day,

just kind of wondering. But I have realized I am never going to know. I am alive. I am here. I have

another chance. So I have to do something better with my life this time.”

Goldstein told MTV News that he easily related to the youths featured on the show. “I speak addict,”

he said. “I am one, and they, for the first time, they see someone who’s sober, who made it out. I see

myself in every single addict that I’ve done an episode on, and we can completely relate to one

another.”

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The show was produced by Ish Entertainment and Gigantic! Productions. Michael Hirschorn of Ish

also said at TCA that Goldstein’s past made him perfect for the show. “He was a guy who went

through everything, and considered suicide and really hit absolute rock bottom,” Hirschorn said.

“And he is a person of incredible intelligence, integrity and passion and remarkable intensity who

has literally been through everything. He was really someone who could come and talk to these kids

on their level in a way that they are going to understand and respond to.”

Goldstein’s hope of redemption was indeed cut short, and ironically, his final tweet quoted lyrics

from Grandmaster Flash that speak of dashed dreams: “New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but

everything in new york aint always what it seems.”

A wildfire in the mountains above Los Angeles has surged in every direction, going in a single day

from a modest threat to a danger to some 10,000 homes.

The blaze nearly tripled in size in triple-digit heat Saturday, leaving three people burned, destroying

at least three homes and forcing the evacuation of 1,000 homes and an untold number of people.

A slight drop in temperatures and an influx of fire crews from around the state were expected to

bring some relief Sunday.

Mandatory evacuations were in effect for neighborhoods in Altadena, Glendale, Pasadena, La

Crescenta and Big Tujunga Canyon.

The flames crept down the slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains despite mild winds blowing

predominantly in the other direction.

“Today what happened is what I call the perfect storm of fuels, weather, and topography coming

together,” said Captain Mike Dietrich, the incident commander for the U.S. Forest Service.

“Essentially the fire burned at will; it went where it wanted to when it wanted to.”

Dietrich said he had never seen a fire grow so quickly without powerful Santa Ana winds to push it.

At least three homes deep in the Angeles National Forest were destroyed, and firefighters were

searching for others, Dietrich said.

Evacuation centers were set up at two high schools and an elementary school in the area.

The fire was the largest and most dangerous of several burning around southern and central

California and in Yosemite National Park.

The fire especially grew to the north and west, bringing new concerns for the areas near Acton and

Santa Clarita.

More than 31 square miles of dry forest was scorched by the fire. It was only 5 percent contained.

At least three people were burned in the evacuation areas and airlifted to local hospitals, Dietrich

said. He had no further details on their injuries.

Air crews waged a fierce battle against the southeast corner of the fire, burning dangerously close to

canyon homes. Spotter planes and tankers dove well below ridge then pulled up dramatically over

neighborhoods.

The fire was burning in steep wooded hills next to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in northern

Pasadena.

In La Vina, a gated community of luxury homes in the Altadena area, a small group of residents

stood at the end of a cul-de-sac on the lip of a canyon and watched aircraft battle flames trying to

cross the ridge on the far side.

At one point, the flying circus of relatively small propellor-driven tankers gave way to the sight of a

giant DC-10 jumbo jet unleashing a rain of red retardant.

“We see a drop, we give a big cheer,” said Gary Blackwood, who works on telescope technology at

the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We’ve watched it now for two days hop one ridge at a time and now

it’s like we’re the next ridge.”

A major goal was to keep the fire from spreading up Mount Wilson, where many of the region’s

broadcast and communications antennas and the historic Mount Wilson Observatory are located,

officials said.

A second fire in the Angeles National Forest was burning several miles to the east in a canyon above

the city of Azusa. The 3.4-square-mile blaze, which started Tuesday afternoon, was 95 percent

contained Saturday. No homes were threatened, and full containment was expected by Monday.

A wildfire on the Palos Verdes Peninsula on the south Los Angeles County coast was 100 percent

contained Saturday afternoon, according to county fire officials.

Southeast of Los Angeles in Riverside County, a 3 1/2-square-mile fire in a rural area of the San

Bernardino National Forest was 30 percent contained as it burned in steep, rocky terrain in Beeb

Canyon. No structures were threatened.

To the north, in the state’s coastal midsection, a 9.4-square-mile fire threatening Pinnacles National

Monument kept 100 homes under evacuation orders near the Monterey County town of Soledad.

The blaze, 60 percent contained, was started by agricultural fireworks used to scare animals away

from crops. The fire destroyed one home.

A state of emergency was declared Saturday for Mariposa County, where a nearly 5.5-square-mile

fire burned in Yosemite National Park. The blaze was 30 percent contained, park officials said.

Park officials closed a campground and a portion of Highway 120, anticipating that the fire would

spread north toward Tioga Road, the highest elevation route through the Sierra. The number of

firefighters was expected to double over the weekend to 1,000.

About 100 residents from the town of El Portal were under evacuation orders, said Brad Aborn,

chairman of Mariposa’s Board of Supervisors. He said the remainder of the town, an estimated 75

people, were evacuated Saturday morning.