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Oakland Chinatown turns to private, armed security in wake of assaults, robberies FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Business owners in Oakland’s Chinatown raised more than $80,000 to hire private guards.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Pressure to increase public safety in Chinatown has mounted since early this month, when surveillance videos of robberies and attacks began surfacing on social media.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less As Oakland Chinatown reels from a recent string of assaults and robberies — some of them captured in stark, instantly viral vid...

Copy shortlink: Nelson Cruz will continue smashing baseballs for the Twins. The veteran slugger on Tuesday night agreed to a one-year, $13 million contract to keep his talents in Minnesota and provide the punch and leadership that has helped the Twins to two consecutive American League Central titles. A major league source confirmed the agreement. The Twins and the 40-year-old Cruz expressed interest in continuing their relationship immediately after their season ended with a two-game sweep to the Houston Astros in the first round of the postseason. And why not? In his...

Henry “Hank” Aaron, an honorary Princeton alumnus, died on Jan. 22 at 86. By all measures, he was one of the greatest to ever play baseball, and he was a monumental force in moving the game toward racial equality.

Former Major Leaguer Al Downing was saddened Friday to learn about the passing of Hank Aaron, but the two rivals will forever be linked together in baseball history. Downing has the distinction of allowing Aaron’s 715th career home run on April 8, 1974, at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium,

Henry Aaron's ordeal ended at 9:07 p.m. Monday. It ended in a carnival atmosphere that would have been more congenial to the man he surpassed as baseball's alltime home-run champion. But it ended. And for that, as Aaron advised the 53,775 Atlanta fans who came to enshrine him in the game's pantheon, "Thank God." Aaron's 715th home run came in the fourth inning of the Braves' home opener with Los Angeles, off the Dodgers' Al Downing, a lefthander who had insisted doggedly before the game that for him this night would be "no different from any other." He was wrong, for now he joins a company of...