By DEMIAN BULWA, San Francisco Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO - One obstacle Occupy Oakland faced after building an encampment at City Hall came not from authorities but from within -- a mentally ill homeless man with a long prison record who witnesses said beat fellow campers in fits of rage. Some were so frightened they moved out.

PLACERVILLE, Calif. - For 18 years, Jaycee Dugard never said her own name. And, she said, she never tried to flee from Phillip Garrido, the predator who used a stun gun to abduct her from her South Lake Tahoe bus stop at age 11.

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal and state investigators are trying to figure out who stole welfare benefits from hundreds of California's neediest families by compromising a system in which the state places those benefits into debit-card accounts, The San Francisco Chronicle has learned.

SAN FRANCISCO - There are unlucky thieves, and then there is Horatio Toure.

According to San Francisco police, the 31-year-old city resident rode a bicycle up to a woman, snatched an iPhone out of her hands and then pedaled away.

Being dead can be a real drag, especially if you're alive.

Just ask Doris Temple, 85, a Navy veteran who learned in January that the government had declared her deceased. Strongly suspecting an error, she protested, but not before she lost her health insurance and thousands of dollars in income -- Social Security benefits as well as private insurance and pension payments.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was not only a kidnapped captive of Phillip Craig Garrido, living for 18 years in his backyard, but also the creative force behind his specialty printing business, according to the firm's customers.

When she wasn't drawn to boys as a teenager, Cathy Roberts figured she was just shy. As she steered men away from her college bed, she convinced herself she wasn't ready. Later, when a therapist coaxed her along a path toward enjoying sex, she didn't even want to do the tamest of exercises.

BOLINAS, Calif. -- Motorists who manage to find the Marin County hamlet of Bolinas, where reclusive residents famously formed a "Border Patrol" to fend off tourists, are greeted with a promising sign."Entering a socially acknowledged, nature-loving town," it reads.

TURLOCK, Calif. -- The town of Turlock, Calif., and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son to death on a rural road. But what was nearly as stunning for many people was that none of the motorists and their passengers who stopped and saw the attack tried to tackle the man.