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Memorial planned to mark one year since disappearance of Michelle Le

Friends, family and community members will gather in Hayward Sunday evening to mark the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Michelle Le, a 26-year-old San Mateo nursing student who was later found murdered.

Le disappeared on May 27 from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Hayward, where she was working. She was studying to be a nurse at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland.

Her car was found the next morning on Ponderosa Court, about half a mile away, but it was not until Sept. 17 that her body was found, in a remote area between Pleasanton and Sunol

Before her body was found, however, Giselle Esteban, a 28-year-old Union City woman who attended high school with Le, was charged on Sept. 8 with her murder based on DNA evidence and cell phone records.

An Alameda County criminal grand jury indicted Esteban on an identical murder charge on Dec. 14 at the end of a three-day hearing. Prosecutors sought the indictment to try to speed up her trial.

According to the transcript of the grand jury's hearing, prosecutors believe that Esteban stalked and murdered Le because she blamed Le for wrecking her relationship with Scott Marasigan, who is the father of Esteban's daughter.

Esteban gave birth to a second child in November while she was in custody but the father of that child hasn't been disclosed.

Le's memory will be celebrated today with a memorial ceremony at Mt. Eden Park in Hayward at 6 p.m. The ceremony has been organized in conjunction with the KlaasKids Foundation, which specializes in aiding families of the missing.

"Michelle gave meaning to her life, but it is up to those who love and miss her to give meaning to her death," said Le's cousin, Krystine Dinh. "We're having this service to remember and honor a beautiful spirit who was taken before her time."

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 17:07:32 -0700}

Kuroda throws 8 scoreless as Yankees beat A's 2-0

Hiroki Kuroda pitched eight scoreless innings and Andruw Jones hit a solo homer that helped the New York Yankees win their season-high fifth straight game, 2-0 over the Oakland Athletics on Sunday.

The Yankees got off to a strong start to their nine-game road trip by sweeping the three-game series in Oakland, extending their winning streak at the Coliseum to nine games. That is tied for the second-longest winning streak ever by a road team in Oakland, trailing only Baltimore's 13-game run from 1976-79.

Derek Jeter singled to lead off the game for his 3,155th career hit, breaking a tie with Hall of Famer George Brett to move into sole possession of 14th place all-time.

"He's been the backbone of this organization for a long, long time and when a guy like that passes you, I'd like to shake his hand and look him in the eye and say congratulations," Brett said in a statement released by the Yankees.

The A's managed just four hits off Kuroda (4-6) to wrap up a horrid homestand in which they went 1-5 and scored just eight runs against the Los Angeles Angels and Yankees. Oakland batted .157 for the homestand and lost the final five games for their longest skid of the season.

The lack of hitting wasted another strong home start from rookie Tommy Milone (6-4), who escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the first and limited New York to Jones' second-inning homer before tiring in the seventh.

Milone allowed two runs and eight hits in 6 2-3 innings, leaving after Mark Teixeira hit an RBI double to make it 2-0. This was the first time in five home starts that Milone allowed more than one earned run and that proved to be far too much to overcome as the A's were shut out for the eighth time this season.

After allowing a leadoff single to Jemile Weeks, Kuroda retired the next 11 hitters. The A's got two hits in the fifth but Kila Ka'aihue hit into a double play after Seth Smith's leadoff single.

The only real trouble Kuroda faced came in the seventh when the A's put runners on first and third with one out. But Kuroda struck out Ka'aihue and got Josh Donaldson to fly out to end the threat.

Rafael Soriano pitched the ninth for his fifth save in as many chances.

New York's bases-loaded woes once again in the first when Robinson Cano and Nick Swisher popped up to leave three runners stranded. The Yankees have one hit in their last 29 plate appearances with the bases loaded.

Jones then led off the second with his fifth home run, New York's seventh homer of the series. That last tied the Yankees for the major league lead in homers with Baltimore at 72 as New York improved to 26-11 in games with a homer. The Yankees are winless in 10 games when they do not go deep.

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 16:26:45 -0700}

Firefighters battle brush fire sparked by unattended campfire

An unattended campfire led to a brush fire in Hercules Saturday evening, according to Rodeo-Hercules Fire District officials.

A grass fire was reported in the 400 block of Turquoise Drive at 5:13 p.m., fire officials said.

Arriving firefighters found brush, grass and trees burning behind homes on nearby Ruby Court, according to fire officials.

Crews were able to contain the fire to one-quarter acre and prevented its spread further into Ohlone Canyon, the area behind the neighborhood, officials said.

The fire was under control by 6:25 p.m., fire officials said.

No homes were damaged and no injuries to fire personnel or residents were reported. However, some crewmembers were exposed to poison oak as they battled the blaze.

Crews from the Pinole and Crockett fire departments assisted in extinguishing the fire.

_{Sun, 27 May 2012 16:02:15 -0700}

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