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MARTINEZ -- A 31-year-old mentally ill man who allegedly threatened people with a gun near a San Pablo elementary school was charged Thursday with three counts of attempted murder and resisting an officer, a prosecutor said. 
 
Police won't say how they plan to deal with new encampment  
 
OAKLAND -- A realtor who tried to sell a house in which Eric Mora is accused of killing his girlfriend testified Thursday that Mora acted strangely on several occasions in the months after his girlfriend, Cynthia Linda Alonzo, disappeared. 
 
MARTINEZ -- A 32-year-old Richmond woman was arraigned Thursday on charges that she fatally stabbed her husband's girlfriend during a prearranged fight, a prosecutor said.  
 
 

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