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This story reports on the recent wave of violence in Oakland's Chinatown involving Mongolian immigrants and other Asian American youth: Fights in Oakland's Chinatown

In Pomona, CA a woman and her mother sued Best Buy Stores last week after a technician from Geek Squad videotaped the woman taking a shower: Geek Sued For Peeking At Woman In Shower Via Video. According the lawsuit, the Geek Squad employee, Hao Kuo Chi, allegedly started up the cell phone's video camera to tape Sarah Vasquez just before she stepped into the shower. But he got caught! And arrested. Way to go, you perv. Not only do you work for a company called "Geek Squad," you're now the creepy peeping dude. Thanks, on behalf of Asian guys everywhere.

Vuthavy Phay, a teenager in Lowell, MA was shot in the head while playing cards at a buddy's house last weekend: Lowell teen dies after shooting at friend's house. Police have arrested two suspects who witnesses say repeatedly shot indiscriminately into the apartment from outside. Prosecutors say an old dispute might've led to the shooting: Old dispute might have led to killing in Lowell

Nikhil Dhar plans to plead guilty to stabbing his former science professor: Man to plead guilty in attack on professor. He is accused of attacking his professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell because he was flunking out of school and feared he would be deported to his native India. Looks like he's going to be deported for sure now... after a prison term.

Four people who pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell counterfeit handbags were sentenced to prison last week: Four sentenced in counterfeit handbags case. Minh Vu, Katherine Luong, Kim Luong, and Camphung Luong were charged in 2005 with running a scheme to sell counterfeit Louis Vuitton, Prada, Gucci and Coach bags at flea markets and more than 200 "purse parties" at homes across Massachusetts. Sell fake Prada, you're going down.

Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of Computer Associates, will pay $800 million to investors who lost money because of the company's accounting fraud: Ex-Executive Agrees to Pay $800 Million in Restitution. He pleaded guilty last year to a conspiracy to inflate Computer Associates' sales in 1999 and 2000 and to interfere with the subsequent federal investigation. He'll begin serving a 12-year prison term this month. Several other former company executives also pleaded guilty in the scheme, though Charles B. Wang, the founder and longtime chairman of Computer Associates, was never charged. But CA's board says Wang oversaw the whole thing: CA Says Its Founder Aided Fraud