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It took an armada of Navy, Coast Guard and private fishing vessels nearly two full days to coax the 45-ton whale from Antioch back to the ocean. Two crossbow-implanted transmitters slipped off the whale late Sunday, and for several hours no one was certain of Humphrey's whereabouts.

Humphrey followed a device emitting underwater whale sounds for 11 hours Sunday. 'He has responded well all day,' said David Kennedy with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 'We got more optimistic as the day went along.'

The humanitarian herding of a humpback whale went swimmingly Sunday as the errant animal was finally coaxed to the mouth of the Sacramento River and turned west toward San Francisco Bay.

The prediction of the whale movers was that Humphrey - or E.T. to some - could be in San Francisco by late today after a more-than two-week odyssey through inland waters.

If E.T. the humpback whale had surfaced in the Sacramento River at Rio Vista 20 or 30 years ago, it might have been harpooned. In 1985, however, a humpback whale gets a celebrity's welcome. Awed residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have practically adopted him and Rio Vista city fathers would present him with a key to the city, if only there was a way.

The first frantic words to a California Highway Patrol dispatcher capture the sheer panic. Two women, driving down a lonely stretch of freeway after midnight in south Sacramento County, are being chased and rammed by a mysterious man in a black-and-silver Jeep.

Jeremy Thomas Clark, on trial for the murder of a 22-year-old man with a history of psychiatric problems, testified Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court that he killed in self-defense during a video game gone wild.

Glyn Scharf, convicted Thursday of killing his wife, tried to take his own life Sunday morning and declared that he would continue to try until he succeeds, the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

Originally published 10/22/2004