While supporters like Mayor Ron Nirenberg say the ball park proposal is a fair deal with a group of local owners, a ball team’s worth of opponents came to a public hearing Thursday afternoon to object to the funding method, a lack of public input on the plan so far, and residents’ displacement from a low-cost apartment complex.

Several months after a mistrial was declared, a murder defendant decided against a new trial, accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

After two days and more than 14 hours of deliberating, a jury was deadlocked and a mistrial was declared Monday in the murder trial of Luis Alvarado.

Luis Alvarado is on trial for the murder of Santos Cedillo, 31.