The Alley Archives for February 7, 2010 - February 13, 2010
Mavericks Winner Fulfills Many Surfing Stereotypes
Previously: See Spot Write: First Person Account Of Rogue Mavericks Waves That Injured 13, Beach At Mavericks Closed After Waves Injure Spectators Elsewhere: Monster Waves...
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Beach At Mavericks Closed After Waves Injure Spectators
Video streaming by Ustream Before you ask -- Beth Spotswood, who's a spectator at the event, is OK! Follow her tweets from the event here....
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Body Found In Burned Out Car In Bayview
Elsewhere: Investigators seeking clues deadly car fire Chron Police in San Francisco are investigating the death of a person whose body was found this...
FTA Denies BART $70 Mil For Oakland Airport Connector
Elsewhere: Statement regarding February letter from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) BART, FTA Rejects Federal Stimulus Funding for BART Oakland Airport Connector Transbay Blog, FTA...
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SFPD: Hall Of Justice Earthquake "Disaster Waiting To Happen"
San Francisco's police chief is arguing for a proposed June ballot measure that would ask voters to approve $412 million for a new police...
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SFPD: Suede Shooting Was Gang Related
Previously: Suspect In Fatal Suede Shooting Still In Hospital, Won't Be In Court Today, One Man Charged In Nightclub Shooting, Another Still At Large, SFPD...
More Details Emerge On Man Found Shot Dead In Car
Previously: Man Found Shot Dead In Car Identified Police today released more details about a gang-related fatal shooting Wednesday in San Francisco's Bayview District, but...
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Update On Constitutional Convention Cancellation
1:37 PM: A Bay Area-based group hoping to organize a statewide constitutional convention announced today they have put the campaign on hold, citing a...
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Golden Gate Bridge Board Approves $50 Million Suicide Net, $3 Toll For Carpoolers
Elsewhere: Plans for suicide barrier, carpool tolls move forward Chron, Car toll proposal for Golden Gate Bridge goes forward Ex, Bridge suicide barrier will...
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Same Sex Marriage Supporters Demonstrating At City Hall Today
Elsewhere: Marriage licenses requested, and denied Chron, Shots From Today's City Hall Marriage Equality Rally SF Weekly Supporters of same-sex marriage will demonstrate at...
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Conviction Of Mission Terrace Man Who Commuted To Tenderloin To Sell Crack Upheld
A drug dealer with a 29-year criminal history in San Francisco was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for possessing crack with the...
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SF Court Upholds Conviction In Sureno vs. Norteno Gang Killing
A state appeals court in San Francisco today upheld a second-degree murder conviction for a gang member who served as the driver in a...
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Stanford Trails Dispute Tossed Out Of SF Court
A Peninsula environmental group lost a bid to the California Supreme Court today to challenge a Stanford University plan to improve pedestrian and bicycle...
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Golden Gate Bridge's Board Considering $3 Toll For Carpoolers Today
The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District's Finance-Auditing Committee this morning recommended that the full board of directors proceed with a plan to...
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CCSF Students Occupy Library To Protest Budget Cuts Tonight
A group of students at City College of San Francisco will be holding a "study-in" at the Rosenberg Library on the college's Ocean Campus...
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Patrons Of Marina IHOP Robbed At Gunpoint Last Night
Previously: Crime Blotter, Thursday Feb. 11: Marina Restaurant Robbery, Market Street Hot Prowl Three men robbed a cashier and two patrons at gunpoint at...
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Man Accused Of Tenderloin Stabbing Pleads Not Guilty
Previously: Man Charged In Bizarre Tenderloin Stabbing, Motive In Tenderloin Stabbing A Mystery, Victim Of Grisly Tenderloin Murder Identified 2/11 12:42 PM:A San Francisco...
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Man Found Shot Dead In Car Identified
2/11 10:11 AM:A 29-year-old man was found shot dead in a car Wednesday evening in San Francisco's Bayview District, authorities said. The victim was...
Man Accused Of Pretending To Be A Doctor Pleads Not Guilty
A 66-year-old San Francisco man accused of fraudulently posing as a dermatologist pleaded not guilty today in San Francisco Superior Court to 51 felony...
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Man Sentenced To 43 Years For Western Addition Murder
A judge today sentenced a man to 43 years to life in prison for the 2008 fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy in San...
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SFPUC Announces Toilet Giveaway, But Has Yet To Tell Us Where To Get Our Free Toilet
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is kicking off a free toilet installation program for low-income households, utility spokesman Tyrone Jue said today. The...
Woman Killed By SF PUC Truck Identified
Previously: City Vehicles Hit Two Women, Killing One, Bad Day To Be A Pedestrian In SF, As City Vehicles Hit Two, Kill One, Woman...
Suspect In Fatal Suede Shooting Still In Hospital, Won't Be In Court Today
Previously: One Man Charged In Nightclub Shooting, Another Still At Large, SFPD Seeks Another Suspect In Suede Shooting, Club That Hosted Fatal Weekend Shooting Temporarily...
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DPW Cleaning Up Chinatown For The Tourists (The Rest Of Us Can Presumably Suck It)
Visitors to Chinatown this month should avoid littering and keep an eye out for wet paint. The San Francisco Department of Public Works is...
City Workers Angry That Reduced Work Week Plan Given To Press Before They Saw It
Elsewhere: Angst Over Imminent Layoffs Rippling Through Rec and Park Department SF Weekly, Newsom explores cutting city workers' hours ABC7 San Francisco Mayor Gavin...
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Prosecution: Accused Creighton's Stabber "considered himself the devil"
Previously: Creighton's Stabbing Trial Begins Today A parolee who fantasized about killing people and "sending them to another dimension" and who stabbed a 15-year-old (The...
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Man Charged In Bizarre Tenderloin Stabbing
Previously: Motive In Tenderloin Stabbing A Mystery, Victim Of Grisly Tenderloin Murder Identified Prosecutors today charged a San Francisco man with murder for allegedly stabbing...
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City Vehicles Hit Two Women, Killing One
Previously: Bad Day To Be A Pedestrian In SF, As City Vehicles Hit Two, Kill One, Woman Hit By 9 San Bruno In Critical...
Three Men Charged In SF Gang Murders Acquitted
Elsewhere: Jury acquits 3 in gangland slayings Ex Three men charged in two separate killings in San Francisco in 2007 were acquitted today of...
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One Man Charged In Nightclub Shooting, Another Still At Large
Previously: SFPD Seeks Another Suspect In Suede Shooting, Club That Hosted Fatal Weekend Shooting Temporarily Closing, Photo Gallery: One Dead, Four Injured In Shooting...
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From The Comments: MTA Town Hall Meetings "Entirely For Show"
From commenter Alex Zepeda, regarding his thoughts on Saturday's MTA "town hall" meeting: These meetings are entirely for show...The primary purpose of this meeting...
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"I Love New York" Contestant Convicted Of Murder
Elsewhere: Reality TV Contestant Jamal Trulove Found Guilty of Murder SF Weekly, Ex-reality show contestant convicted of murder Chron An aspiring rapper and one-time...
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Court: SF Jails Can Go Back To Strip Searching
Elsewhere: S.F.'s broad jail strip-search policy ruled OK Chron A federal appeals court today upheld a former San Francisco jail policy of strip-searching all...
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Meeting To Discuss SF Public School Assignment Process Tonight
Elsewhere: Revamp simplifies S.F. school choice Chron The San Francisco Unified School District's board of education will consider proposals tonight to revamp the district's...
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SF State Students Rally To Promote School-Supporting Oil Tax
A state Assemblyman from the East Bay is rallying with San Francisco college students this afternoon to promote a tax on oil production to...
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SFPD Seeks Another Suspect In Suede Shooting
Previously: Photo Gallery: One Dead, Four Injured In Shooting Outside Wharf-Area Bar, Club That Hosted Fatal Weekend Shooting Temporarily Closing Elsewhere: Patrol Specials Identify...
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Creighton's Stabbing Trial Begins Today
The trial of a parolee accused of stabbing a 14-year-old girl at a San Francisco bakery in 2007 gets under way today in San...
SF Court Rules That Cyclists Can Carry Bike Footrests Without Getting Weapons Charges
The California Supreme Court ruled today that a bicycle footrest doesn't qualify as illegal metal knuckles under state law. The court's seven justices issued...
Motive In Tenderloin Stabbing A Mystery
Previously: Victim Of Grisly Tenderloin Murder Identified San Francisco police today are still investigating what led to the fatal stabbing of a man early Saturday...
Club That Hosted Fatal Weekend Shooting Temporarily Closing
Previously: Photo Gallery: One Dead, Four Injured In Shooting Outside Wharf-Area Bar Elsewhere: Club Connected To Fisherman's Wharf Shooting Closed KCBS A San Francisco...
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Trial For Alleged Muni Stabber To Continue After His Competency Established
Elsewhere: Man accused of Muni stabbings to be in court Chron The criminal prosecution of a man suspected in stabbing several people on San...
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SF Passes Hacker Case Over To Sweden
Federal authorities announced in San Francisco today that Sweden has agreed to take over the prosecution of a Swedish man accused of hacking into...
UCSF Cop Who Was Driving In Fatal October Crash Was Drunk
Do you remember that rather strange story of the UCSF-police officer driven Dodge Magnum that reportedly raced down 280 at speeds exceeding 100 MPH,...
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Victim Of Grisly Tenderloin Murder Identified
Elsewhere: Police searching for clues in fatal stabbing Chron, 911 caller held in fatal Tenderloin stabbing Chron 2/7 10:32 AM: A 36-year-old man (San...
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Photo Gallery: One Dead, Four Injured In Shooting Outside Wharf-Area Bar
All photos: Mark Grissom WARNING: We put the photo gallery at the bottom of the article because it contains some graphic and possibly disturbing...
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- Haight-Area Homeless People Reportedly Swipe Park Police Vehicle, Go On Crime Spree
- Willie Brown, Ross Mirkarimi Speak At Hearing On Controversial Public Power Initiative
- DUI Checkpoints, Free Cabs And Towing: If You Drive Drunk Tonight, We Don't Know What To Tell You
- SFPD Officers Hospitalized After California Street Training Exercise Gone Awry
- SF Joins Suit Against Willie Brown Supported Public Power Initiative
- Cal State Prof Faces Kiddie Porn Charges In SF Court Friday
- SF Court Upholds Oakland's Right To Ban Billboard
- Witness Admits To Lying In Court In Murder Trial Of SF Man
- SF Reports Highest Median Home Sale Price In Bay Area, At $627 K
- Teachers, Students Protest SF USD Layoffs
- Drug Cases Vanishing From SF Courts In Wake Of Crime Lab Scandal
- Patrons Of Marina IHOP Robbed At Gunpoint Last Night
- City Moving Towards Making Retrofit Of "Soft-Story" Buildings Mandatory, Not Voluntary
- Sponsored Post: Cabulous Taxi App
- Homeless SF Chihuahuas Finally Depart For NY
- Burger King, Subway In Violation Of SF's Composting Laws
- SF Last Stop In Ukrainian Money Laundering Case
- EDD Website Security Flaw Puts SF's 50+K Unemployed At Risk
- Witnesses Recount Harrowing Cable Car Experience
- Lombard Street To Become Giant Candyland Game Wednesday
