News Archives for January 29, 2012 - February 4, 2012
Hundreds March In SF Against Possible War Against Iran
In the wake of fresh U.S. and European sanctions against Iran, activists gathered at Powell and Market streets in San Francisco Saturday afternoon to...
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Police Seeking Blue Prius In Hit And Run That Killed SF Man
A pedestrian was struck and killed early this morning on southbound Interstate Highway 280 in Daly City, and the California Highway Patrol is hoping...
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Friends And Family Of SF DJ Killed In Bangkok Plan Memorial
Friends, family and fans are mourning the loss of a popular Bay Area disc jockey who was killed in a car crash Tuesday while...
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Man Falls Into Bay Near Hi Dive
A male victim fell into the San Francisco Bay early this morning, according to a San Francisco fire dispatcher. A call came in to...
Man Robs Taraval Street Business With BB Gun
A business in San Francisco's Parkside neighborhood was robbed by a suspect armed with a BB gun Thursday evening, police said. The robbery was...
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4 Men Suspected Of Stealing Apple Merchandise From FedEx Trucks
Three Los Angeles men and a man from Las Vegas were arrested last month in connection with a series of burglaries in San Francisco in which the suspects stole Apple products from FedEx delivery trucks, police said.
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Man Who Drove Into Muni Tunnel Last Month Pleads Not Guilty To DUI Charges
A man accused of driving his car into a San Francisco Municipal Railway tunnel last month pleaded not guilty today to DUI charges, a district attorney's office spokeswoman said.
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Mirkarimi Loses Bid To Be Reunited With Family
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi left San Francisco Superior Court on the verge of tears this afternoon after learning that he was again denied the chance...
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Madden Trial In June, Prosecutor Says Plea Bargain Unlikely
A federal judge in San Francisco today set a trial date of June 18 for a former San Francisco police crime laboratory technician accused of stealing cocaine from the facility.
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FanFest Brings SF Giants Players And Fans Together Saturday
As the football season draws to a close with the Super Bowl this weekend, the baseball season is just getting into swing in San...
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Bad Weather In Denver Means Delays And Cancellations At Bay Area Airports
Bay Area airports are reporting flight delays and cancellations today due to extreme weather in the Denver area. At San Francisco International Airport, flights...
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Suspect In Fatal Outer Mission Stabbing Pleads Not Guilty
A man accused of a fatal stabbing last week in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, a district...
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AAA Offering "Tipsy Tow" Service On Super Bowl Sunday
While neither of the teams playing in this Sunday's Super Bowl are local franchises, San Francisco police plan to crack down on drunken driving...
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Mirkarimi Hearings Cause Judge To Ban Cameras In Areas Of Courthouse
San Francisco Superior Court Presiding Judge Katherine Feinstein issued a standing order Thursday prohibiting the use of cameras and/or electronic recording devices in the...
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Weekend Traffic And Transit Disruptions: SF Giants FanFest, Half Marathon
Giants FanFest On Saturday the.19th annual KNBR 680 Giants FanFest will take place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at AT&T Park. An attendance...
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Sweating The Small Stuff: New OPD Chief's Youth Soccer Complaint Past
Oakland's new police chief has been on the job for some time, but losing the "interim" before his title doesn't mean Chief Howard Jordan's...
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Muni Metro Service Resumes Friday Morning After Overnight Repairs
Repairs on downed San Francisco Municipal Railway overhead lines in the Castro area were completed early this morning and this morning's commute is expected...
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The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency toured an electric vehicle technology company in San Francisco today as part of a nationwide tour...
Two Injured In Thursday Night Shooting
A teen girl and a man were injured in a shooting in San Francisco tonight, police said. Police responded to the 4600 block of...
Officials Meet In Western Addition Church To Discuss Life After Prison
From the corner of McAllister and Pierce streets in San Francisco, one can still see the devastation wreaked by a five-alarm fire in the...
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49ers CEO Calls NFL Approval Of Stadium Funding "Big Step"
The National Football League today approved $200 million in funding for the construction of the $1 billion San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara....
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Ramos Case: Brother-In-Law Testifies On Gang Initiation
The brother-in-law and alleged former MS-13 gang associate of Edwin Ramos, a man accused of a triple killing in San Francisco in 2008, testified...
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Semi Takes Down Muni Wires At Market And Van Ness
7:46 PM: Commuters are facing delays and disruptions in San Francisco Municipal Railway service this evening as crews continue repairs on downed overhead wires....
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SFFD Controls Two One-Alarm Fires
12:50 PM: San Francisco firefighters quickly controlled two one-alarm fires that were reported almost simultaneously this morning, a fire department spokeswoman said. The larger...
SF Zoo Mourns The Passing Of Their Oldest Male Lion
The SF Zoo's lion pride is slightly diminished this week, after the passing of their eldest male lion, Tunya. According to Barbara J King,...
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Suspect In McLaren Park Sex Crime Pleads Not Guilty
A man accused in the strangling death of another man in San Francisco's McLaren Park nearly 30 years ago pleaded not guilty to murder...
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Court: Video Of Prop 8 Trial Must Remain Under Wraps
5:21 PM: A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that a video recording of a 2010 trial on the constitutionality of Proposition...
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Gold Dust Lounge Landlords Reportedly Call Cops, Worried About Supporters' Pub Crawl
Even as Union Square's imperiled Gold Dust Lounge struggles to find new tactics to keep the beloved bar from closing, owners of the building...
DUI Checkpoint Set For Super Bowl Sunday
In celebration of, well... not much of anything since the 9ers fell to the New York Giants, police planning a sobriety checkpoint in SF...
Projectile Strikes Car Driving On Monterey Boulevard
A man was shot at, possibly with a BB gun, while driving in San Francisco's Sunnyside neighborhood on Tuesday morning, police said. The shooting...
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Original St. Anthony Dining Room Serves Final Meal
San Francisco city and community leaders marked the end of an era as the original St. Anthony Dining Room served its last meal this...
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In Effort To Save Itself, Gold Dust Lounge Goes For Historic Preservation Status
Friends and family of San Francisco's The Gold Dust Lounge are hoping they have found a way to prevent the drinking establishment full of...
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3000 Lose Power In Mission, SOMA
8:57 PM: Power was restored to San Francisco PG&E customers tonight after an outage left thousands in the dark. The outage, which impacted 3,191...
Mayor Promises Money For Sixth Street SFPD Substation
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee today reaffirmed plans to build a Police Department substation along Sixth Street as part of his plan to revitalize the blighted neighborhood.
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Court To Rule Thursday On Release Of Prop 8 Video Tape
A federal appeals court in San Francisco announced today it will rule Thursday on whether a videotape of a 2010 trial on the constitutionality...
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Firefighters have contained a fire at a building in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood this evening. The fire burned in the area of O'Farrell and...
Executive Editor Of The SF Examiner Resigns
It's an inside SF media baseball day of shake-ups! In one corner, rumors swirl around the possible arranged marriage future of well-funded non-profit The...
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Stomach Virus Sickens 300+, Closes St. Ignatius High School Until Monday
St. Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco's Sunset District will remain closed through the end of the week because of a stomach virus that...
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Burning Man Organizers Set Up Ticket Exchange Site To Thwart Scalpers
Tickets for the 26th annual Burning Man festival, which begins in late August, are already in high demand and organizers trying to increase participants'...
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St. Ignatius Flu Outbreak Causes Cancellation Of Basketball, Soccer Games
At least three athletic events involving St. Ignatius College Preparatory teams have been postponed following the closure of the school because of an outbreak...
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St. Anthony Dining Room To Serve Last Meals In Current Location Today
The original St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood will be serving its last meals today before moving to an interim location...
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Oakland Names Howard Jordan As "New" Police Chief
Oakland city officials today named interim police Chief Howard Jordan to head the Police Department on a permanent basis. Mayor Jean Quan and City...
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Cyclist Struck By Alleged Stop-Sign-Running USPS Truck
A bicyclist was injured in a collision involving a U.S. Postal Service truck in San Francisco's Richmond District on Tuesday afternoon, a police spokesman...
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Firefighters extinguished a small fire in San Francisco's Mission District this morning. The one-alarm fire was reported at 7:42 a.m. in the 2700 block...
St. Ignatius High School Closed Wednesday After Stomach Flu Outbreak
A San Francisco parochial high school in the outer Sunset is closed today after a wave of gastroenteritis, or the stomach flu, hit a...
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County Transportation Agency Ponders Ways To Get High Speed Rail In SF
Although efforts to construct a high-speed rail system in California have been delayed and cost estimates have doubled in recent months, San Francisco officials...
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Shopping Carts, Skateboards Welcome in Castro Open Spaces
Camping, Sleeping Definitely Out Bring your shopping cart to Harvey Milk Plaza -- it's legal. Just don't fall asleep. That's not. Shopping carts, soap-box racers...
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SF's Mexican Museum Becomes Smithsonian Affiliate
San Francisco's Mexican Museum recently became an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, joining a group of only 170 museums with that distinction nationwide, museum...
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Judge In SF Says Hiding Police Name During Occupy Oakland Protest "Serious Misconduct"
A federal judge in San Francisco has concluded that an Oakland police officer who taped over his name badge during an Occupy Oakland protest...
Sheriff Mirkarimi Expected Back In Court Friday To Fight Stay-Away Order
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will return to court on Friday to try again to modify a court order preventing him from contacting his...
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DNA From 1983 Sex Crime Leads To Arrest This Week
A 47-year-old man was arrested Monday in connection with a murder in San Francisco's McLaren Park nearly three decades ago after a DNA hit...
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Mayor Lee, Others Break Ground On America's Cup Cruise Ship Terminal
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and others broke ground today on a new cruise ship terminal being built as part of the America's Cup...
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Lower Nob Hill Woman Robbed By One Night Stand
A San Francisco woman was robbed on Monday morning by a man she had brought home from a nightclub the night before, police said....
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Obama Plans (Somewhat More Affordable) Rally in Addition to Big-Ticket Fundraiser In SF
As we noted yesterday, i the Obamas are planning to hit SF hard for a big-ticket fundraiser on February 16. Now, as the Chron...
Castro Camp-out, Proposed Ban on Castro Camping Both Derided as Stunts
The debate over a ban on camping in the Castro District -- that's right, Castro camping is now a thing that's legislated -- has...
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SFPD Investigating Possible Bayview Kidnapping
A woman was possibly kidnapped in San Francisco's Bayview District on Saturday afternoon and investigators are asking for the public's help in finding out...
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Judge Orders New Trial For MS-13 Informant Accused Of Lying About Murders
An MS-13 gang member who became an informant and then was convicted of lying about murders he committed in his native Honduras won an...
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Kaiser Permanente Workers Expected To Strike Today
Kaiser Permanente workers throughout Northern California said today that they will stage a one-day strike on Tuesday in a dispute over a new contract...
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Fight Over Newspaper Ends With Man Stabbed In Face By Pen
A fight over whose turn it was to read a newspaper at San Francisco's Portola Branch Library led to a man getting stabbed in...
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Arrest Made In Last Week's Homicide
An arrest has been made in San Francisco's third homicide of 2012, SFPD said in a press release sent to media today. At about...
SFPD And City Attorney Go After Tenderloin Markets For Drug Trafficking
Two markets in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood are the target of civil lawsuits filed today by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, who said the businesses...
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Woman Pulled To Ground By Hair, Robbed Near Union Square
A woman was robbed near San Francisco's Union Square on Sunday night, police said. The 21-year-old woman was standing at the intersection of Post...
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Altercation Over Car Break-In Turns Into Brutal Beating
A man was critically wounded in an altercation over a car break-in in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood early Sunday morning, police said. The attack...
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Neighborhood Group Holding Meeting Tonight To Oppose Parking Meter Plan
A neighborhood coalition is holding a community meeting in San Francisco this evening to oppose a proposal to place thousands of new parking meters...
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Burning Man Ticket Requests Currently Exceeding Supply
What was once a small gathering on Baker Beach in 1986 has ballooned into a year-round culture culminating in a temporary city for over...
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Man Critically Injured In Shooting Saturday Night
A man was critically injured in a shooting in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood on Saturday morning, police said today. The shooting was reported...
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Mid-Afternoon Fillmore Shooting Reportedly Self-Inflicted
A Friday afternoon shooting in the Fillmore district inspired some shock and outrage about "blatant violence" in the area -- but, as more details...
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It appears that 49ers defensive end Aldon Smith was taking a page from my depressingly drunk playbook Saturday morning and drowning his post-playoff sorrows...
Appointment To Newly-Created Job Gets Bevan Dufty Substantial Bump In Pay
As reported last week, Mayor Lee has appointed Bevan Dufty to a newly created position in the Mayor's office, "Director of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships...
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Obamas Expected In SF For $35,800 Per Person Fundraiser
As the Presidential election approaches, our calendar of campaign fundraisers continues to fill. Earlier this month we had a local-sports-botching Vice-Presidential visit, and next...
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Hundreds Lose Power Downtown Overnight
Several hundred PG&E customers are without power in downtown San Francisco this morning, a PG&E spokesman said. The power outage began Sunday night shortly...
Teen Dating Violence Focus Of Tuesday Event
Several organizations are hosting an event Tuesday in San Francisco to raise awareness about abuse in teen relationships and encourage Bay Area teenagers to...
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Previously: Police Close Streets, Tear Gas Occupy Oakland Demonstrators 6:33 PM: Oakland police arrested an estimated 400 people Saturday during a day of protests...
SFPD Warns Of "Grandmother /Grandfather" Scam
Police in San Francisco are urging the public to beware of money transfer scams targeting the elderly after seeing more of those crimes in...
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