SF News Alameda County Asks Obama To Quit Harshing On Marijuana Dispensaries, Man Last week in Alameda, the county's board of supervisors approved a resolution supporting legal weed for both medical and recreational use. In addition to lighting up the legalize it debate again, the county
SF News Woman Whose Body Was Found Burning in Rockridge Was Apparently Bound and Raped By Boyfriend, Others A witness in the case of the murder of 21-year-old Monica Rodas-Alfaro, whose burning body was found dumped in Rockridge last July, says that three men, including Rodas-Alfaro's boyfriend, bound her hands with
SF News Judge Rules That Oakland Bus Drivers' Union Can't Be Charged For Encouraging Sick-Out Commuters to Oakland, and those who live within the city, are likely familiar with the terrible bus service they've been getting for the last month, as AC Transit drivers have been staging an
SF News Just How Big Is the Tea Party in the East Bay? On April 15th, the various Tea Party factions of the East Bay organized an event at the Alameda County Fairgrounds that allegedly drew 10,000 people. Skeptical of what this meant, East Bay
misc Here Comes the Rain Again While not on par with Christmas Day tsunamis, this storm is pretty nifty, huh? Golden Gate transit buses have stopped, power has been knocked out to hundreds -- yes, hundreds! - of thousands
misc Search Effort Turns Into Recovery Effort for Missing Boater Although he is "believed to be a good swimmer," 32-year-old Eric Wright's rescue search has now turned into a body recovery effort according to CBS 5. The Tracy resident was reported missing after
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Santarchy All Over San Francisco See more of this morning's action, after the jump.
SF News Do Use Caution While Using Your Cells While preoccupied with his cell, Scott Slaughter, 31, was hit and killed by an Amtrak train Thursday morning. Witnesses say that "Slaughter waited for one train to pass on a first set of
SF News Judge Says UC Berkeley Can Prune Tree-Sitters After a 10-month protest atop an oak grove next to Memorial Stadium, a judge ruled on Monday that UC Berkeley can now start removing up-in-a-tree protesters, as well as their ground support, even
SF News Friday Fun: Gavin's Wikipedia Page! Hey, remember the Wikipedia scanner that tells you who's edited what page on the ol' Wikepedia? Well, we decided to have a little fun with it and see who's been playing with the
SF News 6 a.m. Oakland Drug Raid: One of the Largest Busts Ever Although a press conference happening this afternoon will tell us all of the gory details, this morning an Oakland drug bust went down. It was one of the largest of its kind in
SF News Non-Football Related Argument Ends in Shooting and More After yesterday's Raiders game in the McAfee Coliseum parking lot, a man was shot in the leg and groin (ye-ouch!) after a non-football related argument," according Alameda County Sheriff Dept. Sgt. J.D.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Alameda County judge tells Berkeley tree squatters, like the scrappy Ninjah and Stork here, to climb down. For good. [SFGate] -- Car crash on the 101 kills one, lands two in jail.
Arts & Entertainment De-Union-ification At The Tribune Well, first the MediaNews conglomerate moves the Oakland Tribune from its iconic downtown Oakland tower (at left) and then they take away recognition of the Tribune's Newspaper Guild labor union. MediaNews claims they're
SF News News From The Animal Point Of View They settled the Alameda County garbage strike lockout! After a nine-hour mediation, Oakland mayor Ron Dellums announced late yesterday night that all the parties had managed to resolve the four-week dispute. No one
SF News Day Around the Bay -- The Giants are best for bear bottoms: Cubs wipe up with us, 12-1. [the Chron] -- Bay Guardian dislikes big, corporate-chain retail stores? You don't say. [SFBG] -- Matt Stroud's final, fatal
SF News Bring Out Your Trash, Alameda An Alameda County judge has ordered Waste Management to start picking up the garbage again. The City of Oakland, who filed suit, says they're gratified by the ruling, since this means, you know,
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
SF News Day Around The Bay --Turns out rescuers totally missed the car of the missing Alameda County woman and her priest friend, even though they got exact directions from 911. [Chron.] --An Oakland Tribune sports columnist apologizes for
SF News Day Around The Bay --Picture of a woman collecting bottles from people in the iPhone line by reader zombie. Thanks for sending them in, zombie! [ZombieTime.] --Four murders in San Francisco this weekend, 10 murders throughout the
SF News Day Around The Bay --A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.] --They're looking on the Oregon coast now for the missing Alameda County
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight It's that time of the year again for San Francisco magazine's Best of the Bay party. The annual bash features lots of eats, drinks and chances to win prizes. Be prepared to fork
SF News Day Around The Bay --Pride was fun! (Have you noticed we always have great weather for Pride?) [Chron, ABC 7, CBS 5.] --Who were the bloggers floating the Newsom coke rumors? We don't it was us. [Chron.
SF News Day Around The Bay --The Dyke March was fun. [Chron.] --The Recall McGoldrick people didn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot. [From the SFist Tips line!] --It's the winner of the World's Ugliest Dog contest!
