SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Ed And Hillary Have Breakfast Ed Lee is hosting a breakfast reception for Hillary Clinton this morning. [ABC7] 200 kids who got their start in an SF youth violence prevention organization have graduated from college. [KQED] Two SF
SF News 'Bully' SF Sheriff's Deputy Faces Three Years In Prison For Beating Of Homeless Man The saga of a San Francisco Sheriff's Department deputy who was caught on tape beating up a homeless guy in a San Francisco General waiting room ended with a conviction Tuesday, after a
SF News Three-Story-Tall Lamp Post Collapses Onto Occupied Car, Urine To Blame According to San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission, a lamp post that toppled over and nearly crushed a driver had been terminally compromised by a most deadly combination: human and dog urine. KTVU reports
SF News Wednesday Morning High-Speed Chase Sends SFPD Across SF A man and two women are in custody Wednesday following a high-speed chase that sent San Francisco Police Department officers through Hayes Valley, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin and the Mission. It all started
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: City Hall's Private Party A beloved 7-year-old service dog who helped young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital for five years died Monday. [KRON4] A traffic stop near McLaren Park led SFPD to guns, "incendiary devices.
SF News Report: Venture Capitalist Confidence Hits Two-Year Low, High Valuations And Pointless Startups Blamed Just a week after it was reported that venture capitalists were putting more money into startups than ever before, we're hearing that VCs might now be having second thoughts on the matter, and
SF News Why Do So Many Golden Gate Bridge Tourists Ignore 'No Trespassing' Signs? So, you're visiting another city, and you see a fence with not one, but two signs warning people not to pass its boundaries or risk injury and/or fines. Would your first instinct
SF News San Francisco Babysitters Are The Priciest In The Country San Francisco's long-had a reputation as a tough place to raise a kid — a five-second googling got me this anecdotal SF Gate report from 2004, a Bay Citizen piece on the issue from
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Apple's Big Land Grab [MyNorthwest.com] appears aghast at the actions of some SF cyclists. “I have friends who don’t walk down Valencia street because they don’t recognize it anymore." [Mission Local] Jacksonville and SF,
SF News Shootout During Sexual Assault Investigation Leaves Oakland Cop Injured, Suspect Dead OPD recovers rifle from suspect who shot ofc. this morning. Ofc. is out of surgery/recovering. pic.twitter.com/RzXTcwEfZP— Oakland Police Dept. (@oaklandpoliceca) August 3, 2015 Oakland Police Department officers found themselves
SF News SF's 29th Homicide For 2015: Western Addition Shooting Kills Woman, Injures Others Just days after planning began for a park spanning Buchanan Street between Grove and Eddy Streets to "help redefine the neighborhood’s identity," tragedy has befallen the site: on Saturday night, a 19-year-old
SF News Video: San Francisco Airbnb-er Breaks Into Locked Room, Steals $35,000 Of Host's Stuff [Updated] When an Outer Sunset woman decided to rent her home out via Airbnb, she was likely hoping to make an extra couple hundred bucks. Instead, over $35,000 of her possessions were stolen,
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Dining At SF County Jail Your weekend ICYMI: There's an unauthorized Steve Jobs documentary, there was a refinery fire in Rodeo, a shoplifter went down hard at Bloomingdales, another dead whale washed up in Pacifica, and a photographer
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Inside The Failure Of Google+ It took less than a half-hour into the San Francisco 49ers’ first practice Saturday night for the Levi’s Stadium sod to come up in pieces. [KRON4] I will never get tired of
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Uber's Jaw-Dropping New Valuation The suspect arrested in San Francisco's first domestic violence homicide of 2015 pleads not guilty. [Bay City News] The San Francisco Fire Department got an $8.2 million federal grant so they can
Arts & Entertainment Chinatown Gets Sick When Highbrow/Gross Medical Drama 'The Knick' Comes To SF Hey, did you guys watch The Knick? The first season of the Clive-Owen-starring, Steven-Soderbergh-directed Cinemax series about how much it sucked to be in a 1900-era New York hospital got awards recognition and
SF News Man Who Died At SF County Jail Was Picked Up After Suicide Threats, But Wasn't Under Suicide Watch When the family of a man who was threatening to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge called the California Highway Patrol, they were doubtlessly trying to protect him from himself. Instead, it appears
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Could Pay More For Less Garbage Federal appeals court rejects San Francisco's lawsuit alleging that a federal agency failed to ensure enforcement of safety standards for gas pipelines, contributing to unsafe conditions and the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline
SF News Inmate Found Dead Tuesday Is SF County Jail's Third Fatality Of 2015 A inmate of San Francisco's County Jail was found dead Tuesday night, in what the Sheriff's Department is describing as an "apparent suicide." 50-year-old Alberto Carlos Petrolino was being held in County Jail
SF News Video: SF Drivers Shamelessly Fail To Follow Pedestrian Right Of Way Laws According to the website for Vision Zero SF, San Francisco's road safety policy intended to end all traffic fatalities by 2024, 41% of collisions between vehicles and pedestrians take place in crosswalks. Here
SF News Handcuffed Man Dies On Lombard Street Sidewalk Following Confrontation With SFPD @kron4news pic.twitter.com/9vq5O9Fk7t— MAVolousONE (@MAVolousONE) July 30, 2015 A handcuffed man is dead and two San Francisco Police officers have been injured after a vehicle collision on Lombard Street took a
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Noe Valley Parklet Fight Caltrain's board has approved $20 million in funding for a program to electrify 51 miles of track between San Francisco and San Jose and to replace Caltrain’s 29 diesel locomotives with electric
SF News Uncooperative Witnesses Impede Investigation Into Shooting At Mission Homeless Encampment The investigation into a possible drive-by shooting at a Mission District homeless encampment Tuesday night is hitting a dead end after witnesses to the incident stopped cooperating with police. San Francisco Police Department
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Hang On To Your Laptop San Francisco Port Commission member Mel Murphy is facing even more impropriety allegations. [Bay City News] And this story only gets worse: [KRON4] reports that slain child Maddy Middleton was raped and strangled.
SF News SFPD: Weekend Homicide Was SF's First Domestic Violence Slaying Since October Arrest made in Homicide that Occurred on Apollo St over the weekend. Arrest also made on the woman shot yesterday in Potrero Hill.— Captain Vaswani (@sfvas) July 28, 2015 The San Francisco Police