SF News Ross Mirkarimi Pleads 'Not Guilty' To Charges Of Domestic Abuse [Updated] Ross Mirkarimi, who is appeared in court this afternoon for his arraignment on three misdemeanor charges, has pled not guilty to the three counts of domestic violence battery, child endangerment and dissuading a
SF News Mirkarimi To Appear In Court Today; Lopez May Ask To Lift Protective Order Embattled San Francisco sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will appear in court today to face misdemeanor charges of domestic abuse against wife Eliana Lopez. Lopez continues to deny any complaint against her husband, but District
SF News Eliana Lopez's Allegations Of Abuse Revealed In Video, Mirkarimi Hit With New Allegations As Ross Mirkarimi awaits his arraignment on three misdemeanor charges of domestic violence, new details regarding a crucial piece of evidence have emerged in a late breaking Chronicle report this afternoon. The videotape
SF News Ross Mirkarimi To Face Three Misdemeanor Charges in Domestic Violence Case, Sources Say [Updated] According to reports, a source inside the investigation of Ross Mirkarimi's alleged domestic violence tells the Associated Press that the new sheriff will face three misdemeanor charges. The charges are one count each
SF News Eliana Lopez Spotted At Today's Anti-Domestic Violence Rally? [Updated] The San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium called a press conference on the steps of City Hall this afternoon, calling for Sheriff Mirkarimi to "step aside" while the investigation in to his possible domestic
SF News Can Mirkarimi Really Write Off His Alleged Domestic Violence Incident As 'A Private Matter'? In a passionate editorial in the Examiner, local journalist and one half of local web series Necessary Conversation Melissa Griffin writes that newly sworn in Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi handled the recent domestic-abuse allegations
SF News District Attorney Will Hit Sheriff Mirkarimi With Misdemeanor Charges City prosecutors from the District Attorney's office are convinced accusations of domestic abuse against newly sworn-in Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi are "very real," the Chronicle's mustachioed super sleuths report today. Although Mirkarimi's wife, Eliana
SF News Judge Declines To Swear In Ross Mirkarimi As Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi was quietly sworn in Saturday night as San Francisco Sheriff in a private ceremony just a day after news broke of an investigation into a New Year's Eve domestic violence incident
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Investigated In Alleged Domestic Abuse Incident Sheriff-elect Ross Mirkarimi, who's being sworn in to his new post Sunday, is currently under investigation by the SFPD after an incident of alleged domestic abuse involving his wife over New Year's weekend.
SF News Mirkarimi Leads Close Sheriff's Race In another tense decision, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi currently leads the race for the Sheriff's seat with just a hair over 38% of the votes. As with the the mayor's race, no clear majority
SF News 700 Convicted Criminals Soon Returning to S.F. You've heard about this thing called "realignment," right? Because the Supreme Court ruled that California's prisons were too ridiculously overcrowded, prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes are getting "realigned" and sent back to city
SF News Blame the Board of Supervisors for Fatal Octavia Street Crash? We thought it a little odd that the day after the tragic accident at Octavia and Oak that took the life of a UCSF professor Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi made sure to praise Octavia
SF News Victim In Yesterday's Octavia & Oak Crash Identified; UCSF Shuttle Bus Driver May Have Run Red Light The single fatality in yesterday's early morning collision at Octavia and Oak has been identified as 52-year-old UCSF professor Dr. Kevin Mack, a psychiatrist, who was on his way to work. Mack was
SF News S.F. to Get All Kindly About Felons Now; Cue Fox News' Special Report OK, so, to be clear, we're all for having criminals do their time, regret their crimes, and we believe that many of them can be rehabilitated and return to society as respectable citizens
SF News Everybody's Excited About Ross Mirkarimi for Sheriff If you were to judge the race for San Francisco's next sheriff based purely on the gushing sounds coming from the Chronicle and the Bay Guardian after current Sheriff Mike Hennessey made his
SF News Gov. Schwarzenegger Supports Plastic Bag Ban You know that not-so crazy plastic bag ban spearheaded by San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi? Well, openly Republican (heh) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger now also supports the eco-intelligent ban. So, you know, kudos to
SF News Plastic Bag Ban to Expand? While plastic bags in San Francisco aren't really banned -- look no further than Chinatown or any independently-owned liquor store to find a bag of crinkly delight -- San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi
SF News Pics from Last Night's Iranian Election Protest in Union Square Thanks to loyal SFist contributing photog Steve Rhodes, we have these pictures of the sizable protest that went down in Union Square last night, in which activists, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and local Iranian-Americans
SF News Committee Passes Ban On Haight Street Head Shops The ordinance that Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced to temporarily ban new head shops on Haight Street passed committee on Monday, which means that no more stoner shacks can open on the street famous
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ban Foie Gras in SF? Not learning the lesson Chicago had to after it attempted to / failed at banning (delicious) foie gras, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi told SFGate about a new legislative idea dimly blinking in his noggin. Ahem:
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Says Yes to Nudity, Floats in Bay to Breakers San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi spoke to Matier & Ross about the new Bay to Breakers rules, telling them that "there is no reason to go this far ... Nudity and floats are part
Arts & Entertainment Skateboard Club Gets Artsy for a Good Cause (By Travis Jensen) The S.F. Skate Club, a youth skateboarding program dedicated to providing children with skateboarding lessons and mentoring, hosted an art show last Friday in Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s office
SF News Pink Bags One Step Closer To Losing Their Prominence on the 30-Stockton Honestly, we don't know if we really want to live in a San Francisco without pink plastic bags. While they still live on, today they moved closer to obsolescence. Today plastic bags were
SF News Homeless Memorial Plaques Matier & Ross were all over this nugget of news today: bronze plaques will be placed in locations where the city's homeless have died. The "memorials" will be placed in Chris Daly and
misc Automated Enforcement Camera Coming to Octavia and Market If this bill becomes a law, then you'll be seeing scary "Photo Enforced" signs popping up around this intersection in a year or so. It will look a little something like this crudely
