SF News No One Wants To Say Who'll Be Investigating What Might Be SF's First Homicide Of 2016 There was apparently a homicide in San Francisco last night — our first, it appears, of 2016. But even after multiple phone calls to the law enforcement agencies that might be involved in the
SF News Cows Not Yet Come Home, New Lawsuit Filed Against Warriors Arena Following on a lawsuit filed against UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood in Alameda County in December, claiming he overstepped his authority in negotiating with the Golden State Warriors about the construction of their planned
SF News Arena Opponents File Lawsuit To Block Warriors' Move To Mission Bay Making good on their promise to fight the proposed Mission Bay Warriors' Arena "until the cows come home," the Mission Bay Alliance yesterday filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court accusing the future
SF News Warriors Officially Buy Mission Bay Arena Site From Salesforce The Golden State Warriors have, officially, secured a place for their champions to "come out to play," purchasing from Salesforce the 12-acre Mission Bay site for their proposed $1 billion development, just half-a-mile
SF News Group Of Prestigious UCSF Scientists Says Warriors Arena Could Be 'Disaster' For Mission Bay In a slightly different tactic, the coalition of UCSF-connected enemies of the proposed Warriors Arena have just presented a letter to the mayor signed by 20 of the university's leading scientists and researchers
SF News Three-Year Study In SF Shows No New HIV Infections Among PrEP Users A 32-month study at the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center found that among sexually active gay men who were taking PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) the HIV-prevention treatment program using the drug Truvada no
SF News Dirty Medical Device Endangers Hundreds Of UCSF Patients 417 patients at UCSF Medical Center received an alarming letter warning them they they might have been exposed to diseases like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV after a medical device used for
SF News Three Years After Fatal Crash, UCSF Shuttle Drivers Apparently Still Break The Law Years before the shuttle bus debate gripped San Francisco, UCSF was under fire for alleged driver negligence in at least one bus crash. Now here we are three years later and, according to
SF News As California Issues Quarantine Policy, Nurses Warn That UCSF Isn't Ready For Ebola After All Just days after the California Department of Health designated UCSF hospitals as Ebola centers, nurses at the hospital are saying that they're not ready for an outbreak after all. At a demonstration Tuesday,
SF News Family Of Oakland Girl Pronounced Dead In 2013 Releases Video That They Say Shows Her Alive And Moving Last week, we told you about efforts by the family of an Oakland girl who was pronounced brain dead in December, 2013, to have that pronouncement overturned. And now, the family has released
SF News Tree Wars Brewing Over Removal Of Nonnative Eucalyptus A city plan to remove about 18,000 nonnative plants from San Francisco public parks over the next 20 years has some residents up in arms over "plant fascism." The plan has been
SF News Suspicious Package Closes Parnassus, Reroutes Bus Lines A suspicious package forced the closure of Parnassus (between Third and Fourth Avenues) near UCSF. "The San Francisco Police Department's bomb squad has been called in, and a nearby UCSF childcare facility has
SF News Zombie Horde Descends On UCSF Mission Bay To Protest Fee Hikes, Perform 'Thriller' [Updated] During a meeting of the UC Regents at UCSF's Mission Bay campus this morning, dozens students and campus workers dressed as zombies protest possible tuition fee hikes across the University of California system.
SF News Rick Santorum Claims California Universities Are Ruining America Today at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Republican presidential hopeful and jellybean fan Rick Santorum attempted to demonize California for eroding the values of Heartland, America. Santorum, who also believes that Obama was
SF News Sexually Deprived Males Drink More, Says Science A new study from UCSF shows that males whose sexual advances are rejected by the fairer sex were "driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied" males. Of course,
SF News Local Metal Thieves Are Pirates Now, Have Taken To The High Seas [Updated] The reported cases of metal theft around the Bay Area are getting increasingly elaborate, it seems. What started out as opportunistic copper wire theft, ripping off Facebook, BART and even state parks, eventually
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 Women Killed By UCSF Shuttle Bus Identified The 65-year-old woman who died after a UCSF shuttle bus struck her at Geary and Leavenworth on Wednesday has been identified Nu Ha Dam. The Chronicle notes: "Dam was pronounced dead at the
SF News Gun Drawn at UCSF Protest Per @Emergency_in_SF and elsewhere, a protest turned violent yesterday morning at UCSF, with rocks being thrown and nine campus police squad cars on the scene. The protest was over the UC
SF News UCSF Shuttle Bus Kills Pedestrian On Wednesday at Geary and Leavenworth, a UCSF shuttle bus hit and killed a 65-year-old woman crossing the street. "The 12:27 p.m. accident occurred as the bus was headed north on
SF News UCSF Researcher Nabs Nobel Prize For Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for medicine today. Just what , exactly, did Blackburn do to win this this fancy
SF News California Health Department Issues Penality to UCSF The California Department of Public Health announced today that 13 California hospitals were slammed with "administrative penalties of $25,000 per violation" due to said hospitals failed to comply with licensing requirements that
SF News UCSF Researcher/Poisoner Liu Freed from Jail Cover your cups of coffee and tea. Ben Chun Liu, the UCSF urology researcher who allegedly poisoned his colleague because he was "stressed," is free today. A San Francisco judge ordered him free
SF News UC Workers On Strike UC workers, ranging from janitors to food service workers, walked off the job this morning at all University of California campuses and hospitals. According to CBS 5, the American Federation of State, County,
