The Alley Archives for January 31, 2010 - February 6, 2010
Free Towing For The Drunk/Lazy Sunday Night To Monday Morning
Several agencies across the Bay Area are taking extra steps to try to reduce drunken driving after the Super Bowl this weekend. DUI saturation...
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City Moving Towards Making Retrofit Of "Soft-Story" Buildings Mandatory, Not Voluntary
Elsewhere: Newsom pledges to require quake retrofits Chron A task force has almost completed putting together an ordinance that would mandate earthquake retrofitting of...
Man Charged With Stealing One Rincon Hill Condos
Elsewhere: Tennis teacher accused of condo scam Chron Prosecutors have accused a San Francisco man of allegedly stealing the identity of a woman in order...
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Former Manager Of SF Office Building Sentenced After Swiping Rent, Deposits From Tenants
Elsewhere: Ex-State Bar manager sentenced for embezzlement A former property manager for the State Bar was sentenced in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland today...
SF Court Upholds Conviction In Possible Hate Crime Shooting Of Woman
A state appeals court today upheld the first-degree murder conviction and sentence of 53 years to life in prison for a Fremont man who...
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Police Want Your Help To Find This Suspected Shooter
San Francisco police are searching for a 67-year-old man who they say shot a family member in the leg outside a church on Thursday...
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Litter Cleaners Might Want To Tax Gum Chewers, We Have A Better Idea
Like Cassandra, doomed to predict the future but not to be believed, back in May SF Weekly predicted that, if the City were to...
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SFMTA Weekend Traffic And Transit Advisory: Half Marathon, Chinese New Year Flower Fair
L Taraval Rail Improvement Project The L Taraval rail project work will not be done this weekend, Feb. 5 - 8. The track replacement work...
Plan To Extend BART To San Jose Qualified For Federal $
A Federal Transit Administration report indicates the first phase of the BART extension project to San Jose is qualified to receive millions of dollars...
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Alleged Park Restroom Sex Assailant Charged In Another Attack
Elsewhere: Mission District attack suspect linked to rape Chron A 34-year-old man suspected in the sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in a San...
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Stalk The Bay Bridge's Construction Progress With Google Earth
People who use Google Earth are now able to view the ongoing construction of the Bay Bridge's new self-anchored suspension span to monitor the...
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Homeless Man Arrested In Mission Apartment Arson
San Francisco police Monday arrested a 56-year-old man for allegedly setting a fire at a Mission District apartment building last week. The fire at...
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Suit Seeks To Abolish SF's Ranked Choice Voting System
Six San Francisco residents sued the city in federal court today to challenge its instant runoff voting system. The lawsuit claims that the way...
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5 Fulton Reportedly Tries To Stop Student Groups From Boarding: Muni Policy, Or Jerk Driver?
One of our fave Chronicle columnists, Leah Garchik, had this tidbit in her column for today: Evette Davis was chaperoning a French-American International School...
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City College Students Express Disappointment After Summer Session Canceled
In response to a budget shortfall of more than $12 million, City College of San Francisco has axed virtually all of its summer programs...
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Three People, Not Two, Injured In Fort Mason Shooting
Previously: Two Shot Near Fort Mason Youth Hostel Three people are recovering from bullet wounds after being shot during an attempted robbery Wednesday night in...
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SF's District Elections On Dissection Table Again
Critics of The City's district elections have been all over the Chronicle this morning talking about a change to a "hybrid" system. The general...
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Two Shot Near Fort Mason Youth Hostel
Elsewhere: Victims Survive the Night Following Fort Mason Double Shooting SF Weekly, Two Injured in Fort Mason Shooting KCBS Two people were shot near...
Shooting At Mission And 22nd Leaves One Injured
Police in San Francisco are investigating an early morning shooting in the city's Mission District. Officers went to Mission and 22nd streets at around...
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Make Your Mom (Or Grandma?) Jealous By Seeing Robert Redford Live And In Person
Actor Robert Redford will speak tonight in San Francisco to promote activism and honor two local activists in the first of a series of...
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Newsom Touts "Green Jobs" Plan
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced today more than $19 million in federal and state funding for energy efficiency programs in the city that...
Dublin Man: Fight Against Prop 8 "financed mainly by radical Hollywood activists."
Several coalitions of church groups, psychology organizations and civil rights groups asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to overturn California's ban on...
Constitutional Convention Backers Say Foes Are Threatening, Intimidating Them
A Bay Area-based group organizing a statewide effort to call a Constitutional Convention alleged today that they are being stymied in their attempts to...
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Gavin Doesn't Think CA's Lt. Gov Has Enough To Do
Elsewhere: Newsom: I won't, but won't rule out, run for Lt. Guv Ex San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said today he was entertaining the...
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SF Man Charged With Playing Doctor, Badly
Elsewhere: Fake doctor fleeced patients, prosecutors say Chron, Faux S.F. Doctor Timothy Andersson Hit With 51 Felonies for 'Dangerous and Unecessary' Procedures SF Weekly,...
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Man Acquitted In Murder For Weed Trial
A San Francisco man who was accused of taking part in an armed drug robbery in 2008 in which another man was shot to...
Giant Bay Bridge Section Hoisted Into Place Today
The first permanent section of the Bay Bridge's new self-anchored suspension span is being hoisted into place today. The section weighs 1,020 tons and...
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Day One Of Prop 8 Trial Reenactment Available on YouTube
The same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco last month broke ground not only as the first federal trial of its kind, but also in...
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Navy Holds Meeting To Discuss Hunters Point Cleanup
The U.S. Navy is holding a meeting tonight to start developing a new community involvement plan for the long-term cleanup project of the former...
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Medical Pros Gather In SF To Talk About Experiences Helping Haiti
A team of 15 nurses, surgeons and other specialists from several Bay Area hospitals have returned from more than a week in Haiti, treating...
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Coyote Attack On Cat Reported On Russian Hill
Lock up your pets, folks! We're not touching the debate on if cats should be kept indoors or allowed to roam, but reports that...
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Muni Budget Woes News Roundup: Nobody's Happy But The Meter Maids
Since Friday's special MTA Board Meeting, convened to discuss the MTA's most recent proposals to cut lines and increase fares to manage their minimum...
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DA Harris Talks About Truancy In Sac
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Carlos Garcia are testifying before a state Senate committee in Sacramento...
2100 PG&E Customers Without Power In SoMa, Mission
Approximately 2,100 PG&E customers in San Francisco are without power this morning, a utility spokesman said. The outage began at about 1:05 a.m. and...
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Victim Of Fatal 19th Ave Crash IDed
2/2 1:31 AM: A 60-year-old San Francisco man was killed this morning in a crash in the city's Sunset District, police said. Mikhail Shubov...
SFPD Releases 911 Call In Sunset Home Invasion Homicide
Previously: Victim Of Sunset Shooting Identified, SFPD Releases Surveillance Stills, Video Of Sunset Shooting Suspects Elsewhere: Gunman's voice on 911 tape in Sunset killing...
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Video: Check Out Gavin On The O'Reilly Factor, How Do You Think He Did?
8 PM: And here's Gavin, doin' the show! He kept his shit together, and managed not to Plante it (TM Beth Spotswood). What did...
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Would You Vote To Ban Critical Mass? Chief Gascon Thinks You Would!
According to the Examiner, our new police chief, George Gascon, says that "a review of the SFPD's policies regarding the monthly bike ride/protest, Critical...
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SF Court Upholds Law That Keeps Sex Offenders From Living By Schools
Elsewhere: Sex offenders lose challenge to residency rules Chron, Court upholds parts of Jessica's Law ABC7, Court Upholds Jessica's Law Restrictions KCBS The California...
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Safe Landing At SFO After Landing Gear Issue
Elsewhere: Flight Returns to SFO KCBS Firefighters were called to stand by at San Francisco International Airport this morning after a SkyWest flight reported...
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SF Symphony Wins Three Grammys
A recording of the San Francisco Symphony featuring local youth choirs won three Grammy awards, including Best Classical Album, on Sunday. The symphony's performance...
We Read The Sunday Print Only Chron So You Don't Have To
Two weeks ago, the Chron announced that,* in an effort "to provide a better reading experience for Sunday print subscribers and to differentiate it...
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