The Alley Archives for February 14, 2010 - February 20, 2010
Civil Rights Leader To Be Honored Sunday
A renowned Bay Area civil rights activist is set to be honored Sunday at an event to commemorate the internment of Japanese Americans during...
Man Who Attacked His Public Defender Gets Life In Prison
A Vallejo man who attacked his public defender in court last month has been sentenced to life in prison for a 2007 shooting in...
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SFFD Quickly Douses Union Square Fire
Firefighters are cleaning up after a two-alarm fire at an apartment building near Union Square. The fire at 734 Bush St. began about 4:13...
Gavin Gives Larry Ellison Key To City, Perhaps Attempting To Stave Off Hostile Takeover
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom presented the BMW Oracle Racing team and owner Larry Ellison with a key to the city today for winning...
Friends Of The Urban Forest Celebrates 1000th SF Planting
A non-profit that helps plant trees in cities is celebrating a milestone in San Francisco today as it participates in its 1,000th local planting....
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SFPD Searching For Missing Woman
San Francisco police today are looking for a 63-year-old woman who went missing from her senior care home on Wednesday. Pearlie Balinton suffers from...
Two Men, One Woman Under Arrest After North Beach Strip Club Shooting And Pedestrian Hit And Run
Previously: 2 Men In Custody After Allegedly Shooting Up Strip Club, Running Down Pedestrian Two men and a woman were arrested in San Francisco this...
SFPD Announces Arrest Of 28 As Part Of Anti-Gang Initiative
Elsewhere: S.F. police round up 28 gang suspects Chron A citywide police operation targeting about 200 of San Francisco's most active gang members led...
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Oil Spillin' Cosco Busan's Management Company Fined $10 Mill
A Hong Kong-based ship management company was sentenced in federal court in San Francisco today to pay a $10 million penalty for three criminal...
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Judge Refuses To Lower Bail, Remove Prosecutor In Former BART Cop's Trial For Murder
Previously: Johannes Mehserle In Court For Pretrial Hearing In Oscar Grant Murder Case Friday Elsewhere: Judge Denies Mehserle's Bail Reduction AP via KCBS A...
Man Accused Of Sunset Shooting Held On $10 Million Bail
Previously: Man Accused Of Fatal Sunset Shooting To Face Charges Today, Victim Of Fatal Irving Street Shooting IDed, Arrest Made In Irving Street Fatal Shooting,...
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Suspect In Suede Nightclub Shooting Pleads Not Guilty
A 20-year-old Richmond man accused in the fatal shooting of another man outside a San Francisco nightclub earlier this month pleaded not guilty to...
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SFMTA Weekend Traffic And Transit Advisory: Chinatown Run, N Judah Service Disruptions
Judah Street Construction Work on the N Judah's electrical system along Judah Street between 32nd and 48th avenues that began on Feb. 16 will...
Johannes Mehserle In Court For Pretrial Hearing In Oscar Grant Murder Case Friday
Former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle will return to Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday morning for a pretrial hearing in his case,...
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No Arrests Yet After Bomb Threat Diverts SF-Bound Flight
Previously: San Francisco Bound Flight Diverted After Bomb Threat A bomb threat prompted a San Francisco International Airport-bound flight that had departed from Denver to...
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Man Accused Of Fatal Sunset Shooting To Face Charges Today
Previously: Victim Of Fatal Irving Street Shooting IDed, Arrest Made In Irving Street Fatal Shooting, Fatal Shooting -- In Broad Daylight -- At Irving...
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ME's Office Needs Public's Help To ID Woman Found In Burned Out RV
Previously: Cause Of Death, ID Of Woman Discovered In Burned Out Car Remains Mystery, Body Found In Burned Out Car In Bayview, Woman Found Dead...
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SF Court Limits Application Of "Kin Care" Sick Leave
The California Supreme Court, in a ruling issued in San Francisco today, limited the application of a state sick-leave law known as the "kin...
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Victim Of Fatal Irving Street Shooting IDed
Previously: Arrest Made In Irving Street Fatal Shooting, Fatal Shooting -- In Broad Daylight -- At Irving And 20th The San Francisco medical examiner's office...
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San Francisco Bound Flight Diverted After Bomb Threat
Elsewhere: Bomb Threat Diverts SFO-Bound Flight CBS5, United Flight En Route to SF Diverted to After Bomb Threat AP via KCBS The AP is...
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SF Police Commission Waiting 2 Weeks To Decide On Tasers
Previously: SFPD Commission Considering Taser Adoption Today Elsewhere: Experts back S.F. police chief on use of Tasers Chron, SF police commission delays vote on...
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More Details On Tuesday's Robbery At Gunpoint On The M Ocean View
Previously: Crime Blotter, Wednesday Feb. 17: Bicyclist Hit-And-Run Robbery, Mugging At Gunpoint On Muni Two suspects boarded a San Francisco Municipal Railway train and robbed...
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Arrest Made In Irving Street Fatal Shooting
Previously: Fatal Shooting -- In Broad Daylight -- At Irving And 20th Elsewhere: Cuong Lu, Daylight Shooting in Outer Sunset, Is City's Ninth Homicide SF...
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SF Court: Use File Sharing Programs, Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Computer users who sign up for peer-to-peer file-sharing programs don't have a privacy right to be shielded from FBI probes, according to a federal...
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Fatal Shooting -- In Broad Daylight -- At Irving And 20th
A man was shot and killed in broad daylight in San Francisco's Sunset District this afternoon and a suspect has been arrested, a police...
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Woman Kidnapped, Raped After Night Out In SF
San Pablo police are looking for three men who allegedly kidnapped a man and a woman early Sunday morning and raped and assaulted the...
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Medical Pot Report: Weed "a promising treatment"
Update 11:30 AM (EB): And here's the report, which states that there's "reasonable evidence that cannabis is a promising treatment" for some specific, pain-related...
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Mission Apartment Building Fire Managed By SFFD
Firefighters in San Francisco quickly extinguished a structure fire in the city's outer Mission District this morning. Fire was reported in a three-story apartment...
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SFPD Commission Considering Taser Adoption Today
Elsewhere: Crucial Taser decision coming Ex The San Francisco Police Commission today will consider a request by police Chief George Gascon to authorize the...
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Solar Company's 7 Employee SF Office Reason For Newsom Press Conference
The city's commitment to clean technology has enticed another Spanish solar energy company establishing its U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newson announced...
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Previously: Group Wants To Bring Affirmative Action Back To UC Admissions Policies The man behind a controversial 1996 state ballot measure that banned race...
Cause Of Death, ID Of Woman Discovered In Burned Out Car Remains Mystery
Previously: Body Found In Burned Out Car In Bayview, Woman Found Dead In Burned Out Car Still Unidentified A woman found dead inside a burned...
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BART's Loss, Muni's Gain: MTA To Get $17.5 Million From Feds
Elsewhere: Fate of BART federal stimulus funds delayed Chron The Federal Transit Administration's denial of $70 million in federal stimulus money to BART for...
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Man Dies At Cable Car Turnaround
Elsewhere: Suicide draws crowd at Powell and Market Ex A man died after apparently jumping from a building near the cable car turnaround at...
Second Suspect In Suede Shooting Arrested
Previously: SFPD: Suede Shooting Was Gang Related, Suspect In Fatal Suede Shooting Still In Hospital, Won't Be In Court Today, One Man Charged In Nightclub...
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Doyle Drive Closure Starts Wednesday Night, Continue Until 2013
The second long-term ramp closure of the $1 billion Doyle Drive reconstruction project south of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco begins Wednesday...
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Newsom: "My life doesn't end the day I'm no longer mayor"
Previously: Lt Gov? Not Now, Anyway: Newsom Quashes Running Rumor San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today squelched rumors that he was about to declare his...
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Operators Of Oil Spillin' Cosco Busan To Be Sentenced This Friday
Another chapter in legal battles over a 2007 oil spill in the San Francisco Bay will be closed Friday when a ship management company...
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Group Wants To Bring Affirmative Action Back To UC Admissions Policies
An activist group filed suit in federal court in Oakland today in a new bid to overturn a controversial 1996 state ballot initiative and...
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Work On Battery Street Expected To Screw Up Traffic Until August
The San Francisco Department of Public Works is alerting commuters that traffic along Battery Street will be affected through August due to a sewer...
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Small Earthquake Strikes Gilroy Area
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.0 struck this evening near Gilroy. According to the USGS, the...
Woman Found Dead In Burned Out Car Still Unidentified
Previously: Body Found In Burned Out Car In Bayview Authorities are still trying to identify a female body found in a burned car in San...
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Wild Police Chase Begins In San Jose, Ends At Fell And Octavia
A police pursuit that spanned from San Jose to San Francisco tonight ended in a crash and the arrest of the driver, but no...
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PG&E Wants You To Hang On To Your Damn Balloons
PG&E is asking anyone making a Valentine's Day declaration of love with a Mylar balloon to keep it securely weighted down to avoid problematic...
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