The Alley Archives for March 14, 2010 - March 20, 2010
Man Killed On Muni Platform Identified
A pedestrian who was fatally struck by a pickup truck while he was standing on a San Francisco Municipal Railways platform has been identified by...
SF Court: Gov Can't Furlough Lawyers
A state appeals court in San Francisco ruled today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had no right to furlough about 475 lawyers who work for the...
Pedestrian Struck By Car In The Sunset
A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle tonight near San Francisco's Larsen Park, a fire dispatcher said. The male victim was struck at about 9...
Man Who Admitted To Stabbing Cop Acquitted Of All Charges
A San Francisco Superior Court jury today acquitted a San Mateo man accused of attacking an off-duty police officer with a knife following a traffic...
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City Workers: Gavin Bullied Us With Pink Slips
City workers accused San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom of bullying them and called 17,000 pink slips issued to employees on March 5 a scare tactic...
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One Shooting Begets Another In The Bayview
Previously: Crime Blotter, Friday March 19: Serious Shooting, Marina Mugging A 28 year-old man is clinging to life today after being shot Thursday afternoon in...
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SFMTA Weekend Traffic And Transit Advisory: Civic Center Anti-War Rally, Little League Parade
J Church Rail Improvement Project This weekend, 7 p.m., Friday until 5 a.m., Monday, rail improvement work will resume along the J Church Line at...
Estate Of Anna Nicole Smith Loses Round In SF Court
The estate of the late actress and model Anna Nicole Smith lost a round in a federal appeals court in San Francisco today in a...
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Driver Of Pickup That Struck, Killed Man Waiting For Muni Arrested
Previously: Pedestrian Killed, Muni Delayed, By Collision At 4th And King San Francisco police this morning arrested a 36-year-old Central California man on suspicion of...
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SFPD Overhauls Personnel At Scandal-Haunted Crime Lab
San Francisco police Chief George Gascon today announced a personnel overhaul of the department's crime lab that he said would facilitate the ongoing investigation into...
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Pedestrian Killed, Muni Delayed, By Collision At 4th And King
A pedestrian who was struck by a pickup truck in San Francisco's South of Market District this morning has been pronounced dead at a local...
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From Veterinarians To Veterans: Presidio Pet Cemetery Has New Caretakers
Veterans will be maintaining San Francisco's Pet Cemetery, located in the Presidio, as part of a new partnership between the Presidio Trust and the Swords...
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Allegations Of Coercion, Drugs And Murder Swirl Around Bernal Heights Bodega
The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control said today it has posted a revocation notice at a San Francisco market that was apparently being run...
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SoMa Crews Work To Replace Bad PG&E Cable That Knocked Out Bay Bridge Power
PG&E crews are expected to work until Friday night to replace up to 800 feet of underground cable in San Francisco's South of Market District...
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SF Joins Suit Against Willie Brown Supported Public Power Initiative
Previously: Willie Brown, Ross Mirkarimi Speak At Hearing On Controversial Public Power Initiative San Francisco today joined a group of other California cities and public...
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Cal State Prof Faces Kiddie Porn Charges In SF Court Friday
A California State University, East Bay professor is to be arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court Friday on child pornography charges, according to prosecutors. Kenneth...
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SF Court Upholds Oakland's Right To Ban Billboard
Elsewhere: Court: Oakland's billboard removal was legal Chron A federal appeals court in San Francisco today for a second time upheld the city of...
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Witness Admits To Lying In Court In Murder Trial Of SF Man
A half-brother of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV admitted today that he lied two years ago in the preliminary hearing in a...
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SF Reports Highest Median Home Sale Price In Bay Area, At $627 K
Despite a modest rise last month, Bay Area home sales continue to stagnate, according to the latest figures released today by San Diego-based real estate...
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Teachers, Students Protest SF USD Layoffs
A coalition of teacher groups and students rallied this morning in downtown San Francisco to protest the 900 preliminary layoff notices that the school district...
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Haight-Area Homeless People Reportedly Swipe Park Police Vehicle, Go On Crime Spree
Two homeless people commandeered a U.S. Park Police golf-cart-type maintenance vehicle in San Francisco late last week and drove it through the city on an...
Willie Brown, Ross Mirkarimi Speak At Hearing On Controversial Public Power Initiative
Elsewhere: PUC listens to Proposition 16 debate Chron, Some say Prop 16 is a power grab by PG&E ABC7 The California Public Utilities Commission...
DUI Checkpoints, Free Cabs And Towing: If You Drive Drunk Tonight, We Don't Know What To Tell You
Police departments throughout the Bay Area are deploying extra officers tonight to crack down on drunken drivers as residents celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Jan Ford,...
SFPD Officers Hospitalized After California Street Training Exercise Gone Awry
Elsewhere: Two SF Motorcycle Officers Injured in Crash KCBS, Two S.F. motorcycle officers hurt in crash Chron, SFPD officers injured during training excercise (sic)...
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Morning Shooting Hospitalizes One
11:04 AM:A male victim was shot in the leg in an apparent drive-by shooting in San Francisco's Bayview District this morning, a police spokesman said....
Power Returns To Bay Bridge After SoMa Outage
Previously: Examiner Blames Dead Indians For Bay Bridge Boondoggle 1:32 PM:Power was restored to the Bay Bridge early this afternoon following an early morning outage...
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SF Court Orders Mom, Daughter To Stand Trial For Tax Evasion
A Bay Area mother and daughter were ordered Monday to stand trial for multiple counts of tax evasion alleging they failed to report more than...
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SF Court Orders Parole For Two Convicted Of Bay Area Murders
Elsewhere: Court says 2 murderers should be paroled Chron A state appeals court in San Francisco today ordered the parole release of two men...
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BART Not Sure Why New Part That Caused Tuesday's Delays Broke
Previously: BART Still Experiencing Delays After Train Comes Apart In Transbay Tube BART trains were delayed this morning as the system recovered from an incident...
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This Weekend's J Church Construction To Impact Traffic, Muni
Starting at 7 p.m., Friday, March 19 and continuing around the clock until Monday morning, weekend work on the J Church light rail line...
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Tougher Smoking Rules Officially Approved
San Francisco supervisors today gave final approval to an ordinance expanding the city's regulations against public smoking. The ordinance, introduced by Supervisor Eric Mar, will...
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SFPD Investigating Men Threatening To Shoot Jewish Folks
San Francisco police are investigating a threatening call made Monday to the Jewish Community Center. According to police, an unknown caller phoned the center, located...
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BART Still Experiencing Delays After Train Comes Apart In Transbay Tube
BART trains headed to the East Bay from San Francisco are about 15 minutes behind schedule as the system recovers from an incident this morning...
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Massive Container Cranes Manage To Squeeze Under GG, Bay Bridges
10:20 AM:A ship carrying three new container cranes arrived at the Port of Oakland this morning after passing under the Golden Gate Bridge and the...
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Muni Bus Exhaust Leak Causes Fire Scare
The California Highway Patrol this morning responded to a vehicle fire involving a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus on Interstate Highway 280, a Muni spokesman...
Man Arrested In Coffee Shop Crime Spree
A San Francisco man suspected of robbing several coffee shops and juice bars in the past three weeks was arrested after his latest alleged holdup...
A half-brother of Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV testified today that he was told by associates that the bakery would get $30,000...
Outside Audit Of SFPD Crime Lab Gets Started
Previously: So Far 125 Drug Cases Dropped In Wake Of SFPD Crime Lab Scandal An outside audit into the activities of the San Francisco Police...
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SF Court Demands EIR For SoCal Refinery
A coalition of environmental groups, unions and citizens won a ruling from the California Supreme Court in San Francisco today requiring further study of a...
Examiner Blames Dead Indians For Bay Bridge Boondoggle
When you google "Indian burial grounds," one of the first results you get is this yahoo answers entry, which asks "Why do Indian Burial...
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Pedestrian Hit By Golden Gate Transit Bus In SoMa
Elsewhere: Woman struck by bus in SoMA Ex A Golden Gate Transit bus struck and injured a pedestrian this morning in San Francisco's South...
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One Injured In Fire Sunday Night
Firefighters put out a two-alarm residential fire in San Francisco's Ingleside District Sunday night. The fire was reported at 11:17 p.m. in the 600 block...
