The Alley Archives for September 5, 2010 - September 11, 2010
Sons Of Former Philippine Big Wig Plead Guilty To Smuggling Money Into SF
Two sons of a former Philippine military official have pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to charges of smuggling a total of $100,000...
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Man Acquitted In Metreon Murder, Inconsistencies In Case Cited By Jury
A 26-year-old Oakland man accused in the 2007 slaying of another man outside a San Francisco nightclub was acquitted of murder today as jurors said...
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Appeals Court Says Tattooing Is Protected Free Speech
A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that tattooing is a form of free speech. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit...
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SFPD Still Tracking Fleeing Shooter, Have Found Gun, Drugs
10:40 AM: San Francisco police are continuing their search this morning for a shooting suspect in Visitacion Valley's Sunnydale public housing projects, and have recovered...
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SF Ranked Top Large City For College Students, Unclear If Fake ID Availability Is Factor
San Francisco has been named the top large city for college students, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Institute for Economic Research....
Still Not Clear How Many SFPD Officers Impacted By New Cop Misconduct Rules
The San Francisco Police Department's newly implemented "Brady" protocol for releasing an officer's history of misconduct in court cases was widely applauded by the city's...
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FBI Ordered To Preserve Evidence In Earth First! Car Bomb Case
A federal judge in San Francisco today ordered the FBI to preserve evidence in a 20-year-old car bombing case in Oakland, according to one of...
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Appeals Court In SF Dismisses Rendition And Torture Case
A divided federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed a lawsuit by a 6-5 vote in which five men who claim they were tortured in...
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Prius Driver Accused Of Fatal Haight Hit And Run Pleads Not Guilty
A driver accused of a fatal hit-and-run earlier this month in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood that left an elderly woman dead was arraigned in San...
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Court In SF Hears Arguments On Schwarzenegger's Furlough Power
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's power to furlough state workers for two or three days per month in response to the state's budget crisis was argued before...
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Muni Union Staying Mum After Losing Bid To Stop Service Restorations
The state agency overseeing public employee union bargaining agreements has rejected a bid by San Francisco Municipal Railway operators to halt newly bolstered Muni service....
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BART Airport Connector Plan Faces Another Hearing Today
BART's plan to build a 3.2-mile-long elevated tramway between its Oakland Coliseum station and the Oakland airport, which has been discussed for more than 25...
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Power Returns To SoMa PG&E Customers After Drizzle-Caused Fire
12:11 PM: Power has been restored to nearly 400 PG&E customers who were affected by an outage in San Francisco's South of Market District this...
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Transbay Terminal Demolition Meetings Being Held For The Community Today
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority is holding two community meetings Wednesday in San Francisco to provide updates to the public on the status of efforts...
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Small Earthquake Strikes Santa Clara County
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 2.1 struck Tuesday evening in Santa Clara County. According to the USGS,...
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Arson Task Force Assigned To Mission Car Fires
The San Francisco police and fire departments are investigating the Monday morning arson of two vehicles in the city's Mission district. No one was injured...
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"Skyscraperman" Charged With Misdemeanors, Says SFFD Was "Supportive"
A man who used suction cups to scale a luxury residential tower in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood on Monday afternoon said today that...
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New Trial Possible For Convicted Multiple Murderer In Wake Of SF Crime Lab Scandal
Lawyers for a former San Francisco gang member convicted of three murders told a federal judge today they will ask for a new trial on...
One-Time Suspect In SF Pot Club Murder Killed By Single Shot To Head, Says ME
A 26-year-old man who was found dead behind a business in Newark on Monday morning was killed by a single gunshot wound to his head...
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In Which We Flog Our Email Newsletter
Hey, did you know that we have an email newsletter, now? I KNOW email newsletters are just for old people, you are not an old...
Print Media Screwup Stops City Government In Its Tracks
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting was canceled today after it was discovered that a notice about the meeting had not been published in...
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Man Killed Friday Night Was Celebrating Birthday
Note: The San Francisco medical examiner's office provided an incorrect spelling of the victim's first name. The medical examiner's office also gave Asa's age as...
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Victims Of Deadly SF Crash IDed
Two victims of a deadly crash in San Francisco on Saturday night were identified today by the medical examiner's office as a 20-year-old Daly City...
Helicopter Rescues Hiker Who Fell Into Ravine
A California Highway Patrol helicopter scooped up an injured hiker who had fallen into a ravine along a Marin County hiking trail Monday afternoon, the...
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SF Man IDed As Third Killed In Redwood Shores Plane Crash
The third victim from Thursday's plane crash into the Redwood Shores Lagoon that killed all three passengers aboard has been identified by the San Mateo...
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Coast Guard Suspends Search For Woman Who Placed Distress Call
10:53 AM: The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended a search for a possible woman in distress off the coast of Tiburon, a Coast Guard spokeswoman...
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7:51 PM: A climber known as "Skyscraperman" used suction cups to scale a luxury residential tower in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood this afternoon....
102 San Francisco DUI Arrests So Far This Holiday Weekend
Police in the Bay Area have arrested 167 drivers since Friday for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to the California Highway...
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CA Supreme Court To Hear State Worker Furlough Case Arguments
The California Supreme Court is set to grapple at a hearing in San Francisco Wednesday with whether the governor has the power to furlough tens...
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BART, Muni Running On Sunday Schedule Labor Day Monday
Several Bay Area public transportation providers will operate on a Sunday schedule for the Labor Day holiday. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will mostly...
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SF Car Accident Kills Two, Seriously Injures Three Others
Lake Merced Boulevard was reopened as of 3:30 a.m. Sunday after a fatal collision Saturday night caused a closure of the road from John Muir...
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