SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Bay Area authorities on Monday resumed searching for a man who was swept out to sea after he went off a trail to climb down some cliffs and got trapped by high surf. The missing man was with two friends Sunday afternoon when they scrambled...
SF Woman Assaulted at Gunpoint, Her 5-Month-Old French Bulldog Stolen in Russian Hill
[aggregation-styles] KGO Television SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A 30-year-old San Francisco woman says her 5-month-old French Bulldog was stolen by three men who assaulted her Tuesday night at gunpoint while on a walk in Russian Hill. Sarah Vorhaus said she was walking alone with her two dogs, Chloe and Colton,...
San Francisco DA Under Fire After Pedestrians Killed by Parolee
SAN FRANCISCO — Chesa Boudin took office as district attorney in San Francisco a year ago, part of a politically progressive wave of prosecutors committed to seeking restorative justice over mass incarceration. But now the former deputy public defender and son of one-time Weathermen radicals is under fire for the...
SF DA Blamed by Some for Release of Parolee Suspected in Fatal NYE Hit-and-Run
[aggregation-styles] NBC Bay Area San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is being blamed by some for the deaths of two women killed in a hit-and-run on New Year’s Eve after it was revealed that the alleged driver was a parolee released from state prison in April and arrested several times...
Lincoln Statue Vandalized Amid Calls To Rename Namesake School, San Francisco Sheriff’s Dept. Says
[aggregation-styles] The Sacramento Bee Subscription A statue of Abraham Lincoln was vandalized in San Francisco as a school district committee pushes for the renaming of Lincoln High School and others, authorities said. Deputies responded to a call about the incident at 12:55 p.m. Saturday, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department told...
‘I Am Not Afraid of the Gas Chamber’: Codebreakers Solve Old Zodiac Killer Cipher
[aggregation-styles] NBC News An international team of amateur sleuths claim to have decoded a half-century-old taunt by California's notorious Zodiac Killer. And federal authorities said they believe the code breakers appear to be on solid ground in following the mysterious killer who fatally stabbed or shot five people in Northern...
Third Arrest in California Killings of Young Boys. Van ‘Riddled with Bullets’.
UNION CITY — Authorities have arrested a third suspect in the killings of two young boys who were shot at an elementary school parking lot last year in the San Francisco Bay Area. Carlos Gilberto Zepeda, 20, was arrested last week on charges that he participated in the killings of...
Grand Jury Indicts San Francisco Officer in 2019 Shooting
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco police officer who shot and seriously injured a 25-year-old man last year has been indicted by a grand jury — the second police officer to be charged in a use-of-force case in less than a month, authorities announced Monday. District Attorney Boudin said that...
Smoking Cigarettes Inside SF Apartments Outlawed, but Pot is OK
SAN FRANCISCO — City officials in San Francisco have banned all tobacco smoking inside apartments, citing concerns about secondhand smoke. But lighting up a joint inside? That’s still allowed. The Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 Tuesday to approve the ordinance making San Francisco the largest city in the country to...
Visalia Schools Leader Falsely Cites Tuberculosis Deaths for Anti-Mask Stance
[aggregation-styles] Visalia Times Delta Visalia Unified School Board President John Crabtree questioned the benefit of face masks to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday, claiming they don't prevent "hundreds of thousands" of annual deaths from tuberculosis. “There are hundreds of thousands of people who die from tuberculosis every year, and yet we...