Police have arrested five suspects in the wake of a spate of robberies via pepper spray that took place in the city last week.
Five different pepper spray robberies were reported on Wednesday and Thursday nights throughout the city. The San Francisco Police claim via a release that two adults and three juveniles were arrested for the attacks over the weekend.
Pinch yourselves, Giants fans. Your team is still world champions.
And that's why today's news that budding superstar catcher Buster Posey easily won the National League Rookie of the Year award leaves Giants fans with a feeling we can't really identify. Unlike the past, these kinds of honors aren't silver linings following yet another sour ending to the year. And we don't have to obsess over how Posey may or may not lead the Giants to the promised land.
You see, that already happened. So I guess the feeling fans have today is best defined as "happiness."
New patients now wait 30 days for an appointment at San Francisco public health clinics. That marathon delay is thanks in part to challenges incorporating new patients added to the government system as a result of Healthy San Francisco, the 2006 program providing free health care to some uninsured local residents.
According to the City Controller's just-released Government Barometer analysis of city program performance using figures from August:
The wait time for a new patient appointment at a primary care clinic increased 55.0% from the prior year (August 2009), from 20 days to 31 days. This increase can be attributed to continued pressure to manage new Healthy San Francisco patients, among other demands.
On Friday, the Bay Citizen revealed that San Francisco may be bidding against itself in its quest to host the America's Cup sailing spectacle. The city's budget analyst's office has not yet been able to verify whether or not any other cities have bothered to commit the beaucoups bucks it takes to host a mammoth yachting event.
You'd think the notion of phantom competitors would affect San Francisco's generous America's Cup offer. But, then again, you can't really lowball yachting billionaires. Yet the bigger question is: Is the America's Cup the massive windfall its supporters -- including Mayor Gavin Newsom -- are promising it would be? By the end of this week, a comprehensive analysis of just that question will be released by the budget analyst. SF Weekly caught up with the study's lead author earlier today.
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If a San Francisco man named Lloyd Schofield gathers a shade over 7,000 signatures, San Franciscans will actually get the chance to vote on whether or not to ban the practice of circumcision.
Coming on the heels of this month's Happy Meal ban, it seems there's nothing this city can't prevent you from putting into or taking off of your body.
Our calls and e-mails to Schofield have not yet been returned. But, based on the material he submitted to the city attorney's office, the foreskin crusader is undertaking his quest to stamp out "genital mutilation" for a number of reasons. One of them is that he wants to spark up your sex life.
Looking to ward off burning, warts, or other troubling developments down in the nether regions? Well, now there's an app for that. Thanks to the city's Department of Public Health, you can use your cell phone.
STD411 -- available for download on iPhones -- will alert gay, bi, or trans men about the risk level of their sexual behavior. A red condom indicates a high risk activity, a green one means all clear, a yellow one means you're in the grey zone. Just like terrorism alerts -- but those are not missiles, folks.
It's always comforting when the race to become the state's top law-enforcement official devolves into Jerry Springer-esque paroxysms of finger-pointing and cheap campaign tactics. But that's what appears to be happening in the final stretch of the California attorney general's race, as top candidates Kamala Harris and Steve Cooley vie over the last batches of uncounted votes in Los Angeles County.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office moments ago told SF Weekly that the cable car operator critically stabbed in a bizarre attack yesterday remains among the living.
George Luong, 32, was quickly arrested for attempted murder following the afternoon stabbing that left the yet-unnamed driver fighting for his life. Police followed a trail of blood from the cable car at Mason and Jackson to a home on Himmelmann Place in Chinatown.
A severed arm discovered yesterday afternoon in Golden Gate Park appears to be that of a dead body also found in the park Sunday.
The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office told SF Weekly that this was a "decomp case" -- as in "decomposition."
Big rig truck drivers protesting a lack of stimulus money poured into their profession will motor their vehicles into downtown San Francisco this morning.
After surrounding the Transbay Terminal in SOMA, the aggrieved drivers will ostensibly head to City Hall to demonstrate against the city's alleged practice of undercutting the prevailing wage.
