Police are saying they have nabbed a ring of serial Apple thieves who allegedly have been swiping massive amounts of high-end electronics as they are being delivered to Apple stores across San Francisco
Police arrested 52-year-old Jose Reyes, 45-year-old Victor Morales, 55-year-old Angel Erazo, and 43-year-old Eduardo Alvarez. All of the suspects are from Los Angeles except for Alvarez, who is from Las Vegas. All four men were booked into San Francisco County Jail on burglary charges.
According to police, a series of delivery trucks had been broken into between Dec. 5, 2011, and Jan. 11, 2012. In each instance, the trucks were outside Apple stores to deliver new products when they were broken into, and thousands of dollars' worth of electronics were taken.
During Komen's grant review process, the foundation decided that any organizations being investigated for fraud will no longer receive funding from Komen, said Maria Sousa, executive director of the SF Komen affiliate.
However, after so much national outcry, the foundation had a change of heart today when California Komen affiliates requested that the foundation only refuse money to those organizations guilty of fraud, not accused of it.
"... We are now heartened that we can continue to work in partnership toward our shared commitment to breast health for the most underserved women," Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said in a statement today.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's wife, whom he has been charged with physically abusing, appeared in San Francisco Family Court today asking a judge to allow her husband supervised visits with the couple's son, asserting that a court order barring Mirkarimi from seeing his family is doing "damage" to the child.
"My son, Theo, is asking for his father every day," Eliana Lopez said in a signed declaration filed with the court today. "He waits for Ross on the stairs in the morning, hoping Ross will be there to take him to school; he runs to the window in the evenings looking for Ross; and the last few days he has been imagining he sees Ross's car outside. He is constantly asking me when daddy is coming home."
Mirkarimi and Lopez appeared at family court with their respective lawyers to request a modification of Superior Court Judge Susan Breall's stay-away order, which was issued in the criminal case stemming from Mirkarimi's alleged abuse of Lopez. After filing paperwork requesting supervised visits for two hours every day, attorneys said that a hearing on the matter would take place next Wednesday.
Occupy is asking protesters to do something a little more creative than just occupy vacant buildings.
The Occupy movement has launched a contest, calling on designers to create a new logo that would best symbolize the international movement and its basic tenet -- protesting financial inequality.
The contest, which is, appropriately enough, being hosted at 99designs.com, started this week and will end on Feb. 8 when Occupy will select its favorite design. Aside from designing a ubiquitous emblem that will identify the movement, the winner will get also get $1,000 -- that's a nice chunk of change for a 99 percenter.
Here's what Occupy is looking for in its new logo:
We know merger talks over at the Bay Citizen have everyone on edge about the future of the online newspaper. But amid all this excitement about joining forces with the Center for Investigative reporting, the BC forgot to do the one thing that would surely help bolster its online presence: Renew its domain name.
Seriously.
This morning, Jim Romenesko was up early enough to grab this oh-so-humiliating screen shot of the Bay Citizen's homepage:
There's no better way to start the weekend than a smooth commute into work. Muni is reporting that all trains are running on time after yesterday's damage to overhead wires forced several lines to come to a screeching halt.
Paul Rose, spokesman for Muni, tells us that crews worked through the night to repair damage to the wires at the Church Street station after a car knocked the overhead wires shortly before 2 p.m. on Thursday. The K,L, and M lines were taken out of service, and passengers had the miserable option of being bussed between the Church Street station and West Portal.
Burning Man's first-ever ticket lottery has had far more requests for tickets than the 40,000 that have been made available. What does this mean?
It appears there's money to be made in stoking the self-loathing of the American people -- hence this article on the Chronicle's Mommy Blog. It plugs the book Bringing Up Bébé, in which an American expat expounds upon the enlightened parenting techniques of our Gallic brethren, and contrasts them with the lax, slothful methods used to produce loathsome wastrels like you good people (and your humble narrator).
Americans have long romanticized all things French -- an inclination that can be effectively cured via first-hand experience of a French rail strike. Self-reflection is healthy, but lamenting about how much better everyone else has it is not. It warrants mentioning that the French do both: The schools, the culture, the behavior of the young are all so much better in Germany or Italy -- or the United States, the French constantly grumble.
I don't have French parents, but I do have French parents-in-law. I'd write this book off as n'import quoi, but it'll be more fun to break it down point-by-point. Per the Mommy Blog, here's where the French have us licked in the child-rearing department:
