A 14-year-old boy is in custody today after he was reportedly found with a gun at a Potrero Hill high school, police said.
Teachers at International Studies Academy, located at 655 De Haro Street, called police at about 11:15 a.m. claiming there was an armed student on campus. A suspicious security guard at the school had taken the kid to the principal's office where he was asked to empty his pockets.
The eighth-grader instead took off running and left the school grounds, said Officer Carlos Manfredi.
Jia Ping Che's Los Angeles-based business wasn't doing so well, he testified on Monday. So when a Chinese company offered him a chance to make some extra money, he saw the deal as a win-win: He would help some people get Visas to enter America, and in exchange he would receive tens of thousands of dollars.
Che was the first witness called by the defense team, as it opened its case this week. His testimony potentially contained the details that could offer the attorneys their best chance at convincing jurors that the defendants had been coerced into grand theft by a criminal organization based in China.
For additional coverage of the trial, see also: Day One: Defendants Were Human Trafficking Victims Coerced into Crime, Says Attorney
Day Two: Victim Describes Purification Ceremony
Day Three: Cabbie's Testimony Suggests Broader Criminal Structure Behind Thefts
Day Four: Ghost Scam Trial: SFPD Was Unaware That a Fifth Person May Have Played a Role
San Francisco might be losing a lot to Oakland -- residents, money, guns, Friday night fun -- but one thing we still do better than Oakland is make some damn cute baby animals.
The Oakland Zoo recently announced a new addition to its troop of hamadryas baboons. The infant monkey was born on April 9, bringing the total number of baboons at the zoo to 10. This is pretty exciting news since the Oakland Zoo has not had a baboon birth in more than 20 years.
Here's some photos of baby and mom:
Oakland Zoo Pretty sweet ... until he grows up and starts throwing poop in your face.
When I worked for Cnet News.com during the late-'90s dot-com boom, there were many things that annoyed and perplexed me about the tech-news site.
It was run by former newspaper guys.
Because of that, the editors displayed a weird, very newspaper-like mix of sensationalism and prudishness. An editor once came running out of his office to sweatily insist that I write about the fact that Victoria's Secret was opening an online store. Playing along with this editor's obvious titillation, I wrote a mildly bawdy headline ("Live: Nearly Nude Girls"). The reaction from that editor, and much of the rest of the newsroom, was what I might have expected had I posted a Cambodian snuff film. So, we absolutely had to cover the naughty-underwear merchant's new online shop -- because of the naughtiness -- but we had to present it as if it were no different from Home Depot launching a website.
The battle for -- and against -- the Golden State Warriors' proposed waterfront arena is heating up. So it wasn't a surprise to see a group calling itself "Warriors on the Waterfront" throwing a noontime rally on the City Hall steps today.
A night of hanging out in the park turned into a night of hanging out in jail after a group of men allegedly shot at a cop car in the Bayview.
Officer Gordon Shyy says just before 1 a.m., officers in an unmarked police car were patrolling India Basin Park to make sure nobody was hanging out after hours. Police claim they saw three cars with "numerous individuals."
If you're part of the LGBT community and a victim of a crime, Police Chief Greg Suhr wants you to know the cops will help you.
San Francisco police launched a new program aimed to help the LGBT community deal with crimes that have been going unreported. This new program launched yesterday designated all 10 of the city's police stations as "safe zones" for the LGBT community.
What that means is the police stations will feature "Safe Zone" placards to remind everyone that the officers are sensitive to working with LGBT clients, and knowing this will, hopefully, let victims feel comfortable filing police reports.
