Authorities announced today that the man who was hit earlier this week by a SamTrans bus while walking in the Outer Mission has died. The Medical Examiner identified the man as 39-year-old Eugenio Mallari of San Francisco.
Just before 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Mallari was walking across Mission Street near Valencia when a bus that was headed from the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco to the Redwood City Caltrain station hit him, authorities said.
Drivers are always bitching at cyclists and cyclists are always bitching at pedestrians. But what about our local dogwalkers? They're not exactly perfect.
Take this presumably pro dogwalker, for instance. She was spotted walking along Van Ness on Thursday with this clique of canines who are just trying to enjoy a morning stroll without any doggie drama. But it appears that their caretaker is nothing but drama.
Executives at the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco's LGBT newspaper, announced yesterday that they are restructuring the paper and partnering with executives at The San Francisco Newspaper Co., which owns the Examiner, SF Weekly, and the Bay Guardian.
The Reporter's publisher Thomas E. Horn and General Manager Michael Yamashita told their staff yesterday afternoon that the Bob Ross Foundation, which owns the Bay Area Reporter, has signed a letter of intent with Todd Vogt and Patrick Brown, both shareholders in the three papers. To be clear, this is not to say that the Reporter has been sold, rather that a new company will be formed: BAR Media Inc.
"This solves a myriad of problems that just have to be solved," Horn said, adding that "the paper will continue to be LGBT-majority owned and operated."
Adolph Sutro served just under two years as mayor of San Francisco. The effort to get him back into City Hall required nearly three times that.
Back in May of 2008, Leonid Nakhodkin -- a Ukranian-born former Soviet political prisoner with a prediliction for cowboy hats and answering the phone by saying "Everything is perfect!" -- hatched a plan to install a bust of Sutro in City Hall. At the time, it seemed a fool's errand. But, then again, so did Sutro's grand plan to build a massive tunnel through the Comstock Lode.
The Sutro Tunnel made its eponymous designer a millionaire, setting the engineer on course to become one of San Francisco's greatest land-owners and philanthropists. And, on Monday, his bust will finally grace City Hall.
Back in April, the grossly rich town of Atherton sent President Obama the bill for his trip to the Peninsula community. When the president told Atherton where the town could shove its bill, city leaders then tried to shakedown the homeowners who hosted the president. They even went as far as threatening to place a lien on the homes.
But after five months of trying to stick someone else with the bill, the town has decided to STFU already and pay the tab itself. On April 4, the president stopped through Atherton, where he raised more than $3 million for the Democratic Party at fundraisers hosted at the homes of John Goldman and venture capitalist Mark Heising. The town says it reluctantly shelled out an extra $8,000 for additional police services to deal with the president's visit.
"We sent invoices to the White House, to the Secret Service , to the DNC and the residents," City Manager George Rodericks told CBS News.
And "'no thanks' was the response," said City Attorney William Conners.
Update 12:28 p.m.: Authorities have identified the man who was murdered as 27-year-old Trivon Dixon, 27, of Rodeo.
Original story 8:25 a.m.A 27-year-old man was shot and killed in broad daylight while sitting in his car in the Bayview, police said.
According to Office Gordon Shyy, the victim, who has not yet been identified by the Medical Examiner's Office, was on the unit block of Whitney Young Circle at about 3:42 p.m. when someone in a black car drove up and stopped.
The corruption saga surrounding Robert Shearer, the former SF State employee accused scamming the cash-strapped university out of millions, is finally coming to a head.
After years of investigation, Shearer was arrested on April 18 in his Fremont home on suspicion of colluding with a hazardous waste disposal contractor, Stephen Cheung of Chemical & HazMat Technology, to inflate contract costs.
Cheung's arrest was a little more exciting.
The verdict of the ghost scam trial will come down to the why -- the what is undisputed.
On November 10, 2012, the four defendants scammed a woman out of $50,000 by tricking her into thinking that a spirit would kill her son, and that the only way to save him would be to perform a ceremony that involved putting all of her money into a bag for a blessing.
The defendants admit as much. So, as closing arguments began on Wednesday, the prosecution and defense teams each worked to convince the jury to believe their own version for why the defendants stole that money: it was out of callous greed or it was out of fear that a loved one would be killed.
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Politicians receive some odd gifts. Not as odd as the stuff thrusted Queen Elizabeth's way -- but odd nevertheless.
San Francisco public officials must report as a gift "Any source of income aggregating $500 or more invalue, or any source of gifts of $420 or more in value, provided to, received by, or promised to the public official within 12 months prior to the time the decision is made. ..." As such, ertwhile Mayor Gavin Newsom was made to report his wedding haul, which included not one but two coffee pots priced at more than $1,000. It's uncertain how useful a pair of such pots are. But if you're seeking a man who received truly useful gifts, look no further than Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. The man Mayor Ed Lee attempted to boot from office is still there with a little help from his friends -- $28,117 worth of help from 156 friends.
