San Francisco police arrested a 16-year-old student for allegedly showing up to school with a loaded sawed-off rifle in his backpack.
Police said that the gun was found at about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Phillip & Sala Burton Academic High School, located at 400 Mansell St. in the city's Portola neighborhood.
According to police, a school staff member picked up an unattended backpack in the wellness center, and felt something odd inside the bag. When he opened it, he reportedly found the loaded weapon and ammunition.
Batkid's work is never done.
Miles Scott, the 5-year-old Leukemia survivor who saved San Francisco (Gotham City) last month, is returning to the city this weekend, but this time he'll be here to help other kids who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses.
According to press reports, Scott, who lives in Tulelake (that's 5 1/2 hours north of here), will join Police Chief Greg Suhr on Saturday for a Make-A-Wish fundraiser -- the same foundation that made his own wish come true last month: to be Batkid for a day.
We know you really want that iPad Air for Christmas this year, but can you stop thinking about yourself for one minute and start thinking about the children -- and not just your children?
This week, the USPS launched its Letters to Santa program, which gives you an opportunity to play Santa for underserved kids in the Bay Area. All you have to do is get up, walk, drive, bike, or bus it to the main post office in San Francisco or Oakland and select a letter written by one of the many kids participating.
Then the real fun begins.
San Francisco police are looking for a black sedan that hit a pedestrian early this morning in the Mission District, then drove off.
The incident happened at about 2:44 a.m. when the victim, who was only described as a man in his 20s, was walking across the street at Valencia and Clinton Park when he was hit.
The driver sped off, southbound on Valencia, said Officer Gordon Shyy.
Wednesday was not a day to get things done for Robert Jacob. His first day on the job as the mayor of Sebastopol -- a town of 7,500 in Sonoma County, with politics so left-wing that makes Berkeley seem that liberal -- was chock-full of meetings that were interrupted by a barrage of calls from big media outlets.
Jacob's selection as mayor during Tuesday's City Council meeting (Sebastopol's chief executive is selected from its part-time council members) is newsworthy, not because he's Mexican-Iranian or gay (which would be news in 99 percent of the rest of America). It's news because Jacob, 36, runs two medical cannabis dispensaries.
In other words, Jacob is considered the highest office-holder in the United States involved in the marijuana industry.
Although the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial policy is nuanced as most every other American newspaper, it does hold a handful of prohibitions as a point of pride.
You won't find the phrases "illegal immigrants" or "Washington Redskins" on its pages -- unless, or course, they slip by via wire copy. The paper also has strict guidelines on abortion terms -- it won't characterize Ross Foti as a "pro-life" activist, for example; it also has a boilerplate policy against hate speech, slurs, and general mean-spiritedness.
It will not, however, issue a fatwa against those climate change skeptics.
