Earlier this week, 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon was killed after a car struck him as he walked along Sunset Boulevard. Police arrested 72-year-old Jenny Ching on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter.
But they are still building their case.
Today, police are asking any witnesses to the accident to come forward now.
District Attorney George Gascon's long crusade against iPhone theft -- or "Apple-picking," as it's sometimes called in tech-geek patois -- may have finally gotten some traction.
Perhaps local politicians realized that it's useless to offer free Wi-Fi on Market Street if users have to constantly guard against rampant device theft. Gascon has long insisted that iPhone theft is a scourge in San Francisco, and that Apple has a "social responsibility" to stop it.
Hopefully, you've embraced the wet weather, because there will be more to come -- a lot more.
The showers you've been experiencing today will quickly turn into a nice rainstorm by this evening and continue throughout the weekend, dropping as much as seven inches of rain on Northern California, according to the National Weather Service is reporting.
You might even see some intermittent flooding in the Bay Area, said Suzanne Sims, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Sims laughed at us when we asked if this rainstorm would put even a small dent in the state's drought. "Every little bit helps," she said with a chuckle.
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When I was a kid I used to keep a dossier on my favorite Olympians in a pink spiral-bound notebook. I've stopped doing that, but I still look forward to the Olympics like they're Christmas. I've always liked the winter games marginally more than the summer ones because of their contents (downhill skiing! ice skating! luge! bobsled! that weird event where they cross-country ski and shoot things!), though in the end it doesn't really matter -- I was as excited on the opening day of the London Olympics as I am today about the Sochi ones.
But as much as I enjoy the weird events, respect the talent and hard work of all the athletes, and feel a warm surge of patriotism when America wins the gold, it's the stuff around the periphery of the Olympics that I appreciate the most.
Back in 2012, my esteemed colleague Anna Roth and I wrote a back-and-forth regarding the Olympics. She loves 'em. And I do not.
More specifically, I described the Olympics as "a spectacle of sports people don't care to watch aimed at people who don't care to watch sports." And, furthermore, "It manages to cut the baby squarely in half, alienating those with real
knowledge of the sport and whipping casual or non-fans into a frenzy
over athletes plucked from obscurity who will be cruelly displaced from
the spotlight as the nation's attention span for decathletes or middling hockey players wanes."
None of that has changed. That's the Olympics' permanent exhibit, so to speak. This time around, however, the spectacle has transcended from bothersome to loathsome. Because, via the Sochi Games, we're presented with a repressive kleptocracy's grotesque pageant. Atop Olympic-level corruption and graft is also the bizarre specter of Ahmadinejad-class institutionalized gay-bashing.
Tragedy hit Bernal Heights this morning when two workers at an industrial building along Cortland Avenue died after heavy slabs of granite fell on them.
Emergency crews were called out to Galaxy Granite Inc., located at 1525 Cortland Ave., at about 10:15 a.m. where two workers had been inside a shipping container unloading granite slabs. At some point, the container filled with granite fell on them, trapping the two workers, said Mindy Talmadge, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Fire Department.
If you hadn't noticed, the future has arrived: we've got autonomous cars, lab-grown meat, and drones that'll help you buy homes.
Oh, and 3-D printed bikes.
Perhaps a bike made from a 3-D printed process sounds far-fetched, but it's happening, and it's providing picky cyclists with easy access to fully custom bikes designed to your liking.
A Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office dive team returned to a South Bay lake Thursday, combing the waters for evidence in the case of Sierra Lamar, the 15-year-old girl who vanished while on her way to school two years ago.
NBC News spotted the divers supposedly training at the lake, but sources close to the investigation later told the news station that the divers were actually there looking for evidence in that murder case after potentially new leads had surfaced. They were reportedly equipped with new powerful sonar that allows them to better locate bodies in murky waters.
Bank of America is earning plenty of bad press after it rudely sent a piece of junk mail to a San Francisco writer addressing her as "Lisa Is A Slut McIntire."
McIntire's mother, who named her daughter, was first to catch the insulting error when she received the junk mail addressed to her daughter at home. Her mother immediately sent her daughter a text, which she later posted on Twitter:
San Francisco protesters who staged mock Olympic torch runs and poured vodka on the steps of City Hall now have a powerful ally: The Internet.
Or rather, The Internet's most ubiquitous search engine.
Just as the 2014 Winter Olympics are getting under way in Sochi, Google has joined the chorus opposing Russia's state-endorsed homophobia. On Thursday, the search giant unveiled a new home page logo featuring rainbow-colored panels of Olympic athletes.
Russia openly persecutes gays, including those traveling in to attend the Winter Games. In January, a gay protester made international headlines for unfurling a rainbow flag during the Olympic torch relay. Security personnel wrestled him to the ground.
