Update Feb. 11: Good news: Caldwell was found in San Jose. He's back home, safe and sound, according to police.
Original Story: San Francisco police need your help finding Edwin Caldwell, an 81-year-old man who has been missing after he walked out of his care facility earlier today.
Officer Gordon Shyy says Caldwell walked away from the facility, located on the 1600 block of 19th Avenue, at about 10:30 a.m. Police say Caldwell has Alzheimer's and might be trying to find his way back to Ross, California.
With America's Cup organizers threatening to take their yacht and go home, a new report on Monday gives cover to the "Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out" contingent.
There's a joke making the rounds in the blogosphere, that tonight's protest of the Crunchies tech awards gala was, in fact, enabled by tech.
Or at the very least, it was abetted by social media. This morning the labor group Jobs With Justice announced, via Facebook, that it will hold it's own spoof ceremony -- aptly named The Crappies -- outside Davies Symphony Hall, while trade blogs TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and GigaOm preen about their industry inside.
"San Francisco is in crisis," the Crappies' Facebook event post said. "More and more people are being forced to leave the city. At the same time the technology industry is flourishing and profiting."
Activists issued similar rallying cries at Saturday's tenant convention in the Tenderloin, which featured speeches by Local 2 Union president Mike Casey, tenant activist Gum Gee Lee, and residents of an imperiled, rent-controlled apartment building at 1049 Market Street. The tech-displacement theme also dovetails with a recent spate of Google bus protests, which blame tech companies for the city's ballooning eviction crisis.
A wanted sex offender from Los Angeles was busted over the weekend by San Francisco police who found the suspect roaming the Mission District on Saturday afternoon.
Officer Gordon Shyy tells us that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department recently informed San Francisco police that 54-year-old Oscar Bridges was wanted for homicide and he was known to frequent San Francisco. With that information, police scoured the area for Bridges, hitting up some of his stomping grounds.
This Valentine's Day, San Francisco is hosting a seemingly a-typical Cupid event, yet one that's probably more compelling than any Hallmark bouquet you might get.
For the second year in a row, city leaders will welcome "One Billion Rising for Justice Day," a global campaign spanning 207 countries that raises awareness of domestic and sexual abuse against women. One Billion Rising began in 2013 in response to the alarming statistic that one in three women throughout the world will experience sexual or domestic abuse in their lives. The campaign invites survivors of abuse and their allies to join in solidarity to fight against the oppression and humiliation inflicted upon victims.
A 64-year-old woman was critically injured over the weekend when a driver hit a parked car, which then hit her.
Police say the incident happened at about 5:44 p.m. at 26th Avenue and Clement Street on Friday; the woman was standing at the rear of her car when a driver in another vehicle lost control and struck the parked car, which moved and hit the victim, according to Officer Albie Esparza.
Medical authorities have identified the two workers who were killed Friday in an industrial accident as Philip Marich, 53, of South San Francisco, and Hector Vazquez, 46, of Oakland.
On Friday at about 10:15 a.m., Marich and Vazquez were unloading granite slabs from a shipping container at Galaxy Granite, Inc. along Cortland Ave. when the granite fell on them, trapping the two workers.
