This morning, a routine construction job at the Transbay Transit Center revealed a major archaeological discovery. Workers filling concrete in the ground uncovered a human skeleton that the coroner later identified as Native American remains, according to the Transbay Joint Powers Agency.
The remains, which reportedly includes a skull and a thigh bone, are currently in the protection of the Native American Heritage Commission, which will identify a probable relative.
Yesterday, SF Weekly reported that a trove of e-mails and text messages reveal Supervisor Scott Wiener's resolution calling for additional analysis of the "Waterfront Height Limit Right-to-Vote Act" was proposed and initially drafted by foes of the measure, who were then deployed by Wiener to lobby his colleagues on behalf of his resolution.
San Francisco police are now trying to find out whether the anti-canine crook has struck again. According to news reports, police found more suspicious treats that appeared to be meatballs, but were actually clay balls made to look like meat.
But given the fact that 32 real poisonous meatballs were found in the city yesterday, the cops weren't taking any chances. According to Deb Campbell, spokeswoman for Animal Care & Control, police gathered the clay treats to investigate.
A San Francisco cab driver lost more than his fare when he picked up two passengers who robbed him at knifepoint.
According to police, the robbers hailed the cab at 15th and Potrero streets at about 1:30 a.m. After they hopped in the taxi, both suspects -- a man and woman in their early 30s -- pulled a knife on the driver and demanded all his property.
Seeing how gaga San Francisco is over its dogs, this bizarre canine contest seems totally apropos.
DOGTV, the no. 1 television network for canines (there's a no. 2?), today announced it is launching the "My Dog for Mayor!", a national campaign that'll let voters elect the most politically astute pooch to represent their city.
Here we go:
"Whether their paw-litics lean right or left, pups from around the country will campaign for causes near and dear to their hearts, from feeding homeless pets to cracking down on doggy-do [sic] fines," Gilad Neumann, CEO of the San Francisco-based DOGTV, said in a statement.
This is news for one obvious reason: when's the last time we had two storms in less than a month!
That should make you very-parched people happy -- and soaked.
According to the National Weather Service, the rain could start dropping as early as tonight, and by tomorrow, you can expect to see showers, as the chance of precipitation climbs to 100 percent.
Drug warriors in the United States and Mexico are ebullient this week, after scoring their biggest victory over the cartels in a generation.
They shouldn't be, according to their own intelligence.
The world's most successful and most wanted drug dealer -- Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the chief of the Sinaloa cartel -- is in their custody, captured in a sophisticated sting after eluding authorities for almost 13 years.
The subject of feature articles and a staple of the Forbes list of the worlds' billionaires, Guzman's stature is near mythical. Attorney General Eric Holder called his capture a "landmark achievement." Holder's Mexican counterparts did him one better. "He was our Osama," Fusion reported an intelligence official as saying.
Indeed. Because, like an Al Qaeda member who remained active after Osama bin Laden's disappearance and death in the decade after 9/11, the Sinaloas will continue to deal drugs with their boss in prison.
"No change" in the flow of drugs results when key cartel figures are nabbed, according to U.S. Border Patrol documents.
Gentrification drama swept through the Lower Haight Friday night when a local woman wearing Google Glass claims she was attacked while at a bar on Haight Street.
Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco tech writer, described the incident on Facebook, of course. According to Slocum, she was at Molotov's on Haight Street where she was showing someone at the bar how her Google glasses work. During her high-tech demonstration, two women and a man confronted her and ripped the glasses off her face.
Here's how Slocum described the incident via Facebook:
