San Francisco is, in its way, the sieve atop life's drain. Every manner of desperate person seems to come through here while their life swirls downward; the city is, all too often, a way station for oblivion.
We saw on Twitter that traffic was being rerouted near Geary Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue this afternoon after an alleged drunk driver crashed with another vehicle in the area.
Officer Gordon Shyy confirmed there was an accident at 12:11 p.m. at the intersection of Broadway and Van Ness, involving two vehicles. At least one person was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, however, Shyy did not know the extent of their injuries.
On the very same day Mayor Ed Lee announced he would spend $17 million to tackle pedestrian deaths in San Francisco, a man was hit by a taxi cab as he walked through the city's Cathedral Hill neighborhood.
Around 9:15 p.m., the pedestrian, who was only described as an adult male, was walking along Turk and Van Ness when a cabbie struck him. Witnesses told the cops that the pedestrian did not appear to be in the crosswalk when he was hit, says Officer Gordon Shyy.
When the world's no. 1 social network goes on a buying spree, the world of mobile apps and gadgetry -- and apparently, even aerospace technology -- is its oyster.
Unless, of course, government regulators crash the party.
That might happen to Facebook, right on the heels of its $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp. News of the deal had barely hit the wires when privacy advocates began crying foul, arguing that WhatsApp, long deemed the "unFacebook" of social media apparati, would have to turn over its trove of phone numbers and address books to Facebook's giant commercial machine.
In an interview set to air on March 10, the Dalai Lama reportedly told Larry King that he sees nothing wrong with gay marriage.
In fact his Holiness spoke out against anti-LGBT bullying during the same interview, saying it's "wrong" and a violation of human rights, NBC reports.
Richard Thomas, the 16-year-old Oakland boy accused of setting Sasha Fleischman on fire as the teen rode the bus home from school last year, has been ordered to stand trial -- as an adult.
Thomas has been charged with aggravated mayhem, assault and hate crime charges. If convicted. Thomas could face life in jail, NBC News Reports.
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Now we know what crooks do with your stolen car: grocery shop.
A San Francisco woman says she was walking out of a Safeway store at 850 La Playa the other day and and spotted her car that had been stolen the day before on the 3500 block of Geary.
Just as she realized the car was hers, a woman jumped into the driver's side and drove off with a man in the passenger's side.
When the Bay Area Bike Share bikes rolled out, one burning question kept some of us up at night: What the hell are those weird little baskets on the front and what are they for?
A one-sided rack? If you plan to carry a six pack it would fall right out the side. What good is it if you can't even carry a six pack?
A.B. Pack is a nifty bag that makes that weird little rack a whole lot more practical.
