This is just too easy. Can of corn. It's like, some of this stuff, I can just pluck right out of last year's column.
As baseball season kicks off tonight, here are my predictions for 2014:
If Walter White was real, he'd be a rank amateur playing in methamphetamine's minor leagues.
The real kings of crystal are right here in California, where 70 percent of the meth consumed in the United States enters the country from Mexico, according to the California Attorney General's Office.
These are tech-fueled boom times in California, but as the state's economy soars, so do the fortunes of drug-trafficking cartels: Mexican, Asian and all other stripes, AG Kamala Harris says in a major report on drug-trafficking gang activity released this week.
A day after we reported some 10,000 patients over at UCSF had their personal information breached, the San Francisco Department of Public Health announced that 60,000 more patients should might also be in the same boat.
Rachael Kagan, spokeswoman for the DPH, said on Feb. 5, someone broke into a Sutherland Healthcare Solutions campus in Torrance and stole computers that contained patient information from Sutherland clients, including the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
I have heard the word DISRUPT 5x today & met with Uber just so they couldnt say I'd left anything undone. Uber had a prob w/the word "fair"
— John Avalos (@AvalosSF) March 21, 2014Update: The judge has spoken. See end.
A 25-year-old man is in critical condition this morning after he was attacked by a group of guys outside a bar in the city's Japantown neighborhood.
Police were called out to the scene on the 1700 block of Post Street at about 1:45 a.m. today where they found the victim with a massive head injury.
In a tentative settlement announced today, the City of Oakland will pay $4.5 million to Iraq war vet Scott Olsen, who was struck in the head by a beanbag round, a less-lethal weapon used by the Oakland Police Department for crowd control, during an Oct. 25, 2012 Occupy protest.
The beanbag round, a cloth bag filled with lead shot, was fired at Olsen from a police line roughly 15 feet from Olsen, who was 24 at the time, fracturing his skull and causing brain damage. The shot was a violation of the OPD's crowd-control policy, says one of Olsen's attorneys, Jim Chanin.
"He was shot because OPD commanders decided to simultaneously use chemical agents to disperse the demonstrators and have officers shoot impact munitions at anyone who might be throwing something, even though this violated their own written policies," Chanin says.
See more:
Occupy Oakland: Police Brutality Tab Reaches Nearly $2.9M
Oakland to Pay $1 Million Settlement to Occupy Protesters
Crossing the Line: The Oakland Police Department Versus the Crowd
San Francisco taxi driver Mahendra KC doesn't need to worry about getting fares anymore. From local cabbie to local millionaire, the 50-year-old driver just won the California lottery -- all $1.9 million of it.
According to his family, winning the lotto has been a dream of KC's since he immigrated to the Bay Area from Nepal about a decade ago. "It's just a life-changing situation here," said his daughter Chandani, who was translating for her father. "Now whatever dreams we always had all together as a family, they're going to be true."
Medical authorities this morning said the elderly pedestrian who was killed yesterday in a hit-and-run collision was 81-year-old Yeung Oi.
Police have yet to find the driver who plowed into Oi as she was walking along Visitacion Avenue near Bayshore Boulevard yesterday morning just after 11 a.m. However, they released a still photo from surveillance showing the car that they say was involved in the incident.
