BREAKING: People evacuated from medical office building on Southgate Ave. in Daly City, Calif. http://t.co/3eKn7m8rQL pic.twitter.com/Y7D35vg2Ub
— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) April 23, 2014A long-simmering San Francisco labor conflict figures to erupt into open hostilities tonight when members of the Building and Construction Trades Council boycott and picket the Labor Council's annual fund-raising banquet.
Do you have any unused prescription drugs that are just sitting around, tempting you? In the spirit of spring cleaning (your house and your health), here's your chance to kick that pill-popping habit and dump that cache of prescription pills from your nightstand.
On Saturday, all San Francisco Police Stations will be collecting prescription pills between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of the nationwide prescription drug 'Take Back" day hosted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
The disposal is free and no identification is needed to shed unwanted medications.
#DEVELOPING about 10 staffers marched out of med center at 1500 southgate in Daly City; no comments. #KTVU pic.twitter.com/EBlTJxFXad
— David Stevenson (@DStevensonKTVU) April 23, 2014To add to the growing number of pedestrian accidents this year, a 20-year-old male pedestrian was struck by vehicle on Wawona and 20th Avenue in the city's Sunset neighborhood this morning.
Officer Albie Esparza says that the "vehicle and pedestrian remained on scene" until SFPD arrived shortly after the accident.
Amazing scenes were witnessed today when it was revealed the elusive wreckage of the City of Chester has been located 216 feet beneath the waves, not far from the Golden Gate Bridge.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed separate lawsuits against two rapacious landlords today, each a perfect allegory of tech despoiling the city.
In both cases, the defendants evicted long-term residents from their property under the Ellis Act, a controversial state law that allows landlords to push out tenants in order to withdraw their property from the rental market. Herrera accuses these property owners of using the law as a ruse; rather than go out of business, they converted the property into commercial rentals for tourists, which they advertised on such platforms as Airbnb, Homeway.com, and VRBO.com
To make matters worse, two of the tenants are disabled.
Here's some more hard-to-believe news from the week: Federal ocean scientists have reportedly located the wreckage of a steamboat that sank in the San Francisco Bay more than 125 years ago -- a tragedy that killed 16 people.
We first read the incredible news on CBS this morning, which says three-dimensional images of the wreckage will be released later today.
The City of Chester, sailed off on Aug. 22, 1888, a day filled with thick fog, and was headed up the coast to Eureka with 90 passengers on board. Around 10 a.m., the ship collided with the Oceanic -- a steamer twice its size -- and sank near where the Golden Gate Bridge is.
Trying to find decent digs in San Francisco is seemingly harder than trying to land a decent-paying job. And since an estimated 32,307 new residents moved to San Francisco between 2010 and 2013 alone, it's safe to say: you have a better chance at finding a long-term relationship via Craigslist than a low-drama living situation.
That's because boomtowns like San Francisco tend to attract the entire spectrum of weird. And those fresh-faced twentysomethings looking for a place near a corporate shuttle stop might be educated, but Stanford University isn't going to teach them a damn thing about how not to get suckered by the next slum lord.
You're especially vulnerable in San Francisco where if you don't take care to learn local laws meant to protect tenants it can exacerbate all the confusion that goes along with the search for a new dwelling and the insecurity if anything goes wrong.
But because we're nice, we're going to help you navigate the rental market right now.
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