She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.
The narrow bandwidth of San Francisco politics makes most elections a contest between liberals. The DA's race, which pitted prosecutor Bill Fazio against centrist Arlo Smith and progressive Terence Hallinan, promised to change all that. But when Fazio zig
Hugues de la PlazaNew San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon continues to prove that he certainly knows how to make a first impression (other than being spotted around town in baggy shorts and flip-flops). Yesterday, the Chronicle reported that Gascon's old boss, LAPD Chief William Bratton, has agreed send a pair of detectives to pore over the SFPD's files on the Hugues de La Plaza case.De La Plaza, you may remember, is the French dual citizen found stabbed three times in his bloody Hayes V
Hugues de la Plaza
Saturday's episode of CBS' 48 Hours is dedicated to examining the bizarre 2005 death of French-American citizen Hugues de la Plaza in his Hayes Valley apartment. He perished in a pool of blood after he'd spent time walking around bleeding in his apartment. Blood stains also appeared on his porch. Police investigators indicated he'd probably killed himself -- though the knife was nowhere to be found. The medical examiner said there wasn't sufficient evidence to determine whe
Hugues de la PlazaWith CBS' 48 Hours preparing to show its take on the beguiling Hugues de La Plaza case on Saturday, much has been made of an elusive medical report the show's producers managed to turn up. In it, former San Francisco Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Ferenc concludes, unambiguously, that dual French citizen de La Plaza was murdered. This contradicts current S.F. Medical Examiner Dr. Venus Azar's claim that the cause of death is indeterminable as well as the SFPD's theory that de
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