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May 16, 2012
Warm Weather Inspires Public Masturbation
The Examiner brings us this unsatisfying story this morning about a disturbing uptick in public masturbation -- and we're not referring to your Muni ride last night. Just last week in Half Moon Bay, sheriff's deputies were called to a report of a horny man who allegedly had been pleasuring himself ... More >>
Blogs
February 6, 2012
David Hanna Identified as Pedestrian Killed in Hit-And-Run
Be careful San Mateo County authorities identified 27-year-old David Zaki Hanna as the San Francisco man who was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident Saturday morning. Police say Hanna's Toyota Camry hit a soundwall on the right shoulder of the highway at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday. When he got ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
Frances Ann Doherty, City Contractor, Accused of Stiffing Employees Out of Wages
Doherty employeesA San Mateo County woman has been charged with 57 felony counts of cheating her employees of more than $600,000 in wages while working on projects for both the city and school district in San Francisco. According to District Attorney George Gascón, 51-year-old Frances Ann Dohert ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2011
Shawna Kim Apour, Lizard-Stabbing Suspect, Deemed Incompetent for Trial
The San Carlos woman who was accused of stabbing her boyfriend's precious pet lizard, Speedy, to death will receive treatment rather than jail time. Media outlets are reporting that 37-year-old Shawna Kim Apour suffers from a developmental disability which makes her unfit to stand trial. She was ... More >>
News
September 21, 2011
San Francisco One of the Few California Towns with Room for Prisoners
The San Carlos woman who was accused of stabbing her boyfriend's precious pet lizard, Speedy, to death will receive treatment rather than jail time. Media outlets are reporting that 37-year-old Shawna Kim Apour suffers from a developmental disability which makes her unfit to stand trial. She was ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2011
Guardian's Crazy Phone Calls Fielded By Mental Health Professional
Trees on fire? Naked pedestrians?Jimmy Sosa, a mental health counselor for San Mateo County, has unwittingly found himself thrust into a second career for which he is all too qualified -- fielding the oft-unhinged calls to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Sosa's cell phone number is only one digit ... More >>
Blogs
August 18, 2011
San Carlos Woman in Jail After Allegedly Stabbing Ex-Boyfriend's Pet Lizard to Death
Little man survives DV disputeUpdate (10:30 a.m.): Sadly, the man's pet lizard died. Sometimes domestic disputes involve children and other times they involve pets. A San Carlos woman is in jail after she had it out with her ex-boyfriend and took a knife to his pet lizard. Police arrested 37-year ... More >>
Blogs
June 6, 2011
Local Hire Law to Include San Mateo County Workers
Avalos created a "win-win" deal. But will he ... win?Remember when Assemblyman Jerry Hill tried to foolishly kill San Francisco's prized local hire law with his own legislation earlier this year? Nobody could really understand his motivation, apparently not even Hill himself. Ever since he labele ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
John Abdon Johnson Gets 30 Days in Jail for Kicking His Dog
It hurtsA Redwood City man is being jailed after cops saw him beating his sweet little pup, Bucket. The San Jose Mercury News reports that police busted John Abdon Johnson, 56, kicking Bucket in the head and the ribs on May 13. When a cop tried to get him to stop, he told police he had the right ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
Pot Bust Yields 1,400 Marijuana Plants
Busted!A group of San Francisco men was arrested as part of a major marijuana bust in San Mateo County, dubbed the "mighty mites" pot grow. Authorities seized more than 1,400 pot plants and more than $450,000 worth of marijuana, according to media outlets. The bust was the culmination of a nine-m ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Rageit Almurisi, Passenger on SFO-Bound Flight, Bangs on Cockpit Door, Wrestled to the Ground
Another crazy passengerThis is any passenger's worst nightmare a week after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Passengers on a San Francisco-bound flight last night had a scare when a 28-year-old man with a Yemeni passport for no reason started yelling and banging on the cockpit door. Media outlets ... More >>
Blogs
May 4, 2011
MS-13 Members Indicted for Racketeering and Murder Charges
Three more members face conspiracy charges. A federal grand jury indicted three alleged MS-13 gang members on Wednesday for conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. The indictment comes in addition to the 24 alleged MS-13 members already facing conspiracy charges after the three-year investi ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Two Men Kidnap Woman in Mission District and Try to Rape Her
Police looking for Mission District kidnappersPolice are on the hunt for two men who brazenly kidnapped a 22-year-old woman as she walked along a busy Mission District intersection Sunday evening.At about 5 p.m., the woman was near 18th Street and Lexington Way when a man with a knife reportedly ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Men Walking Across United States Pass Through San Francisco
Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>
News
February 23, 2011
Supes Want to Rescind Law that Bans Competition in SF Trash Collection
Will these four men become as famous as Forrest?Four magicians have set out to walk nearly 3,000 miles across the United States -- from San Francisco to New York City. And their reasoning is not much different from Forrest Gump's: Because they felt like it.SF Weekly spoke to the crew via phone on ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Mavericks Surfers Can't Catch a Wave
Dude, it's not going to happenWhile the rest of San Francisco waits for a white flurry to fall on downtown, surfers on the coast are waiting for something that on any other weekend would seem more likely than snow -- a huge swell.But alas, the wacky winter weather patterns have hijacked the annua ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Billy Waterman, Missing Riverside County Man, 'Person of Interest' in S.F. Woman's Death
Missing manPolice are trying to piece together a bizarre mystery involving a missing man, a woman's body, and an abandoned vehicle.Yesterday, a maid found a woman's body in a hotel room on Lombard Street. The death has been ruled suspicious and the medical examiner is conducting an autopsy. ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
San Francisco Police Arrest Two in Connection with Mission Street Shooting
Gang members off to jail Police arrested two San Mateo County residents who allegedly shot a man on his way to work in the Mission District yesterday.David Salgado, 19, and Giovanni Sandoval, 19, were taken into custody shortly after officers responded to a shooting near 2114 Mission St. Monday m ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2011
In Print: Zoe Keating's Tech-Fueled Cello Explorations, the Beautifully Stoned Noise of Young Prisms, and More
Zoe Keating: "The technology creates this little box that you're always pushing against the edges of," she says. "I find it really good to have these limitations of [recording] latency or RAM or even frustration -- all those things are annoying, but they actually create the music." This goes ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2010
San Bruno Fire: Bad Karma, Arrests For Four Accused Fake Victims
A quartet of alleged miscreants have been arrested for purportedly attempting to claim San Bruno fire victim status, and cash in. Department of Motor Vehicles investigators claim Niesha Taylor, Deonte Bennett, Sonya Smith, and Lisa Justin applied for drivers licenses in the burn zone -- despite t ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Massive Explosion Burns San Bruno Neighborhood (PICS)
WiggsA thunderous blast instantly scorched at least 20 San Bruno homes, and ignited a conflagration that has consumed an entire neighborhood. Flames are still raging in San Mateo County, hours after the 6 p.m. blast. Initial rumors blamed a plane crash but neighborhood residents -- near Sky ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Plane Crashes into Redwood City Lagoon Near Oracle; Woman Killed
A Beechcraft BE 65 like this one is currently submerged in a Redwood City lagoon, and at least one passenger is deadAt least one person is dead following a small plane's plunge into a Redwood Shores lagoon. This, by the way, is the very same lagoon inundated by 50,000 gallons of raw sewage last w ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Knife-Wielding 20-Year-Old Shot By Burlingame Cops, Dies in San Francisco
Burlingame police last night called at 8:40 p.m. to a disturbance on 217 Myrtle Avenue found one: A 20-year-old man with a knife. Police claim the man advanced on them, and resisted their efforts to detain him. This lead to one officer firing his Taser. This was ineffective, and the suspect was s ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Accused Sex Offenders Arrested at San Francisco Airport
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is announcing it nabbed two alleged sex offenders at San Francisco Airport after the American citizens' separate flights from the Philippines touched down. The first man was arrested last Monday on a warrant out of Washington State. The second man was book ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
Teen Accused of Detonating Bomb at Menlo Park School
A 17-year old is in police custody after he detonated a "homemade explosive device" behind a Menlo Park middle school on Wednesday night, according to police (via Bay City News).
Blogs
June 15, 2010
SF Doctor Busted with Special K at SFO
CEP AmericaDr Keith LoringDetails are still emerging in the arrest yesterday of a San Francisco doctor accused of smuggling ketamine -- an animal tranquilizer for vets, an incapacitating party drug for the rest of us -- into San Francisco International Airport.
Blogs
June 15, 2010
SF Doctor Busted with Special K at SFO
CEP AmericaDr Keith LoringDetails are still emerging in the arrest yesterday of a San Francisco doctor accused of smuggling ketamine -- an animal tranquilizer for vets, an incapacitating party drug for the rest of us -- into San Francisco International Airport.
News
June 2, 2010
Bleeding Green
Forget about Sharp Park’s endangered frogs and snakes. The real problem with the golf course is its enormous cost to the city.
Blogs
May 31, 2010
Anthony Mata Dead, Five Others Critical From Possible Tainted Drugs at Cow Palace Rave
'The Dream' turned into a nightmare for some rave attendees this weekenedThe San Mateo County coroner confirmed to SF Weekly that 23-year-old Anthony Mata of Santa Clara is dead following a very bad trip at the weekend's Pop 2010 music festival at the Cow Palace. Along with Mata's death, a handfu ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Media Dogpile For iPhonegate Warrant
GizmodoEveryone wants one of these ... and the warrant that ensued from this pictureHigh-tech and low-tech collided today in Redwood City, when tech journalists were forced to show up in person (gasp!) and shell out cash (double gasp!) to obtain the just-unsealed search warrant in the iPhonegate ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Were Sheriffs Acting As Apple's Personal Stormtroopers?
Pic via St3f4n/FlickrWe have to admit, the search warrant in the iPhonegate case is a hell of a read. You've got Steve Jobs personally demanding his property back from rogue bloggers, suitcases full of cash, roommates ratting each other out, and dope fiends going crazy. Okay, not the last one. &n ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2010
Judge Keeps Warrant Under Wraps in iPhonegate
There are some things you can't even do with a newfangled iPhone...A San Mateo County judge today ordered that a search warrant used to search a Gawker Media editor's home be kept secret, leaving media organizations in the dark as to what exactly police hoped to find in the home of Gizmodo editor ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2010
Federal Judge: California Cities Can Sue Wall Street
A group of California cities and counties can proceed with a lawsuit alleging shenanigans by some of the world's largest financial institutions, a federal judge ruled today.In a decision delivered in federal court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Victor Marrero denied a motion to dism ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Latest State Employment Numbers: Slightly More Abysmal than Before
We know you've been sitting in the closest, in the dark, refusing food and ignoring the increasingly desperate pleas of friends and family to Please, just come out! Not until I get my next installment of the Employment Development Department's monthly labor statistics, you told yourself resolutel ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2010
Hey, 43,306 San Franciscans: You Could Win Free TransLink Card!
Yours! Yours for the taking! Uh, with caveats...Folks, do you want to save the world? YESSSSS! Do you want to be given free stuff? YESSSSS! And do you want to punch the clock each day in San Mateo County? Do you? Hello? Hello? Sorry San Francisco worker bees -- you'll have to get your handout els ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Will 'Electronic Signatures' Push Pot Legalization Bill onto Ballot?
A court battle is brewing in the cradle of tech-nerd civilization that some say could transform California's electoral politics.Democracy 1.0?Michael Ni, who works at a Silicon Valley technology company, has submitted a petition to authorize a 2010 state ballot initiative. The substance of the pr ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2009
New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs
The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in the New York City edition of the New York Times titled "San Francisco's Cyclists Facing Backlash for Fl ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2009
Mission Pie's Third Annual Pie Contest Rolls Out This Sunday
Magnoliamcgeepie.blogspot.comPast winner Jessica Appelgren is on this year's judging panel.All kinds of pie will be on hand for the third annual pie contest at Mission Pie (2901 Mission at 25th St.) this Sunday. Anyone can get in the game -- roll out, fill, and bake up your own particular spe ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2009
Deep-Fried Butter: Ultimate State Fair Gross-Out or Stroke of Genius?
paul79uf/FlickrImagine the possibilities.We'll have to wait and see if the latest fatty food from the State Fair of Texas -- deep-fried butter -- ever becomes the subject of a food eating contest in the Joey Chestnut style. Chances are that watching anyone eat a deep-fried butter stick may ma ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2009
The Growhouse That Just Keeps Giving: Sunset Marijuana Operation Burns, Then Serves as Burglar Magnet
Like the warehouses of unscrupulous businessmen mired in debt, marijuana growhouses have a nasty habit of bursting into flames. But while the practice of "insurandburn" at least benefits someone, everyone loses when a clandestine urban pot farm goes up in smoke: The big-time dealers who own the th ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Straight Outta Half Moon Bay, Sam's Chowder Van to Debut This Summer
Sam's Chowder House lobster roll is coming to S.F. soonSam's Chowder House of Half Moon Bay has plans to go mobile this summer with Sam's Chowder Van. Fish and chips, lobster rolls, fish tacos, and ceviche cooked out of a 24-foot vehicle will soon hit the campuses of companies such as Ora ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2009
That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Watching Endangered Species for Fun and Profit
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
Blogs
August 14, 2007
San Francisco Drug Bust: Meth Tacos, Mmmm
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
News
February 9, 2005
Letters to the Editor
Week of Wednesday, February 9, 2005
News
September 29, 2004
The City That Would Be King
To maintain its natural position atop the local political food chain, San Francisco must be benevolent, as well as strong
News
July 2, 2003
San Mateo Confidential
How a lesbian love triangle involving two police officers and a former kickboxing champion led to a drawn-out privacy lawsuit against the San Mateo County DA who had allegedly outed the kickboxer to her ex-husband, a probation officer who then decided to
Summer Guide
June 25, 2003
And You're Off!
Even if you dont know your exacta from a post parade, the racetrack can be a summer joy
News
January 21, 1998
Sutter's Empire Strikes Back
Two lawsuits allege conflict of interest, sharp dealing
News
August 9, 1995
The Mission Blue Mission
Saving the habitat of an inch-long violet butterfly, the endangered Mission Blue, is the starting point of a many-sided battle for dominance of San Bruno
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