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S.F. Superior Court gets 3 new judges
S.F. Superior Court gets 3 new judges -- Tracie Brown, 42, has been a federal prosecutor in San Francisco since 2002 after seven years of private law practice. -- Harry Dorfman, 56, a top homicide prosecutor in San Francisco, has been a managing attorney of the district attorney's Homicide Unit since 2010, and was a...
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Bay to Breakers runner focus of search
Bay to Breakers runner focus of search Friends and family of the Oakland man who went missing at Ocean Beach after Sunday's Bay to Breakers race scoured the area Tuesday, and though some of his clothing was found, there was still no evidence indicating the man is alive. A passerby later found Rasmussen's phone,...
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Attorney's stock fraud sentence upheld
Attorney's stock fraud sentence upheld A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud convictions and seven-year prison sentence of a Bay Area attorney whose high-risk stock trading cost investors $1.1 million. Lee refused to testify, claiming his right against possible self-incrimination, and U.S. District Judge...
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UCSF Medical Center workers strike
UCSF Medical Center workers strike Thousands of workers at UCSF Medical Center and four other UC hospitals walked off their jobs early Tuesday at the start of a two-day strike over retirement plans, wages and staffing levels. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which is...
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Search allowed by roommate to high court
Search allowed by roommate to high court The U.S. Supreme Court took up a California case Monday to decide whether police can enter and search a home, over the objections of a suspect who lives there, by arresting the suspect and getting a roommate's consent for the entry. The justices ruled in 2006 that the Fourth...
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Online magazine sues FBI over snooping
Online magazine sues FBI over snooping The controversy over government surveillance of the media reached a San Francisco federal court Tuesday when editors of an online antiwar magazine released documents showing the FBI started monitoring their website nearly a decade ago. In legal actions demanding that the FBI...
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Boy arrested in S.F. stabbing death
Boy arrested in S.F. stabbing death The boy, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, was arrested around 2 a.m. Sunday when San Francisco police tracked him down in Nevada County, where he lives, said police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza. Police found Myers stabbed around 1:45 a.m. at the...
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2 charged with shooting kids over shoes
2 charged with shooting kids over shoes Two young men have been charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting two Albany High School students in El Cerrito after asking about their shoes, authorities said Tuesday. Willie Lee Levi Jr., 19, and a 17-year-old boy, both of San Pablo, have each been charged by...
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Dog owners tend to have healthier hearts
Dog owners tend to have healthier hearts Levine and his team reviewed several studies on the health of pet owners and found that they generally had lower levels of cholesterol, blood pressure and obesity, and often responded better to stress. [...] he added that people shouldn't adopt a pet solely to reduce the risk...
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Chronic pain calls for custom treatment
Chronic pain calls for custom treatment The specialties of physical medicine and pain management are often viewed as the "end of the line" for people experiencing ongoing pain. All too frequently, patients with persistent pain have exhausted the medical and surgical remedies offered by treating physicians. Despite...
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Pertussis vaccine study: 'whole cell' better
Pertussis vaccine study: 'whole cell' better PERTUSSIS VACCINE STUDYOlder 'whole cell' type more effectiveOlder "whole cell" pertussis vaccines were more effective in protecting against the disease, commonly known as whooping cough, than the newer "acellular" vaccines that contain parts of the cell designed to...
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56% of patients don't follow prescription
56% of patients don't follow prescription In a survey of more than 1,000 adult patients who are on prescription medication for chronic illnesses, 40 percent say they haven't followed doctor's instructions or have skipped taking their meds at least once in the past year. "Taking medication is a daily reminder of your...
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Oakland man killed in robbery attempt
Oakland man killed in robbery attempt (05-21) 21:39 PDT OAKLAND -- A 54-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday morning in East Oakland during an apparent robbery attempt, authorities said. The victim, an Oakland resident, was taken to Highland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity was withheld...
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Bacon Bacon close raises quite a stink
Bacon Bacon close raises quite a stink Closing Bacon Bacon, the Frederick Street eatery that serves ... well ... bacon has turned out to be a publicity bonanza. The delicious irony that neighbors are complaining that an all-bacon restaurant smells like bacon has been too much for news organizations to resist. The...
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Woman suspected of setting grass fire
Woman suspected of setting grass fire A woman has been arrested for allegedly using a lighter to start a hilly grass fire in Martinez that burned close to homes before firefighters snuffed it, authorities said Monday. Firefighters with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District put out the blaze, with the help...
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Boy, 16, shot to death in East Palo Alto
Boy, 16, shot to death in East Palo Alto A 16-year-old boy was killed late Sunday and two other youths were hurt in a shooting in East Palo Alto, police said. Jose Luis Quinones, a student at Woodside High School, died at the scene of the shooting on the 2800 block of Fordham Street, where he lived. On May 5,...
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2 killed in separate Oakland shootings
2 killed in separate Oakland shootings San Francisco Chronicle Copyright 2013 San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:49 pm, Monday, May 20, 2013 Mikell Newell, 27, of Berkeley was shot and killed as he sat in a car on 92nd...
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Breakers partyer dies after fall from roof
Breakers partyer dies after fall from roof The fall victim was David Hamzeh, who worked at the San Francisco online marketing company DemandForce, said spokeswoman Diane Carlini of Intuit, which owns the firm. Hamzeh had been drinking at a party at 2040 Fell St. across from the Panhandle before he fell off the...
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5-year-old dies in SUV rollover
5-year-old dies in SUV rollover A 5-year-old girl died Monday when the SUV she was riding in overturned in Richmond, police said. Xaniah Jackson of San Pablo wasn't wearing a seat belt, nor were the four other passengers - a 7-year-old child, a teenager and two adults, said Richmond police Detective Nicole Abetkov....
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El Capitan climber dies in freak fall
El Capitan climber dies in freak fall A rock climber plunged to his death near the top of El Capitan after a large granite flake broke off the wall and severed his climbing rope, Yosemite National Park officials said Monday. Robison, the lead climber, was about 30 feet above his belay partner and roughly 600 feet...
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Breakers runner goes missing at beach
Breakers runner goes missing at beach A passerby found Rasmussen's phone, credit cards and passport near Beach Chalet Brewery and Restaurant later that night. The passerby called the last number Rasmussen dialed on his phone, which happened to be for a co-worker at EDF Renewable Energy in San Ramon. [...] his...
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Marijuana users denied high court hearing
Marijuana users denied high court hearing Two weeks after the California Supreme Court ruled that cities could bar medical marijuana dispensaries, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a separate case Monday brought by disabled Californians who claimed the local bans violated federal disability law. For patients with...
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More security at race, fewer problems
More security at race, fewer problems Fallout from the Boston Marathon bombing made its way to San Francisco on Sunday, as city police added officers and borrowed a bomb squad from Walnut Creek to stiffen security along the Bay to Breakers route. Police credited the small number of problems not only to the alcohol...
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'Red' McGarvey's course of power walking
'Red' McGarvey's course of power walking After a lifetime dedicated to the San Francisco business he and brother Mike McGarvey owned, Red's Java House, golf was the thing he looked forward to most. [...] one day two years ago, the day after playing a vigorous nine holes, he couldn't get out of bed because of a...
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2 Warriors fans shot, killed on I-880
2 Warriors fans shot, killed on I-880 Two Golden State Warriors fans died when a gunman raked their Porsche with bullets on Interstate 880 in downtown Oakland after they left the team's playoff game Thursday night, authorities said. The men were going north in the slow lane near the Jackson Street exit when someone...
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Alameda County deputy wounds suspect
Alameda County deputy wounds suspect The incident began about 11:15 p.m. Thursday when sheriff's deputies spotted a Buick at Mission Boulevard and Mattox Road that matched the description of a car that had eluded police in Dublin a few days earlier, said sheriff's Sgt. J.D. Nelson. A man who was sitting in the back...
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Punished Oakland cops to get ranks back
Punished Oakland cops to get ranks back The only two Oakland police supervisors disciplined for their decisions on the day four officers were shot and killed in 2009 were unjustly demoted and will have their ranks restored, an arbitrator has ruled. The two SWAT veterans were shot dead by parolee Lovelle Mixon on...
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S.F. sushi chef's killer sentenced
S.F. sushi chef's killer sentenced A mentally ill San Francisco man who killed a pioneer in the city's sushi business purely at random while he was out of control was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital. Peter Fong, 49, had pleaded guilty to murder charges, but San Francisco Superior...
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Where carousing crossed the line: a history
Where carousing crossed the line: a history The reason the carefree patrons of George's Log Cabin could order triple shots of Kessler at 3 a.m. while flipping off the police, state alcohol regulators, their spouses and anyone else who disapproved was simple: In addition to hosting boxing matches, San Mateo made big...
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Gun control: Cartridge ID law to take effect
Gun control: Cartridge ID law to take effect A hotly contested gun-control law that was passed in 2007 is finally ready to be implemented, Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday: a requirement that every new semiautomatic handgun contain "micro-stamping" technology that would allow police to trace a weapon from...
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