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San Francisco News

Local news for San Francisco, CA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

2 hrs ago | KGO

Cosco Busan captain John Cota retires

The executive director of a state pilot commission in San Francisco confirmed today that John Cota, pilot of a ship that spilled nearly 54,000 gallons of oil in the San Francisco Bay last year, will retire as ...

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6 hrs ago | Independent Online

China releases US prisoner

A US citizen has been released from a jail in China after serving 10 years of a 16-year term for violating tax laws, a US official and rights groups said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Condoleezza Rice

10 hrs ago | KCBS

SF Takes on Youth Violence

In an effort to combat the city's youth violence, San Francisco has launched a new campaign in hopes to reduce city crime.

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15 hrs ago | Inside Bay Area

Pelosi: pragmatist or traitor to liberals?

When San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi ascended to speaker of the House 18 months ago, liberals cheered.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Blog News, US Politics, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Speakers

19 hrs ago | Mason Valley News

Brown may join newer candidates

Charismatic and politically bold, both San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa seem like naturals to help Democrats reclaim the governor's office in 2010.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Sat Jul 05, 2008

KTVU

SF Police Arrest 12 In Robbery Suspect Sweep

Police arrested 12 people in two undercover robbery abatement operations in the past week targeting crime in the city's Tenderloin district and Market Street corridor, police announced Wednesday.

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SF Gate

S.F. resident killed in single-car crash

The crash occurred in the area of Monterey Boulevard and Saint Elmo Way, police said.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro

CBS 5

Man Hurt In SF When Firework Explodes In His Car

A man was injured in San Francisco early Saturday morning when a firework went off inside the car he was in, police said.

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KCBS

Newsom Issues Water Conservation Orders

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive directive to all city agencies, telling them to stop wasting water.

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CBS 13

Bay Area Police Turn To Texting In Fighting Crime

Police in the 1970s urged citizens to "drop a dime" in a pay phone to report crimes anonymously.

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Related Topix: Cell Phones, Electronics

San Jose Mercury News

Campaign urges Bay Area residents to cut water use

Officials from the Bay Area's three largest cities are hoping to avoid mandatory water rationing by getting people to voluntarily cut their water use.

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Related Topix: San Jose Metro, Oakland, CA, San Francisco Metro, San Jose, CA, Science / Technology

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Inside Bay Area

Local tapped to head Belmont parks department

To run its parks and recreation department, Belmont has turned to a local who grew up with one of the nation's great urban parks as his back yard.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Sausalito, CA

KGO

Woman suffering from dementia missing

Police are searching today for a 77-year-old woman in the early stages of dementia who has been missing since she left her San Francisco home Tuesday morning.

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CW28 Providence

Grateful Dead to reunite for Obama?

American rock band The Grateful Dead poses on Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco, California, 1960s.

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Jerry Garcia, Pop/Rock, The Grateful Dead, Entertainment

Fog City Journal

Continue reading Plea in Triple Homicide Postponed As Attorney Asks To Be Removed

The attorney for a suspected gang member accused in the June 22 slaying of a San Francisco father and two of his sons today said he would ask to be removed from the case, citing a conflict.

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Related Topix: El Sobrante, CA, Violent Crime, San Francisco Metro

Cbs5.com

SF Grand Jury Says Election Facilities 'Unsafe'

A civil grand jury report released Thursday claims that inadequate elections facilities in San Francisco, as well as uncertainty about the city's new elections machines state certification, may compromise the ...

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Related Topix: Santa Clara County, CA

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Young offenders in SF illegally get no more break

Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old San Francisco policy, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday.

Under a loophole in the city's sanctuary policy for illegal immigrants, minors who committed crimes were being flown home or housed at the city's expense, Newsom said.

But now, 'if you commit a felony, we will not become a safe harbor for you,' he said.

The former policy came under fire last month after five young drug offenders from Honduras who were convicted in San Francisco escaped from a San Bernardino County group home where they had been sent by the city's juvenile probation department.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Oceania, American Samoa, World News

Thu Jul 03, 2008

San Jose Mercury News

Threat made against cargo airline before Saturday fire in plane

Less than a week before a fire damaged an ABX Air cargo plane at San Francisco International Airport, the airline received a threat against an unspecified aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board ...

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Cbs5.com

SF Fireworks Show To Affect Traffic, Transit

Transit officials will step up service with dozens of shuttles this Fourth of July for the thousands of attendees expected at the San Francisco Independence Day fireworks show, according to the San Francisco ...

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, 4th of July, Mission (San Francisco, CA), Embarcadero (San Francisco, CA)

Los Angeles Times

San Bernardino County to seek ban on import of some convicts

San Bernardino County officials, incensed over revelations that San Francisco has sent to local group homes some convicted juvenile offenders who are illegal immigrants, said they will announce measures today ...

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Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Yucaipa, CA

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