San Francisco recorded its 65th homicide of the year when a man was gunned down early Friday morning between the Portola district and Bernal Heights.Police received a call at 12:30 a.m. reporting shots fired and a person down on the ground, Sgt. Steve Mannina of the San Francisco Police Department said Friday. When officers arrived on the scene, they administered CPR to the victim, Mannina said, but when paramedics arrived, they pronounced Eddie Davis, 22, of Pinole, dead.
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Advocating laws that bring more government into homes, backyards, clubs or cars has never made much sense to me, even though I have to admit the Legislature’s proposal to limit cell phone use in cars seems like a pretty good call.Now if the state could just extend the cell phone crackdown to bars, restaurants, stores and other shared public spaces, we might really be on to something.
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Wolf willing to return to prison in federal grand jury caseOn the day of his release from federal prison Friday, freelance journalist Josh Wolf reaffirmed his commitment to not turn over videotape to a federal grand jury even if it means returning to custody.Wolf, 24, videotaped a San Francisco protest last year in which anarchists were suspected of trying to light a police patrol car on fire. During the protest a San Francisco officer suffered a skull fracture.
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Nearly 20 years after a small patch of land in the Bayview was promised to be developed into a neighborhood park, residents have a glimmer of hope that brighter times are ahead for their barren parcel.In 1987 the Planning Commission issued a permit for a developer to build 43 homes off of Meade Avenue in the Bayview district on the condition that two parcels of land, totaling about 5,000 square feet, be turned over to the Recreation and Park Department to develop a neighborhood park.
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City authorities will increase police presence and shut down a scaled-down version of the annual Halloween in the Castro event earlier than usual this year to help keep the celebration under control.
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Issuing homeless people tickets for illegal camping or drinking in public is unjust, cruel and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars, a homeless advocacy group says.Between January 2004 and June 2006, the San Francisco Police Department issued 31,230 "quality-of-life" citations, according to Religious Witness with Homeless People, a group of religious leaders that has concerned itself with homelessness issues since 1993.
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Although San Francisco Unified School District was recently named the top performing urban school district in the state, the district is not making enough progress to meet federal standards, according to just-released state and federal test data.To meet the federal benchmark this year, the district needed to get 26.5 percent of its elementary and middle school students performing at grade level in math and 24.4 percent in English. At the high school level, 22.3 percent of the district’s high school students needed to prove proficiency in English, and 20.9 percent in math.
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As San Francisco homicide detectives investigate the suspicious death of 5-month-old Camille Ferguson, her family searches for answers."I’m sad, I’m hurt, I’m mad, I’m confused, I’m lost," Camille’s mother, Leidi Ferguson, said Thursday in a telephone interview.Camille’s father, Anthony Theard, is the only suspect police have identified in her death. He has not been charged with any crime, but is in custody on a parole violation.
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One victim of Tuesday’s violent hit-and-run rampage may be permanently paralyzed, according to the assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case.James Thompson was speaking at the scheduled arraignment for Omeed Aziz Popal, who is accused of intentionally running his Honda Pilot sport utility vehicle into 18 pedestrians and one police cruiser Tuesday, injuring 19 people in San Francisco. Before driving to The City, Popal also allegedly hit 54-year-old pedestrian Stephen J. Wilson in Fremont, killing him.
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One victim of Tuesday’s violent hit-and-run rampage may be permanently paralyzed, according to the assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case.James Thompson was speaking at the scheduled arraignment for Omeed Aziz Popal, who is accused of intentionally running his Honda Pilot sport utility vehicle into 18 pedestrians and one police cruiser Tuesday, injuring 19 people in San Francisco. Before driving to The City, Popal also allegedly hit 54-year-old pedestrian Stephen J. Wilson in Fremont, killing him.
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