An East Bay woman accused of fatally stabbing a San Francisco pizza shop worker in 2009, an act her attorney claims was self-defense, will go to trial for murder in March after a date was set in court Wednesday.Maryam Achekzai, 26, of Hercules, was arrested early in the morning of Nov. 24, 2009, after allegedly stabbing 38-year-old Lassaad Youssef Bokri outside Bellissimo Pizza at 920 Sutter St. in The City’s Nob Hill neighborhood.
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In the grand bureaucratic tradition of naming public works projects and buildings after individuals who have made significant contributions, part of San Francisco’s Civic Center is about to be rebranded in the name of the state’s outgoing judiciary leader.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday that San Francisco’s Civic Center Complex shall henceforth be known as the Ronald M. George State Office Complex, so named for outgoing Chief Justice Ronald George.
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A Contra Costa County judge today ordered six of the seven defendants in the October 2009 beating and gang rape of a 16-year-old girl at Richmond High School to stand trial.The seventh and youngest defendant, 16-year-old Cody Smith, was not held to answer on any charges and was ordered released from juvenile hall tonight.Charges were reduced for three of the defendants, but five of the six are still facing charges that make them eligible for life sentences if they are convicted, prosecutor Dara Cashman said.
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One man is struggling for his life after his car veered off Juniper Serra Boulevard early Tuesday morning and struck a tree.The man had to be extricated from his 2003 Honda sedan by the San Francisco Fire Department, San Francisco Police Officer Albie Esparza said. He remains in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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Inclement weather in the Bay Area and other parts of the country is causing flight delays at local airports Tuesday.San Francisco International Airport has a ground delay program in effect for arriving flights. Many arrivals were behind schedule by more than an hour early Tuesday morning, but delays had dropped to an average of 40 minutes by 11 a.m., airport duty manager Charles Navigante said.Stormy weather elsewhere in the country, such as in Chicago and Newark, N.J., is also affecting departure times from San Francisco, Navigante said.
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San Mateo police have arrested a suspect in the June fatal shooting of East Palo Alto community leader David Lewis at the Hillsdale Shopping Center.Gregory Elarms, 58, of Pittsburg, was arrested early Sunday morning at San Mateo police headquarters, San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said. "We have reason to believe that Mr. Gregory Elarms killed David Lewis in cold blood," Manheimer said at an afternoon news conference at the police station. She said Elarms has an extensive criminal history that dates back to 1969 but doesn't have any recent arrests.
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San Mateo County Jail inmates have a truckload of yummy treats coming their way this week — 10,000, to be exact. For the third year in a row, students from JobTrain, a Menlo Park-based nonprofit that serves low-income San Mateo County residents, have baked thousands of cookies for inmates ranging in flavor from chocolate chip to peanut butter with jelly in the middle “Every kind that you can possibly imagine,” said Lori Stone, director of development and marketing for JobTrain.
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BART trains are expected to resume regular service Monday morning after crews worked overnight to repair an electrical problem that crippled the transit system Sunday, a spokesman said.Workers spent the night and early morning in BART’s Transbay Tube where a power loss at around 1:50 p.m. prompted officials to shut off all power to a set of tracks used by East Bay-bound trains for the rest of the day.
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An alleged thieving ex-janitor hoped to clean house at Peninsula gas stations, but messed up, authorities said.The suspect charged with four brazen robberies at Shell stations wasn’t hard to track down, police said, since the alleged crook used to be a janitor at the stations and failed to conceal his identity during the heists.Shell station managers told cops they recognized Marlon Arbulu, 27, of San Mateo, on surveillance camera footage captured during two of four robberies at three stations between Nov. 28 and Thursday, police said.
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Victims of the San Bruno pipeline explosion three months ago may have received financial assistance to cover some costs to rebuild, but they now face a new obstacle: federal income taxes.
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