Two people have been arrested in the East Bay in connection with the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man in South of Market on Friday night, police said Sunday.
Anthony Pratt, 27, of Union City, and Trumillion Ballard, 24, of San Francisco, were arrested Saturday evening in Union City on suspicion of killing Gary Smith in front of the Baldwin House Hotel at 74 Sixth St.
Smith, an Oakland resident, was found on the sidewalk about 11:10 p.m. Friday. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The proposed $160 million rebuild and expansion of Chinese Hospital may not be the most attractive nor authentic architecture in historic Chinatown, but the Planning Commission agreed Thursday on its necessity.
The project to remake and modernize the last independent hospital in San Francisco, located at 835 and 845 Jackson St., now heads to the Board of Supervisors and, if approved, could be completed in 2015.
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Mayor Ed Lee’s nomination of an experienced San Francisco development planner to sit on The City’s powerful Planning Commission appears headed to confirmation after the nominee received glowing praise from supervisors and community groups.
A Board of Supervisors committee unanimously forwarded Rich Hillis’ appointment to the full board on Wednesday. Hillis could replace another well-liked commissioner, Ron Miguel, whom Lee declined to re-appoint for unspecified reasons.
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Despite a recent history of financial struggle, St. Luke’s Hospital in the Mission has become a crucial safety net for many of The City’s poor and underinsured residents.
The private acute-care facility’s future is at the center of deadlocked negotiations between the Mayor’s Office and California Pacific Medical Center, the Sutter Health affiliate that rescued the hospital from debt in 2001.
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Negotiations over the terms of a $2.5 billion development agreement for two new seismically safe hospitals in The City remained in a stalemate Monday, with California Pacific Medical Center officials refusing to modify a part of the deal that Mayor Ed Lee now has concerns about.
While the centerpiece of the deal is a new 555-bed hospital on Cathedral Hill, at issue is the long-term future of St. Luke’s Hospital, which serves primarily lower-income patients in the Mission district and surrounding areas.
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A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot in the chest late Saturday afternoon in the Portola district, in the latest gun violence in San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods.
The boy had been standing with a relative at San Bruno Avenue and Felton Street at 5:35 p.m. when shots rang out, police spokesman Officer Carlos Manfredi said. The boy was taken to San Francisco General Hospital.
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More than $800,000 in city funds will go toward greening and beautification projects throughout San Francisco, the Mayor’s Office announced Thursday.
The City’s yearly Community Challenge Grant Program offers matching grants to residents, businesses, schools, nonprofits and other groups to make improvements in their neighborhoods. The grants are funded by a portion of San Francisco’s business tax, with some businesses agreeing to contribute 1 percent of the tax toward such projects.
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Much more than a place to get a drink, Sam Jordan’s Bar has been a gathering spot for the Bayview working class since the late 1950s, a refuge for the hungry and a center of community activism. And soon it could have an official place in city history.
The bar, located in a modest two-story building on Third Street, is no architectural masterpiece. But the effort to make it a historic city landmark is more about what happened there, what it has meant to the community, and the man whose powerful personality was behind it all.
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One day after Mayor Ed Lee and California Pacific Medical Center hailed a $2.5 billion deal for two new seismically safe hospitals, financial projections showed the chain eventually triggering an escape clause that lets it shutter one hospital.
On Monday Board of Supervisors President David Chiu said the “startling revelations” could let CPMC close St. Luke’s Hospital by 2020, just five years into its 20-year development agreement.
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To combat rising gun violence in The City’s southeastern neighborhoods, Mayor Ed Lee is considering controversial police tactics that would increase street pat-downs of people suspected of carrying weapons.
Ten June homicides have raised The City’s yearly total to 38, although police say non-fatal shootings are down. Much of the bloodshed has taken place in Visitacion Valley and the Bayview.
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Some Nob Hill residents aren’t ringing bells over a proposal to replace a vacant church with a six-story condominium they complain doesn’t fit into their neighborhood.
Wrangling over the future of the property at Larkin and Clay streets has been going on for years, as the 101-year-old First Saint John’s Methodist Church sits unoccupied and boarded up. Developers want to replace it with a six-story, 27-unit residential complex.
A court exempted it from landmark status, but the Planning Commission rejected an environmental impact report for the development.
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A major deal for two new seismically safe hospitals is being renegotiated after revelations that the California Pacific Medical Center might be closer to abandoning its facility serving lower-income Mission district residents.
The $2.5 billion project by the Sutter Health affiliate includes a massive new 555-bed hospital at Cathedral Hill and a rebuild of St. Luke’s in the Mission.
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Giants fans, try not to hassle that Los Angeles Dodgers fan braving this weeks games at AT&T Park. He or she might be a cop.
Undercover officers are donning gear from the hated Dodgers during the current three-game series in an effort to enforce civility and prevent episodes like the one last year at Dodger Stadium in which Giants fan Bryan Stow was beaten until he was comatose.
"Certainly the rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers is as hot as its ever been," Mayor Ed Lee said. "We want to do everything possible that we can to make our city continue to be safe."
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San Francisco police unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to eventually equip patrol officers with mobile devices that will allow them to remotely file police reports and access case information without having to return to the station.
About 60 new cadets will be the first to test the system, with laptops donated by Hewlett-Packard. The private sf.citi partnership between local tech companies and The City, forged by Mayor Ed Lee and Silicon Valley tech investor Ron Conway, has donated $100,000 to the pilot project.
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San Francisco police unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to eventually equip patrol officers with mobile devices that will allow them to remotely file police reports and access case information without having to return to the station.
About 60 new cadets will be the first to test the system, with laptops donated by Hewlett-Packard. The private sf.citi partnership between local tech companies and The City, forged by Mayor Ed Lee and Silicon Valley tech investor Ron Conway, has donated $100,000 to the pilot project.
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