It was a heartbreaking work of staggering idiocy.A man was rushed to the hospital with chest pains Tuesday after allegedly committing the stressful act of robbery on a Muni bus.Police were called to McLaren Park, near the intersection of Mansell Street and John F. Shelley Drive, about 12:10 p.m. The victim told police a thief stole her cellphone as she rode a bus. She then called her phone and the suspect answered. He demanded money for its return and agreed to meet the woman.
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Authorities are connecting the blocks in their probe into a scam involving Lego sets at Target stores in the Bay Area, saying two men arrested recently in separate counties were not in cahoots, but rather capitalizing on a nationwide crime trend.“Apparently it’s a huge scam these days,” San Mateo County Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said Thursday.The scam in question involves crooks pasting barcodes onto expensive Lego sets at Target stores in order to score large discounts. They then resell the sets — many of them “Star Wars”-themed — on eBay.
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Tripping during the Zazzle Bay to Breakers not only kept a man from reaching the finish line, but it landed him in jail.Daniel Frank, 21, of Santa Clara is facing serious charges after allegedly taking a hard drug, possibly LSD, during the zany 12-kilometer footrace. Police said he went wacko along the racecourse, ripping out a woman’s hair, attacking other participants and tearing off a police officer’s badge while resisting arrest Sunday in Golden Gate Park.“He began spitting at the officer and ripped his star off,” police Officer Albie Esparza said.
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One of three women wounded in a broad-daylight shooting in the Tenderloin on Wednesday might have been the gunman’s ex-lover, police said.
The shooting was reported near Ellis and Leavenworth streets about 1 p.m., Sgt. Daryl Fong said.
The women were taken to San Francisco General Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. They suffered wounds to their lower bodies, Fong said.
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The reckless thug who shot a man dead amid a large crowd at a now-shuttered Fisherman’s Wharf nightclub in 2010 was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree murder and faces 50 years to life in prison.
Keandre Davis, a 22-year-old from Richmond, and another man cornered and shot 19-year-old Lawon Hall, also of Richmond, as a large crowd gathered outside Club Suede about 1:40 a.m. Feb. 7, 2010.
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Does this principal lack principles?
Sheila Sammon Milosky, 51, the Paul Revere PK-8 School chief who was accused last fall of harshly punishing students, might end up in the adult version of detention after a May 12 arrest on misdemeanor DUI and hit-and-run charges in San Francisco.
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Here’s the sports statistic San Franciscans look for most at this time of year: The arrest count for the Zazzle Bay to Breakers footrace.
Click on the photo to see more participants drinking throughout the race.
The colorful competition that starts at Howard and Beale streets, snakes through Golden Gate Park and ends on Great Highway is not only known for its many costumed runners, but also the partying “athletes.”
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Throwing bricks and glass bottles at people might mean you are crazy.
The attorney for 34-year-old Jesse Nesbitt — the Occupy San Francisco activist accused of heaving those potentially deadly items during protests last year and this year — requested in court Monday that his client receive a mental health evaluation.
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Mamitu Daska has said that she would keep returning to compete in the Zazzle Bay to Breakers until she’s won it.
After doing just that in dominant fashion on Sunday, event organizers might need to find another reason for the Ethiopian phenom to return to compete again next year.
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Simply winning the men’s field of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers is not enough anymore for Sammy Kitwara.
Having won the race the past three times he’s run it, the 25-year-old Kenyan speedster said he was disappointed following his victory in Sunday’s 101st running of the event, which starts at Howard and Beale streets, runs through Golden Gate Park and ends at the Great Highway.
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Kenyan speedster Sammy Kitwara, the dominator of the Zazzle Bay to Breakers 12K footrace, won the event for a third time in four years under blue skies Sunday.
However, Kitwara, 25, who set a world record at B2B in 2009, wasn’t totally pleased with his latest performance. He wasn’t the first runner to cross the finish line and earn the $25,000 prize.
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He is the homeless man who stands outside the Citibank branch in North Beach and never asks for a handout, becoming a neighborhood fixture by simply nodding to passers-by and saying, “Have a nice day” and, “God bless you.”
Most people who have walked past Selester Rowe for the past five years know little about the man who was critically injured last weekend after being struck by a hit-and-run driver at Stockton Street and Columbus Avenue.
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Authorities are casting a wide net in their hunt for “shameless” foreign con artists who have been targeting older Chinese women in multiple U.S. cities, including San Francisco.
Last week, five suspects in the apparently well-organized foreign ring were detained by police as they were boarding a flight to Hong Kong at San Francisco International Airport. They reportedly had about $50,000 in stolen cash and heaps of loot, including jewelry and cellphones, in their luggage.
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There were a few wrinkles in a San Francisco prostitute’s vicious plan to repeatedly shake down an 82-year-old john, prosecutors said.
Lynette Derouen, 38, who was on probation for grand theft after she stole from the former repeat customer last year, allegedly ignored a subsequent court order to stay away from the San Mateo man, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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A 21-year-old man was fatally shot in Visitacion Valley’s gang-ridden housing projects early Wednesday, police said.
Cops responded to the 1700 block of Sunnydale Avenue after ShotSpotter technology informed them of a shooting in the area just after midnight.
William Castillo of San Francisco was found lying between buildings with a gunshot wound to his upper torso, police Officer Albie Esparza said. Castillo was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where he died from his injuries about 3 a.m., Esparza said.
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