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Nevada governor speaks to patient dumping allegations

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CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is responding to allegations that his state is dumping psychiatric patients in other locales, including San Francisco, after they’re discharged. Sandoval issued a statement Tuesday saying disciplinary action was taken after he learned that at least one patient was improperly discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. He added that a new policy was implemented weeks ago to strengthen oversight, and he denied Nevada had a policy of dumping. Read More

Demonstrators disrupt Wells Fargo meeting in Utah, protest outside S.F. headquarters

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A dozen people protesting Wells Fargo’s mortgage policies disrupted a shareholders’ meeting in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, and one of them tried to make a citizen’s arrest of CEO John Stumpf. And in San Francisco, about 30 demonstrators gathered outside Wells Fargo’s headquarters on Montgomery Street in the Financial District to mourn what they said were losses caused by the bank. The gathering was in support of the Salt Lake City protesters. Read More

Pianist Daniel Glover, lectures and other San Francisco activities

Pianist Daniel Glover
San Francisco events for Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Read More

San Francisco events April 19 - 21

San Francisco events for April 19 - 21, 2013. Read More

1906 Earthquake remembrance and other San Francisco events

1906 earthquake
San Francisco events for April 18, 2013. Read More

Laura Mvula, lectures, films and other San Francisco events

Laura Mvula
San Francisco events for April 17, 2013. Who’s in town Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, lectures on issues surrounding carbon pollution. [Noon, Commonwealth Club, 595 Market St., S.F.] Lectures Read More

Molly Ringwald, films and other San Francisco events

Molly Ringwald
San Francisco events for April 16, 2013. Who’s in town Dance artist Shantala Shivalingappa performs a program of works choreographed by herself and other dance-makers of our time. [8 p.m., Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F.] Lectures Read More

Man shocked with stun gun during melee on BART train

A passenger reportedly fired a stun gun during a battle for a seat on a rush-hour BART train Wednesday morning, the transit agency said. A fight between passengers broke out just before 8 a.m. Wednesday, according to news reports, as a San Francisco International Airport-bound train approached the Pleasant Hill station. Witnesses said a younger man swung at an older man while arguing over a seat. The older man then wrapped the younger man in a headlock, police said, and at that point a third passenger pulled out a stun gun and fired it at the younger man. Read More

Jazzy Vijay Iver, SF Film Society fundraiser and other San Francisco events

San Francisco events for April 10, 2013. Read More

America’s Cup events to exclude food trucks

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Food trucks will not be allowed in the America’s Cup Park or America’s Cup Village during the upcoming international regatta, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The event’s “master concessionaire,” Levy Premium Foodservice, has asked for applications for 27 food and beverage slots and 12 booths, but has specifically excluded food trucks, according to the newspaper. It’s also looking for vendors for a separate 5,000-square-foot sports bar and food and beverage outlet. Read More

San Francisco blasted by strong winds

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It’s been a wildly windy few days across California. Northern California was the first to feel the lashing blasts, which spread to the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys then as far south as San Diego County. In city, at least a dozen trees came down, police Officer John Tozzini told KGO-TV (Ch. 7), which reported that more than 20,000 utility customers lost power in the Bay Area. Read More

Gurf Morlix performs, lectures, movies and other San Francisco events

The Revolutionary Optimists
San Francisco events for April 8, 2013. Read More

San Francisco health care provider On Lok Lifeways receiving grant

On Lok Lifeways
A local health care provider is receiving an $897,240 grant to further strengthen its services to Bay Area seniors. On Lok Lifeways is one of nine California health care organizations included in UnitedHealthcare’s $5.2 million grant to boost services in underserved communities. The award will allow On Lok to strengthen its electronic medical records system, “PACELink,” through software upgrades, new technology investments and improved training. Read More

Anonymous tipster set to receive $250,000 reward for tip in San Francisco homicide case

An anonymous tipster is set to receive a $250,000 reward for his help in solving a seven-year-old homicide. The killing happened April 4, 2006, when Willie Allen, aka Johnny Allen, pictured, was exiting a Fillmore Street store and was attacked by a man with a knife. He died that night. Two years later, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Allen’s killer. Read More
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