Issue: Brian Wilson’s status
Analysis: The All-Star closer’s health, though a concern given his 2011 elbow problems and his recent revelation that he’s suffered hip problems throughout his career, factors into a potential scenario that’s gone largely ignored by fans and the media.
Wilson, who turns 30 in less than a month, isn’t under contract for 2013.
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An Oakland police officer last weekend shot and injured a cousin of Oscar Grant III, who was killed by a BART cop on a train platform in a high-profile incident on New Year’s Day in 2009.Tony Jones, 24, whose mother, Bertrina Works-Grant, is the sister of Grant’s father, suffered a bullet wound to his lower back Sunday night while running from police, his attorney, Waukeen McCoy, said Wednesday.
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San Francisco police said they arrested two youths and recovered 21 stolen bicycles from an Ingleside district home Tuesday after responding to a Craigslist advertisement.Police at the Mission Station announced the recovery via Twitter on Wednesday, offering a link with pictures of the stolen bicycles in the hope that their owners will reclaim them.
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Was he a killer or a scavenger? A man was arrested for allegedly possessing an ATM card belonging to Richard Sprague, the victim of a heartbreaking and mysterious homicide in the Mission district Sunday, police said Wednesday.The suspect, whose identity has not been released, has been charged with felony possession of stolen property, police Officer Albie Esparza said Wednesday.
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A suspect was arrested Monday in connection with last week’s stabbing death of Luther Robinson in the Bayview, police said Wednesday. Robinson, 54, was reportedly involved in an altercation with the suspect near Mendell Plaza at Third Street and Palou Avenue when the suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed Robinson to death.A candlelight vigil was held for Robinson on Wednesday night, the victim’s nephew Dwayne Robinson said.
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A man was assaulted and robbed in the Mission on Tuesday, police said. The 28-year-old victim was walking near 17th and Mission streets around 11:25 p.m. when he was attacked by two men in their late 20s, police said. The hoodlums knocked the victim to the ground and took his cellphone and cash before fleeing on foot. No arrests have been made.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
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A man was stabbed during an apparent spat over drugs and an allegedly missing cellphone in the Tenderloin on Monday night, police said.The victim, 19, who suffered life-threatening stab wounds to the torso and arm, told cops he was attacked after leaving a knife-toting druggie’s apartment building in the 600 block of Ellis Street about 9:40 p.m.
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One neighbor said he was reading when he heard Richard Sprague cry out, “Help! 911! Help!” Another said he was asleep and believed Sprague’s pleas were part of a dream. And a third resident figured Sprague was just some homeless druggie.What they all heard were the agonizing cries of a man dying on a Mission district street early Sunday, yet it took about five hours before a resident of Julian Avenue near 15th Street called police.
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At 4-foot-11 and 112 pounds, you wouldn’t look at Melissa McMorrow and think she had the nickname “Mighty,” and would be boxing for a world title this weekend.
Yet, that’s exactly what McMorrow will be doing in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday, when she faces Arely Mucino for the WBA women’s interim flyweight world title.
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Students of City Arts and Technology High School 12th-grade government teacher Ben Rosen presented films they created about the American prison system and mental health institutionalization at a film festival in late January.How did you come up with the film festival idea? It was a collaboration between some of the teachers at the school, trying to decide how to give kids an opportunity to access some of their research materials.
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