By:
Sasha Lekach
10/03/12 5:50 PM
Schoolchildren, along with local elected officials, laced up their sneakers Wednesday morning and walked through the Mission district to celebrate Walk to School Day.
A group of about 40 students, parents and teachers from Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 walked from Parque Ninos Unidos at 3090 23rd St. to their school at 3351 23rd St.
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Police did not have to search very hard for these suspects.
After a vicious bar brawl in the Mission district early Wednesday, both the suspects and victims were treated at San Francisco General Hospital, police said. Not long after the victims were admitted, police said, two men believed to be responsible for the attack arrived at the same hospital via a taxicab seeking treatment for their own injuries.
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San Francisco police Chief Greg Suhr will hold a town hall meeting today to discuss a nonfatal officer-involved shooting that led to rowdy demonstrations in the Mission district, including the vandalizing of a police station.
A plainclothes police officer shot a parolee Thursday night who had reportedly pointed a Tec-9 gun at the officer — an incident that sparked two nights of protests in the Mission district.
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As if to defy the notion that their movement is irrelevant just one year after its inception, more than 200 Occupy San Francisco demonstrators snarled traffic in The City’s Financial District on Monday.
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A recent crackdown aimed at curtailing drug sales and violent crime around schools in San Francisco’s Bayview, Mission and Tenderloin neighborhoods netted 25 arrests, police said.
Over a two-week period that began Aug. 20, San Francisco police conducted seven “buy bust” operations in the three districts as part of “Operation Safe Schools.”
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A woman who caught a burglar inside her car in the Mission district was punched and robbed of her karate uniform and other items Wednesday.
The 34-year-old victim told police she unlocked the vehicle remotely as she was walking toward it in the 1700 block of Harrison Street, near 15th Street. The woman found a man in his mid-20s inside her car, police said, and he had some of her belongings wrapped up in the karate uniform.
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FRIDAYImprov theater: The Un-Scripted Theater Company, specializing in improvisation, is bringing back favorite shows in celebration of its 10th birthday. Friday’s theme: “Fear.” [8 p.m., SF Playhouse, Stage 2, 533 Sutter St., S.F.]SATURDAYA great self-guided bike ride
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Two women were robbed in the Mission district early Sunday morning when a group of men confronted them after realizing they were working without their pimps, police said.
The women, ages 19 and 21, were approached by three men about midnight near 20th and Capp streets. With no protector in sight, the men cornered the women and stole a purse, cash, cellphone and identification cards, police said.
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Hundreds of school-aged children in the Mission district are set to receive free swimming lessons as a result of an $11,500 donation to the Recreation and Park Department.
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Dear Mom The Mission loves itself — and it loves itself some dive bars. Apologies to you, then, friend: Dear Mom is no dive. “The difference between a dive bar and your neighborhood bar,” says co-owner Jay Beaman, an alumnus of the Thieves bars, “is clean bathrooms and napkins on the bar.” Dear Mom has both in its high-ceiling corner space, along with a custom-designed corner-happy bar in between booth space, giant table space and loads of mingling space.
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