Credit card fees for taxi drivers, an issue that has led to protests and threats of strikes, might be lessened or eliminated. On Monday, the Taxi Advisory Council recommended ending a pilot program allowing cab companies to charge drivers a 5 percent credit card transaction fee. In place since October, the program grants companies a waiver from San Francisco’s transportation code protecting drivers from such fees. Read More

Police combed an Inner Sunset neighborhood last weekend in response to two separate incidents in which women were groped late Friday and early Saturday. Park Police Station Capt. Denis O’Leary said a female UC San Francisco employee was walking to her car in the 200 block of Lincoln Way at 11 p.m. Friday when she was approached from behind by a man with his pants down who groped her chest. She fought off the man and ran away. Read More

Most babies are born in nine months. For singer and songwriter Amanda McBroom, who appears at the Rrazz Room this weekend, her newest arrival only took about a decade to debut.“I started on it in about 2001,” she says of “Dangerous Beauty,” a musical written with longtime collaborator Michelle Brourman that recently made its premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse. Read More

Infielder Juan Uribe is closing in on a three-year deal to leave the Giants for the rival Los Angeles Dodgers, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday.A key member of the World Series champions this season, Uribe was set to travel from his native Dominican Republic to Southern California to undergo a physical on Tuesday, one of the people said. Both people spoke on condition on anonymity because nothing had been announced. Read More