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Daytime drinker leads police to illegal marijuana grow-op in Bayview

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If the cops are hot on your trail, the last place you probably want to go is your family’s home — where marijuana is illegally being grown. That’s what police said happened in the Bayview last weekend after officers wanted to detain a young man who was allegedly swigging beer in public. Read More

Unholy terror steals kid’s iPhone outside church

He’ll probably receive a phone call from hell. Police are hunting for an impious robber who swiped an iPhone from a 6-year-old boy outside a San Francisco church during prayer services last weekend. About 7:20 p.m. Saturday, police said, officers responded to a Baptist church at Palou Avenue and Quint Street in the Silver Terrace neighborhood on a report of a robbery. Read More

Man caught trying to sell San Francisco Public Works manhole cover for scrap

A man was caught carting around 600 pounds of stolen copper wire Tuesday after he attempted to sell a clearly stamped Department of Public Works manhole cover to a Dogpatch recycling center, police said. Read More

San Francisco pizza deliveryman attacked, robbed of cash

A trio of thugs jumped a pizza deliveryman for his cash in the Bayview district Sunday, police said. The victim had delivered a pizza about 4:45 p.m. in the first block of Dakota Street, police said, when three men in their 20s attacked him and took his cash. The three goons fled and no arrests have been made. The victim reportedly did not sustain serious injuries. rnagle@sfexaminer.com Read More

Mayor Ed Lee touts job gains, rosy outlook in State of the City address

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Mayor Ed Lee proudly proclaimed on Monday that San Francisco is in an economic boom time, but he also acknowledged work ahead by laying out an ambitious list of new projects, initiatives and changes for the rest of his term. Fueled by a technology sector that has doubled in size to 42,000 jobs at 1,800 companies during his two years in office, The City is “back on track,” the mayor proclaimed. Read More

San Francisco police ID suspect in Tenderloin dog killing

Police say they have identified the man who chucked a woman’s small dog into the street — killing the pet — after it barked at him during a Tenderloin robbery late last month. On Tuesday, the Police Department released a photograph of the suspect, 35-year-old Laurice Barrett. Two years ago, Barrett was identified in a gang injunction as a member of the Oakdale Mob, a notorious Bayview-Hunters Point street gang. Read More

Man accused of setting girlfriend on fire in San Francisco has prior domestic violence convictions

The 22-year-old man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire over a laundry dispute has had three prior domestic violence convictions involving two other women, according to prosecutors. On Thursday, Dexter Oliver pleaded not guilty to 11 felonies, including attempted murder, in connection with the broad-daylight incident Sunday in which he allegedly doused 25-year-old Starr Lamare with gasoline on a Bayview district street. Read More

S.F. woman allegedly burned by boyfriend still critical but expected to survive

The woman doused with gasoline and set on fire by her angry boyfriend in the Bayview district Sunday afternoon remains in critical condition but is expected to survive, police said Monday. Police are still on the hunt for her boyfriend, Dexter Oliver, 22, who reportedly attacked 25-year-old mother of three Starr Lamare over a dispute about laundry. Read More

Killer sought after man found stabbed in Bayview

San Francisco resident Walter Smith, 30, was found stabbed in the Bayview early New Year’s Day. He later died at General Hospital. Police are seeking tips in the slaying, The City’s first homicide of 2013, a police spokesman said. A detailed suspect description was not available. Read More

NRA is hurtling into irrelevance

While reasonable discussions about gun control have begun to occur following the tragic and senseless massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, one voice that can be discarded as irrational is that of the National Rifle Association, the country’s dominant pro-gun lobby. Read More
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