Attacking your driver is not a bright idea.A woman was assaulted with her own flashlight and robbed by two thugs Thursday in the mid-Market Street area, police said. The 50-year-old victim met the two suspects, described only as men in their 20s, at a bar at 18th and Castro streets. Around 1:30 a.m. she agreed to drive them to the Powell Street BART station, police Officer Albie Esparza said.
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This crook better reevaluate his taste in clothes. A man was arrested Monday for trying to steal an off-duty cop’s jacket from a Castro-area business, police said. Several off-duty officers were enjoying a night out in the 4000 block of 18th Street around 6:30 p.m. when they noticed the crook trying to pilfer the expensive coat.
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A one-alarm fire damaged an apartment building in San Francisco's Castro district, a fire dispatcher said.
The fire was reported in a three-story building in the 300 block of Noe Street at about 10:45 a.m., according to the San Francisco Fire Department.
The fire was controlled in about 15 minutes, and there were no reports of injuries.
Damage was confined to one room, according to dispatch.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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Three gay and lesbian clergy members are not feeling the Christmas spirit this holiday season after the Castro’s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church canceled its planned Advent vespers speaking engagements.
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Naked is OK, just don’t walk into restaurants or sit down on public benches or chairs without first putting down a towel. Those were the rules adopted Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors when they approved legislation introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener to address neighborhood concerns about nudity.
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The Board of Supervisors will decide today whether to pass legislation regulating nudity in The City, but don’t expect a parade of naked protesters to storm the hearing. Nudity is strictly forbidden inside the hallowed chambers of City Hall.
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Spooked by its violent past, the Castro district will not host a Halloween street party tonight.
There hasn’t been such a bash since 2006, the year a shooting injured nine people during the decades-old event.
In 2002, five people were stabbed and 30 arrested at the party.
But in 2007, the popular spookfest, held since 1979, was indefinitely banned in order to keep lawless ghouls from causing trouble.
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A serial cabbie crook appears to have struck again in San Francisco on Monday.Last week, cops warned The City’s taxi drivers of an armed thug suspected in at least seven cabbie robberies since July 14. In the majority of the cases, the drivers were robbed after dropping the crook off on quiet, tree-lined Beideman Street in the Western Addition.
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A three-story building in San Francisco's Noe Valley sustained significant damage in a fire Saturday afternoon, but no one was injured.The two-alarm blaze broke out on the 4000 block of 24th Street, between Noe and Castro streets. The first floor is a Radio Shack store, adjacent to a Wells Fargo bank, and the second and third floors are apartments. The blaze began around 3:50 p.m. and was under control within 40 minutes, according to San Francisco fire officials.
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A San Francisco man died after he was struck by an SUV while crossing the street in The City's Castro neighborhood Tuesday morning, San Francisco police said.William Cox, 59, was in a crosswalk at the intersection of Noe and 14th streets when a Ford Explorer hit him as the driver made a left turn onto 14th Street around 10:40 a.m., according to San Francisco police and the medical examiner's office.
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