A motorist who uses a hand-held cellphone while stopped at a red light can be prosecuted for using a wireless phone while driving, according to a decision by a state appeals court in San Francisco Monday.A three-judge Court of Appeal panel said a California law that prohibits the use of hand-held wireless phones while driving applies to situations in which a motorist has stopped briefly at a red light.
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A federal judge Thursday said parts of San Francisco’s landmark law requiring retailers to warn customers about cellphone radiation were misleading and infringed on businesses’ constitutional rights, but he did not strike the law down outright.
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BART’s board of directors opted to delay action Thursday on a policy that would have set guidelines for when the agency could shut down cellphone service.Several BART directors expressed concern about the language of the proposed cellphone shutdown policy.
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Cellphone service could still be shut down in BART stations — but only under extraordinary circumstances — if a policy resolution is approved next week by the agency’s board of directors.BART has come under intense national and international criticism for its decision to shut down cellphone service Aug. 11 in order to quell a planned protest.
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There are probably plenty of people out there who would like to see what Scarlett Johansson looks like in her birthday suit. But one of them is going to be in a heap of trouble for going so far as to steal photos of the bodacious beauty sans clothes.
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A teenage girl was robbed on a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus Wednesday night and another teen had her cellphone stolen as she tried to call 911 to report the crime, police said.The robberies were reported at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Brookdale Avenue and Santos Street in The City’s Visitacion Valley neighborhood.
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A man was violently attacked and robbed of his cellphone in the Mission on Thursday, cops said. The 39-year-old victim was in the 2700 block of Mission Street around 2:30 a.m. when a thug, described by police as a man in his 30s, attacked, punching and kicking the victim until he fell to the ground, police said. The crook then reached into the victim’s pocket, took his cellphone and fled on bicycle, cops said.
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A Muni passenger was robbed of his cellphone Thursday by a woman claiming she had pepper spray, cops said. The robbery occurred on a bus at Eddy and Buchanan streets around 4:35 p.m. The victim, a 19-year-old man, was sitting on the bus minding his own business when a 20-year-old woman took his phone while simulating holding a can of pepper spray. The woman fled and no arrest has been made.rnagle@sfexaminer.com
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Two men were injured, one critically, in separate stabbings in the Tenderloin early Monday, cops said.The first stabbing occurred in the 100 block of Eddy Street around midnight. A 35-year-old man was pushed and then sliced in the neck by one of three women, who fled in a white Lexus, police said.The suspects were described by police as black women of unknown ages, they said. The man was transported to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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Hold onto your cellphones — brutal thugs hunted from morning till night Wednesday. Men and women of all ages were roughed up and robbed citywide from as early as 8:30 a.m. till 10:30 p.m., according to San Francisco police.
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