City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s campaign against a handful of smoke shops selling crack and meth pipes ended today with a settlement prohibiting the practice and securing penalties from the violators, his office announced.
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Talk about fueling a fight.Two female drivers were on the brink of an all-out brawl at an Outer Mission gas station on Wednesday, police said.One of the women told cops she was assaulted right as she was about to pump gas into her car at the Arco station at Mission Street and Sickles Avenue around 3 p.m.
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Following a state audit of attendance rates, 18 out of 105 San Francisco public schools with after-school programs are losing some grant funding. But school district officials said the reductions will not affect the ability to serve students.
Click on the photo at right to see a chart on school funding.
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The state's Department of Public Health announced today that it issued its most severe citation and a $100,000 fine to a convalescent center in San Francisco's Outer Mission neighborhood where a resident was killed allegedly at the hands of a staff member last year.
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Women were targeted in a series of violent robberies on San Francisco’s streets during the last 24 hours.
A 23-year-old woman was punched in the face during a struggle for her iPhone in the Potrero Hill neighborhood around 6:15 p.m., police said.
Less than four hours earlier, a 39-year-old woman was punched and robbed at knifepoint of cash, a gold necklace and earrings in the Outer Mission district.
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The latest U.S. census data confirms much of what we knew about already San Francisco. That white hipsters are displacing Hispanics in the Mission. That Asians are now as common as blacks in the Bayview. And that the population in the South of Market area has exploded.
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A 2-inch valve on a water main broke Thursday morning in San Francisco’s Outer Mission neighborhood, creating a geyser of water that could be seen by commuters on a BART train traveling on nearby tracks, a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokeswoman said.The broken valve was reported around 7:45 a.m. near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Niagara Avenue, SFPUC spokeswoman Suzanne Gautier said.
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