San Francisco International Airport is on schedule to open its newly renovated Terminal 2, the first LEED Gold certified airport terminal in the county, in April, airport officials announced today.Designers of the $388 million remodel project emphasized sustainable building principles and how the more than 3 million passengers expected to pass through Terminal 2 every year will choose to spend their time there."T2 demonstrates how we can achieve sustainability in a way that enhances the traveler experience," airport Director John Martin said.
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Bay Area public transportation riders are now able to use the long-awaited Clipper Card program on San Mateo County Transit District services, a district spokeswoman said.SamTrans, which has buses serving San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Mateo County, began accepting Clipper Cards this week. The Clipper program offers refillable cards for riders to use on several Bay Area transportation services, district spokeswoman Tasha Bartholomew said in a statement.Other services using Clipper Card include AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Golden Gate Ferry, and Muni.
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A woman was shot and injured in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood Thursday afternoon, according to a fire dispatcher.Ambulances responded to reports of a shooting at 5001 Third St. at about 2:35 p.m., the dispatcher said.The woman was apparently walking into a store near Quesada Avenue and Third Street when she got caught in the crossfire of a suspect who was allegedly shooting at someone else, San Francisco police Officer Eric Chiang said.
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The San Francisco Police Commission voted Wednesday night to set up a new team to handle crisis situations involving mentally ill suspects.The seven-member commission voted unanimously to create a crisis intervention team within the Police Department, which has dealt with two shootings of mentally ill suspects by officers in the past two months.
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A new stem cell research building opened Wednesday at UC San Francisco’s Parnassus campus.The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine building will be the headquarters for UCSF’s regeneration and stem cell research program, one of the largest programs of its kind in the U.S.“It is a great day for the field of stem cell research, and, most importantly, for the human race,” UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann said.The $123 million building encompasses 125 laboratories with scientists researching the earliest stages of human and animal development.
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A federal appeals court ruled in San Francisco today that Levi Strauss is entitled to a second try on its claim that Abercrombie & Fitch weakened the value of the trademark arch pattern on the back pocket of Levi's blue jeans.San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co. claimed in a federal lawsuit filed in 2007 that Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. diluted its trademark by adopting a similar pattern on its own blue jeans.
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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined Supervisors David Chiu and Jane Kim at City Hall this afternoon to announce a plan that would offer tax exemptions to Twitter Inc. and other companies to the city's Mid-Market neighborhood.The microblogging company, currently located in the South of Market neighborhood, would be exempt from payroll taxes for new employees for six years if it moved on or near Market Street between Fifth and 10th streets.
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A Fisherman’s Wharf souvenir shop worker accused of fatally shooting two employees at a neighboring business last month pleaded not guilty to the charges in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday morning.Hong Ri Wu, 56, of San Francisco, allegedly shot Feng Ping Ou, a 30-year-old woman, and Qiong Han Chu, a 30-year-old man, inside the souvenir and luggage shop where they worked at 269 Jefferson St. at about 8:20 p.m. on Jan. 30, according to police.
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All lanes of southbound U.S. Highway 101 just south of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco have been reopened following a solo vehicle crash early Tuesday morning that injured the car’s driver and passenger, a California Highway Patrol officer said.The crash just south of the toll plaza was reported at 12:40 a.m., and CHP Officer Ralph Caggiano said the circumstances surrounding the collision were unclear.
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A South San Francisco man was arrested on numerous drunken driving charges after allegedly causing a crash that killed one of four passengers in his car early Saturday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.At around 3 a.m. Saturday, a non-injury crash near South San Francisco began causing traffic to slow down and back up to Brisbane on southbound U.S. Highway 101, CHP Officer Shawn Chase said.
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Two suspects are in custody in connection with an incident Saturday night in which shots were fired at Oakland police officers.Problem-solving officers assigned to North Oakland responded to 58th and Genoa streets at about 6:40 p.m. Sunday to investigate reports that there was a man armed with a gun, police spokeswoman Officer Holly Joshi said.They spotted a man who matched a description of the armed suspect in the 800 block of 59th Street, Joshi said.
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Update: Drunken driver cause of fatal Highway 101 crash
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Two suspects have been detained in connection with a shooting that injured one person in San Francisco's Mission district on Monday morning, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.The victim was standing on the sidewalk in front of a taqueria in the 2100 block of Mission Street at about 7:20 a.m. when two suspects pulled up in a car and someone inside shot him in the back, Esparza said.
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San Francisco police are responding to a report of a shooting in The City’s Mission district Monday morning, a police spokesman said.The shooting was reported in the 2100 block of Mission Street, near 17th Street, at 7:22 a.m., police Officer Albie Esparza said. He did not yet have additional details on the incident.
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A Northern California man was sentenced to six months home confinement and 50 hours of community service on Thursday, after he admitted to smuggling the ivory teeth of endangered sperm whales into the U.S. for sale, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.U.S. Magistrate Court Judge James Larson issued the sentence after James Saunders, 69, revealed that he had arranged the import and sale of the ivory teeth between 2002 and 2006. Several of Saunders’ shipments in 2003 and 2004 had a market value of more than $200,000, U.S. Attorney Melinda Hagg said in a statement.
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