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Cops & Courts, San Francisco »
Five people were wounded by a hail of gunfire San Francisco Saturday evening, just blocks away from the city’s annual Gay Pride celebration, police said.
The shooting occurred at 6:15 p.m. on the 1000 block of Market Street near Jones and Seventh Streets when an unidentified person opened fire on a group of people standing on the street corner.
BART Police Shooting, Cops & Courts, Oakland »
(6/13) — UPDATE 0720 PDT — LOS ANGELES — Johannes Mehserle, the former Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer who was caught on video shooting and killing an unarmed train passenger, was released from the Los Angeles County Men’s Jail early Monday morning.
Mehserle left the Downtown Los Angeles facility after serving 11 months behind bars for an involuntary manslaughter conviction for the killing of Hayward resident Oscar Grant.
San Francisco »
A veteran San Francisco firefighter was killed in the line of duty Thursday morning while fighting a dangerous four-story house fire in the city’s Diamond Heights neighborhood.
Lieutenant Vincent Perez, 48, served with the department for 21 years before he was fatally injured in the two-alarm fire.
Bay Area Snapshots, Traffic & Transit »
San Leandro, Calif.
From the California Beat photography collection, Bay Area Snapshots is an occasional glimpse at daily life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Cops & Courts, The Bay Area »
San Rafael Police released surveillance video of an armed robbery in hopes of catching the toothpick-chewing suspect who held up a Subway Sandwich shop inside the Marin Square Shopping Center at 4:45 p.m. Friday afternoon .
According to investigators, the man entered the shop and placed an order for two foot-long sandwiches.
Same Sex Marriage, San Francisco »
The San Francisco Giants became the first professional sports franchise in the country to release a video addressing bullying and violence against gay and lesbian youth Wednesday.
The team announced two weeks ago that they would record and release their own rendition of the “It Gets Better” nationwide anti-bullying initiative that was launched in response to several suicides of GLBTQ youth who were discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.
Cops & Courts »
The man arrested for critically beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow is also a person of interest in a gang-related Nevada shooting.
Giovanni Ramirez, 31, is being sought as a suspect in a Henderson, Nev. shooting that left one person wounded at a home in January, Las Vegas television station KLAS-TV reported.
Berkeley, Cops & Courts »
Police in Berkeley arrested three people for shooting a 22 year-old man three times with a BB gun near People’s Park Sunday afternoon.
The victim, a white male who was not a UC Berkeley student, was standing at the corner of Haste St. and Telegraph Avenue at around 2 p.m. when he was approached by three men who yelled a racial slur at him, University of California Police reported.
Cover Stories, San Francisco, Traffic & Transit »
Outer Sunset commuters in San Francisco who have grown accustomed to crowded cars and long delays aboard the N-Judah MUNI Metro streetcar line can expect some relief come June 13 — for a six-month trial period — in the form of a bus.
MUNI will begin a pilot project to increase capacity on the busy Metro line during weekday commute hours by instituting an N-Judah Express bus line, which the transit agency says will relieve severe overcrowding.
Political Beat, San Francisco »
A controversial proposal that, if approved, would ban male circumcision will appear on San Francisco’s November ballot, elections officials said Wednesday.
The Department of Elections certified just over 7,700 signatures gathered by proponents of the ban who aim to outlaw the practice of circumcising males 18 years or younger — even despite religious or cultural traditions.
