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Former USFL president launching spring football league for high school players

The former president of the latest version of the United States Football League is launching a spring football league for high school players. Brian Woods says his Prep Super League will begin next year with a six-week season.

June 07, 2023
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San Francisco Police chief Bill Scott provides an update on the homicide investigation of Robert Lee during a news on Thursday as Mayor London Breed (left) and city District Attorney Brooke Jenkins look on.

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  • National

A tech consultant is arrested in the killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee

Nima Momeni was booked on suspicion of murder in Lee's stabbing death last week in San Francisco. Police declined to give details on how they linked the death to Momeni or how the men knew each other.

April 13, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which meets at City Hall, accepted a draft plan of more than 100 recommendations for reparations to eligible Black residents. But the move was largely procedural and doesn't bind the city to any of the proposals.

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  • Race

San Francisco will discuss reparation proposals — but even supporters are split

While many cheered the possibility of a huge financial windfall for the city's Black residents, one civil rights leader says the proposal is a distraction from tangible efforts to redress racism.

March 18, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
Four or five goats scrambled across San Francisco last week, captured in videos posted on social media. So how do goats fare in urban settings?

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  • Animals

Runaway goats in San Francisco were probably ... freaked out

The video of goats dashing through the streets of San Francisco drew thousands of views on Twitter and was the subject of much joking. We asked a goat specialist to weigh in.

March 16, 2023
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  • Marc Silver
The Westin St. Francis San Francisco on Union Square hotel hosted this year's JPMorgan Healthcare Conference — the first since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. (Darius Tahir/KHN)

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  • Health

At buzzy health care business conference, investors fear the bubble will burst

JPMorgan's cheery confab returned to San Francisco, but the health care capitalists had economic anxiety, too.

January 20, 2023
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  • Darius Tahir
A San Francisco art gallery owner who was seen on video spraying water on a homeless woman with a hose has been arrested, according to authorities. Here, San Francisco police cars sit parked in front of the Hall of Justice on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.

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  • National

A San Francisco business owner is arrested after spraying homeless woman with a hose

If convicted, 71-year-old Collier Gwin could face up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine, officials say. The case remains under investigation.

January 19, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Waves crash into a seawall in Pacifica, Calif., Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. California weather calmed Friday but the lull was expected to be brief as more Pacific storms lined up to blast into the state, where successive powerful weather systems have knocked out power to thousands, battered the coastline, flooded streets, toppled trees and caused at least six deaths.

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  • Weather

California braces for more storms as thousands are still without power

California braced for more stormy weather as rain began to sweep into the northern part the state and the San Francisco Bay area, raising the potential for road flooding, rising rivers and mudslides.

January 08, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Exterior of the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. Live concert and comedy company, Another Planet Entertainment (APE), recently took over the historic movie theater's lease.

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  • Arts & Life

A fight over seats could define the future of an iconic San Francisco movie theater

Conservationists' objections to proposed renovation plans for the 100-year-old Castro Theatre in San Francisco illustrate an ongoing debate about the future of historic theaters.

December 05, 2022
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  • Chloe Veltman
Attorneys Adanté Pointer (left) and Patrick Buelna, who represent a woman whose DNA from a sexual assault case was used by San Francisco police to arrest her in an unrelated crime, speak during a news conference announcing their lawsuit against the city on Monday.

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  • National

A woman whose rape DNA led to her arrest sues the city of San Francisco

During a search of a crime lab database, the woman's DNA was tied to a burglary in late 2021. Her DNA had been collected and stored as part of a 2016 domestic violence and sexual assault case.

September 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Healthcare workers with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene help people register for the monkeypox vaccine at one of the City's vaccination sites, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York.

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  • Health

Under fire, US officials say monkeypox can still be stopped

The country's monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped, U.S. health officials said Thursday, despite rising case numbers and so far limited vaccine supplies.

July 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a briefing outside City Hall on Dec. 1, 2021. Breed announced a legal state of emergency Thursday, July 28, 2022, over the growing number of monkeypox cases.

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  • National

San Francisco declares an emergency to help the city deal with monkeypox spread

The mayor's announcement allows officials to mobilize personnel and resources and cut through red tape to get ahead of a public health crisis reminiscent of the AIDS epidemic that devastated the city.

July 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A Cruise AV, General Motor's autonomous electric Bolt EV is displayed in Detroit on Jan. 16, 2019. California regulators on Thursday gave Cruise's robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco.

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  • Technology

Driverless taxis are coming to the streets of San Francisco

Regulators gave the Cruise service approval to charge passengers for driverless rides, a first for the state. Initially, the service will be available at night in less congested parts of the city.

June 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Faris Ajluni (right) land Jose Nazario pose in their vests in downtown San Francisco.

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  • Technology

The Patagonia vest endures in San Francisco tech circles, despite ridicule

Flyers around San Francisco are urging tech workers to give up the quintessential Silicon Valley uniform: the fleece vest. It's just the latest flashpoint in the city's class battle.

March 31, 2022
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  • Bobby Allyn
A seemingly endless amount of drama, name-calling, lawsuits and outrage from parents and city officials, made the saga of San Francisco's school board a riveting pandemic sideshow. Voters recalled three members Tuesday.

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  • National

San Francisco voters recall 3 school board members

Voters in famously liberal San Francisco ousted three members of the board who, critics argued, focused more on renaming students than getting schools back into classrooms.

February 16, 2022
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  • Peter Granitz
San Francisco police are investigating a newly discovered practice of using rape victims' DNA to search for suspects in unrelated crimes.

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  • National

S.F. police face criticism for using rape victims' DNA to identify potential suspects

District Attorney Chesa Boudin said using rape kit DNA to search for suspects in separate investigations treats victims "like evidence, not human beings" and called for the practice to end.

February 15, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
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