From San Francisco Animal Care and Control
July 31, 2008
San Francisco –San Francisco Animal Care & Control is asking the public for help to find the person – or persons – responsible for stabbing to death a seven-month-old puppy in foster care with Grateful Dogs Rescue.
The puppy – named Pogo – was being exercised by his […]
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By Jeff Shuttleworth
July 8, 2008
A lawyer who has represented convicted murderer Hans Reiser off and on for three years said yesterday that he thinks that Reiser made “a mistake” in apparently leading authorities to the location where he buried the body of his estranged wife Nina.
John Fuery, who first represented Reiser in his divorce case […]
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By Ari Burack
July 3, 2008
The attorney for a suspected gang member accused in the June 22 slaying of a San Francisco father and two of his sons today said he would ask to be removed from the case, citing a conflict.
Defense attorney Joseph O’Sullivan told San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lucy McCabe this morning that […]
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By Julia Cheever
June 30, 2008
A commission created by the California Senate four years ago released a report today saying the state’s death penalty system is broken and “close to collapse.”
The California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice said the state’s death row of 670 inmates is the largest in the nation and that appeals […]
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June 30, 2008
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By Ari Burack
June 28, 2008
A San Francisco man was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison for the 2006 daylight shooting, as a juvenile, of another man who he claims had previously threatened his own life.
Daniel Elizalde, now 20, was 17 years old at the time he and some of his friends were […]
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By Ari Burack
June 20, 2008
A man charged in the death of a Haight-Ashbury neighborhood community activist during a bondage session at the man’s home in 2007 pleaded not guilty to murder today in San Francisco Superior Court and is scheduled to stand trial in October.
According to prosecutors, Joseph Konopka, 65, hired Terry Frazier for sex […]
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By Laura Dudnick
May 31, 2008
A shooting possibly prompted by road rage left a woman dead and a man and 3-year-old boy injured in San Francisco’s Mission District tonight, according to the Police Department.
Officers responded around 7:15 p.m. to the U.S. Highway 101 off-ramp at Mission Street and Duboce Avenue and found a car riddled with […]
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Bay City News
May 30, 2008
CDFA Issues Statement on Study by Apple Moth Spraying Opponents
The California Department of Food and Agriculture issued a statement Thursday afternoon responding to a report authored by a Marin County doctor released earlier Thursday by opponents of aerial spraying to combat the light brown apple moth.
“Aerially-applied moth pheromones have been used […]
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