Articles Posted March 2008

  • Hans Reiser said he had many reasonsto be upset at Nina

    Hans Reiser said he had many reasons
    to be upset at Nina

    By Jeff Shuttleworth March 6, 2007 Computer engineer and murder defendant Hans Reiser told jurors yesterday he had a long list of reasons to be upset at his estranged wife Nina, who was last seen…

  • SFMTA approves $21 million settlementfor 2003 fatal accident

    SFMTA approves $21 million settlement
    for 2003 fatal accident

    By Jesse Dungan March 6, 2008 The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors voted Tuesday to approve a $21 million settlement with family and friends of a 4-year-old girl killed in 2003 in…

  • Defense lawyer: Nina Reiser was “a gadabout”

    Defense lawyer: Nina Reiser was “a gadabout”

    By Jeff Shuttleworth March 5, 2008 The lawyer for computer engineer Hans Reiser said today that his estranged wife Nina “wasn’t a perfect mother” and instead was “a gadabout, to put it mildly.” FCJ EditorMore…

  • Supes reject costly ramp in board chambers,Alioto-Pier vows to sue City

    Supes reject costly ramp in board chambers,
    Alioto-Pier vows to sue City

    Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, a paraplegic who relies on a self-powered wheelchair, argues for support of a wheelchair accessible ramp in Board Chambers at yesterday’s weekly Board of Supervisors meeting. The $1.1 million project, estimated to…

  • Quarters for the Magdalene Laundries

    Quarters for the Magdalene Laundries

    Adrian Jenkins By Adrian L. Jenkins, Special to Fog City Journal March 5, 2008 Every night in an Iranian cemetery a parliament of blackbirds gathers to blackly flower the kingdom of the dead. One midnight…

  • Bay Area News Briefs

    Bay Area News Briefs

    By Caitlin Cassady March 5, 2008 Man dies in hospital after his truck collides with J-Church line A man in his 60s died at an area hospital Tuesday afternoon after the pickup truck he was…

  • Commission approves cuts in city health services

    Commission approves cuts in city health services

    By Ari Burack March 5, 2008 The San Francisco Health Commission yesterday approved budget cuts to city health services, in an effort to trim down the city’s estimated $233 million budget deficit. FCJ EditorMore Posts