SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - The San Francisco Board of Education has engaged in a bizarre abuse of political correctness since 2006, when it voted to kill the voluntary Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps . This self-righteous attack strangely resembles an inside-out version of the plot for free-spirited-teen movies such as “Footloose” stories in which uptight adults cluelessly attempt
Calling him "self-absorbed and narcissistic," a judge sentenced a San Mateo man to two years in state prison Friday for beating and kicking his girlfriend because she cooked his breakfast wrong, then punching her in the face before their child's baptism.
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - When an unsupervised minor sets off a grass fire or trashes a classroom, it seems appropriate that the parents should be required to pay damages that would otherwise be borne by taxpayers.
What seemed to be a winning idea instead caused a 71-year-old man to be tricked by two Spanish-speaking women into giving them $3,000 in cash and jewelry, police said.
As the clock ticks ever closer to the June 30 end of the Screen Actors Guild's contract, the industry is nervously contemplating the possibility of yet another strike -- even as it admits that, at least in terms of film production, a de facto strike already exists.
In what authorities are calling a sign of the economic times, the number of bank robberies in San Francisco and San Mateo counties is rapidly escalating - and investigators do not expect the trend to stop anytime soon.
SAN FRANCISCO ( Map , News ) - Next time you are downtown and have an ugly encounter with aggressive street panhandlers, you can thank the seemingly endless feud between the Board of Supervisors and Mayor Gavin Newsom.
As the clock ticks ever closer to the June 30 end of SAG's contract, the industry is nervously contemplating the possibility of yet another strike -- even as it admits that, at least in terms of film production, a de facto strike already exists.
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