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A San Francisco man who faced murder charges in the death of a former neighborhood activist during a bondage session was allowed to plead guilty Friday to manslaughter after the prosecution's case was undermined by a legal challenge, authorities said. Terry... (original story)
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Sure, open-carry advocates, you can flash guns in public all you want. Just don't be drunk when you do it. A 29-year-old man who is known to the local cops for his imbibing found that out the hard way in San Bruno. Christian George Gonzalez was allegedly... (original story)
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Two spectators at a men's rugby match at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill were injured when one of them punched the other in the jaw, prompting that man to open fire with a gun, a campus official said today. The violence erupted at about 8 p.m.... (original story)
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Good environmental art works not only on its own, it sharpens our sense of perception. This steep spike in the Presidio is assembled from 37 cypresses felled as part of the national park's ongoing reforestation, a carefully arranged bundle lodged in concrete... (original story)
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The ringed planet Saturn, brilliant jewel of the night sky, has revealed new insights into the behavior of its rings for scientists studying signals from the Cassini spacecraft still flying through the Saturnian neighborhood after six years in orbit. "We now... (original story)
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The number of narcotics cases that San Francisco prosecutors have dropped since the Police Department's drug-lab scandal went public is up to 180, and the district attorney says more cases will be dismissed until the city's police officers can perform basic... (original story)
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The King Street off-ramp to Interstate 280 in San Francisco was blocked and Muni service was affected this morning because of a crash in which a pedestrian was crushed. The crash happened at Fourth and King streets shortly after 5 a.m. when a Recology Golden... (original story)
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A teenager who at age 14 was the youngest person ever charged as an adult in San Mateo County told fellow gang members from jail to scare witnesses who were supposed to testify in his murder case, which ended in a mistrial, prosecutors said today. Six alleged... (original story)
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Being dead can be a real drag, especially if you're alive. Just ask Doris Temple, 85, a Navy veteran who learned in January that the government had declared her deceased. Strongly suspecting an error, she protested, but not before she lost her health... (original story)
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San Francisco and a group of government-owned utilities from around California took their campaign against a Pacific Gas and Electric Co.-sponsored ballot measure to court Thursday, arguing that Proposition 16 is a power grab dressed up as an expansion of... (original story)