Woman Critically Injured During SF Sunset Purse Snatching, Scuffle
A woman was critically injured when she tried to retrieve her purse from a suspect who snatched it in San Francisco's Sunset District on Wednesday morning, police said.
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A woman was critically injured when she tried to retrieve her purse from a suspect who snatched it in San Francisco's Sunset District on Wednesday morning, police said.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said a legal brief recently filed recently filed by city prosecutors in a drug case, that argues all medical marijuana dispensaries in California are illegal, no longer represents the views of his office.
A 15-year-old boy was hospitalized after being attacked by a group of people while playing basketball in San Francisco's Chinatown on Wednesday afternoon, police said.
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A woman in her 60s was found injured in the street after she was possibly struck by a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus near San Francisco's Rincon Hill Wednesday evening, San Francisco police said.
A majority of San Franciscans want prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Binh Thai Luc, a Vietnam native accused of murdering five people inside a home in the city's Ingleside neighborhood, according to a KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll.
Online games company Zynga Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Mark Pincus and other insiders will sell some of their stake at $12 a share, slightly below Wednesday's closing price.
Newly-released court documents Wednesday in the case of a quintuple murder in San Francisco's Ingleside district last Friday reveal prosecutors believe the murders were committed during the course of a robbery.
San Francisco police are warning the public about scam artists who are targeting elderly Asian women in the city's Sunset District.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee joined other city officials Tuesday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the city's local hire ordinance.
The trial of Edwin Ramos, an alleged MS-13 gang member accused of killing a father and two sons in San Francisco in 2008, will enter a new phase next week after the prosecution rested its case on Tuesday.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon told CBS 5 that he was "unlikely" to seek the death penalty against a man charged with murdering five people in a home near City College of San Francisco.
Prices in San Francisco dropped 2.5 percent from December to January, the sharpest decline of any of the 20 cities tracked in the report.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday with the America's Cup Event Authority to host events in 2012 and 2013.
After being devastated by the recession, San Francisco's tourism industry is beginning to turn things around.
Mayor Lee said Binh Thai Luc, arrested on suspicion of killing five victims found inside a home near San Francisco City College, should not have been allowed to return to the Bay Area after Vietnam refused to allow him back.
Ross Mirkarimi filed a legal challenge in San Francisco Superior Court Tuesday seeking to overturn his suspension as sheriff on grounds of official misconduct.
A 27-year-old man was hospitalized after an argument led to a stabbing near the Occupy SF encampment in San Francisco's Financial District late Monday night, according to San Francisco police.
The man accused of murdering five people in San Francisco on Friday was set to be deported from the U.S. in 2006 but ended up staying after Vietnamese authorities failed to provide travel documents for him.
A few dozen people gathered outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice Monday afternoon to protest the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month.
A man was found fatally stabbed inside a home in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood on Sunday night, a police spokesman said Monday.
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A man was critically injured in a stabbing near the Occupy SF encampment along San Francisco's Market Street on Sunday night, police said.
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a passing vehicle when jaywalking on Lombard Street in San Francisco on Sunday, police said.
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