The Snitch

A Murder Most Foul: Alfonso Rodriguez, Possibly Beaten to Death, Is City's 41st Homicide

2009-11-08 09:59:03

View Larger Map Police discovered Alfonso Rodriguez near death behind the wheel of a car late Friday night at Cordova and Munich streets. The 39-year-old expired not long thereafter at General Ho...

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State Agency Grants Signal Shift Away from Embryonic Stem Cells

2009-11-06 17:29:03

In an April cover story, we looked at the dilemma facing the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency created through Proposition 71 to fund stem-cell research: Shou...

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Yelp Deathmatch Update: Business Owner Says Yelper Started Fight, Yelper Calls Tale 'Crock of Shit'

2009-11-06 16:15:50

We wrote earlier this week on the wrestling match that transpired after a business owner tracked down the address of a Yelper who'd given her bookstore a bad review on Sunday night. According to...

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New York Times' YouTube Investigation: Bicyclists Sometimes Run Stop Signs

2009-11-06 15:45:42

The odd media war unfolding in San Francisco -- in which major dailies establish editions here while local periodicals fade away -- advanced in a new direction Friday, with a page A-19 story in t...

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Real Estate Magnate Clint Reilly Returns to Political Roots, Will Direct Campaign For State Constitutional Convention

2009-11-06 14:59:11

Ace political consultant turned politician turned real-estate baron Clint Reilly is going back where he started, signing up to lead a political campaign for the first time in more than a decade....

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What Did Gavin Newsom Bring Everyone From Hawaii?

2009-11-06 13:45:32

On the one hand, following Mayor Gavin Newsom's abrupt withdrawal from the governor's race, he spent quality time back in a beautiful city nestled in the bosom of the Pacific. On the other hand -...

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Who Was Malik Fennedy? Mystery Is Solved.

2009-11-06 12:59:36

Back on Nov. 1, we reported that the man shot to death on Halloween night was Malik Fennedy, 22, based on an identification from the city's Medical Examiner. Several online commenters purporting ...

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City Softens Requirements on Clean Energy Master Plan

2009-11-06 11:59:23

City officials have backed off from several of the more ambitious aspects of a planned overhaul of the local power grid that is intended to make San Francisco's energy supply greener and less depe...

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'Signs' Point to Better Times Ahead for Cyclists

2009-11-06 11:15:54

For San Francisco's ever-growing cadre of bicyclists, this week opened with both good news and bad.On Monday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Peter Busch postponed until Nov. 12 his decision...

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Court Ruling: Man Officially a Dick For Giving Nazi Salute at City Council Meeting

2009-11-06 08:30:39

A legal case lasting longer than America's involvement in World War II has ostensibly culminated with the following conclusion: A man who felt the need to give the Nazi salute during government ...

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It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

2009-11-06 07:30:00

Gavin! Timmy! Tyson Beckford! Grizzly Bear! Immunity to cereal! What a week. But were you paying attention? 1. Putting the bizarre cherry atop a surreal sundae, an expert witness gave what ratio...

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What Other Cereals Can City Attorney Crunch?

2009-11-06 06:30:00

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is getting plenty of congratulations for thinking outside the cereal box and scaring the cocoa pebbles out of the Kellogg's corporation. Herrera's "sho...

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Alleged Defenestrator: It Was a Horrible Accident

2009-11-06 05:30:00

The man accused of pushing his drinking buddy out of a fifth-story window in what police and the District Attorney call an attempted homicide had his day in court yesterday -- and many more appea...

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Tim Lincecum: Come Be the SF Weekly Pot Critic

2009-11-05 17:30:32

Tim. We saw that you got busted for pot, and obviously we find it appalling. Will this end your promising young career?Or will your sinewy, 261 strikeout-throwing arm have to atrophy in the d...

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Bay Links: Cacophony, Fare Inspectors, & Grilled Cheese

2009-11-05 16:59:54

Early nineties video of San Francisco's Cacophony Society. [Laughing Squid] Shots from last night's gay marriage rally. [SFist]Oh, San Francisco voters, you are a capricious lot. [Sweet Melissa]O...

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