Day Around the Bay: Reward Raised For Info In 2022 Crocker-Amazon Shooting
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by Jay Barmann
7h ago
Benicia police have announced the arrests of three people in connection with a March 18 bank robbery. A 53-year-old man from Vacaville has been identified as the robbery suspect, but also arrested were a 68-year-old male getaway driver from Fairfield and a 74-year-old woman from Vallejo who had a warrant out for her arrest in connection with another case. [KRON4] The reward amount has been raised for information in the case of the fatal 2022 shootings of two young men in Alice Chalmers Park in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood. Brandon Alexander Cheese, 22, and Kieran Carlson, 20, were both kil ..read more
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SFFILM Festival Announces 2024 Film Festival Lineup, Including Richard Roundtree’s Final Role
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by Joe Kukura
7h ago
The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2024 lineup, with an Opening Night feature shot in Fremont, and a Closing Night feature that has the final screen appearance of the late Richard Roundtree (Shaft). It’s Christmas Day for Bay Area film fans, as this morning we got the full schedule and lineup for the 67th annual SFFILM Festival (April 24-28). This year’s festival features 82 films from 40 different countries, with highlights including a Sundance award-winner shot and set in Fremont, Anne Hathaway’s latest, the last-ever screen appearance of Richard (“Shaft”) Roundtre ..read more
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Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations
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by Joe Kukura
7h ago
New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blane Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres. The big complaint about your San Francisco Giants' offseason was that they missed out on free agent superstar Shohei Ohtani, and then on Japanese pitching phenom Yoshinobu Yamamoto, losing out on both to their despised in-division rival LA Dodgers. So let’s check in on Ohtani and Yamamoto! Shohei Ohtani is currently embroiled in baseball’s most massive gambling scandal since Pete ..read more
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Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy
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by Jay Barmann
7h ago
The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. On Wednesday, at a preliminary hearing in the case in Dublin, prosecutors moved to drop the enhancements and special circumstances attached to the double murder charges, thereby opening up the possibility of a reduced sentence and parole for the defendant, if he is convicted. The defendant going to trial in the 2022 murder is former Alameda County Deputy Sheriff Dev ..read more
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Pacifica Woman Allegedly Shoots Son, Drives Off, and Is Killed By Police
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by Jay Barmann
8h ago
An officer-involved shooting occurred in Pacifica Wednesday morning, and reportedly the person shot was a woman who had just shot her adult son. Part of Francisco Boulevard in Pacifica, which runs parallel to Highway 1 through the center of the town, was closed to traffic Wednesday morning following a fatal officer-involved shooting and subsequent investigation. As the Pacifica Police Department explains in a release, officers responded to an apartment complex on the 2500 block of Francisco Boulevard at 7:51 am Wednesday, following a report from a man that he had been shot by his own mother ..read more
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East Bay Man With Habit of Threatening Federal Officials, Including Nancy Pelosi, Gets 11 Months In Prison
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by Jay Barmann
8h ago
A Concord man who left threatening messages on the office voicemails of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 11 months in federal prison. Over the course of the last very divisive decade, House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi has become very familiar with ugly rhetoric and death threats from right-wing loons and MAGA fanatics across the country. 44-year-old David Allen Carrier of Concord, one of those loons, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of making threats against a federal official, in connec ..read more
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SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85
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by Joe Kukura
9h ago
Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed away Tuesday in New York from pneumonia. You’re likely familiar with notorious SF defense attorney Tony Serra, who’s defended the likes of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow and Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena. You may not be aware that renowned large-scale metal sculptor Richard Serra is his brother. While Richard Serra is a San Francisco native, his local legacy is probably best remembered be ..read more
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SF Bar Association Says DA Brooke Jenkins Is Inflaming Controversy Over Light Sentence; Judge Now Getting Death Threats
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by Jay Barmann
9h ago
A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and the SF Bar Association say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence as "reckless." Two weeks ago, a man accused in the 2021 stabbing that injured 93-year-old Anh "Peng" Taylor in the Tenderloin, Daniel Cauich, received a 10-year suspended sentence with probation. The judge in the case, SF Superior Court Judge Kay Tsenin, decided not to go with the prosecutor's preferred 12-year sentence, opting to give Cauich ..read more
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SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out
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by Jay Barmann
12h ago
While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell. Mira, the 40-story tower at 280 Spear Street completed in 2019, was designed by Studio Gang — the firm of Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang, which now has an office in San Francisco. It features a twisting pattern of bay windows that are meant to echo the bays of the city's many Victorian and Edwardian buildings, and it is now one of the most notable buildings in the city's skyline ..read more
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Here's What We Know About the Anchor Brewing Company Auction, As It Stands
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by Joe Kukura
14h ago
The winning bid for the up-for-auction Anchor Brewing Company was supposed to be announced at the end of January, but things appear to be delayed, and a company rep tells us “a winner most likely will be announced in late April.” Last summer’s stunning bankruptcy and closure of the 127-year-old Anchor Brewing Company was a gut punch to San Francisco, especially to local fans of Anchor's beer. But reasons for optimism bubbled up, because the bankruptcy proceedings determined that Anchor Brewing’s remaining assets would be auctioned off, so maybe someone would buy the brewery business and start ..read more
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