Yet another portable toilet on Russian Hill was set ablaze early Tuesday. The toilet torcher struck again about 3:30 a.m., at a Porta Potti on the 1400 block of Greenwich Street, San Francisco police said. It is at least the 13th arson attack of a portable...
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Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The Magic Theatre , which has been a San Francisco home to such major American playwrights as Sam Shepard and David Mamet , is seeking emergency funding to salvage its 43rd season. The company is about two-thirds of the way toward raising $350,000 needed to avoid shutting down.
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars to recover the clean-up cost of the massive 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill.
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California has filed a lawsuit against the owners of a tanker which struck San Francisco's Bay Bridge in 2007 causing a massive oil spill that killed thousands of birds, a statement said.
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California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars to recover the clean-up cost of the massive 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill. Brown, filed the suit Tuesday on behalf of the state, against the owners, operators and pilot...
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Timecapsule: January 7, 1898 The most notorious criminal of San Francisco's Gilded Age was executed 111 years ago today. Sure, Jack the Ripper had set a certain tone for serial killing just a few years earlier, but the crimes of Theodore Durrant were even more shocking. See, Jack's victims had been prostitutes, but San Francisco's "Demon of the Belfry" had murdered a pair of ...
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One thing that's been driving me nuts here at Macworld Expo in San Francisco is the horrible state of affairs with bandwidth and the AT&T 3G cloud. Phone calls are hit or miss on AT&T's cell network. About half of my calls don't connect, fail in the middle or otherwise have weird silent dropouts throughout the call. Data connections on AT&T are brutally slow and the iPhone's 3G icon will ...
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