SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco officials are asking the city transit to donate proceeds from an anti-Israel bus advertisement to San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission. This donation would come only after the organization took similar action for an advertisement targeting Muslims. According to recent reports, the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) donated proceeds from bus ads that painted Muslims in a negative [...]
OAKLAND—Over two hundred people gathered in Oakland on Friday, May 17 to mourn Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X. According to reports, 28-year-old Shabazz, who was a civil rights leader, was beaten to death at a bar in Mexico City on Thursday, May 9. Allegedly, the violence was the result of a $1,200 bill and two of the waiters arrested [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—NFL owners voted almost unanimously on Tuesday, May 21 and announced that the San Francisco 49ers will have the pleasure of hosting the 2016 Super Bowl at their new $1.2 billion stadium in Santa Clara. According to a blog post on the NFL’s official website, the decision “came as no surprise” considering colossal businesses such as Apple and the Gap [...]
HOLLYWOOD—Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times operation article on Tuesday, May 14 that she underwent a double mastectomy operation after learning she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Jolie wrote, “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk [...]
SACRAMENTO—NBA league owners voted for the Kings’ future, the result showing the plan of relocating the Kings to Seattle has been rejected. David Stern announced he wants to have a deal in place in 48 hours with a buyer who wants to purchase the team from the Maloof brothers. The vote 22-8 by the Board of Governors rejected a deal of $625 million [...]
HOLLYWOOD—The power of May sweeps continued on “General Hospital” this week as three familiar faces who had been vacant on the soap made their dramatic return to the series on Monday, May 13. Kristin Alderson, Michael Easton and Roger Howarth returned to the soap after being MIA because of a legal dispute with Prospect Park which recently re-launched the soap [...]
HOLLYWOOD—Back in 2009, J.J. Abrams revamped the idolized TV series “Star Trek.” Well Abrams is back with the sequel to his 2009 hit, “Star Trek Into Darkness.” This chapter follows our favorite space intergalatics Captain Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), Uhura (Zoe Saldana) and Bones (Karl Urban). I was never a fan of TV series or any of the [...]
LOS ANGELES—As the market improves so do the opportunities to find a great piece of property suited to you. Short sales are one way to find a nice home as a primary residence or as a rental property. Short sales, of course, are properties being sold by distressed owners at potentially a great discount. Since the sale price falls short [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco officials are asking the city transit to donate proceeds from an anti-Israel bus advertisement to San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission. This donation would come only after the organization took similar action for an advertisement targeting Muslims. According to recent reports, the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) donated proceeds from bus ads that painted Muslims in a negative [...]
OAKLAND—Over two hundred people gathered in Oakland on Friday, May 17 to mourn Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X. According to reports, 28-year-old Shabazz, who was a civil rights leader, was beaten to death at a bar in Mexico City on Thursday, May 9. Allegedly, the violence was the result of a $1,200 bill and two of the waiters arrested [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—NFL owners voted almost unanimously on Tuesday, May 21 and announced that the San Francisco 49ers will have the pleasure of hosting the 2016 Super Bowl at their new $1.2 billion stadium in Santa Clara. According to a blog post on the NFL’s official website, the decision “came as no surprise” considering colossal businesses such as Apple and the Gap [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Searchers discovered the body of 9-year-old Mikaela Lynch on Wednesday, May 15 in a creek near the Highlands Harbor neighborhood in Clearlake. Lynch, who was autistic and had the mental capacity of a 1-year-old, was last seen playing on a trampoline with her younger brother in the backyard of her family’s vacation home on Harbor Drive on Sunday, May 12 [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—In honor of San Francisco Small Business Week—an annual celebration of more than 85,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs in the city—Mayor Edwin Lee announced a new loan program with $12 million available to lend local small businesses. The program, aptly called Emerging Business Loan Fund (EBLF), intends to stimulate the local economy by creating another means of funding for [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Andrew “Bart” Simpson, 36, died Thursday, May 9 after the 72 foot long Swedish sailboat he was in turned over in the San Francisco Bay, trapping him under water for almost 10 minutes. Simpson was an Olympic gold medalist from the United Kingdom and served as a strategist on the Swedish Artemis Racing team. He was reportedly on the boat [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—The San Francisco Police Department on Friday, May 3rd, will be holding a graduation ceremony for its 234th academy class at the Scottish Rite, which is located at 2850-19th Avenue at Sloat Blvd. At 6:00p.m., 46 recruits graduated from the police academy. The Academy class has complete 31 weeks of training. After the graduation, the newly officers will begin a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—City Attorney Dennis Herera announced on Wednesday, May 8, that settlement agreements with 18 local restaurants businesses voluntarily took place in his office. The office was under the surcharge enforcement and amnesty program that seeks to remedy shortfalls between amounts collected from customers and funds that help provide health care benefits to employees. As of January 2013, the restaurant [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Five women were killed and several others were injured in a tragic limousine fire that occurred on Saturday, May 5, while driving over the San Francisco Bay. There were nine occupants total in the limousine that was en route to a bridal shower on Saturday evening and was traveling from Oakland to the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Among those deceased [...]
OAKLAND—Anthony Pirone, a former BART police officer has been charged with collecting thousands of dollars in unemployment benefits illegally. Pirone, 41, was fired from BART in 2010 when it became apparent that he was part of the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting of an unarmed citizen, Oscar Grant, 22, who had gotten into a fight on a train. Pirone allegedly [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco officials are asking the city transit to donate proceeds from an anti-Israel bus advertisement to San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission. This donation would come only after the organization took similar action for an advertisement targeting Muslims. According to recent reports, the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) donated proceeds from bus ads that painted Muslims in a negative [...]
PHOENIX, AZ—A jury found Jodi Arias, 32, guilty on one count of first-degree murder for the death of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander on Wednesday, May 8 at the Maricopa County Courthouse in Phoenix, AZ. Alexander was brutally murdered at his Meza, AZ home nearly five years ago at the age of 30. The trial, which began on January 2, caught [...]
ALGERIA—On Saturday January 19, a four-day standoff between militants occupying an Algerian Natural Gas Complex came to a deadly close when Algerian Special Forces, aided by air support from the Algerian Air Force, stormed the complex. Thirty-seven hostages and 11 Algerian workers are confirmed dead, alongside 29 militants.The crisis began when armed militants driving pick-up trucks assulted a natural Gas [...]
HOLLYWOOD—Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times operation article on Tuesday, May 14 that she underwent a double mastectomy operation after learning she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, which increases her risk of developing breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Jolie wrote, “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk [...]
WEST HOLLYWOOD—On Wednesday night, actor and singer Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ vehicle was swarmed by police officers at gunpoint. According to officials, there had been a report that there were firearms inside of P. Diddy’s luxury Maybach. Diddy had been dropped off at SoHo house in West Hollywood by his bodyguard moments before the police blocked the vehicle from leaving. [...]
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