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Cops talk gangs, sideshows at Mission Station community meeting

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Sideshows were front-of-mind for community members who attended last night’s monthly meeting at the Mission Police Station. When newly appointed station captain Liza Johansen asked the attendees for questions and concerns, sideshows came up as a point of concern for many. Sideshows are unsanctioned car-related stunt shows, often involving huge crowds, loud noises and reckless driving. Many cause heavy traffic bottlenecks around the area and sometimes injuries. The Mission is no stranger to sideshows, however, over the past two years the numbers of stunt shows reported have been on the rise.  According to SFPD open data, 29 stunt shows or instances involving a stunt vehicle have been reported so far this year. Ten of these have taken place somewhere in the Mission. According to the […]

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Santa Rosa joins Escambia County in closing school Thursday for Hurricane Helene

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.)Both Escambia and Santa Rosa County school districts have announced schools will be closed on Thursday due to possible inclement weather associated with Hurricane Helene.Escambia County Public Schools Superintendent Keith Leonard announced shortly before 4:30 that schools and district offices will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. Moments later, Santa Rosa school officials followed, saying they received additional information from the National Weather Service of Mobile including updated wind advisories.The National Weather Service forecasts severe weather moving through the area on Thursday, with the possibility of high winds that could endanger school bus travel, heavy rains, and significant tornadic activity.In an abundance of caution, all schools, district offices, and afterschool activities, including indoor and outdoor athletics, have been canceled.Stay up to date on Helene: Hurricane Helene moves into Gulf […]

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District 5 candidates on Prop. 36 increasing punishment for crimes

Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.Proposition 47, passed in 2014, made it so some non-violent theft and drug crimes could only be charged as misdemeanors in California. The law has been blamed for homelessness and brazen shoplifting — stealing items worth $950 or less became a misdemeanor under Prop. 47, as did low-level drug possession.This year, legislators are trying to roll that back. Proposition 36, a state ballot measure in the coming election, attempts to crack down on […]

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A man who killed 2 Dartmouth professors as a teen is challenging his sentence

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it.Robert Tulloch was 17 when he killed Half Zantop and Susanne Zantop in Hanover as part of a conspiracy he and his best friend concocted to rob and kill people before fleeing to Australia with their ill-gotten gains.A hearing was scheduled Wednesday in Grafton County Superior Court to consider legal issues raised in Tulloch’s case.Tulloch, 41, awaits resentencing at a later date, following a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles amounts to “cruel and unusual" punishment. Another opinion made that decision retroactive, giving hundreds of juvenile lifers a shot at freedom. In 2021, the court found that […]

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Mission Local nabs top honors at Online Journalism Awards

We’ve done it again: Mission Local took home the “general excellence” award from the Online News Association on Friday at a ceremony in Atlanta, the second time in three years we’ve been honored with the national prize.We were among some of the top newsrooms in the country: the Boston Globe, ProPublica, and the Markup took home general excellence awards in their size categories.Judges were particularly impressed with our focus on data and visual journalism, our ongoing election coverage, and our commitment to training young reporters.We described ourselves as “San Francisco’s pluckiest outlet,” and judges agreed. Our submission included: Our much-missed data reporter, Will Jarrett, has his fingerprints all over this entry, and this award is a testament to the impressive data work he began at Mission Local and that we’ve built on. You can read more about our work for the […]

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Tropical Storm Helene Swirls Over Caribbean Sea

Tropical Storm Helene was captured swirling over the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, September 24, as hurricane and storm warnings were in effect for parts of the Florida Gulf Coast.Satellite imagery released by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) shows Tropical Storm Helene moving over the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday.According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Helene has the potential to become a major hurricane when it approaches the northeastern Gulf Coast on Thursday. Credit: CSU/CIRA & NOAA via Storyful Source: www.yahoo.com

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Video of SFPD shooting shows armed suspect at Powell Street BART

The San Francisco Police Department held a town hall meeting Monday showing footage of three officers shooting at an armed suspect after a Sept. 13 chase that ended near the fare gates of the Powell Street BART Station.  Justin Matthew Alderman, 30, was armed and the gun can be seen throughout the video. Released body camera footage by the San Francisco Police Department of Powell Street station shooting involving an allegedly armed man. Sept 23, 2024. Alderman was hit multiple times after being shot by two officers and is in “fair condition,” according to Chief Bill Scott.  The department did not disclose which officers shot Alderman, but it released the names of three officers involved in his pursuit: Colin Ryan, Bartholomew Sullivan and Phong Nguyen. The officers fired, according to acting commander Officer Mark Im, after at least three attempts by officers […]

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Workers to begin faithful reconstruction of Copenhagen’s fire-ravaged Old Stock Exchange

Five months on from a devastating fire that destroyed over half the 17th-century building, workers are set to begin a faithful reconstruction of Copenhagen’s Børsen Old Stock Exchange. Denmark’s King Frederik X will lay a “foundation stone” on Thursday (September 26) within part of a red brick wall that survived the April 16 blaze, commencing a years-long, 42 phase, reconstruction plan to return the 400-year-old building to its former glory. (AP Video by James Brooks) Source: www.yahoo.com

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District 7 candidates respond to pending school closures

Welcome to “Meet the Candidates,” where Mission Local asks supervisor hopefuls questions in the lead-up to the November election. In District 7 — which includes the Inner Sunset, Parkmerced and West Portal — Matt Boschetto and Stephen Martin-Pinto are running against incumbent Myrna Melgar.It has been a rocky time for the San Francisco Unified School District, which is currently dealing with a number of woes including pending closures, a worsening financial outlook and staffing issues. Under the “Resource Alignment Initiative,” the district is looking to close and merge selected schools — although which schools have or will be selected is still unknown.Last week, the district delayed the announcement of which schools are slated for closure, causing further disruption and anger among parents and students who have been left in the dark. On Sunday, Mayor London Breed announced that the city […]

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Trump says John Deere will be hit with 200% tariffs if production moves to Mexico

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday said he would apply a 200% tariff on John Deere imports if the agricultural equipment company moves production to Mexico, as planned."As you know, they've announced a few days ago that they are going to move a lot of their manufacturing business to Mexico," Trump said at an event on agriculture and China held in western Pennsylvania."I am just notifying John Deere right now that if you do that, we are putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States."Earlier this year, the agricultural equipment manufacturer announced that it was laying off some employees in the American Midwest and increasing its production capacity in Mexico, a decision that has upset workers and some political leaders.Trump has frequently said he would slap automakers that move […]

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