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SAN FRANCISCO—There has been five coyote attacks within a 2-mile radius in the eastern suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area around the cities of Moraga and Lafayette since last summer. The most recent attack transpired on February 19 outside of a Kwik Stop convenience store. One coyote has bitten adults and kids (children between the ages of two and...

SAN FRANCISCO—New data from Zumper National Rent Report for March 2021 (apartment rent platform) shows San Francisco rents declined 24.3 percent for the median 1-bedroom price since last year. The city of San Francisco is still the most expensive place for one bedroom at $2,650 per month. In June 2020, Zumper’s data showed San Francisco rents were down almost by 12 percent. This occurrence made the city’s decline the...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Monday, February 22, a 4-month-old Maltese puppy named Scruggs was stolen during an auto burglary in downtown San Francisco and returned home safely to his owner Saturday, February 27, the San Francisco Police Department reported.   The owner indicated he parked his Subaru on the 200 block of Sutter Street in San Francisco and left the puppy inside the SUV for nearly 30...

SAN FRANCISCO—The Russian Hill Royal Oak Fern Bar is on the market and being sold by its owner Katherine Papageorge. Tasha Delancy, the relator who is selling to the highest bidder at $8.5 million said that it could potentially be turned into something else by its new owner.    The Royal Oak Bar is 45 years old and opened in 1975. The décor consists...

OLD SAYBROOK — On Saturday, February 27 Old Saybrook Fire Department said in a Facebook post that a 37-year-old Torrington Connecticut man allegedly used a Molotov cocktail to start a fire at an ambulance facility and was also linked to other arson fires targeting Emergency Medical Services agencies.   The Facebook post said the suspect fled the state but was taken into custody Saturday night in Pennsylvania. He is being charged with...

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office will be asking City Hall for $ 2.3 million in the funding of a new task force. District attorney, Chesa Boudin, plans to use the funding to pay the salaries of this task force and will concentrate on solving the city’s fentanyl crisis after the number of Fentanyl deaths continue to rise. Close...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, February 26, 2021, charges were filed against an Oakland native for the shooting of Reuben Lewis III on Wednesday, February 24, 2021. Lewis was watching his son’s pee wee football team at Concordia Park when the suspect walked up and shot him in front of his son and his teammates.  The man being charged with murder is...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, February 26 a car burglary transpired in the Haight-Ashbury District on the 600 block of Ashbury around 12:30 p.m. San Francisco police said officers responded to a call of gunshots. During the burglary witnesses tried to apprehend the car burglar, but they were met with gunfire by the alleged burglar. When the officers talked to witnesses, the...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, February 12, 2021 a San Francisco Native was arrested and charged with the burglary of the recently defunct Cliff House. The restaurant was broken into on January 26, 2021 and several pieces of memorabilia were stolen in the break in. Two suspects were seen in the surveillance footage of the burglary, police have not said if...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Friday, February 26 California Highway Patrol Officers in San Francisco found a man's decomposed body near the U.S. Highway 101 and I-280. Officials learned of the death just after 10 a.m. near the corner of Bayshore Boulevard and Augusta Street. The city’s medical examiner is working to find the man’s identity. According to CHP Officer Mark Andrews investigators...