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SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, Oct. 22, San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers chased a male driver of stolen a U-Haul moving van through the Bayview District. The suspect later crashed the vehicle, ran into a river, and drowned after rescue attempts by officers of the SFPD and the California Highway Patrol.  The van was seen failing to yield for a pedestrian...

SAN FRANCISCO — The possibility of another wildfire in the Bay Area has caused PG&E to shut off power in more than 30,000 homes, the company confirmed Wednesday, Oct. 21. The San Jose Government website published a page describing the upcoming shut offs that should be expected due to the placement of the company’s equipment- in a spot that is...

SAN FRANCISCO—The city of San Francisco is changing how it deals with 911 calls concerning individuals with mental health issues. The San Francisco Fire Department, alongside the Department of Public Health are forming a task force to respond to non-violent psychiatric, behavioral, or substance abuse related 911 calls. In an statement released in June, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced...

UNITED STATES—Sleep is the one thing we all crave, but it is also the one thing so many of us struggle with: getting quality sleep. I would be one of those Americans. I have always struggled getting to sleep at night, I think this goes back to my days as an undergraduate student where I used to work nights...

SAN FRANCISCO—A recent inventory conducted in the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office has discovered evidence of missing and improperly stored drugs in the building. The inventory of the Medical Examiner’s Office was ordered by the Controller’s Office following the arrest of Justin Volk, 40, in August. Volk was a previous medical examiner at San Francisco’s Medical Examiner’s Office. He was...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, October 22, a man who stole a U-Haul died after he jumped off the San Francisco Bay Bridge. About 12:20 a.m., a man and a woman stole a U-Haul and rammed it into a California Highway Patrol car. A determination for the crash is unknown, but it occurred near Pennsylvania Ave & 25th Street. After the crash,...

SAN FRANCISCO—Sydney “Syd” West, 19, was last seen in downtown San Francisco near Crissy Field on September 29. She was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but was residing in California where she attended the University of California-Berkeley. According to the Orange County Sherriff’s Office, she was in San Francisco because she was staying with some of her friends. West’s...

HOLLYWOOD—I have been a fan of Jason Voorhees and the “Friday the 13th” films for as long as I can remember. I would argue since the age of 4. Don’t ask because it’s a long story, I have always had a fascination with horror films and that hockey mask that caused mayhem on Crystal Lake defined my 80s. I...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Wednesday, October 21, Mayor London Breed announced the new site for affordable housing in District 11’s Balboa Park Upper Yard (BPUY). The developments are estimated to be completed by 2023. According to a press release from the Office of the Mayor, the two new “100% affordable housing developments” will include a 3,994-square-foot licensed early childhood education center, a...

SAN FRANCISCO—Anthony Sauler and Michael Chertok met on OkCupid. The New York Times reported that in 2016, Chertok, 57, told Sauler about the recent loss of Java, a Rottweiler he had for 11 years. Sauler was also mourning Ash, a formerly feral cat who had wandered into his backyard and whom he had for seven years. The pair spent their...