The sixth month of the year begins and with it the second half of this 2022, so you should be up to date with the most relevant local information, these are the news from June 6 to 11.
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A class action lawsuit seeks to hold the city of San Francisco accountable for raising sinking sidewalks in the city's Mission Bay neighborhood.
The lawsuit, filed last week in San Francisco County Superior Court, is based on a chain of agreements that created the structure for the development of the 300-acre parcel that was formerly part of San Francisco Bay. Under the agreements, the lawsuit alleges, the city assumed responsibility for maintaining Mission Bay's street and sidewalk infrastructure.
The lawsuit says that even when the infrastructure goes down, the city refuses to take responsibility for the necessary work. The plaintiff asks the court to compel the city to fulfill its duty to maintain the spaces.
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On Tuesday, June 7, a prescribed burn was conducted at the Lake San Andreas Dam to reduce fire danger in the area, according to San Mateo County officials, who said smoke can be seen in parts of San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos and Burlingame.
Cal Fire, the San Mateo County Fire Department and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission burned five acres to consume cured grass and remove vegetation that could compromise the integrity of the earthen dam, officials said. The burn will also help maintain access for inspections and monitoring of the dam.
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Two suspected DUI drivers were arrested after causing a fatal motorcycle accident that clogged two freeway ramps and jammed traffic in San Francisco for about five hours Tuesday morning.
The motorcyclist, a man in his 30s, was heading southbound on Highway 101 toward eastbound I-80 at about 3:30 a.m. when he struck two cars that had collided and was ejected from his motorcycle, according to the California Highway Patrol. The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate, a Mexican national who killed tourist Kate Steinle at Pier 14 in 2015, was sentenced to time served on Monday, but that won't end his long journey through the U.S. legal system.
Citing Garcia-Zarate's history of mental illness and the harsh conditions of his confinement, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria determined that seven years in state and federal incarceration was sufficient punishment for the two federal weapons offenses to which Garcia-Zarate pleaded guilty in March.
Chhabria's sentence, however, does not resolve the charges Garcia-Zarate must face in federal court in West Texas for violating the terms of his supervised release following his conviction for illegal re-entry into the United States after deportation.
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A jury in San Francisco found defendant Vincent Jacobo guilty of second-degree murder for a 2013 killing, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday.
Jacobo was convicted of murdering Maurice White, his roommate at the time. According to the prosecutor, Jacobo texted White and asked him to meet him in the Mission District. Upon meeting Jacobo, the two argued and White attempted to escape. Jacobo chased him, shooting him five times, three in the back, one in the arm and one in the neck, killing him.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved Supervisor Rafael Mandelman's "A Place for All" ordinance to provide shelter for "all who are willing to accept it," the county announced.
Mandelman said the city's sidewalks "can no longer serve as a waiting room for permanent supportive housing"" and that San Francisco should be responsible for providing every unsheltered person with a "safe and dignified place to sleep."
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Peninsula Humane Society/SPCA rescued seven ducklings that had become trapped in a storm drain Wednesday morning. Agency spokeswoman Buffy Martin Tarbox said in a statement that they received a call from a resident who had spotted the mother duck waddling near a storm drain on Saratoga Drive in San Mateo. Staff rescued the ducklings by trapping them with a net and bringing them to the surface, while the mother duck stayed nearby.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Wednesday announced a plan to resurface 500 city blocks as part of the city's street resurfacing program for next year. The $77.2 million program aims to make travel safer and more accessible for drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians and people with disabilities.
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This weekend, San Francisco will host the largest outdoor display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in a decade. More than 3,000 hand-stitched panels of the quilt will be on display in Golden Gate Park's Robin Williams Meadow on Saturday and Sunday, marking the quilt's 35th anniversary.
The free event features hundreds of new panels that will be shown to the public for the first time. These include many from the memorial's "Call My Name" panel creation program, which aims to draw attention to the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS within communities of color, especially African Americans.
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San Francisco police arrested three teenagers believed to have been involved in a series of retail thefts across the city this spring. In a press release Tuesday, police said the suspects, ages 14, 15 and 16, were arrested on suspicion of multiple charges, including burglary, grand larceny and organized retail theft.
Authorities said there were 10 robberies in the city between March 18 and April 10 and that at least one of the three suspects was involved in all of them, and sometimes in all three, with groups of others.
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A 54-year-old man suffered fatal injuries in a shooting early Thursday morning in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, according to police. The shooting was reported at 1:49 a.m. in the area of Turk and Taylor streets, where someone shot the man in the chest and then fled in a vehicle. The victim was taken to a hospital.
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A convicted drug dealer was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco to 46 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, prosecutors said.
Emil Arriola Melendez, 33, of South San Francisco, pleaded guilty on March 18 to trafficking fentanyl. He is also believed to be linked to the deaths of three people, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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The San Francisco Department of Public Health ? SFDPH? announced Thursday that three additional probable cases of monkeypox have been identified in San Francisco residents through testing. If confirmed, these three cases bring the total number of infections so far to four, officials said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is confirming the new cases and will report them to the SFDPH. One of the individuals has recently traveled within the U.S. and the other two have not. All three are isolated and in good health, the City said.
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A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in San Francisco's Richmond district Thursday morning. The robbery was reported at 10:07 a.m. in the 4400 block of Geary Boulevard, where the suspect entered the bank and used a knife and a note in the robbery. After fleeing the bank with cash, the man was later apprehended, local police reported.
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San Mateo County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested a man Friday in connection with an assault with a coffee cup.
James Cook, 62, of Redwood City, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to the sheriff's office. On Friday at 10:02 p.m., deputies responded to the 3400 block of E. Bayshore Road for a report of assault where they located the victim suffering from lacerations and abrasions to his face. Officers searched the area and located the suspect walking down the street and he was taken into custody. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment and evaluation.
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