San Francisco: San Francisco's sheriff has been sentenced to three years' probation and must undergo a domestic violence programme for a New Year's Eve dispute with his Venezuelan actress wife.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's sentence today was part of a deal struck with prosecutors over allegations that he bruised his wife's arm.
Mirkarimi initially faced multiple misdemeanour charges, including domestic violence battery. That could've landed him in prison for up to a year, if convicted.
Instead he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanour count of false imprisonment. The move came after a round of pretrial testimony about his love life and images released of his tearful wife, Eliana Lopez, with the bruised bicep....
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12:28 AM, Mar 20, 2012
San Francisco: The name Jaya in Hindi means victorious. And little Jaya Maharaj was just that, when she became one of the smallest recipients of a pacemaker when she was just 15 minutes old. A team of doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined the girl born nine weeks premature had only hours to live if they did not perform the surgery. Jaya, who was diagnosed in the...
07:49 AM, Feb 18, 2012
San Francisco: Police are on the hunt for a man who walked into a San Francisco art gallery, grabbed a valuable pencil drawing by Pablo Picasso off the wall and fled in a waiting taxicab. Police on Tuesday said the drawing, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, was taken from the Weinstein Gallery near Union Square. The gallery says Picasso created the one-of-a-kind drawing titled "Tete de Femme" in 1965....
12:07 PM, Jul 06, 2011
San Francisco: A certain feeling is back in San Francisco. Murmurings of stock market riches. Twenty-something entrepreneurs as celebrities. Lamborghinis parked next to taco trucks. Driven by social media and mobile startups, the money is flowing in the city's tech industry again, a decade after the dot-com boom minted overnight millionaires and its crash fuelled a local recession worse than anything San Francisco has seen in the latest downturn. A...
10:16 AM, Apr 11, 2011
San Francisco: Scientists have discovered four types of fungus in the Brazilian rainforest that can take control of ants. These zombie fungi alter the behaviour of the Carpenter ant and kill the insect in a spot where the fungus has ideal conditions for its spores. The fungi were found in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais and have been described in the journal Plos ONE by the team of scientists...
05:26 PM, Mar 14, 2011
San Francisco: The first gay museum in the US is opening in San Francisco, cementing the city's reputation as a mecca for alternative lifestyles. The institution, which gets its grand opening Thursday, is known as the GLBT History Museum, using the common acronym for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender. The museum is situated in the city's heavily homosexual Castro district and features personal items from gay pioneer Harvey Milk, who...
12:07 PM, Jan 13, 2011
San Francisco: A hijack threat halted an American Airlines flight just before takeoff, leaving the New York-bound jet sitting on the tarmac for several hours while it was searched and passengers were removed for extra scrutiny. The FBI later determined that the telephoned threat wasn't credible, but in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and a series of airline scares in the past year, the incident still...
01:33 PM, Aug 20, 2010
One train slammed into the back of another train standing at a platform. ...
03:45 PM, Jul 20, 2009
The duo were a celebrated two some who even hatched an egg together. ...
04:21 PM, Jul 17, 2009
Steve Jobs has undergone a liver transplant operation. ...
11:14 AM, Jun 22, 2009
Perth: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday made a surprise revelation that he may retire from Test cricket if he is to play in the 2015 cricket World Cup. If I have to see through the 2015 (World Cup), I would have to retire from one of the formats, Dhoni told mediapersons here. Dhoni, who has played in 66 Tests so far and won 17 of the 36 matches ...
12:19 AM, Apr 10, 2008
Sydney: Cricket Australia (CA) is not really surprised by pace sensation James Pattinson's injury breakdown in the ongoing Test series against India as it did not expect him to last all the four matches without getting rest in between. CA team performance manager Pat Howard said in the final analysis it is good that Ryan Harris is ready to take Pattinson's place in an unintended rotation of players. James was ...
11:08 PM, Apr 08, 2008
At least eight San Francisco beaches closed on Thursday. ...
05:54 PM, Nov 09, 2007
Seven finalists at San Francisco's Amateur Erotic Film Competition were following a long tradition of homemade porn. ...
05:53 PM, Oct 30, 2006
Unclaimed BlackBerry and backpack cause jet to change course. All safe now, say officials. ...
08:36 PM, Sep 11, 2006
