Examiner - A San Francisco man died early Saturday morning after a suspected drunken driver made an unsafe lane change and rear-ended the man’s motorcycle on the Bay Bridge, the California Highway Patrol said.
Ryan Willis Jones, 30, was headed eastbound in the tunnel just west of Treasure Island around 5 a.m. when he was knocked […]

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Kelly Medora, a petite preschool teacher who weighed about 118 pounds, went out with a friend in North Beach one Saturday night in 2005 for some fun.
Instead, San Francisco police officer Christopher Damonte, who weighed about 250 pounds, arrested her for jaywalking, twisted her arm behind her back and broke it with an audible crack.
Although […]

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OAKLAND - In a wreck that shocked even police, a gusher from a fire hydrant hit by a suspected drunk driver’s car Monday almost drowned a passenger in the vehicle.
The passenger, Walker Tiller, 59, of Oakland, who was knocked unconscious by the impact, was rescued from the flooding 1993 Pontiac Bonneville by a rookie police […]

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AP - The mayor of Colma has resigned over ethics issues after serving just three months.
Mayor Larry Formalejo told a packed public meeting last night that as a city councilman he committed an ethical breach involving the drunken-driving arrest of his son, but didn’t say what he had done.
Formalejo said that he “acted as a […]

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