Dom Fracassa
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Breaking news editor at the @sfchronicle. [email protected]. DMs open.
Joined June 2011
NEW: Newly revealed video shows that Mayor Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard shoved a man before being slammed to ground
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The footage adds context to what police have described as an attack on an SFPD officer by 44-year-old Tony Phillips, who was arrested and booked into jail.
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San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju’s refusal to take on some new cases is escalating into a rare institutional clash that will force a judge to decide whether to hold him in contempt.
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San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju’s refusal to take on some new cases is escalating into a rare institutional clash that will force a judge to decide whether to hold him in contempt.
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About 200 San Francisco Superior Court clerks went on strike Thursday, picketing outside the Hall of Justice and calling attention to what they described as staffing shortages and inadequate training. Read more → https://t.co/TcZKTDnGfb 📸: Colin Peck/For the S.F. Chronicle
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Trials were put on hold and other hearings were postponed as clerks picketed outside the Hall of Justice.
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Services at San Francisco Superior Court were expected to resume Monday after a two-day strike by court clerks was tentatively resolved.
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An Oakland mother is seeking answers after her 12-year-old son was struck and dragged by a hit-and-run driver on Christmas Day. He survived but suffered severe injuries.
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An Oakland mother is seeking answers after her 12-year-old son was struck and dragged by a hit-and-run driver on Christmas Day. He survived but suffered severe injuries.
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Former San Francisco nonprofit CEO Gwendolyn Westbrook was charged with stealing $91,000 and misusing $1.2 million in public funds meant for homeless services, prosecutors said.
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Former San Francisco nonprofit CEO Gwendolyn Westbrook was charged with stealing $91,000 and misusing $1.2 million in public funds meant for homeless services, prosecutors said.
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The city-issued SUV used by Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee was stolen and later recovered in Vallejo, according to multiple people familiar with the incident.
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The city-issued SUV used by Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee was stolen and later recovered in Vallejo, according to people familiar with the incident.
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A powerful storm dropped nearly 3 inches of rain in parts of the Bay Area, marking the region’s wettest day since early January. 📸: Giselle Garza Lerma, William Hale Irwin
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Conservative influencer Nick Shirley appeared in a video posted by JJ Smith, a San Francisco resident who posts videos critical of the neighborhood and the city’s response to the drug crisis.
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Conservative influencer Nick Shirley appeared in a video posted by JJ Smith, a San Francisco resident who posts videos critical of the neighborhood and the city’s response to the drug crisis.
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Here’s where S.F. students can get free meals if the teachers strike https://t.co/7GWYgbRaIB via @sfchronicle
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San Francisco will hand out free meals to city students 18 and under on Monday and Tuesday in the event of a teachers strike at several sites across the city. Here’s what parents should know.
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Exclusive: This is how S.F. City Hall is preparing for the looming teachers strike https://t.co/jKVSC8THcK via @sfchronicle
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City Hall is preparing to distribute free lunches and allow some city-sponsored after-school programs to provide services all day if San Francisco teachers go on strike as planned Monday.
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SFUSD, teachers fail to reach deal as strike looms Monday https://t.co/oBeeg9oygp via @sfchronicle
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San Francisco schools will have to shut down because SFUSD can’t ensure the staffing and conditions necessary to ensure students are well cared for in the event of a strike, district officials...
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BREAKING: S.F. teachers to strike starting Monday, source says https://t.co/WYJQYeTMuB via @sfchronicle
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Teachers notified San Francisco Unified School District officials they will strike for the first time in decades after nearly a year of bargaining ended in a stalemate.
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An ad on a Muni bus has gone viral for looking like a giant phallic symbol. It’s supposed to be something else, according to Muni.
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An ad on a Muni bus has gone viral for looking like a giant phallic symbol. It’s supposed to be something else, according to Muni.
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Exclu: Major shakeup at iconic Transamerica Pyramid is underway, leaving in doubt the future the NY real estate entrepreneur whose management of the $1B project has been celebrated as one of few recent successes in downtown #SanFrancisco. @sfchronicle
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San Francisco’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid has been renovated and seen success in attracting leases, yet there are questions about its ownership and who will operate it in the future.
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San Francisco’s Drug Court is seeing a swelling volume of cases. Some of them have included defendants accused of violent crimes they said were motivated by underlying substance abuse disorders.
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San Francisco’s Drug Court is seeing a swelling volume of cases. Some of them have included defendants accused of violent crimes they said were motivated by underlying substance abuse disorders.
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"Two suspects wearing masks and gloves rifled through cases and cabinets, eventually making off with more than 1,000 museum collection items, including jewelry and historical artifacts. But the Louvre heist this was not." By @abauman2
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They stole jewelry and historical artifacts from the Oakland museum collection. But they may have gotten more than they bargained for.
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After four decades serving San Francisco in Congress, during which time she became the first female Speaker of the House, @SpeakerPelosi will retire at the end of this term https://t.co/qyPy7xh4PE
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Nancy Pelosi’s departure, along with the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein in late 2023, marks the end of a historic chapter for female political leadership in California.
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NEW: A 16-year-old Fremont girl missing for almost two weeks was found alive Thursday afternoon, police said. @sfchronicle
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A 16-year-old girl from Fremont, who was missing for almost two weeks, was found alive Thursday, police said. “Praise God!” her uncle wrote in an update to a GoFundMe campaign.
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