Ex-CEO Who Bankrupted Dairy Co-op Pleads Guilty
The Ferndale Enterprise
SAN FRANCISCO (May 6) -- The former head of a northern California dairy cooperative who was blamed for the company's bankruptcy has pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of loan fraud. Rich...
Tribe Travels From Amazon to Battle Oil Company
Mitch Anderson, Amazon Watch
SAN FRANCISCO (May 5) -- It took the three Achuar tribal leaders nine days to journey from their homes in the Peruvian Amazon to San Francisco, most of the time spent traveling by river in a small...
California County Bans Toys With Fast-Food Meals
AP
(April 27) -- For county officials in the Silicon Valley, it turns out that Happy Meals are not so happy after all. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, tackling the problem of childhood...
Bookkeeper Gets 33 Months for Bilking Danielle Steel
SAN FRANCISCO (April 21) -- A former bookkeeper who worked for author Danielle Steel for 15 years was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for embezzling $768,000 from the popular romance...
Michigan Grandmother Wins Environmental Prize
AP
SAN FRANCISCO (April 19) -- A Michigan grandmother who has fought pollution by factory livestock farms will be awarded the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize here tonight, along with activists from...
Woman Sentenced for Forcing Immigrant to Work Without Pay
SAN FRANCISCO (April 15) -- A Bay Area woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for forcing an illegal Peruvian immigrant to work without pay for nearly two years, U.S. Attorney Joseph P....
Confession Prompted by Lies, Prisoner Fights for Freedom
Courtesy Sharon Tissue
SAN FRANCISCO (April 14) -- Joel Alcox had been drinking heavily, had stayed up all night and had taken LSD when Lompoc, Calif., police arrested him in 1986 for the murder of a motel owner. At...
Judge: Bay-Area Burb Can Ban Palin Billboard
AP
SAN FRANCISCO (April 13) -- The San Francisco suburb of San Carlos can prohibit a new billboard that would have promoted Sarah Palin for president in 2012, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S....
California Activists Urge Boycott of Valero Gas
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SAN FRANCISCO (April 9) -- California activists are calling for a boycott of Valero gas stations after the Texas oil company contributed $500,000 toward a ballot measure that would delay...
California Puts Legalizing Marijuana on Ballot
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SAN FRANCISCO (March 25) -- California voters will decide in November whether to legalize personal use of marijuana and impose a tax that could raise more than $1 billion for financially struggling...
How San Francisco Does Universal Health Coverage
Richard C. Paddock
SAN FRANCISCO (March 23) -- Legislation to overhaul America's health care system has finally won approval in Washington, but in San Francisco, a system of universal health care is already in...
Man Who Posed as Hero Marine Is Sentenced
U.S. Attorney's Office
SAN FRANCISCO (March 15) -- A Palm Springs bank employee who posed as a highly decorated Marine lieutenant colonel at his high school reunion was sentenced today to a year of probation and ordered to...
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