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| Dec.1 |
SF City Hall |
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City offers gift cards for guns
The city officials are handing out gift cards in exchange for guns in an effort to reduce the number of illegal firearms on city streets
| Dec.2 |
South of Market |
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Four injured in apparent drive-by
| Dec.5 |
San Francisco |
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Metromint Waters Voluntarily Recalled |
| Dec.6 |
San Francisco |
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Test in S.F. finds lead in lots of toys
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San Francisco |
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Radio host Ward faces child porn charges Longtime talk show host and former Catholic priest Bernie Ward, 56, has been indicted on federal charges
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San Francisco |
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Misconduct charges filed against spill pilot
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Giants |
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Giants interested in Yanks' Matsui |
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SF Downtown |
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Workers dangle as scaffold collapses |
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Barry Bonds |
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Agent: Bonds wants to play in 2008
| Dec.7 |
San Francisco |
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Ferry hits rocks near Alcatraz The Coast Guard is conducting an investigation after a ferry operated by the Red & White Fleet hit some rocks
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SF Tenderloin |
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Media frenzy greets Bonds at court
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San Francisco |
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Bonds pleads not guilty Bonds' new lawyer entered a not guilty plea in U.S. District Court to the 4 counts of perjury and 1 count of obstruction of justice
Flanked by an entourage of lawyers and family members, baseball's home run king smiled, waved. He was allowed to go free without posting any bail
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| Dec.8 |
SF Downtown |
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Shootings Injure 2 |
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San Francisco |
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Bay Spill Pilot Asked To Surrender License
| Dec.9 |
Candlestick |
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Man falls to his death during 49ers game A man was in the upper reserve smoking section. He had hoisted himself on the ledge and there was a tapere drailing. He took a 20 foot fall
| Dec.10 |
San Francisco |
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Giuliani Visits San Francisco Diner Rudy Giuliani was glad-handing his way through Mel's Drive-in on Van Ness Avenue
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SF City Hall |
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SF Sues Ship Owner Over Spill |
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49ers |
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QB Smith To Undergo Surgery |
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San Francisco |
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Gen. Abizaid In SF Forum Questions Maliki |
| Dec.11 |
San Francisco |
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2 Dead, 2 Arrested In Fatal Car Crash
The Saturn was reported stolen and the officers attempted to stop the car. The Saturn ran a red light and plowed into another car
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San Francisco |
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Clinton, Buffett Defend Estate Tax
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SF City Hall |
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City Develop Ambitious Solar Energy Plan |
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San Francisco |
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Cota asks for extension on license |
| Dec.12 |
San Francisco |
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Levi's Chairman To Retire Robert Haas is stepping down from the position early next year. He will be replaced as by T. Gary Rogers, a Levi's director since 1998
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San Francisco |
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Rowand signs with Giants
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San Francisco |
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Deadly Blaze Was Tough To Find |
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San Francisco |
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Car Crash Kills Benjamin Bratt's Nephew |
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San Francisco |
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CTO At Second Life Resigns |
| Dec.13 |
San Francisco |
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Stem cell agency hands out $54 million
| Dec.14 |
Barry Bonds |
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Report Suggests Bonds Tipped On Tests |
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San Francisco |
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Oil Spill Ship Posts Bond To Depart Bay The federal government and the owners of Cosco Busan resolved a legal standoff that had kept the vessel here
| Dec.15 |
Santa Clara |
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Proposal for 49s stadium falls $51m short A new report says County's proposal to help the 49ers build a new stadium falls $51 million short
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SF Mission |
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Fatal Shooting, 2 Dead The suspects exited their vehicle and shot the victims. The Police Department's gang task force was called to the scene
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San Francisco |
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Bay Area Sutter Health Nurses End Strike Registered nurses ended their 48 hour walkout at 13 Bay Area hospitals, but many won't return to work until next week
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Candlestick |
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Third stringer leads 49ers past Bengals
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San Francisco |
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Diane Middlebrook, biographer, dies
| Dec.16 |
San Francisco |
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1/5 of foreclosures investor-owned More than 1/5 of the Bay Area properties that fell into foreclosure belonged to real estate investors instead of overextended homeowners
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San Francisco |
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Burn unit expands, bucking national trend
| Dec.17 |
San Francisco |
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Fees For Retailers Who Sell Soda
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SF Bayview |
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Murder Rate Reaches 12-Yr. High
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SF Downtown |
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Grease Fire Forces Restaurant Evacuation
| Dec.18 |
South of Market |
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Fire Burns In South Of Market
About 55 firefighters are battling a fire Tuesday morning at a two-story building
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PG&E |
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PG&E To Buy Power From Wave Plant PG&E has announced a deal with a Canadian company to buy electricity from a wave energy project off the Humboldt County coast
| Dec.20 |
San Francisco |
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Cosco Busan to resume commerce
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SF Downtown |
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Cable cars running after closures
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San Francisco |
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Cosco Busan leaves San Francisco The ship responsible has left port is bound for Asia, but Bay Area still dealing with the remnants of 58,000 gallons of thick bunker oil | |
| Dec.21 |
San Francisco |
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Russoniello confirmed as U.S. attorney
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San Francisco |
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Bonds can keep his legal dream team
| Dec.22 |
Barry Bonds |
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Bonds Saga 'Sports Story Of The Year'
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SF City Hall |
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SF Must Pay White Man $1M In Race Suit A state appeals court has ordered the city to pay a man who won a race-discrimination suit he filed after not getting a promotion at SFO | |
| Dec.23 |
Highway 101 |
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Motorcyclist Killed After 2 Vehicles Crash
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Candlestick |
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Hill Throws 3 TDs As 49ers Hold Off Tampa |
| Dec.24 |
San Francisco |
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Plate Left At Scene Of Hit-And-Run IDs |
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San Francisco |
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'Richter Scales' Score YouTube
| Dec.25 |
SF Zoo |
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Tiger escapes and killed visitor
Map of SF Zoo San Francisco 2 others injured after a tiger escaped from its cage. The tiger, that escaped from its pen, was shot dead during the rampage
The incident occurred in a café as the zoo was closing. The zoo was evacuated and armed police officers and firefighters sent to the scene. The two injured were in a critical condition. The 300-pound female Siberian tiger, named Tatiana, mauled a zookeeper last year
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| Dec.26 |
SF Zoo |
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Zoo closed after tiger kills man The authorities try to figure out how a tiger escaped a zoo enclosure and mauled a man to death
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Half Moon Bay |
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Bay Bridge Debris Washes Ashore Pieces of the Bridge that broke off when a container ship collided with it last month have shown up
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SF Zoo |
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Tiger mauling victim is SJ teenager
| Dec.27 |
SF Zoo |
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Tiger Wall Shorter Than Recommended The will remain closed after an administrator acknowledged that the wall around the tiger enclosure was below the recommended height | |
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San Francisco |
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Pedestrian Hit And Killed By Muni Bus
| Dec.28 |
SF Zoo |
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Zoo to reopen, investigation wrapping up The deadly tiger escape could prove to be a costly blow to an institution that has come under fire repeatedly in just the past few years
| Dec.29 |
SF Zoo |
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Feds Join Investigation Of Tiger Attack
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San Francisco |
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2 brothers mauled by tiger leave hospital Paul Dhaliwal, 19, and Kulbir Dhaliwal, 23, had been under care at SF General with severe bite and claw wounds since the Christmas Day attacks
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San Francisco |
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SFPD logs reveal hectic tiger attack scene
| Dec.31 |
SF Zoo |
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Animal Activists Want Zoo Director Fired