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TRACY, Calif. - The 17-year-old suspect charged in the attempted robbery shooting of San Francisco 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall had allegedly brought a gun to school just a week before the incident, according to a police report.

An ABC news profile on the then San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has re-emerged showing the moment a young Kamala Harris is questioned by reporters while on a night out with her lover who is 31 years older than her. The special report on Brown by Dianne Sawyer from 1995 portrays the Democrat as a 'rogue' politician 'notorious for his flamboyant lifestyle, flashy clothes, fancy parties,' and 'fine women' - with Harris featured in the footage. 'Are you his daughter?' a reporter asks in the clip that is circulating just hours before first debate against Donald Trump, which is also...

ABC profile of San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in 1995 - Kamala asked if she’s his daughter Known for his “fine women” Reporter: “Are you his daughter?” Kamala: “No I'm not”

Fantastic game by an unknown on national television. Undrafted free agent who worked hard and gets to show his true talent and what does the media have to say? I dunno. They're irrelevant.

Retail stores are fleeing San Francisco in droves as the California city collapses under the weight of rampant crime and theft. And rather than deal with the crime problem, city leaders instead want to punish the stores trying to leave. The so-called “Grocery Protection Act,” introduced by city Board of Supervisors member Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist), says stores that try to leave San Francisco would have to provide the city with six months’ notice, allowing city leaders time to look for a replacement retail tenant. This bill was introduced not long after Whole Foods Market closed down its flagship San...

35 years in business, family-owned market in South Beach is closing... Co-owner David Pesusic said high operation costs and mounting neighborhood crime were driving factors.Bayside Market, at 120 Brannan St. near the Embarcadero, will cease operations on Sept. 13. Some of its 12 employees will be transferred to RJ’s Market near Fisherman’s Wharf, the owners’ other location, but most will be laid off, Pesusic said. In addition to inflation-fueled bills and declining foot traffic, the small grocery and deli has suffered from “rampant” crime, near-daily shoplifting and three break-ins in the past couple years, Pesusic said. He blamed city officials...

In his first court appearance, the 17-year-old who shot San Francisco 49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall claimed he was “very sorry that this did happen.” That message came through his court-appointed attorney Bob Dunlap, who said the shooting was “completely out of character for him,” while confirming that the juvenile has another “outstanding matter” in San Joaquin County. The “matter” was not revealed and neither was the suspect’s identity. No photos of Pearsall’s assailant have appeared and a courtroom sketch portrays him with light brown hair, beard and pony tail, the style of a Malibu surfer. His mother, also unnamed, needed...

Former President Donald Trump will attend a fundraiser in the Bay Area next week during his second trip to the region in roughly three months. Presidential candidates coming to the wealthy nine-county area isn’t abnormal. What is abnormal, though, is that the billionaire hosting the event at his Woodside home on Sept. 13 is related to Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The tickets for next week’s fundraiser, hosted by Tom and Stacey Siebel, are going for as much as $500,000 per couple, according to the Los Angeles Times. Tom, a software developer, is a second...

A pane of glass being installed on the top level of a 30-story skyscraper in San Francisco's South of Market plummeted to the street Friday morning, damaging windows on another building across the street, authorities said. A spokesperson for the city's Department of Building Inspection said the full pane of glass came from the roof of the Salesforce East building at 350 Mission Street. The high rise is adjacent to the 61-story Salesforce Tower, the tallest building in the city, and across the street from the Millennium Tower, the city's tallest residential building at 58 stories. No one was reported...

California lawmakers and former top cops say Kamala Harris’s new campaign ads presenting her as ‘tough’ on drug trafficking don’t match with her record as a prosecutor – when she advocated not charging dealers until their third arrest. Harris proposed a policy in 2005 when she was San Francisco District Attorney to only prosecute drug dealers the third time they were caught selling narcotics, DailyMail.com has learned. The plan sparked a scandal and was only halted when the city’s police chief Heather Fong pushed back to prevent it. So when the Harris presidential campaign released an ad on August 7...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Trial began Tuesday in Florida for four activists accused of illegally acting as Russian agents to help the Kremlin sow political discord and interfere in U.S. elections. All four are or were affiliated with the African People’s Socialist Party and Uhuru Movement, which has locations in St. Petersburg, Florida, and St. Louis... In his opening statement, Justice Department attorney Menno Goedman said the group’s members acted under Russian direction to stage protests in 2016 claiming Black people have been victims of genocide in the U.S. and took other actions for the following six years that would...

Police indicated that Pearsall was shot in the chest after struggling with the suspect for the gun. The 17-year-old suspect had been trying to steal his Rolex. Pearsall’s mother later said that the bullet passed through him and hit no vital organs."What an absolute hell hole of a city!" Mulder wrote on X. "The mentally ill Libs will still tell you how beautiful it is all while they get mugged and step in ****."Mulder played nine years in the majors for the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. As noted by Fox News, other athletes have weighed in on the...

Long-snapper Taybor Pepper was shocked and dismayed that he was attacked on social media over the weekend after posting a comment expressing relief that Ricky Pearsall was OK after being shot during an attempted robbery attempt on the 49ers rookie. “Cannot believe I had to mute replies to my last tweet,” Pepper posted to social media following an early message of support for his teammate. Pearsall was shot when a 17-year-old attempted to rob him of his Rolex using a gun and the rookie fought back, leading to multiple shots going off one of which struck him in the chest....

California will not be creating a new state reparations agency this year, and at least one elected official is pointing the finger of blame at Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA). The state was considering a reparations bill that aimed to "repair harms from institutional racism," according to Politico, but its scope was greatly reduced on the final day of California's legislative session. The bill could have created a new Freedmen Affairs Agency, but was watered down to propose spending $6 million for a California State University study on the issue of reparations, and how to confirm whether someone seeking reparations is...

The incident was over a Rolex.Pat’s update: Deebo indicates things are positive:Fox-2 journalist Sal Castaneda reports that San Francisco 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall was shot in a robbery attempt over his Rolex watch. The incident occurred in downtown San Francisco reportedly near Union Square. The extent of Pearsall’s injuries or further details haven’t been disclosed as of this writing. In a separate report, NBC Bay Area’s Gia Vang shared that Pearsall had been shot but is in stable condition while the suspect is in custody. Pearsall was drafted in the first round by the 49ers in the 2024...

49ers rookie receiver Ricky Pearsall reportedly has been shot during a robbery. Dion Lim of KGO-TV that the incident happened in San Francisco’s Union Square. Pearsall was acquired by the 49ers via the first round of the 2024 draft. Lim’s report cites multiple sources in support of the news that Pearsall was a victim of a shooting. We’ll provide updates as warranted. For now, the information is limited to Lim’s initial reporting on the matter. UPDATE 7:58 p.m. ET: Gia Vang of NBC Bay Area reports that Pearsall is in stable condition, and that the suspect is in custody.

The City of San Francisco, where Vice President Kamala Harris started her political career, is set to evaluate roughly 100 monuments to determine whether they should be removed or replaced. The San Francisco Chronicle reported: San Francisco is about to embark on evaluating its nearly 100 statues and monuments to figure out which ones no longer represent the city’s values and should be removed from view, relocated or re-interpreted with explanatory plaques. The debate over the city’s monuments began in 2018 with the removal of the “Early Days” sculpture from the Pioneer Monument in the Civic Center because it represented...

Something interesting is going on in San Francisco where DA Brooke Jenkins, a black woman who ousted the former pro-crime Chesa Boudin and promised to actually enforce the law, is taking on the MacArthur Foundation. While we often call pro-crime DAs “Soros DAs” and indeed the Nazi collaborating radical billionaire did indeed play a major role in building a pro-crime network of DAs who ignore the law, there are a variety of major foundations who destroyed public safety in America. The MacArthur Foundation is one of them. Under DA Chesa Boudin’s reign of terror, the MacArthur Foundation had been providing...

In the last month, two more major companies headquartered in the Bay Area announced that they would be leaving for presumably greener pastures out of state. One was the energy giant Chevron, and the other was X, the social media company that has been owned by Elon Musk since 2022. The Bay Area Council, a business advocacy group, seized on the moment to repeat a critique it has made on numerous occasions: “It’s an embarrassment for California that we’ve lost so many global companies because of misguided policies that make it incredibly difficult to do business here,” president and CEO...

A combination of high interest rates, lower office utilization and the retreat of major institutional investors from San Francisco’s commercial real estate market have conspired to create a once-in-a-lifetime situation. While most eyes see a crisis, a particular set of bargain hunters instead see an opportunity they cannot pass up. In the last two years, office buyers have been snapping up recently renovated buildings that, in some cases, are going for a quarter of the price sellers paid pre-pandemic.