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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We're finally hearing from the woman at the center of the child pornography case against former KGO Radio host Bernie Ward. Until now, you haven't seen her face and didn't know much about her except that she went by the screen name "Sexfairy" and called police when Ward sent her child porn. Please note: Understand that before reading this story or watching the interview that the topic is graphic and may be disturbing to some.

MARCH 5--The San Francisco radio host facing child pornography charges lied to federal officials about his whereabouts after investigators recently received an alert that he had violated his "electronic monitoring schedule." Bernard Ward's bail violations are mentioned in a February 28 "status memorandum" sent by a pretrial services officer to Judge Maria Elena James (the memo provided James with an account of Ward's first months under electronic monitoring). The document, a copy of which you'll find below, does not describe where Ward, 56, went on December 21, when officials discovered his bail violation. During a subsequent court hearing, Ward admitted...

SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -- A court in San Francisco ruled that a roommate-matching Web site may be held accountable for what users say about their preferences. A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court ruled in favor of two California fair housing groups that brought the complaint against Roommate.com, saying the Web site violates the Fair Housing Act by allowing users to specify roommate preferences based on sex, race, religion and sexual orientation, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The ruling took away the main argument of the defense: that a 1996 ruling granting immunity to Internet service providers that...

Black people in San Francisco are arrested for felonies at nearly twice the rate they are in Sacramento. They are arrested at twice the rate of black people in Fresno, three times the rate in San Jose, Los Angeles, Long Beach and San Diego, and four times the rate in Oakland.

Bryan Hawk, San Francisco No, she is doing her job. I am proud of her and look forward to her start as speaker in January. Sandra Varner, Oakland It's too soon to tell. Were you to compare her present decisions to her career stance on a myriad of issues, perhaps a tendency could be assessed. However, she's still swirling in the newness of her leadership role and --in my opinion -- still caught up in the fumes of victory. Michael Bauce, Berkeley Of course she is. That's what she's been told she has to do. What she doesn't realize...

SAN FRANCISCO - An effort to clean up some of the city's seedier neighborhoods and rid the streets of junkies, hookers and runaways has run headlong into San Francisco's free-to-be-who-you-are ethos. Nearly four decades after the Summer of Love, residents and merchants frustrated with what they regard as blight are turning to the city for help or taking revitalization into their own hands. But other residents of the Tenderloin district and Haight-Ashbury contend a crackdown would rob their neighborhoods of their identity and violate everything San Francisco stands for. Joey Cain, a board member of the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council, complained...

well, go figure. our club is in trouble with the school for stepping on the flags of Hezbollah and Hamas. The student governing board, who will try us, has passed a resolution condemning our actions... fair? Our Webpage -- we will try to post pics asap. the event: The Eventanother article: http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/007465.html ------------------------------------ ASI Passes Resolution Against Flag Stomping Organization says College Republicans were in the wrong by Jason Shuffler, staff writer November 28, 2006 08:48 PM Preceding an ongoing investigation into SF State College Republican behavior, the Associated Students board unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the student group for...

My comment, "Apparently it's still okay to burn an American flag on campus, but you can be charged with hate speech for walking on a Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist flag." Organization says (San Francisco State University) College Republicans were in the wrong Preceding an ongoing investigation into SF State College Republican behavior, the Associated Students board unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the student group for purposely stomping on flags containing the Arabic symbol for God. “Associated Students, Inc. deems the College Republicans’ actions as contrary to university values and feel they should be held accountable by the university for their...

WASHINGTON - From the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to investment in stem-cell research, leaders of the new Democratic-controlled House and Senate say they will be looking to California as they set the agenda for the 110th Congress. Sen. Barbara Boxer, incoming chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, already has called for the "California approach" to addressing global warming. And House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco is scheduled to speak Monday with the chairman of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. "There's no question that they will use California as an example," congressional scholar Norman Ornstein...