All posts tagged "San Francisco"

While speaking to San Francisco business owners about rampant crime and thefts, Emeryville council member Kalimah Priforce discovered that his "wallet and keys had been stolen from his bike bag," Fox News reported.

"The thing is, they’re not going to get much from it," he said, joking that he was on "a politician’s budget."

Priforce added that the city needs to do more to protect local businesses....

San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter following a massive lawsuit by several former employees alleging that, under the ownership of tech billionaire Elon Musk, the company violated several federal and local laws, including breaches of contract, building code violations at its Mid-Market headquarters, and nonpayment of rent, reported the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday.

"The six former employees say Twitter didn’t pay promised severance and that Musk’s team instructed staff to disable lights and install locks that wouldn’t open during an emergency at employee bedrooms at 1355 Market St., violating building codes," reported Roland Li. "'Twitter’s new leadership deliberately, specifically, and repeatedly announced their intentions to breach contracts, violate laws, and otherwise ignore their legal obligations,' the six former employees alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Delaware federal court."

Twitter's successor firm, X Corp., as well as Musk himself, are listed as defendants....

The founder of Cash App, who was found fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco on a deserted sidewalk in early April, had ingested alcohol, cocaine, and ketamine before he was killed, according to an autopsy report.

The death of Bob Lee first spawned discussions of crime in the city, but the conversation changed when a suspect was arrested, and it was another tech executive who allegedly killed the victim over a dispute involving the suspect's sister. In yet another strange turn of events, it turns out Lee had a number of illegal substances in his body prior to death, according to NBC News.

"Bob Lee, the Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco last month, ingested alcohol, cocaine and ketamine before he was killed, an autopsy report revealed Monday," NBC News reported....

By Mary Papenfuss

(Reuters) - Low-pathogenic avian influenza, a disease known as bird flu, has been detected on a California quail farm earlier this month, and Russia has announced a ban on California poultry imports due to the ailment's outbreak in the state.

By Laila Kearney