Budget cuts and financial woes forced San Francisco to cancel its annual 420 celebration at Golden Gate Park this year, but a self-described psychedelic church says it will step in to help support the thousands of people expected to still make the "religious pilgrimage." "Anybody who is going out to Hippie Hill on 420 to smoke a joint, they're doing that religiously, whether or not they realize it," said Church of Ambrosia Pastor Dave Hodges in a statement. "This is like a pilgrimage to Mecca."...
LATEST April 22, 2:15 p.m. A 25-year-old man accused of stabbing a person outside Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach on Sunday was arrested, the San Francisco Police Department said. He could face multiple charges, including "attempted murder and eight counts of assault with a deadly weapon," police said Monday afternoon. The department responded to the stabbing just before 1 p.m. on the 600 block of Filbert Street; officers found a person with non-life-threatening stab wounds and...
Organizers of San Francisco Weed Week say you have many more options to celebrate now that recreational cannabis is legal, and as the cannabis industry is in transition, business owners believe the years ahead are looking good. Shawn Chitnis reports.
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for poor, homeless and marginalized people, has died
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for poor, homeless, and marginalized people, has died. He was 94. Williams advocated for civil rights and social justice and his work drew the attention of
Ebenezer Oduntan, a former pastor of the City of David Church in Naas, Co Kildare was convicted of 87 charges of a range of theft and fraud offences following a three-week trial at Naas Circuit Criminal Court last month.
Officials say the colony of sea lions is the largest swarm that has turned up at the San Francisco pier in about 15 years.
Officials say the colony of sea lions is the largest swarm that has turned up at the San Francisco pier in about 15 years.
Mint Butterfield, the 16-year-old child of Slack's billionaire co-founder Stewart Butterfield and Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, was found alive on Saturday evening, April 27, in San Francisco nearly a week after first being reported missing.
The 16-year-old billionaire heiress, whose mother founded Flickr and her father founded Slack, disappears into San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin drug district when police ask for help finding her - The heiress to a $1.6 billion tech fortune disappeared from her mother's home in wealthy Marin County, California, four days ago and is feared to be wandering the streets of one of San Francisco's most drug-ridden neighborhoods streaks. Mint Butterfield is the only child of two of Silicon...
A 26-year-old Arkansas teacher is charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old: 'She groomed herself in church and then was bombarded with nude photos every day' - Reagan Gray, 26, was a volunteer at Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock when she began a nine-month sexual relationship with the boy, prosecutors allegeChurch authorities filed a complaint against her over the relationship in 2020, but the police were not informed until late last yearThe church is one of the...
Since the height of her fame in the mid-2000s, the former child pop star has spent her fortune on a luxury lifestyle.