San Francisco parking spot sells for $82,000
SAN FRANCISCO – It seems parking spots aren’t immune from the recent surge in San Francisco real estate prices.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday that a spot in the city’s trendy South Beach neighborhood sold last week for $82,000.
The 8-by-12-foot parking space is in an enclosed garage in a condominium building.
While it may seem like a lot of money, real estate agents say parking could be a good investment. It can add as much as $100,000 to the price of a property.
Police say 4 dead in St. Louis murder-suicide
ST. LOUIS – An argument inside a St. Louis home-health-care business escalated into gun violence Thursday when a man shot three other people before turning the gun on himself, police said.
The shooting occurred inside the Cherokee Place Business Incubator south of downtown St. Louis. The shooter gunned down another man and two women before turning his semi-automatic handgun on himself, Police Capt. Michael Sack said.
Prosecutors push for anti-phone-theft law
NEW YORK – Law-enforcement officials nationwide are demanding the creation of a “kill switch” that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen, New York’s top prosecutor said Thursday in a clear warning to the world’s smartphone manufacturers.
Citing statistics showing that 1 in 3 robberies nationwide involve the theft of a mobile phone, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the formation of a coalition of law-enforcement agencies devoted to stamping out what he called an “epidemic” of smartphone robberies.
“All too often, these robberies turn violent,” said Schneiderman.
Pa. building inspector commits suicide
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia officials have identified an inspector who fatally shot himself a week after a building collapse that killed six people as a dedicated 16-year veteran of the Department of Licenses and Inspections.
Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison said 52-year-old inspector Ronald Wagenhoffer was found dead in his truck Wednesday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
City officials say he was the Department of Licenses and Inspections employee who conducted a May 14 inspection of the building, weeks before the June 5 collapse.
Barber paid in hugs is kicked out of park
HARTFORD, Conn. – An 82-year-old barber who has been giving free haircuts to the homeless in exchange for hugs for 25 years has been kicked out of a park by city health officials.
Anthony “Joe the Barber” Cymerys has been a fixture every Wednesday for years at Bushnell Park, where he cuts hair and his friends hand out food to the needy.
But shortly after Cymerys set up shop this week, he said, health officials and police confronted him and his friends and told them they had to leave because they didn’t have permits.
Associated Press
