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SAN FRANCISCO — The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner. It’s a scene of detritus that might bring to mind any variety of developing-world squalor. But this is San Francisco, the capital of the nation’s technology industry, where a single span of Hyde street hosts an open-air narcotics market by day and at night is occupied by the unsheltered and drug-addled slumped on the sidewalk. There are many other streets like it, but by...

A 31-year-old Florida woman mad at her neighbor for letting a dog relieve itself on her lawn ended up attacking the two late Monday morning, news reports say. Sylvia Shikita Mari White, of Tavares, told deputies that at about 11:30 a.m. she went outside to confront the woman, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report obtained by the Daily Commercial. White began yelling at the woman, who eventually kept on walking with dog in tow. White went back into the house, but when the duo came back from their walk, she greeted them outside with a black club, according...