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Today’s profile of alleged killer Nima Momeni has reporting you won’t find anywhere else. Our coverage of this story is another reason to keep reading – and supporting – Mission Local.

The life of Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder and tech executive Bob Lee, had been unraveling for months before the murder. Momeni had “a massive drug problem that made him unable to reason and speak,” one source told Mission Local.

From art to war to local movements, a show at the Mission Culture Center for Latino Arts celebrates 46 years of printmaking.

In the three months since San Francisco removed the 15 percent cap for the fees delivery companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats, restaurants are struggling to figure out how to keep their fees low and the orders coming.

The city’s police commission signaled support for a new diversion program for people under 18 who are suspected of crimes. If the program is created, a minor would have minimal contact with the police or the Juvenile Probation Department, and no arrest would go on their record.

Police arrested a suspect for assault with a deadly weapon–a meat cleaver–on a BART train yesterday afternoon. The victim was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries 

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Nima Momeni and Khazar Momeni photos in high school year book

Alleged killer Nima Momeni’s life was unraveling in the months before murder

Nima Momeni, the man accused of killing Cash App founder and tech executive Bob Lee, was not quite the successful tech bro the early reporting on his life suggested.

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Four decades of political posters adorn Mission Culture Center

Inside the gallery on the second floor of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 65 original posters are hung side-by-side on every wall.

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Restaurants left on their own after SF eliminated delivery fee cap

It’s been 100 days since San Francisco removed the 15 percent cap on the fees delivery companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats can charge restaurants.

Close-up of Jesus Yanez of the Police Commission.

SF police commission signals support for youth pre-arrest diversion

On Wednesday, a majority of police commissioners signaled their support for creating a new diversion program for people under 18 who are suspected of crimes.

Man with cleaver slashes passenger on BART

A man wearing a balaclava and pacing up and down a BART train this afternoon slashed a fellow passenger across the back with a meat cleaver.

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A green fruit market and a red car.

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By Walter Mackins

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I provide editing support for Mission Local from New York, about 2500 miles away from SFO. (I just looked it up.) This allows me to retain my journalistic objectivity and fussy adherence to East Coast standards of punctuation. I got involved with Mission Local a few years ago through Lydia, whom I met in the early 1980s at The New York Times, where I was a business reporter. Since then I've been in and out of journalism and nonprofits, and have also tried my hand at fiction. A couple of years ago I contributed Mission Local's first fiction series, a comic novel called Love in the Middle Ages.