SFist Blotter

Dude, you must get better friends. Dwayne Reed, one of the guys who was involved in the murder of (now Secretary of State) Bruce MacPherson's son Hunter on Potrero Hill, just got picked up in San Mateo for another murder charge. In MacPherson's murder, Reed was granted immunity from trial because he testified for the prosecution.

Things gettin' craaaaazy out there in Orinda! The concerned upper-middle-class have hired a professional hunter to gun down a "renegade buck" deer, who has been terrorizing neighbors, picking fights with local pets, and in fact gored someone's dog to death. Of course we feel terrible for the woman whose dog was killed, but we're not going to lie, the thought of LaMorindans walking around their hood with baseball bats for protection from an angry deer is, well.... not unamusing as well. (We'd totally be doing the same if we lived there!) "When I tried to shoo him off, he wouldn't go, that's very unusual even for a buck in rut (heat)," one neighbor said. "We're being held hostage by a rogue deer."

And the South Bay community is pitching in to help out the kids from Cesar Chavez Academy in E. Palo Alto who had over $1500 in money donated for Katrina relief stolen from the principal's office, where the money was stored. The kids, who come from lower-income families, had been donating lunch money, holding candy sales, and saving up their allowances for the fund. After news of the theft broke, the school has received pledges of over $15,000 from individuals and corporations wanting to help.