SFist Blotter

...and we edge ever closer to the three-digit murder mark in San Francisco this year, as a man closing up his family's Tenderloin liquor store early Sunday morning was shot to death for no apparent reason. The murder rate in Oakland this year is also higher than last year's, with homicide 89 occurring on Monday morning.

Hey, are you buying See's Candies for everyone on your Christmas list this year? Well, if your chocolatier of choice is in Saratoga, look carefully in your candy bag -- a store worker lost a family heirloom ring while wrapping up treats last Friday afternoon. The worker is hopeful -- apparently her daughter lost a watch while bundling holiday turkeys twenty years ago and it was returned to her three weeks later. Every dinner at their house must be like king cakes! If you find the ring, bring it back to See's, 'kay?

And three bank robbers in Redwood City were thwarted by an observant witness, who saw three men walking in single file into the parking lot of the local Wells Fargo, and noticed the butt of a rifle coming out from one of the robbers' coats. The cops immediately swooped in and arrested them, 75 feet from the bank entrance.