Remember Edith Delgado, the girl who accidentally killed two members of the royal family of Tongo Tonga about a year ago on 101 in a speeding accident? She was found guilty of misdemeanor manslaughter (but not the more serious felony version), which has a maximum penalty of 3 years. The prosecutors alleged that Delgado had a history of reckless driving and was drag-racing at the time of the accident, but her lawyers disputed that. In any event, Delgado has been in jail for a year because she was unable to post her $1,000,000 bail, but after the verdict, bail was reduced to $40,000 and she was released last night.

Police chase last night in the Mission: around 7 p.m., the SFPD started chasing one or two guys in a blue Cherokee at around 26th and Harrison. The Cherokee got on 101 North with the police in tow. Man, bad move, Cherokee driver! Have you seen how bad traffic is towards the Bay Bridge at that time of day? The Cherokee eventually got off the highway on Fourth Street (no word on if there was traffic at the time), hit traffic, and rear-ended a Camry. The Cherokee drivers then got out and jacked a car at Fifth and Harrison. One person was eventually caught by the cops, they're not sure what happened to the other guy.

And a Castro resident is suing the 18th Street store AutoErotica for posting a provocative picture of him that they found on the Internet from a dating service website, with a photoshopped sex toy next to him and the caption "yikes, look at that wallpaper." We're not running the picture but the wallpaper is pretty bad.

Picture of Edith Delgado from NBC 11.

Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive device in his house, and they think he might have planted some bombs near SF General last month too. And yeah, you may have heard -- it turns out they were actual bombs.

A student at Berkeley High and her date were arrested for bringing a gun to the senior prom. The date said he needed the gun for protection because of an ongoing turf war between South Berkeley and North Oakland, and when he saw people checking bags at the door, he passed the gun to the student, who tried to hide the gun in her purse.

That cop who allegedly beat up (among many other people) cheesecake model and Willie Brown associate Esther Hwang and also Barry Bonds's personal trainer has been reassigned to desk duty. Is he going to beat up the copier next? Plus -- we'll take this excuse to give you a chance to listen to Esther Hwang's press conference about how the cop ruined her "pretty dress" again!!!

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Picture entitled "Curb Appall" from the SFist Flickr stream by Orin Optiglot.

A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission and 29th Street. A woman came into the taqueria and started yelling racial and anti-gay slurs at people in the restaurant, and when the teacher and his friends tried to get away from her, she attacked him with the knife. The SFPD responded and arrested the woman, who's pled not guilty to the charges.

Gobble gobble! Wild turkeys are menacing the Lawrence Berkeley labs. One guy was trying to park his car and a huge flock of turkeys tried to wrestle him out for the spot, and another man was chased by turkeys while riding his Segway. Picture to your left, from NBC 11 (there's some other awesome pictures there too.)

And Leah Garchik reports that eight cops were called to South Van Ness and 16th Street last Saturday upon reports of shootings! Bang Bang!! Sirens! Running! Guns drawn! ..... only to find out that they were just gunshots in the Theater Rhinoceros's rehearsal for the play Special Forces, about genderqueering the war in Iraq. Noise travels far on that block -- at the rehearsal the day before, the actors had been bombarded with noise from the Moe! kestra group playing at the Lab down the street.