Perry Kucinich, the brother of Democratic Prez candidate Dennis Kucinich, has been found dead according CBS 5. His other brother, Larry, found 52-year-old Perry at his Cleveland home at around 9 a.m. this morning. Reports claims that there were "no signs of foul play." ...

Hope you're having a bad-luck-free Friday the 13th out there, folks! Here's the ominous items we found on a casual search of San Francisco news sites. --Weird screwup on the highways today -- due to a software glitch, eleven Bay Area road signs were flashing the message "two lanes closed for construction," when in fact all the relevant lanes were open. At least it wasn't flashing an Amber Alert with your car's license plate number,......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

As a fan of Point Break, Sugar and Spice, and Killing Zoe, we've wondered about the innate practicality of robbing a bank in a mask. "Your peripheral vision must suffer" we'd muse "and it's gotta get hot in there! What a stupid idea." Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National Bank......

Crime doesn't pay, guys. The man who was shot at Van Ness and Post a few days back? He was wanted for murder. This other guy who got hit by a car on 101 Saturday night? Wanted for bank robbery. And a guy fleeing the cops after a traffic stop? Drowned in the bay. Creepy! New developments in the murder of Meleia Willis-Starbuck: the Berkeley police are now saying their theory of the case is that two friends of Willis-Starbuck's accidentally shot her while trying to help her break up a fight. The shooter is alleged to be one of Willis-Starbuck's friends from high school, with whom she felt so close that she called him her brother. The man driving the getaway car is another friend of Willis-Starbuck's, and has already turned himself in. There will be a memorial for Willis-Starbuck later today. And finally, the "Bag Lady Bandit," who was that woman who's been holding up supermarket bank branches, was finally caught, when sharp-eyed workers at a tribal gambling casino recognized her. They let her play 9 hours of slots before arresting her. ...

J. Lo, do your krav maga thing! (Who even knew Enough was set in San Francisco?) In San Jose, a man named Adam Wells puts a knife up to the neck of a man parked in a lot and tries to carjack him. But doh! The carjackee is a karate instructor! The karate instructor knocks the knife out of Wells's hand, throws him to the ground, and discovers that Wells is also carrying a......

Tune into KALW 91.7 next Tuesday at 1 p.m. to hear San Francisco's first female fire chief and first female police chief (pictured at left) speaking with SFist political reporter crush Adriel Hampton through the Commonwealth Club Broadcasts series (or stream it live now). Slippery criminals! A bank robbery suspect waiting to be interviewed by the FBI pried open a screen in the Federal Building in Oakland and then casually walked out past the U.S. Marshals office and out of custody. We hope he was whistling as he did it. The FBI re-caught the guy at the San Leandro BART station. And the Los Gatos police have made an arrest for murder in a missing persons case that's been unsolved for three years. The victim had gone out drinking in June 2001, met two guys at a bar, and then disappeared. The police finally solved the case when, about two years after the disappearance, someone living nearby contacted the authorities and said she'd found a rug matching the description of a rug missing from the victim's house. The police were able to trace fibers from the rug to the murder suspect. ...