Photo by Whole Wheat Toast Oh my. According to WWT: Just after 7:30 this morning, apparently something happened, and three cars, those I failed to identify, managed to make a Camry flip over! This is the 2nd accident that occurred in this intersection, the other one being a tow truck hitting a food-packing truck on Friday, at the same time. Hope no one was injured.......

Sounds like a mess down on 880 just north of Highway 84, where a big rig ran off the highway at around 1 a.m. this morning and spilled its cargo all over the highway. The cargo in question -- crushed cars. The driver suffered major injuries and was sent to the hospital; traffic is currently moving at about 20 mph and is expected to be snarled until 10 a.m. at the earliest, and CHP has......

This story about the Berkeley family killed in Tilden Park by the husband over business problems is so sad. Friends of the family describe the husband, Kevin Morrissey, as "brittle," "desperate," and as having a "very controlling side," though by all accounts deeply in love with his wife. The wife, Mamiko Kawai, is described as a wonderful doctor and the two girls as adorable. The CIA will neither confirm nor deny the husband's claims that......

--The dude who got shot yesterday isn't cooperating with the cops. --David Halberstam's attorney blames the J-School driver for Halberstam's fatal car accident. --A second gas leak in SF this afternoon? This one in Nob Hill. --There was a fire at 1 a.m. this morning on Natoma (between Mission and S. Van Ness) and 14th Street. --A Santa Cruz councilmember has issued an apology for making sexual comments to a female police officer on a......

As we were just telling SFist Mihi, everything is better with an emu in it! It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously questionable moral compass, into a sympathetic character. Congorama, a charmer of a movie directed by Philippe Falardeau manages to do just that. Congorama is a lovely tale......

Someday, we'll all sit around and be able to tell each other just where we were when Anna Nicole Smith died. -Board of Supes Rules Committee votes for grace period for paid sick leave. ...

It's not clear what happened, but earlier today around 10:30 or so there was some sort of combination of car crash and shooting that snarled up traffic and sent a bunch of people to the hospital. ...

Hope you had a good July 4 this week! Namely, we hope you didn't come anywhere near Joey Chestnut's 2nd place hot dog eating contest finish at your barbecues of choice. It was a week of transit woes -- Caltrain fares going up, inconvenient MUNI routes, and BART breakdowns. It wasn't any better on the roads, either -- some drag-racing teenage girl killed two members of the Tongan royal family in a car accident in......

Special late Monday edition, since tomorrow's a holiday! A fun-loving 3-year-old got in a car accident on Friday in Santa Cruz County's Soquel -- while his father was distracted by a younger sibling's diaper change, the toddler grabbed the keys to the family SUV, climbed into the car through the back, jumped into the driver's seat, put the key in the ignition, turned, and put the car in drive, which sent the car down their......

In the Q&A following Blood Deep, the director said that he didn't want to make "just another slasher movie." This was unfortunate, as the bones were there for quite a good one in his feature. After nearly an hour of character introduction and expositional scenes, this multiple murder at a reunion of friends got going. The production values are great, but the pacing was a real challenge. There were some (intentional, we hope) funny......

All but one lane of I-80 westbound are blocked, after a woman driving an infant lost control of her car and flipped over by the University Avenue exit this morning. The woman has been sent to Highland Hospital and her male passenger suffered minor injuries, but the baby, strapped in a car seat, is fine. By the coast, Highway 1 remains closed after mudslides, and this morning, a two-car accident tied up 92 as well.......

FYI: If you love these Alcatraz movies, the SF Public Library is featuring an "Escape To Alcatraz" movie festival this month! Wait, we thought Chunky Monkey was a Ben and Jerry's flavor: A man wearing a gorilla mask held up a Baskin-Robbins in San Mateo at the Bayhill Shopping Center. If you want a banana flavor at Baskin Robbins, you have to get the lo-fat Berries 'n Banana flavor, and then, well, what's the point of getting ice cream at all? (Certain regional stores have Banana Walnut, though.) Who wants a hug? The Ross police force up in Marin County has announced that its officers will be stocking up on teddy bears in their patrol cars to comfort kids who somehow end up needing police assistance (by getting lost in town, or being in a car accident). Do you get a bear if you were the perpetrator of the incident requiring police assistance too? The Ross police force now has almost 3 times as many bears as officers, and 5 bears in each car. The bears were donated by a former Ross police sergeant and his wife, a soldier-actress who was the inspiration for the movie GI Jane (really!). And more genius from the Examiner's South Bay police blotter: a woman who called about peeping toms that turned out to be her neighbor's shirts drying on a clothes line, the man who's shoplifted over 75 pairs of underwear from the Serramonte Victoria's Secret, and a man who got in a shoving match with a store clerk at a local metal shop over their 30% restocking fee. Good work, Examiner police blotter! ...

An 18-year-old San Francisco woman faces charges after she was caught posing as a 12-year-old boy and convincing an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old girl in San Mateo county to fool around with her. She was busted when the concerned older brother of the 13-year-old called the cops about his sister's 18-year-old boyfriend. In our very own Mary Kay Letourneau dramedy, a 33-year-old female middle school teacher in Redwood City has pled not guilty to statutory rape claims. Rebecca Boicelli had gotten pregnant in 2003 and DNA tests subsequently showed that the father had been a student in her eighth grade class in 2001, when the relationship began. (The father was 16 at the time the child was born.) Police had been investigating Boicelli since 2002, when she and her boyfriend were busted by a school janitor after hours. Okay, we're turning off the R.Kelly, we're moving on. Courtesy of geniusly hilar. funnyblog WULAD, a "fiery rear-ender" of a car accident killed two people in Hayward. Our thoughts go out to the victims, of course, but does anyone else remember the commercial about spicy chili where a kid runs off to the john, stricken look on face, while "Ring of Fire" plays in the background? So best. ...

Ruining your good mood for the rest of the week....