An early morning car wreck at the intersection of Hayes and Polk sent five people to SF General. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "Witnesses who stopped to view the wreckage that lay street said an elderly woman appeared to have broken her arm in the crash and that a young girl between 10 and 12 years old was also wounded." Yikes. [SF Appeal]. more ›

A van carrying members of Early Graves, a San Francisco-based heavy metal band, crashed on I-5 near Medford, Oregon early Monday morning. 28-year-old Makh Daniels, the vocalist for Early Graves, was killed in the crash. According to KTVU, "Daniels was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from a rear cargo area." more ›

Oh oh. 19 Avenue struck again as 8 people were injured in a vehicle crash in the Sunset District on Monday afternoon. According to BCN (via SFAppeal), "a gold Ford Taurus was heading south on 19th Avenue when it ran a red light at Taraval Street, crashed into a vehicle in the intersection and then jumped the median, striking four other cars heading north on 19th." The Taurus driver, it seems, was an elderly man. Also, four of the eight injured "suffered life-threatening injuries." more ›

A fatal car collision happened at Fell and Broderick this morning at around 6:30 a.m. more ›

• Prince Harry goes to war and stuff. Or something like that. We didn't get much farther than the picture at right. [SFBG]
• Check out a most brilliant car crash in Noe Valley. [Curbed]
• Obama, McCain looks like theyhe'll take it. But you knew that already. Well, that was a surprise. [SFGate]

Due to the traffic backup caused by yesterday's fatal car crash on the Bay Bridge, it seems that a woman popped out a kid. According to the Examiner: As a result of the traffic jam, a woman pulled off the road to give birth a few hours after the accident. The mother-to-be was traveling toward San Francisco at 3:35 p.m. when she detoured into the toll plaza’s left administrative parking lot, Chase said. Wow.... more ›

Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A former director of Intersection for the Arts died in a car crash. The new crackdown on homelessness, and why aren't people more upset? Cover article: Our pals at SwapSF make the cover! About the whole freetail trend! Yay SwapSF! (and other freegans!) Annalee Newitz loves to IM. This Woggles concert sounds like fun ("I go to a lot of shows where dudes in hoodies stand around, solemnly head-bobbing with their hands in their pockets" -- but the Woggles won't be one of those!) Okay, the band name Eat Skull caught our attention. Damon and Naomi are coming to town. Is a Chinese restaurant filled with non-white people really better than the other option? And L.E. Leone wishes she were an alcoholic. more ›

-- Good God, Genesis (alas, the band) is back. [BeyondChron] more ›

With all that went down this week, we thought we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs. more ›

Here's todays roundup of the news more ›

-Yesterday was a mother fu----ing protest-off over abortion. more ›

-Falun Gong not allowed in this year's Chinese New Year parade. -Almost half of the hospitals in California won't be earthquake compliant by 2012. -A car crash on Highway 101 near Santa Rosa kills four and injures two others. more ›

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. more ›

-Three killed in car crash on Highway 152 by Gilroy. more ›

-HP Chairman (Chairwoman?) Patricia Dunn will step down in January for all the craziness HP has been involved in lately. We're sure that with all the scandal swirling about that she's sort of responsible for, HP will give her a package commiserate with the mess, like say only several millions of dollars. more ›

Remember that guy who was saved from a car crash by his faithful dog, who ran for help and barked until someone came to rescue her human companion? (Is that the right term we're using now instead of "owner"?) Well, look at that picture! Man and dog are reunited -- and it feels so good! So it turns out that human Michael Bosch slipped off his driveway down an 80-degree slope, and was pinned in his upside-down car. Cocker spaniel puppy Honey got out of the car and ran for help. Unfortunately, she didn't find help for another eight hours -- but hey, she's just a puppy! We're sure in a year or so, she'll be like, "hey, give me that cell phone, Bosch." Bosch is recovering nicely -- he'd suffered a heart attack just two months ago, so they're being careful with him. His coworkers brought Honey to the hospital, along with some chocolates, dog biscuits, and a stuffed "superdog" chewtoy. Bosch had only adopted Honey two weeks earlier! They bond to us so fast! Next up for Bosch: housebreaking. Let's hope she doesn't have to run for help again. Picture from the Marin Independent Journal more ›

To update you on where we're at on the two biggest crime stories in town: the Chron fronts a frightening photo montage of the teenager who allegedly killed Pamela Vitale (check it out on the newsstands -- yikes!!), and acquaintances say he kind of began a downward spiral after his older sister was killed in a car crash. And Lashaun/Lashuan Harris (spellings vary), the woman who threw her kids off Pier 7, reportedly told her cousin that she was going to feed her children to the sharks and left the house. The cousin tried to stop her but couldn't. Harris had apparently been saying this for some time, and other family members thought she would never do anything to hurt her children. Her family had been trying to get custody of the children, but had been denied. The VIllage People cop who got busted for crack failed to show up for his arraignment in Daly City, and a warrant's been issued. Hey, have you checked out the YMCA? And third graders in Mill Valley are happy again, after their classroom pet turtle, Myrtle, was anonymously returned after disappearing a few days ago. The principal isn't talking, but they think the turtle was returned by the turtlenapper's parents. The children are philosophical about not learning the identity of the thief, saying the teacher had "made a deal," which made sense because if they knew who did it, "a lot of people would be mad at him or her." The children then went back to encouraging Myrtle to eat the snails in her terrarium. "Go for the snail! Go for the snail!" more ›