Your weekend just got a little sleepier. Ten locations, including two in San Francisco, were busted today in connection with a methamphetamine distribution setup that went from San Francisco and the Bay Area all the way to Mexico. Federal, state, and local law enforcement. In total 13 people were arrested. According to KGO: The raids started simultaneously at 6 a.m. Wednesday morning with 200 agents moving in on the ten locations. Law enforcement was......

At the dewy-fresh hour of 6 a.m., Oakland police officers, Alameda County sheriff's deputies, and agents with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI went on an Oakland-wide spree of busts for heroin trafficking (as well as "cocaine and marijuana, " at least according to this morning's Mornings On 2's.)...

Federal drug agents raided an East Oakland home growing a lot of mary jane, $3.5 million worth of it, it seems. Heading over to"10320 Pearmain St. about 4:30 p.m. to check on a resident's well-being," according to the Chronicle (something about a door being left ajar for a few days, claims a neighbor), cops spotted the spiky tips of a marijuana plant and called in the DEA to investigate. Nancy Botwin would have had......

-- Gargantuan steroid sting nabs two Bay Area brothers. [SJ Merc] -- PC World editor's suspected killers could receive death sentences. [Chron] -- Marines banned from filming commercial in SF. [FOX] -- Another attempt to ban the Blue Angels proves unsuccessful. Sorry, Chris. [CBS5] -- Speaking of Board of Supes, someone done got suspended/replaced. [ABC7] -- Death of an lILWU longshoreman results in Oakland port's closure for the day. [Oakland Tribune] -- Chloe Veltman......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

As this Sesame Street YouTube clip asks, who are the people in your neighborhood, Ed Jew? And -- good idea, commenter Apioca Ted! Here's a summary of the declarations filed by Ed Jew's neighbors: --Barry Hermanson: Barry was the State Assembly candidate for the Green Party, and has lived a couple houses down from Ed Jew's "address" for 17 years. Barry met Ed when both of them were running for District 4 back in......

What's Ed Jew doing today, now that he's been excused from jury duty? This has got to be the first time anyone's been trying to get San Francisco jury duty, ever. --The Chron's got the news on the City Attorney's quo warranto petition. Among the tidbits revealed: Ed Jew's wife has been taking a deduction on the Burlingame house as her primary residency for San Mateo County tax purposes -- and, hey, remember how......

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Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Hey, the EBX is starting a blog -- we hear those are very trendy. But they've got us listed as a link, right below the Culture Blog, so it's all okay! Bottom Feeder mocks the errors made by the Bay Guardian in its East Bay endorsements. Would you buy expensive organic meals prepared by these folks? Confrontational atheists meeting near Walnut Creek. Cover article: the woes of air......

On an irregular holiday schedule... We'll be keeping a close eye on new blog Oaky Ton, devoted to all things Oaksterdam. Speaking of Smokeland, after getting raided by the DEA, HopeNet is robbed the next day, and blame the feds for crashing through the door even though they had a key. Guest blogger Corey recaps the recent Warriors loss to the Pistons as though it were an IMDB entry. And M. C- shares a......

Well, the top blotter news this week has been, of course, the murder of Pamela Vitale, the wife of Susan Polk's attorney, Daniel Horowitz. Polk, the Orinda woman who's accused of murdering her psychiatrist husband, is back in custody after the judge declared a mistrial in her case because of all the publicity about her attorney's wife. No shortage of conspiracy theories going around -- was it him? A disgruntled client? The weird neighbor? Despite what Phil Bronstein said yesterday, no arrests have been made as of yet. Cybersquatters, you just missed your chance -- in all the hoopla of opening the new San Jose city hall, the SJ IT department accidentally forgot to renew their registration on the sanjoseca.gov website. They hastily paid the $125 and the site's back in business. They're looking into whether they can just pay for a multi-year registration so it doesn't happen again -- "we are, after all, the capital of Silicon Valley." And the Oakland Tribune profiles wacky Ecstasy users at the San Francisco club Mighty. One guy has been obsessively logging every single hit of E he takes (he's up to 38.5 rolls, starting from Aug. 13, 2004 -- DEA, take note). Another raver, who's a banker in her day job (and came to Mighty dressed up as an anime character), is described as a "long-time user" and says "most folks grow out of it." We hope she didn't give the reporter her actual name. ...

Hey, did you think that local authorities wouldn't cooperate with federal agents who are out to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries? Think again! Impassioned opinion pieces by Kamala Harris and Board of Supervisor resolutions aside, seems that Lt. Marty Halloran was putting up a police line at the Alternative Relief Co-Op so that agents from the DEA, IRS and Treasury Department could ransack their offices. From Ann Harrison's 'On the Record' blog (she says to......

It maybe the start of the Festival of Lights, but it’s all grittiness here at This Week in DVDs as we got amnesiac spies being chased by bad guys, Columbian drug runners being chased by DEA agents, and Vince Vaughn being chased by dodge balls. Want more? How about a DVD two pack of Cannonball Run and Lightning Jack? Yep, it's for all those people who wouldn’t buy either until they were released together.......

Medical marijuana finds its way back to the Supreme Court. Man, you just can't kill that weed!...