East Palo Alto / Shooting: It's also shaping up to be an extra-violent year in East Palo Alto, where an 18-year-old was killed and a 19-year-old wounded in a shooting outside a taqueria last night. [NBC] more ›

Following up on Sunday's tragic news, the Chronicle reports that East Palo Alto PD have arrested a 17-year-old suspect accused of killing the three-month-old infant and injuring the two parents. The family of four was caught up in a case of mistaken identity after the teenage suspect sought to exact revenge on the Sureño gang members who beat him up a week earlier. more ›

Early Sunday morning, two shooters attacked a Redwood City family as they left a baby shower on East Palo Alto's Wisteria Lane around 1 a.m. The 22-year-old mother riding in the vehicle attempted to shield her children in the backseat, but her three-month-old infant son was hit and died of an untreatable bullet to the head. The mother and father in the vehicle were also hit after the gunmen opened fire. Both have been taken to Stanford Hospital where they are expected to survive. Another 3-year-old son was not injured. more ›

Early this morning, a small Cessna plane crashed into two homes in East Palo Alto. All three people inside he plane were killed. more ›

Be prepared to pay more for your tar this weekend. Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that agents from the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement nabbed a Mexican resident, Adam Alfonso Herrera, and "seized 70 pounds of heroin from his Lincoln Towncar on Sacramento Street in East Palo Alto." Herrera, 27, hid a whopping 70 pounds of heroin inside a secret compartment of his car. (!) In a press release, Brown announced, "[w]ith a street value of $7 million, this is the largest heroin seizure ever made in San Mateo County. Herrera was arrested and tossed into the San Mateo County Jail for "possession of heroin for sale and for possession of a hidden compartment." His bail has been set at $5 million. more ›

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

-The Chron plays "I Love the Radical '70s" -As Ron Dellums isn't in Davos, he'll be at the U.S. Conference of Mayors. more ›

We meant to post on this yesterday but the afternoon kind of got away from us (thank goodness today's Veterans' Day! Thank you, veterans!). An electrical short near the Castro Street MUNI station disabled all the K, L, and M MUNI streetcar lines for three hours yesterday afternoon. They got it fixed around 4, so the afternoon commute wasn't as bad as it could have been. MUNI spokesperson Maggie Lynch apologizes. more ›

--Are the A's moving to Fremont? more ›

We're breaking with our Blotter tradition of SF crime movie clip art because, well, we can't find two other animal-related stories to post an Animal Roundup and -- would you look at how cute that marmoset is??? The Peninsula Humane Society responded to a call from an engineering student in East Palo Alto who saw a monkey running on a neighborhood fence, which turned out to be a member of the species known as the world's smallest primate. Awwww. No one knows how the marmoset got to EPA, no one in the area has a permit to own one, and they're sending this little guy to Primarily Primates, a sanctuary near San Antonio. more ›

Easy with the road rage, fellas! A man in a 1967 Corvette is dead after getting into what cops think was some kind of high-speed road rage chase in Hayward, losing control of his car on a curve in a cemetery, and crashing into a mausoleum. The impact of the crash opened up two crypts and totalled the recently-restored car. Witnesses say the Corvette driver was seen earlier making hand gestures at a driver in a Mercedes with a "Kompressor" turbo engine. The Mercedes driver is not considered at fault but did speed away after the accident. The Corvette driver was coming to the cemetery to bring flowers to his mother's grave. more ›

A suspected gang member is in custody after shooting dead an East Palo Alto cop who was responding to a call about a disturbance at a taqueria. The cop had an Explorer Scout in his car on an officer ride-along when he was killed. The Explorer Scout, who was not injured, immediately called in for help and gave a detailed description of the killer. It's like the opposite of the lady who faked running the Boston Marathon -- a bus driver for the Santa Cruz Transportation Authority was arrested for fraud and grand theft, after his employer found out that despite claiming total disability and collecting workers' comp payments, he had actually run the Big Sur Marathon. No word on his time. And a man fleeing the cops in Rodeo, near Hercules, decided his best way out of his situation was to run onto I-80 (despite folks telling him it was a bad idea) where he promptly -- boom! -- got hit by a truck. He's now in the same hospital as the two people he attacked with a deadly weapon, and as soon as he gets better, will be booked for attempted murder. As the officer said, ""The gentleman decided to try it [running across the highway] and it didn't work out. It just is so idiotic." more ›

Today's newspaper was so chock full o' news that instead of writing a post for each one, we thought we'd just kind of blurb it. -Investigations continue in the Lodi terrorism case, spreading to a religious mosque in East Palo Alto. Five people are currently being held in custody for charges unrelated to terrorism (lots of charges of "lying to the FBI" and "violations of immigration laws") but one of the figures admitted to taking part in a "jihadist training camp in Pakistan for approximately six months" where he led the camp to victory over arch-rival Camp Mohawk. The other figures are under suspicion of terrorism mainly in that their Friendster connection network includes some pretty bad dudes. more ›

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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. more ›

SFist just has to say that if you want to propose to us, we don't really like grand gestures like getting down on one knee on the Jumbotron, or on live TV. We prefer subtlety - and maybe a weekend on a romantic beach somewhere. But if you just want to say "Hi" you can save up your pennies (and we do mean pennies) and flash a greeting on the new billboard going up outside the East Palo Alto IKEA. You know, the one they're erecting just in case you might miss the giant blue building. more ›

Bay Area crime roundup (special doggie edition) more ›