Last night at Mission and 20th Streets, two people were stabbed and one was shot in the back WITH A BB GUN at around 6:15 p.m. At this time the condition of the victims isn't known. Dennis the Menace, or whoever else committed this brazen assault, is still on the at-large.......

You're in high school and you bring along a gun to school. Fine. That's just plain commonsense. But in the first grade? Crazy! And that's just what happened at Cleveland Elementary School in the Excelsior District on Monday. According to the playground rumor mill, the kid was packing heat in his backpack. Turns out the gossip was true. School district spokeswoman Gentle Blythe clains that "the student said he thought it was a fake......

Yesterday, the state supreme court flicked away San Francisco's feeble attempt to bad handguns. Or, in the words of CBS 5, the court "unanimously rejected the city's appeal of a lower-court ruling that sharply limited the ability of localities to regulate firearms." This is the final nail in the Prop H coffin, an initiate that voters passed in 2005. Proposition H barred the possession, manufacture, and sale of firearms by anyone in San Francisco,......

This is rich. The San Francisco Police Department are now having to investigate their own brethren. It appears that last Saturday morning, SFPD missed finding a firearm on a female suspect being booked into the Tenderloin station. A police spokersperson would only confirm that "officers heard a shot come from the holding area just after 11:00 Saturday morning. When they went in officers found a woman detainee and a small handgun on the floor.......

Degrassi: The Next Generation is known for it accurate, yet sometimes vanilla portrayal of North American teenage life. Topics such as date rape, teen pregnancy, school violence, and inevitable cocaine abuse by wayward rockers are all fair game on this Canadian after-school-special-like teenage sitcom. Characters such as Manny, the school slut, Paige, the pig-faced "mean girl," and Marco, the Latino gay resonate with tweens and adults alike. One of the most unforgettable Degrassi characters is......

UPDATE: according to one eyewitness who went to the police station after the drive-by to make a report, "all of the gunshot victims died." However, after talking to SFPD, all victims are listed "critical or serious" condition as of noontime today. We had falsely reported otherwise. Oops.) A little after 1 a.m. this morning, three people were shot near the intersection of Stillman and Third streets. Right after the dozen or so gunshots jostled......

We're trying to ease back into our regular SF Blotter posting schedule -- so we figured we'd start out easy: folks near the Towers building at Second and King had a bit of a scare last night, when at around 11 p.m., a guy started waving a gun around and saying he was going to shoot himself and anyone that came nearby. The guy had no previous criminal record but was having some problems with......

-- A Vallejo husband and father, Kevin Owens, 41, went though with a murder/suicide pact (with himself, we guess) on Friday night. He shot and killed his wife, Stacey Owens, 38; wounded his two-year-old daughter; and then turned the gun on himself (right after "a big Thanksgiving dinner at their home Thursday night.") This happened on the 300 block of Carousel Drive. Owens' 10-year-old son managed to escape the bloodbath, run to a neighbor's,......

In Los Angeles, LAist most definitely celebrated Thanksgiving like no other. After all, one has to keep up all the energy to keep on walking the line at the Writers Strike and fighting the unfortunate return of the wildfires in Malibu, which single handedly destroyed over fifty homes within the first 24 hours. National outlets may be covering the fires, but CNN also found it is easier to buy a gun than fruit and......

On Sunday morning Gary Cloutier, 45, (the gay one!) spent several hours in jail after being arrested for public intoxication in Palm Spring, CA. But he didn't just have a few sips of an appletini. It seems that the mayor wannabe was "staggering and could barely stand," according to CBS 5, after cops found him in his car, freshly sloshed after leaving a Palm Springs bar. (And it's not even White Party season!)...

It's been quiet over the past couple of days. A little too quiet. Hop to it, hoodlums of SF, we need crime-y content! -- In the foreign realm of Fremont, a routine traffic stop turned into a cinematic bout of exchanged gunfire. After being stopped, zany 23-year-old Jorge Cazarez was ordered out of the vehicle at gunpoint, Logically, he drew out his gun and started shooting at officers. The fuzz then chased him on......

There is no doubt that coach Don Nelson and his sidekick Chris Mullen have reshaped the Warriors, and the team now has a pretty strong pool of players from which Nellie can choose to implement his failed system of up-tempo small-ball.

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According to Bay City News, "two separate Friday night shootings that occurred within about an hour of each other sent three men to San Francisco General Hospital." (And it's not even Halloween yet. Jumping the gun a bit, yes?)...

"Help me. I've been shot," cried a Tenderloin hotel desk clerk who received life-threatening injuries after getting shot before 2:30 a.m. this morning. James Talley, 20, and London Shaw, 19, of San Francisco, along with two others minors, were arrested today in connection with the robbery and shooting in the Tenderloin. One of the suspects, according to Bay City News, "was carrying a gun and wearing a black shirt with a white skeleton print."......

While standing on the corner of Ellis and Larkin this morning with his pals (or business associates), a 17-year-old man was shot to death by someone who jumped out of a car brandishing a gun. He later died at SFGH. The suspects are still at large. This makes this the ∞th murder in SF and the Bay Area this year so far. Read more about the shooting here.......

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. LAist saw national headlines soar this week with......

Last week's winner, the SF Weekly: Someone's angry with the Bouncer. Local progressive Adam Werbach is a Walmart sellout. Why won't anyone endorse the mayor? Cover article: the back story about the Haight neighborhood activist killed in an S/M session gone wrong. These drawings illustrating the piece are pretty rad, though (see left) -- did Matt Smith do 'em? A Hank Williams Birthday Karaoke Sing-Off???? There's a tear in our beer too! The anti-war Berkeley......

Labor Day may mark the end of summer for most, but for TV fans, it's the beginning of the Fall TV season that really signals the end of summer and its often crappy TV offerings. Instead, we've got the return of OLD crappy shows and new (possibly) crappy shows to look forward to. Like tonight, when Fox jumps the gun on all the other networks with its Fall season premieres of "Prison Break" and......

So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold chain from the son. Whoa! The son was walking to school when a group of young men held him up and took his gold chain. The son then called his father, who drove to the scene with his wife. People heard gunfire,......

Bad series of news items for the SFPD -- the rookie cop who accidentally shot himself at a party earlier this month when trying to demonstrate tips on gun safety was legally drunk (just barely), and that cop, Jesse Serna, who keeps (allegedly) beating up people like Barry Bonds' trainer and Willie Brown's friends in North Beach just got the city sued again, this time for beating up a doctor starting his residency at Harvard......

We were thinking of Chekov’s principle of drama: "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it," when Hotel Casablanca opened with a rack full of guns hanging on the wall. Was it to illustrate that Thomas Pasatieri, the composer/librettist of this new opera, had relocated the original French play in NRA-friendly Texas, or were the weapons instrumental to the plot? Well, we won’t spoil the......

There's big legal news concerning the Barry, none of which involves Curt Schilling or Grand Juries. Oh no. Barry has just been slapped with a lawsuit by an inmate in a South Carolina prison, Jonathan Lee Riches (aka "the White Suge Knight), for fraud. No, not for breaking the record while on the juice, but for perpetuating a "Fraud Against Mankind," which Lee Riches calls "Batman and Identity Robbin." The Smoking Gun has the details, but from a quick perusal here are some of the claims made: ...

In a bit of tragic news: SFPD officer, James Gustafson, 23, accidentally/fatally shot himself this past Saturday morning while partying it up with friends in his San Mateo apartment. Although his death seems to be more of the good-times-gone-too-far variety, rather than a successful suicide attempt, circumstances surrounding the shooting are still under investigation. It's also "unclear whether the gun was Gustafson's service weapon." First Merv, now this. Chin up, San Mateo.......

-- Sniff, sniff: contrary to other studies done, tina's use is at a "high plateau." [BAR] -- Bush, Nixon; Nixon, Bush. [Beyond Chron] -- Bill's Song: Walsh remembered. [Chron] -- Tim Goodman on Nancy's return in Weeds. Also, Mary-Louise Parker is just awesome, period. [Chron] -- SF tries killing the Great Pumpkin. Good luck with that. [ABC 7, via AP] -- SF gun shows -- wait for it -- under fire. [Examiner] -- AT&T......

There was a huge crash on South 280 this morning just after 7:30 a.m., when a car speeding over 100 mph from Los Altos to San Jose lost control. A witness reports that the speeding car appeared to have something wrong with it, as the hazard lights were flashing and there was smoke coming from one of the tires. The 60-year-old speeding driver was trying to pass people in the left shoulder, but clipped one......

Well that certainly was lively, wasn't it? Our post about the proposal to shoot SF with a Los-Angeles-gun by adding parking to the city (and subtracting everything else) attracted tons of comments, with some very well-put arguments on both sides of the issue. Time to channel that energy into Real Life, if you can bear to leave your wretched computer: SPUR is hosting a Transportation Committee meeting to discuss the initiative! It's happening Monday,......

SFist interviews Craig Billmeier aka Hot Lixx Hulahan, US air guitar champion. ...

Submit your Bay Area finds to found at sfist dot com or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other interesting info. SFist Christopher passed along this precious child's chalk drawing of a cat, who is none other than Hitler. On a sidewalk in Emeryville, the cautionary tale of Sr Kitty Hitler is told: "Sr. Kitty Hitler He was one of the evilest......

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......