A little before midnight on Sunday, at the notoriously dangerous Octavia and Market Street intersection, a driver plowed into a 27-year-old bicyclist, injuring her and killing her dog "who was either being carried or riding in a bike basket," according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. Tom Moulas, 40, turned himself in at 2 a.m. this morning, a couple of hours after he fled the scene, and was booked on suspicion of felony......

A 26 year old man in Mill Valley called in a bomb threat to Walgreens because he was upset about how long his prescription was taking. Unfortunately, the person who answered the phone recognized his voice and called the cops -- but not before the Walgreens was evacuated and thoroughly inspected by a police dog. That can't have sped matters along with the caller's prescription. Neville Gittens took a break from discussing the hit-and-run guy......

The SFPD found the 5-month-old baby whose father claimed she was stolen from the back seat of his car in the Mission when he went out to grab some smokes. They found her body in a remote area of McLaren Park. For those of you who thought something about this case didn't sound right, consider yourselves vindicated: the father is now considered the main suspect in the murder. (We knew those Mission hipsters going to......

As we wait and wait and wait for our posts on the blog to go live, we find ourselves idly wondering if BART and MUNI blogs are busy bitching about our delays. It's not often that we have sympathy for agencies' delayed-service problems, but allow us to go all BART apologist Linton Johnson and/or SFPD apologist Neville Gittens on you here and offer our apologies for the periodic delays we're having on the site. We're......

As if SFPD police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens's day wasn't bad enough with the Castro car fires -- about an hour before Castro Street went up in flames, someone walked into a crowded community center gym in the Western Addition, where up to 50 people were playing basketball, and shot a part-time employee of the center to death. On the footage we saw of this on the news, poor Gittens had clearly been called in on his day off to respond to the first shooting, and then had to run over to the Castro 30 minutes later; you could see him visibly aging on screen. In South City, two guys held up a pizza deliveryman, but panicked when they saw cars driving by. They grabbed the pizza but left all the cash. And people in Burlingame are getting exercised about a recent lowering of the speed limit from 35 mph to 30 on California Drive between Burlingame Avenue and Murchison, with scads of people calling into City Hall to complain. Must be nice living in Burlingame! Turns out the speed limit was lowered because the average speed on the road has dropped to around 30 mph. The Burlingame city manager is now telling everyone that they won't get tickets if they drive 35 mph on that section. ...