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Photo of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom behind the wheel of a Tesla Motors Roadster protoype in Fisherpersons Wharf...

A man was shot to death in the Mission last night around 2:00 a.m., by 18th and San Carlos. The victim was shot six times in the back and died of his injuries at SF General. There was also a one-alarm fire by Fifth Street and Market around 6:00 a.m. One person was hospitalized. Picture of the crime scene in the Mission from KTVU.......

-Man hit and killed at the Mountain View Caltrain station, delaying the trains for 45 minutes....

Everyone goes through phases where they think: am I nuts to think that I can afford to live in this city any longer? You spend so much for these teeny-weeny houses, the public schools are so tough to navigate, wouldn't it be nice to have a yard? But then you look at how nice the view is, and how awesome the people are, and how great our neighborhoods are, and you either think, how could......

Expect a snarled commute today: three cars and two trucks mixed it up on southbound 101 near 22nd Street at 2:19 p.m.. Only minor injuries, but Officer Cakebread of the CHP (awesome name) says there's no ETA on how long it'll take to clear the highway. That means more time with you and the light hits on KOIT. Officer Cakebread is all over the news today -- earlier, he came to our attention when he......

A former San Carlos mayor is filing an appeal of his conviction for defrauding the Belmont-San Carlos Fire Department out of $13,000, by using public funds to pay for a political consultant who failed to win a campaign back in 2003. The fountain at San Jose State smells bad. An occupational therapy major says it's this year's "stank smell," as opposed to last year's, which was their trees. However, a business management major says he......

As SFist Reader Marivi did in the past, SFist Reader Tim has some suggestions for Caltrain. Caltrain riding readers, any thoughts? Subject: Intuitive CalTrain Signage And Caltrain wonders why it is so hard to get riders. Maybe it is because they make it so hard to use their system. I ride Caltrain every day from San Carlos to San Jose and back. You would think that after doing this for a year, I would be......

--They might make MUNI free! --Jerry "Twinkle-toes" Rice put on the red and gold again -- but just for one day, so he could retire as a Niner. --Local hotel workers are authorized to go on strike again. --Are there too many coffee shops in San Carlos? --Instead of a recall, they should give just you a sleeve for your overheated PowerBook battery -- just like they do for coffee. "Warning! Contents may be hot."......

San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut shop opened the store in 1955 and sold to the Chavira family in 1981, and the store/museum's current location is on Delmas and W. San Carlos in downtown San Jose. The Chaviras open the store at dawn and close when the last......

So much bike-on-bike violence -- a 64-year-old woman pedaling her bike off the sidewalk on Oak and Scott was broadsided by another biker going 25-35 mph down Oak. The woman (who wasn't wearing a helmet) is in the hospital with serious injuries. The other biker was found not at fault and won't be cited. The first murder of a paraplegic man in Foster City in almost 10 years, from last week, just got a little more complicated: the authorities think the murder might be linked to another weird incident llast week in the South Bay, where a man went to a gun shop in San Carlos, asked to see a gun, and then ran outside and shot himself. Turns out that man and the victim, Brandon Hepponstall, had recently been introduced to one another. Hepponstall was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident 11 years ago, was an avid horse gambler, and had a criminal record involving an incident where he brought an obviously-fake bomb to the Bay Meadows race track. And a couple who visited San Mateo from New Mexico for a church retreat back in June were sentenced in absentia to three years probation for child endangerment, after authorities found one of their eight children sleeping on the sidewalk behind the tailpipe of their SUV, with the car still running, at 4:30 a.m. No one seems to know why only seven of the kids made it inside the house, or why the car was still running. ...

SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And, surely, pee-ew. These sort of stories always redefine the term "Crazy Cat Lady," and it seems almost always to be an elderly lady. Don't they worry about the cats eating their faces when they die in the house? SFist does and that's......

No, it's not just your eyes today -- there's a huge 25,000 acre fire north of Lake Berryessa in Napa and Yolo Counties, the smoke from which is hazing up the sky down here in San Francisco (today's inversion layer conditions are trapping the smoke low to the ground). ...