The 122-year-old, 5,300 pound church bell stolen from St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard earlier this week was found by a homeless man in an East Bay scrapyard this afternoon, the Chronicle reports. Acting on an anonymous tip, Police found the bell waiting for them across the street from a salvage yard at Ninth and Pine Streets in West Oakland. It was hidden under a tarp. more ›

Metal thieves struck again over the weekend, this time lifting an historic church bell from the plaza in front of St. Mary's Cathedral on Geary Boulevard sometime in between Saturday night and the start of Sunday morning services. The 4-foot-high bell was previously salvaged from a fire that burned down the Old St. Mary's Cathedral roughly half a century ago, so it is something of a priceless artifact for the church. more ›

St. Mary's Cathedral. Which is beautiful. Yes, it is. Yes. It is. more ›