47-year-old Antonia Vargas was found lying dead on her porch in Richmond today. Her body was found on the "2400 block of Andrade Avenue by a colleague who normally drives her to work," and she was attacked with an "edged weapon." There were no reports of suspicious activity in the area that night and the fuzz hasn't a clue yet as to what occurred. If you know of anything, sleuthy readers, snitch to the......

There aren't a lot of reviews out there for Lol Tun Restaurant, on Folsom betw. 19th & 20th streets. The folks participating on Yelp generally say the food is good and cheap, but the restaurant is loud and slow. The police, on the other hand, aren't so concerned with the restaurant's food, but the 3.8 pounds of heroin, 5 oz. of ice, and 1 ounce of cocaine hydrochloride they confiscated. ...

Besides passing the Healthy Saturday compromise and annoncing they were going to look into the sick leave policy, the Board of Supervisors began the process of looking into CCAs. What's a CCA? Why, we're glad you asked. CCA stands for "Community Choice Aggregation" which is some new fangled way of having a city's energy come mainly from green sources, like windmills or solar power or those groovy turbines Gavin's touted. ...

A photo of Phil Ting's press conference about the S.F. Solar Task Force. ...

Last week, sudden oak death, was confirmed to have infected two oak trees at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. Sudden oak death, also known as the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, has been disasterous in the west coast, killing tens of thousands of oaks throughout California and Oregon....

Making your world a little more paranoid, the Examiner reports that gang wars are back in the Mission....