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News Crew Films Public Urination Offenders in SF Chinatown's Portsmouth Square

A recent, rather vulgar news clip on public urination in SF Chinatown's Portsmouth Square doesn't leave much to the imagination, featuring multiple offenders — their faces blurred out — shooting streams of pee in plain view throughout the park. Then, the reporter asks one of them why he did it.

Arts & Entertainment

KGO Anchor Dan Ashley and His Band Added to Outside Lands Lineup

Dad rock fans rejoice! 59-year-old ABC-7 news anchor Dan Ashley, who does indeed moonlight as a rock’n’roll singer, has just had his band added to the Saturday lineup for Outside Lands.

KGO-TV Reporter Luz Peña Recovering From Near-Fatal Ski Accident in Tahoe

You haven’t seen KGO’s Luz Peña on the ABC7 news for four weeks, and it turns out that she suffered a ski accident that left her unconscious and unable to breathe, and she nearly needed to have a leg amputated.

Local News Station Goes After Craigslist For Allowing The Sale Of A Recalled Baby Seat

ABC 7 is breathlessly reporting that Craigslist is playing "recall roulette," a snappy accusation that the classified advertising website is allowing the sale of dangerous items. But Craigslist calls the story a "hit

Racist Chinatown Tour Guide Speaks!

ABC 7 got an exclusive interview with the woman herself, the one and only racist ranting tour guide who really hates Chinatown, and who has many things about it she would like to

Local News Icon Don Sanchez Retiring After 40 Years

KGO-TV reporter Don Sanchez, who began his career at the station in 1972, retired after his broadcast last night. In recent years he's been the affable, mustachioed, always coiffed arts and entertainment correspondent

ABC 7 Chases Down Eliana Lopez in Venezuela

Not satisfied with having only heard from her via that open letter to the Chronicle, ABC 7's Dan Noyes flew down to Caracas, Venezuela to tape an interview with Eliana Lopez, the wife

Christmas Eve Palate Cleanser: Chimps Get Xmas Presents

The chimps at the Oakland Zoo got to open their Christmas presents early this year, and even though this is just a baldfaced publicity stunt, we really want to see them get in

Man in Wheelchair Hit, Trapped Underneath Train in Oakland

A man in a wheelchair was hit by a cargo train rolling through Jack London Square in Oakland early this morning and subsequently trapped underneath the "cow-catcher" on the front of the train.

Some Euro-Bound Flights Resume Out of SFO

The Icelandic volcano that no one can pronounce and that has paralyzed European air travel for the last five days continues spewing ash into the air, but some airlines like KLM and Air

Fare Evasion Police Descend On AT&T Park

Warning: Muni fare evasion police are on high alert as folks from the outer reaches of the region (we'll avoid the use of "B&T" here because we know how some of

VIDEO: AC Transit Bus Smashed in By Amtrak Train

An Amtrak passenger train collided with a stalled AC Transit bus near the Oakland Coliseum early this morning. Above is some raw video of the scene from ABC 7. The Appeal reports that

Fashionista Cat Burgler Steals $4,000 Raincoats and Such

Oh, how we love stories like this. A cat burgler by the name of Pooja Ghandi has been terrorizing San Francisco's trendier boutiques and cleaning out the closets of wealthy ladies, stealing thousands

Drunk Protestors Invade UC Berkeley Building, Spill Out Into Streets

In another nod to their Boomer parents, a gang of tuition-hike protesters at Berkeley turned their political act into a rowdy party last night, invading a building that's under renovation with spray-paint cans,

Suspect Arrested in South SF Home Invasion

What's up with all the home invasions lately? A suspect by the name of Juan Carlos Vasquez was arrested in the Mission yesterday in connection with a five-hour (!) home invasion robbery in South

Suspects in Home Invasion Caught on Tape

You'll recall the home invasion robbery we mentioned last week, which happened in a Sunset district home, and in which one 40-year-old man ended up dead. As SFist commenter Joel was quick to

Union City High School Students Getting Sick From Heroin-Laced Brownies

Some kids at James Logan High in Union City have been buying and eating what they thought were pot brownies, going to class, and then succumbing to some crazy mini-seizures and nod-offs and

Goat Smashes Through Doors Of Strip Club

...And today in renegade animal news, a goat decided to ram his way into Lynx Gentlemen's Club in Coachella over the weekend, likely because he saw his reflection in the glass of the

Thousands Lose Power On Peninsula

Due to this storm thing that's happening outside, about 26,000 PG&E customers lost power between last night and this morning. Of those, the majority are on the peninsula and in

Independent Report on Oakland Police Shooting Means Demotion For Two Officers

The deadliest day in Oakland Police history, on which four officers were shot and killed last March, led to an inquiry by an independent panel of police experts whose report was just released

Muni Bus Lands in Bushes in Potrero Hill

Last night at around midnight a 19-Polk bus collided with a small pickup truck at 18th and DeHaro and ended up off the road in some bushes. The driver of the pickup truck

UPDATED: Salvador Rodriguez Jr., Richmond Gang Rape Witness, Goes Missing

The brave kid who talked to news reporters and described to authorities the graphic scene of the homecoming dance gang rape in Richmond last month, has now gone missing. KCBS reports that Salvador

Yahoo! Forcing Vacation on Employees Christmas Week

During the week between Christmas and New Year's, Yahoo! is furloughing most of their 13,000 employees or forcing them to use remaining vacation days, in order to trim costs on their end-of-year

Arts & Entertainment

Spoof of Hitchcock's <em>The 39 Steps</em> Opens at Curran Theater

A theater piece spoofing Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 thriller The 39 Steps, which played on Broadway earlier this year and was nominated for several Tony Awards, opens at the Curran Theater this week. The

50-Ton Crane Splits Santa Rosa Home in Half

A crane operated by a company called (get this) Reliable Crane and Rigging dropped a 120-foot, 50-ton crane boom onto a house in Santa Rosa yesterday, splitting it in half and sparing only