SF News Flight From San Francisco To Paris Lands Safely After Diversion Over Anonymous Threat Passengers on a plane traveling from San Francisco to to Paris took an unexpected side trip to Canada Monday, after an unspecified anonymous threat caused the flight to be diverted. Air France flight
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Is Airbnb *Really* Worth $25.5 Billion? Not your usual type of vandal, this tagger wants to warn passers-by of the alleged crimes within. [SFist] Google's search results appear to favor Democrats, here's why. [Slate] Twitter has tweaked how it
SF News SFPD Struggles To Keep Track Of Crime Statistics On their website, the San Francisco Police Department writes proudly of their CompStat crime tracking program, which they say "has an established and proven track record in reducing crimes and improving the overall
SF News Suspect Remains At Large Following Fatal Shooting In The Mission A gunman is on the loose after killing a San Francisco man on a busy Mission District street Sunday. The San Francisco Medical Examiner's Office has identified 26-year-old SF resident Hector Salvador as
SF News 3-Year-Old Shoots Brother With NorCal CHP Officer's Rifle A game of hide-and-seek between siblings ended in gunfire Saturday, when the 3-year-old stepson of a Stockton California Highway Patrol officer shot his brother with the police officer's .22 gauge caliber (Fox40 describes
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Meet The Medical Examiner Your weekend ICYMI: The town hall meeting to discuss SFPD's fatal shooting on Mario Williams erupted in protest, a teen was killed when a tree branch snapped and fell neat Fairyland, and a
SF News Sunday Morning Coming Down: Williams-Sonoma Founder Dies If you're looking for something to do today, how about the Janis Joplin doc at the Roxie? [SFist] Outgoing San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi welcomed eight new deputies Friday. [Bay City News] Chuck
SF News Saturday Morning Special: Airbnb's Ad Ignorance Every time I get annoyed with my husband, I'm going to go back and read Caleb's first installment of Eff-ing in SF and appreciate that I'm not out there anymore. [SFist] Airbnb CEO
SF News Mugger Gets Away With Victim's Gun During Mission Street Robbery Apparently not content to just steal a gun from a vehicle, one San Francisco criminal is taking his weapon theft even further, by stealing a firearm from right out of his victim's hands.
SF News Local Mom On The Run After Dumping Kid At Serramonte Target Police are seeking an Oakland mother after they allege that she used her child to help her shoplift from a Daly City Target, then left the child behind when she was caught. Daly
Arts & Entertainment Super Bowl 50 Gets Even Harder To Care About As Coldplay Announced As Halftime Headliner After a lot of talk about contenders like Maroon 5 and Adele as performers during the halftime show at Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara, the first official act has been confirmed: Avant-garde
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Novato Squirrels Continue Reign Of Terror Jay says that A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder is "thoroughly English, darkly comic, and brilliantly staged." [SFist] Not everyone in North Beach is into the Poets Plaza proposal. [Hoodline] Major San
Arts & Entertainment Popular Columnist's Departure From The Chronicle 'Was Not Entirely Voluntary' Two weeks after a longstanding San Francisco Chronicle columnist retired to great fanfare, an interview reveals that the beloved writer might have been forced into dropping the pen. As previously noted, SF Chronicle
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Oculus Seeks SF View San Bernardino shooting suspects were married, with a 6-month-old daughter. [LAist] Proposed 250-unit Potrero Hill development goes before SF Planning today. [SocketSite] An unmanned big rig had a "major diesel spill" in Noe
SF News [Update] Videos Of Fatal SFPD Shooting Raise Questions On Need For Lethal Force San Francisco's police chief is defending the actions of his department, after a fatal shooting by officers Wednesday afternoon was partially caught on video. According to a statement sent by the San Francisco
SF News Hands Wrung, Pearls Clutched Over Rumor That Next iPhone Won't Have A Headphone Jack Rumors that the next iPhone might have fewer holes have come and gone for months now, but a report on a frequently-reliable Japanese blog has the Western world buzzing that the upcoming iPhone
Arts & Entertainment SantaCon Disputes Death Reports, Ramps Up For December Revels Though the once-official Twitter account for San Francisco's SantaCon "celebration" has been declaring the event dead since last year, organizers say the bacchanal is good to go on December 12, even as area
SF News Snapping Squirrel Injures Two During Marin School Rampage Doomsayers have been known to argue that one of the signs that the end times are near is when the animals rise up against us, attacking with fearsome tooth and claw. If you
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: In Zuck We Trust? Will a proposed increase in affordable housing requirements scare developers out of SF? Mayor Lee is betting it won't. [SFist] This [Poynter] report appears to be saying that the SF Chronicle is profitable
SF News Man Gets Stabbed In The Face During Altercation At SF Library Restroom An altercation over a bag ended in grisly fashion Monday, after a man was stabbed in the face in the restroom of the San Francisco Public Library's Main branch. According to San Francisco
SF News The More People Ride Muni, The Less They Like It According to a recent telephone survey, the more frequently people ride the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's buses, trolleys, and trains, the lower they rated the transit system's service. That's just one of
SF News Truck Smashes Through Overpass Guardrail, Dumps Enough Debris To Close 101 [Updated] Subscribers to San Francisco's emergency notification system Alert SF were warned to avoid a stretch of 101 in San Francisco this morning, and pictures sent in by an SFist reader illustrate why, as
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: Yoga At San Quentin Jay's typically pretty stoic, but I could hear him panicking over this possible loss of this cheeseburger. [SFist] Barry Bonds might become a hitting coach for the Miami Marlins. [Associated Press] Who needs
SF News Behold, The Castro's Be-Wigged Prowler "Who the hell is trying to get in my house?" asks YouTube user LotsOfRobotsINC, aka Castro resident Andy Murdoch. But while no one knows the answer, the situation is odd enough that the
SF News Video: Vandals Tag Francis Ford Coppola's Dome San Francisco's historic Sentinel Building is one of North Beach's most iconic structures, a great green tower owned by director Francis Ford Coppola. Now home to (among other tenants) Coppola's American Zoetrope studio
