SF News Dead Body Discovered In Golden Gate Park Lake Details are still scarce after reports that the body of a deceased person was discovered in a lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park today. Recreation and Park Department spokesperson Sarah Ballard confirmed
SF News Who Dumped A Gigantic Snake In Pescadero? Update: As many commenters have noted, the snake was not a Burmese Python, as was stated by the Peninsula Humane Society, it was actually a boa constrictor. Here's our follow-up. Days after a
SF News Tuesday Morning Roundup: SoMa's Drone Startup It's been a violent summer for the residents of Visitacion Valley. [KCBS] An [NBC Bay Area] reporter tours San Francisco's sewer system. Now ISIS (or its associates) wants to kill people who work
SF News One Dead After Double Shooting In SF Public Housing Project A double shooting in one of San Francisco's public housing projects claimed the life of one man and has left another hospitalized, a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson says. At 9:33 Friday
SF News San Francisco Honda Minivan Strikes Cyclist, Crashes Into Muni Bus In a bizarre chain-reaction collision Monday morning, a cyclist was struck by the driver of a minivan, who then slammed into a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus ferrying commuters through the Richmond District,
SF News Pedestrian Struck By T-Third Monday Morning Service on the San Francisco Municipal Railway's T-Third line was disrupted for about 2.5 hours this morning after one of the transit agency's light-rail vehicles struck a elderly man. According to SFMTA
SF News Monday Morning Roundup: Rent Controlled Housing, Demolished? People appeared to enjoy UN Plaza's Night Market last Friday [KTVU], but were a little freaked out by all the security [SF Chronicle]. Is this SF's below market housing lottery or Brazil? [SF
Arts & Entertainment Want To Watch A Bunch Of Cops Do Motorcycle Tricks? The topics of cops and motorcycles can be divisive ones, to be sure — between the (extremely necessary) national conversation we've been having over police use (and abuse) of force, and the well-documented dangers
SF News SFFD's Homeland Security Head Demoted After Strange Sonoma Car Accident The assistant deputy chief responsible for the San Francisco Fire Department's response in the case of terrorist attack has been bumped way back down the chain of command following a curious collision in
SF News SFPD Seeks Suspects In Pair Of Bank Robberies Days after a couple of San Francisco banks were knocked off only hours apart, the San Francisco Police Department continues to seek the culprits. The first heist went down at 12:55 p.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Twitter Scares Twitpic Into Shutting Down [The Atlantic] appears to be bickering with itself over whether or not SF's urban farming will make the housing crisis even worse. Soon your mailman will be bringing your Amazon groceries. Which isn't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF 49ers Reportedly Celebrate Aldon Smith's Suspension With $6,300 Meal When you get scolded by your boss, you usually try to treat yourself, right? Bag of cheddar chips, sleeve of Oreos, extra guoc on that burrito. Beleaguered 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith is no
SF News Suspect In Slaying Of Sacred Heart Freshman Had Been Jealous Of Victim 'Since Kindergarten' Though an arrest has been made in the slaying of a beloved Mission District teenager, the crime has left even jaded law enforcement officers shaken, and the youth's family wondering why the suspect's
Arts & Entertainment New Teeny Tiny Target Store To Open In The Financial District It appears that Financial District workers will soon have a new place to pick up stuff like eco-friendly cleaners, lip balm, and that pasta with the bunny on the box, as Target announced
SF News Thursday Morning Roundup: Tech-Fueled Rents Drive Out SF News Agency Part of a group of men who allegedly beat up and robbed a couple of German tourists on Russian Hill were dramatically tracked down and arrested. [CBS5] Bay City News, a news wire
SF News Rend Your Garments And Weep: Facebook Goes Down Yet Again [Updated] Remember when Facebook went down on August 1? Well, it's happened again, as of around 12:41 p.m. PT. What the hell are you going to do, instead? Work, like some sort
SF News 14-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed Over Rumored Social Media Dispute A freshman at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Preparatory School was fatally stabbed yesterday, over what the school's head football coach says were "social media issues." 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was stabbed by an as-yet-unidentified
SF News Wednesday Morning Link Dump: Muni's Blogging Now The [SFMTA] has launched what they're referring to as a "blog," which will be your "source for agency news, updates and conversation." You guys, THEY ALLOW COMMENTS. This is going to be fun.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Should SF's Drink Be The Pisco Punch? Zelda Williams has returned to social media. [SF Mag] Field Poll says 43% of Bay Area voters disapprove of President Obama. [KCBS] Violence breaks out at 24th and Mission vigil. [SF Examiner] KRON4
Arts & Entertainment Now's The Time To (Inexpensively) Rescue A Dog From The ACC If you've been thinking about adding a dog to your family, but haven't gotten around to it yet, allow San Francisco's Animal Care and Control to dangle a treat in front of your
Arts & Entertainment Sign Of The Apocalypse: Motorized Unicycles Taking Over SF, TV Reporter Announces "Tech hipsters are using new electric unicycles to get around town" begins this report from KRON4 on what might be the most irritating thing I have seen in a very irritating day. Described
Arts & Entertainment Photo Do Jour: Lost Tesla Is it too much to hope that photographer "rulenumberone2" actually captured one of Gavin Newsom's two Teslas with this shot? Yes, probably it is. But, still, before you mock any Tesla owner for
SF News Please Be Careful By The Cliff House So SFFD Doesn't Have To Rescue You (Like It Did These Folks) It was a glorious Labor Day weekend on the west side of San Francisco. Sunny and warm, a great weekend to hit Ocean Beach. Maybe the warm breezes were enough to make some
SF News How Many Dash-Mounted Phones Are Too Many? (This Guy's Got 5) Signs we have reached peak-app? Cabbie in SF running 5 dash mounted phones pic.twitter.com/WVycnmkGuN— Thomas Purves (@tpurves) September 2, 2014 This tweet from Thomas Purves, who describes himself as both
SF News Driver Makes U-Turn To Shoot Pedestrian He Almost Hit A close call between a driver and pedestrian ended in critical injuries for the latter — but the harm was caused by a suspect wielding a gun, not a vehicle. According to SFPD spokesperson
