SF News SFist Blotter: Charred Body Near Tomales Bay, Old Person Crashes Car Into Bank Vallejo / Car Accident: An 84-year-old woman drove her car into a Vallejo bank yesterday noon, and at least one female victim was hospitalized. The driver said she mistook the gas for the brake
SF News SFist Blotter: Muni Robber Has Seizure, Man Shot In Ass Trying to Steal Pot City College / Muni Robbery: A man threatened a woman at knifepoint while sitting next to her on the KT-Ingleside yesterday afternoon, demanding her cash and belongings. She complied, but when a witness on
SF News In an Especially Deadly Year, Oakland Rehires 24 Laid Off Cops In the budget passed on June 30, the City of Oakland managed to find funding to rehire 24 of the 80 police officers it laid off last year. More officers have also been
SF News SFist Blotter: 22nd Murder in Richmond, Three More in Oakland Richmond / Murder: Another weekend in Richmond ends with another dead: One man was wounded and a woman was killed as they drove into an apartment complex at the corner of Eighth Street and
SF News SFist Blotter: Father-Son Murder-Suicide on Peninsula; Carjacking in SoMa Santa Clara County / Murder-Suicide: Two men's bodies were found in a home on Wednesday on the 14000 block of Clara Street in unincorporated Santa Clara County, and they've now been identified as 50-year-old
SF News Oakland Man Shot In Head While He and Family Were Trying to Feed Homeless Just to give you an idea of the tenor of things in East Oakland this summer: An Oakland man and his family were shot at just after midnight last night while trying to
SF News Citizens In Richmond to Gather This Evening to Discuss Gang War We mentioned earlier today that Saturday's homicide in Richmond brings the murder rate on par, for the first seven months of the year, with the city's total homicides in 2010, totaling 21. Much
SF News SFist Blotter: Man With Coke All Over Face Arrested in Mission, Richmond Murder Marks Number 21 Mission / Gun Possession & Narcotics Possession: A man was arrested during a routine police check at a bar on the 3700 block of Mission on Saturday night. We're thinking this is one of
SF News Arrest Made in Shocking Succulent Thievery in Bernal Heights Over in Bernal Heights, though people still sometimes get robbed while walking home from Glen Park BART, the crimes that have been on everyone's minds lately in the 'hood are a recent spate
SF News Possible Roofie Rapist/Kidnapper on Loose in the Mission? Today we get the disturbing tale of a 19-year-old woman who narrowly escaped getting kidnapped and roofied on Sunday while walking along Mission Street. She was walking near the corner of Mission and
SF News SFist Blotter: More Richmond Shooting, More Oakland Shooting, Suspect In Burning Body Case Richmond / Shootings: A turf/gang war appears to have reignited in Richmond with two more consecutive shootings Sunday night that left two dead and two injured. [CBS] Richmond / Drug Bust: After a traffic
SF News SFist Blotter: Burning Body in Rockridge, Water Rescue In Marin, Murder in E. Palo Alto Rockridge / Burning Body: A burning female body was dumped in the quiet, wealthy Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland around 4:40 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Ivanhoe and Chabot Streets, and
SF News SFist Blotter: Triple Homicide in Richmond, Santa Rosa Girl Dead at Slumber Party, and More Richmond / Triple Homicide: In the city of Richmond's deadly and scary Iron Triangle neighborhood, an apparent drug deal went really wrong on Saturday, resulting in three men being shot and killed inside a
SF News Serial Killer Ted Bundy Being Investigated As Possible Suspect in Early 1970s Sonoma County Murders A series of unsolved murders in Sonoma County, all involving women who were hitchhiking on country roads during the trusting, hippie era of 1972 to 1973, has a new suspect in the mix:
SF News SFist Blotter: Seven People Shot In East Oakland, Man Possibly Kills Girlfriend, Calls Cops Himself East Oakland / Shootings: Seven people were wounded in four separate shooting incidents last night in East Oakland, starting around 8:30 p.m. No one was killed, and police are still trying to
SF News Elderly Woman Killed By Skateboarder in Capitola 83-year-old Maryann Slettehaugh was struck by a 17-year-old kid on a skateboard Tuesday afternoon as she crossed a street in downtown Capitola, just south of Santa Cruz. Police say the kid, who was
SF News Man Tries to Outrun Train In Martinez, Collapses in Custody Something we continue to find charming about old-school print media: They don't like to talk about drugs, or speculate about such matters, using terms like "acting strangely" to describe perps who are clearly
SF News SFist Blotter: Shootings In the Tenderloin, Richmond, Art Theft at Union Square Tenderloin / Shootings: Two people were shot Saturday, one of them multiple times, at the corner of Ellis and Jones. The second victim, a 78-year-old bystander suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [CBS] Union Square / Art Theft:
SF News SFist Blotter: Two Bayview Shootings, an iPad Mugging, and a Love Triangle Murder in Santa Rosa Bayview / Shooting: A 16-year-old was shot twice in the abdomen Thursday evening around 7:20 p.m. on the 1300 block of Mendell Street. [Appeal] And a 17-year-old was shot in the leg
SF News Ne'er-Do-Well Teen Enters Not Guilty Plea in Non-Pink-Saturday Shooting, Which Happened on Saturday 18-year-old Terrell Blay, who ran from plainclothes police and dropped his handgun in the process following the shooting Saturday evening at Jones and Market Streets, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a series of
SF News Mission Wallet Snatcher Nabbed We'd heard tell of a spate of cell-phone stealings and purse-snatching in Mission cafés of late, in which the victims had left jackets/purses slung over the backs of chairs in places like
SF News SFist Blotter: Murder in Portola, Botched Home Invasion in Sunset Portola / Shooting: A 26-year-old man was shot multiple times in the back yesterday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. on San Bruno Avenue, near Paul Avenue. He died later at S.F. General.
SF News SFist Blotter: A Body in the Marina, Several Shot in Oakland, Woman Kidnapped and Driven Cross-Country Marina / Homicide: A body was found floating in the yacht harbor near Buchanan Street this morning around 6:30 a.m. The body is male, and police think it's likely connected to a
SF News SFist Blotter: Bayview Shooting, Car Chase Up North, and More Bayview / Shooting: A Bayview man in his 20s was shot multiple times last night near Third and Newcomb around 11:15 p.m. His condition is not currently known. [Examiner] East Oakland: A
SF News Missing Nursing Student In Hayward Now Presumed Dead We haven't been following the case of missing nursing student Michelle Le -- who disappeared May 27 from Kaiser Hospital in Hayward -- too closely, perhaps optimistic that she'd turn up. But police
