SF News Piedmont Homes Invaded By Gunmen Early Monday morning, two homes in Piedmont were invaded by gunmen in what police are calling related robberies. First, at around 6:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Estates Drive, "a
SF News Two Shot, One Killed In Crocker Amazon Neighborhood Responding to shots fired in the 1100 block of Naples Street at about 12:05 a.m. on Monday, police found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. One victim, 43, died; the other
SF News San Jose Mother Fakes Kidnapping of Her Toddler A San Jose mother, perhaps in search of attention, concocted a story about a man dressed in a ball cap and bluejeans, smelling of motor oil, who came up to her yard and
SF News 34-Year-Old Man Stabbed In The Tenderloin We're hearing a report that a 34-year-old man was "critically stabbed" on the 700 block of Larkin early Friday morning. According to SF Appeal: "The 34-year-old victim was stabbed once in the chest
SF News Latest Gang War in Oakland Tied to August Murder of Teenage Girl The recent uptick in gun violence in Oakland, including last weekend's shocking number of shootings (fifteen), can be tied back, in large part, to the August murder of a 16-year-old East Oakland girl.
SF News Man Grazed By Bullet in Early Morning Home Invasion in Mission Terrace Two suspects, described only as men in their twenties, invaded a home on the 200 block of San Juan Avenue in Mission Terrace on Tuesday morning around 10:40 a.m. The two
SF News 19-Year-Old Shot In Bayview On Tuesday night, a little before 9 a.m., a 19-uyear-old man was shot in the arm. The incident happened in the city's Bayview District in the 100 block of Doublerock Street. "The
SF News Here's A Picture Of The Deplorable (Alleged) Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger Pardon us if we hound this guy (pun certainly intended) until the local cops track him down, but the man you see pictured here is one Laurice Barrett — the very same man captured
SF News Police Chase Ends Outside All Star Donuts In SOMA [Updated] A little after noon today, a police chase ended at Fifth and Harrison, just outside All Star Donuts. According to unconfirmed reports, one person is dead, another injured. However, according to the manager
SF News Suspect Sketch Released In Violent Mission Rape Attempt San Francisco Police have released a suspect sketch of the man who violently attacked and allegedly attempted to rape a woman who was walking on 23rd Street near Church Street around 2:40
SF News Man Arrested In Telegraph Hill Rape Jovan Jones, 25, of Marin City was arrested on Saturday night after allegedly forcing his way into the apartment of a Telegraph Hill woman and then raping her. According to the Chronicle, "The
Arts & Entertainment Who Should Play A 'Not Crazy' John McAfee In The Movie Adaptation? Software mogul and self-diagnosed not-insane person John McAfee is about to see his life flash before him on the silver screen. Or at least the part that begins with him living in Belize
SF News Seriously: Fifteen Shot, Four Dead This Weekend In Oakland Four people were killed Friday in separate incidents in Oakland within six hours. This gave way to an extraordinarily violent weekend in Oakland in which another eleven people were shot, some likely in
SF News Meet Mr. Teeth, The Five-Foot-Long Weed Guarding Reptile Meet Mr. Teeth. As you can see, he is a rather large reptile. So what was this dinosaur doing living in Castro Valley, California? He wasn't lounging about eating chucksteaks at the zoo.
SF News Knife Crime 2013: The Stabbings So Far After 2013 started off with a knife-involved homicide, the following ten days have seen a number of stabbings and slashings across town. Picking up where we left off with last year and catching
Arts & Entertainment Go To This Thing Tonight: Weegee If you're like us, your personal library is riddled with true crime books and, far more lurid, true crime photo books. Tonight the Jewish Contemporary Museum will review the life, work, and legacy
SF News Woman Violently Assaulted During Possible Rape Attempt In The Mission A personal account of a violent assault and possible rape attempt in the Mission has been making the rounds on neighborhood blogs, emails and Facebook today. The account, written by Mission resident "Amy,
SF News California Needs To Update Its Antiquated Rape Law Last week, a three-year-old rape conviction in Southern California was overturned by the Second District Court of Appeals in Los Angeles because the court ruled that the state's law would have only considered
SF News Girlfriend-Torching Laundromat Goon Busted In Oakland 22-Year-Old Dexter Oliver, the man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire because she wanted to leave her clothes unattended at a Bayview laundromat, was arrested at a hotel in Oakland yesterday. With
SF News Man Sets Girlfriend On Fire After Laundromat Spat San Francisco Police are on the lookout for 22-year-old Dexter Oliver after the fiery fiend allegedly set his girlfriend aflame outside of a Bayview laundromat Sunday. According to the victim's sister, Precious Craig,
SF News Teens Drug Parents' Milkshakes To Use Internet Past Curfew In the timeless words of Will Smith, parents just don't understand. Two teenage girls were arrested earlier this week after allegedly drugging one of the girl's parents. Why? Because they wanted to use
SF News Septuagenarian Punched During Wig Store Robbery A couple of hair thieves are on the loose after robbing a wig store on Polk Street Sunday afternoon. The two suspects in their late twenties were trying to make their escape with
SF News Oakland Man Shot Multiple Times On New Year's Eve While the East Bay city has, as far as we know, been able to stave off any murders in 2013, Oakland played host to their final attempted murder of 2012 on New Year's
SF News Dog-Throwing Tenderloin Mugger Wanted By SFPD A deplorable dog-hating mugger is still on the loose after he robbed a woman in her car on Leavenworth Street last Friday evening. According to Bay City News, the victim had done the
SF News This Is Tonight's DUI Checkpoint First things first: Don't drink and drive. Just don't. It should go without saying that people who drive drunk are the worst. If we find out tomorrow, dear readers, that any one of