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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

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,

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

Berkeley Law Students Charged In Fowl Las Vegas Murder

Justin Teixeira and Eric Cuellar, the two UC Berkeley law students accused of beheading a rare bird and toying with the carcass one night in Las Vegas earlier this year, have been charged

Oakland Hires Former L.A. Police Chief to Consult on Crime

It's been a rough year for murders in Oakland, and critics have been saying the department can't catch criminals anymore and calling for a federal takeover of the department. Now, the City Council

Another East Oakland Shooting

A 19-year-old man, a suspected gang member and barely, was shot multiple times on Thursday afternoon in East Oakland. The all too familiar incident, according to the victim, happened near 98th Avenue and

Werq: High-Fashion Teen Escapes From Juvie

Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, a teenager escaped authorities while en route to juvenile hall. And you can spot the little rapscallion for he was last seen sporting the

Mother Shot Inside Oakland Church On Christmas Eve

Let's just give you the facts since it's all so depressing yet unsurprising: On Christmas Eve, a woman was shot in the arm while praying inside Centro Evangelistico Bethel Church in East Oakland

Two Killed In Oakland Over Holiday Weekend

Over on the 700 block of Market Street in Oakland on Sunday night, 26-year-old Brittan Sneed was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Acorn housing complex. Meanwhile, Oakland police identified

Twitter Death Threats: 49er David Akers

Back in the day, one would have to cut out letters from numerous magazines, get out the glue, pull out a sheet of paper, piece together an acceptably terrifying missive threatening grave harm,

Grandmother Shot, Killed While Walking Into Oakland Store

Ramona Rochelle Foreman, 49. was walking into a store on the 9100 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland on Wednesday when a stray bullet hit her. She died instantly. The bullet, according

Horrible Human Tries To Rob Lady Pushing Stroller

A man, described as being in his late teens or early 20s, robbed a woman pushing a stroller on Monday night in the Inner Richmond. God, people sometimes suck. According to SF Examiner,

SFPD Needs Cash To Cover All Those Guns They Bought Back

During the wildly successful gun buyback program at the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco on Saturday, local gun owners turned in nearly 300 firearms to the SFPD. (Likewise in Oakland, where residents

Columnist Urges Drones To Make Oakland Flyovers

For years now, Oakland Police and the Oakland Mayor's Office haven't been able to come up with a solution (much less work together like adults) on the city's glaring crime problem. In 2012,

Over The Weekend, Hundreds of Bay Area Residents Decided They No Longer Needed To Own Guns

Gun buyback programs in San Francisco and Oakland proved that, at least in the Bay Area, there are scores of people willing to abandon their right to bear arms — especially in light of

Early Morning Home Invasion Rattles SF Family

Early this morning on Sloat Avenue near the San Francisco Zoo, three men broke into the home of a family and robbed the place. The suspects tied up the occupants with electrical tape

Mission Rapist Frederick Dozier Jr. Sentenced To 373 Years To Life

Frederick Dozier Jr., the 33-year-old former school cafeteria worker convicted of violent sexual assaults against three women in the Mission earlier this year, was sentenced Friday to 373 years to life in prison.