SF News S.F. Mom Facing Charges for Abandoning Cocaine Baby A Hunter's Point woman is facing charges after reportedly giving birth to a baby boy in the pouring rain on a Bayview sidewalk, then handing the baby off to a man on the
SF News Scammers In Vallejo Attempt To Sell Worst Fake iPads Ever Every holiday season, some prankster thinks he can get away with putting rocks in a box and passing it off as an iPod or something. This year, the consumer reports section of the
SF News This Is What Bank Loot Looks Like After The Dye Pack Explodes Super sharp CHOW editor John Birdsall tweeting the following item late Thursday afternoon: "Holy Crap! Bank next to our shop in Oakland got robbed today, guys tossed the cash out of their car
SF News John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala, Blogs Crazy Stuff From Jail As Gizmodo notes today, "John McAfee is basically liveblogging his jail stint on a Central American murder rap from the personal computer of a Guatemalan jail warden." Yep. McAfee was detained yesterday in
SF News Hate Crime In The Castro On the evening of Friday, November 30, two people were pistol-whipped while being called "fags" by unknown assailants. The victims had just parked their car at Hartford Street and 18th Street when they
SF News Female Berkeley Cyclist Shot Dead Near the corner of Sacramento and Ward streets outside Longfellow Middle School on Tuesday night, a Berkeley resident found a woman shot to death while presumably riding her bike. "The citizen said the
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News Lady High On Bath Salts Found Barefoot, Screaming In Middle Of Intersection Remember when bath salts were all the rage ? Well, it's back in the news and worse than ever. One Tuesday, police found a "highly agitated female" standing in the middle of an intersection
SF News Bear-Sprayed Theft Suspect's Lawyer Alleges Vigilantism Andy Anduha, the "Bicycle Bandit" famously doused with bear spray this week after attempting to steal a bait package, claimes that he's a victim of vigilantism and entrapment -- or so says his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crook Steals Burrito, Cash In downtown burrito-swiping news, a brazen hooligan made off with cash and a burrito at a Sutter Street convenience store (presumably the 7-Eleven as reports say it happened on the 200 block) on
SF News SF General Wants LA Dodgers To Pay Up San Francisco General wants the Los Angels Dodgers to reimburse the hospital $1.2 million for "extensive trauma care" given to Giants fan Bryan Stow. If you recall, Stow was brutally beaten by
SF News UC Berkeley Third Most Dangerous College In America Once famous as a hotbed of dangerous political thought and fashion statements, now UC Berkeley is just plain dangerous, or so says Business Insider. The news site ranked colleges in the U.S.
SF News Kevin Grant of Oakland Wins California Peace Prize Former convict Kevin Grant as one of the 2012 California Peace Prize recipients. Grant, in and out of the jail system as a youth until 1989, now acts as a consultant for parole
SF News Yet Another S.F. Sheriff's Deputy Facing Criminal Charges Less than a week after Sheriff's deputy Phil Tong was arrested for robbing a Richmond District Bank of America, the Chronicle has found yet another deputy facing criminal charges. 36-year-old deputy Manconia Tamika
SF News 14-Year-OId Kidnapping/Sexual Assault Suspect To Be Tried As Adult Cameras were allowed in the courtroom on Monday to take still shots of 14-year-old Kaviar King, the Vallejo teen suspected of kidnapping, beating, and sexually assaulting a 65-year-old woman, who will be tried
SF News Excelsior: Man Shot In Head A young man was critically injured after taking a bullet to the head. The incident happened on Sunday near Mission and Silver in the Excelsior District. According to reports, cops found the unidentified
SF News S.F. Sheriff's Deputy Busted For Robbing Local Bank of America Oh dear: Phil Tong, a deputy with the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, was arrested this morning after being identified on surveillance camera footage as the suspect who knocked over a Bank of America
SF News 14-Year-Old Kidnaps, Beats, Sexually Assaults Vallejo Woman A deplorable 14-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday in connection with a brutal kidnapping and sexual assault of a 65-year-old woman. "Detectives spoke with the victim and determined that she had been kidnapped
SF News 4 Men Busted During SF Child Porn Raid Using IP addresses in lieu of chat room decoys, San Francisco police arrested four men on Tuesday during a child pornography sting operation. Homes in the Excelsior, Oceanview, Visitacion Valley and SOMA were
SF News Mission Rapist Found Guilty Of 25 Felony Counts Frederick Dozier Jr., the 33-year-old former San Francisco school cafeteria worker accused of a string of violent sexual assaults in the Mission District late last year, was found guilty today of 25 felony
SF News Crass Murderer Asks Jurors To Flip Coin To Decide Fate When Nathan Burris isn't offending the family of the woman she murdered, he's asking jurors to flip a coin in order to decide his fate. Burris, if you recall, was convicted last week
SF News Man Found In Trash Dies On Sunday morning in Union City, a woman found a man unconscious in a trash bin. The discovery was found in the 33900 block of 10th Street. According to reports, the body was
SF News Two Men Wanted In Connection With Attempted Teen Kidnapping Police have released the sketch of a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Oakland this week. The girl in question was walking home from school alone at around 4:
SF News Police Seek Suspects In World Series Beating Death Police need your help finding the five men who allegedly took part in beating to death a man celebrating the World Series win in the Upper Haight. The incident happened on October 28
SF News Mission District To Get Beefed Up Police Presence After seeing an increase in violent crime and gang activity in the Mission over the past few months, SFPD will ramp up their presence around the elitist yet gritty neighborhood. Spurred on by