SF News SF to Deploy 150 'Ambassadors' to Make Downtown Shopping District Feel Safer This Holiday Season After the PR disaster that San Francisco faced last year around the holidays, with smash-and-grab robberies being conducted left and right by coordinated gaggles of thieves, the mayor is hoping for a calmer season this year.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
SF News Car Found Buried Next to Atherton Mansion Was Stolen In 1992 The Mercedes-Benz that was found buried on the property of the late Johnny Lew, an ex-felon whom neighbors knew as "a crook" when he lived there in the 1990s, was apparently reported stolen in Palo Alto exactly 30 years ago.
SF News Santa Rosa Man Busted With 73 Pounds of Meth, Plus Firearms Some meth binges in the North Bay are going to have to be cut short because authorities just arrested a guy and seized a massive stash of crystal that was surely headed for the street.
SF News Mystery Unfolding In Atherton As Mercedes Is Found Buried In Yard, Likely From 30 Years Ago Some serious intrigue began Thursday when some landscapers working at a property in Atherton unearthed a car buried four to five feet deep in the yard — and it's not yet clear whether there may be a body in it.
SF News Man Fatally Shot on Market Street Near Powell A man was fatally shot Monday night near Powell Street Station and Union Square, in a rare incident for the popular area.
SF News Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
SF News Unidentified Woman Killed on Antioch Trail After Being Set on Fire Police in Antioch are seeking the public's help to identify a woman who was found dead on a walking trail early Monday after apparently being set on fire by another individual or multiple individuals.
SF News Bullet From 'Big Gun' In Sunday Night Shooting Crashes Through Home of Former Mayor's Family Well, this is crazy! The son and daughter-in-law of former SF Mayor Frank Jordan heard the sound of glass shattering in their bedroom Sunday night as they were putting their kids to bed. And it was apparently a stray bullet that had traveled a half-mile from a shooting near Jefferson Square Park.
SF News Homicide Under Investigation at Turk & Taylor Streets A person was apparently shot Monday evening near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
SF News [Update] Two People Shot In San Francisco's Fillmore District A shooting Sunday night left at least two people injured on a street near Jefferson Square Park, after a barrage of gunfire was heard throughout the Fillmore neighborhood.
SF News Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed In Castro Safeway Parking Lot A fatal stabbing occurred Tuesday evening in the notoriously sketchy parking lot of the Castro Safeway shopping plaza.
SF News Six Bay Area High Schools Get Swatted With Fake Active Shooter Reports A wave of "swatting" swept through the Bay Area on Wednesday, a day after similar incidents in Florida, with classes disrupted and lockdowns ordered following a half dozen fabricated reports of active shooters at six different high schools.
SF News Group of Men Robbed at Gunpoint In Mission District, One Shot One man was shot during the commission of a robbery on the street outside of a Mission District bar on Monday night, in an incident that involved three suspects which was one of two shootings that night.
SF News Inmate Work Crew Saves Woman From Stabbing In Vacaville An inmate work crew and a California Department of Corrections guard intervened in a stabbing along a Solano County bike trail on Tuesday, possibly saving a woman's life.
SF News Mission District Attack Victims Can Identify Their Attackers, Denounce Police Inaction on Cases Two recent assault victims in the Mission District say they can point out or even name their attackers, yet both attackers continue to roam the neighborhood without consequences.
SF News Chico Man Lived With Dead Roommate's Body For Four Years In Order To Cash His Checks A Chico man has been charged with forgery and identity theft after prosecutors determined he had been impersonating his dead roommate in order to collect his U.S. Navy retirement benefit checks.
SF News [Update] Rape Suspect Arrested After Hiding Inside Pleasant Hill Nordstrom Rack A standoff ensued Tuesday evening and into Wednesday at a Nordstrom Rack in Pleasant Hill after police pursued a wanted rape suspect to the area, and he managed to keep himself hidden in the store for over 12 hours.
SF News Marina Household Sees Garage Robbed Three Times In One Night, Car Stolen on Thieves' Third Visit Security video indicates it may have been the same group of thieves who hit a Marina District garage three times in one night last week, and on the third trip, they made off with a car.
SF News Pair of Homicides In San Francisco: One In Bayview, One Near Union Square San Francisco's homicide count just rose by two following an assault that proved deadly on Third Street in the Bayview, and a fatal stabbing in Hallidie Plaza.
SF News Three Santa Rosa Men, Including Aspiring Rapper Who Rapped About Dealing, Busted For Shipping Meth and Fentanyl-Laced Pills Out of State Three men from the North Bay have been charged by the feds for operating a drug ring that involved shipping pills and methamphetamine across state lines, specifically to central Tennessee.
SF News Watch Sherri Papini Lie, Squirm, and Fumble In Newly Released Interrogation Video The world now gets to see the moment when the gig was truly up for wannabe Gone Girl Sherri Papini when she was confronted in 2020 with what federal investigators had figured out about her fabricated 2016 abduction.
SF News Home Invasion and Car Theft Suspect Killed on San Mateo Bridge After Running Out of Gas A suspect was struck and killed by an oncoming car after exiting a vehicle he allegedly stole on the San Mateo Bridge early Wednesday, after apparently running out of gas.
SF News South American Tourist Burglars Might Be Back In Hillsborough; Town Hit With Rash of Home Break-Ins Hillsborough police announced on Monday that four break-ins had occurred in the town since September 8, and the modus operandi of the thieves sounds very similar to the suspected Chilean or South American crews we heard about earlier this year.
