SF News Man Beaten Near 6th and Mission On Monday morning, a 25-year-old man was brutally beaten near the city's notorious Sixth and Mission intersection. "One of the suspects brandished a chrome revolver, a non-firing replica, and demanded the victim's cell
SF News Witnesses Sought In Shooting In Potrero Hill Nightclub A male clubgoer was "seriously injured" early Saturday morning after a shoot occurred inside Cafe Cocomo, the Potrero Hill nightclub located at 650 Indiana. "An unknown suspect shot a 23-year-old man inside the
SF News California May Proceed With Executing People In a court filing yesterday, the State of California (Jerry Brown's office to be exact) said they had obtained a fresh supply of twelve grams of the lethal injection drug sodium thiopental with
SF News Sketch Released of Walnut Creek Assailant The Costa County Sheriff’s Office released this sketch today of the man suspected of trying to sexually assault a 43-year-old woman on Saturday at the Park Regency apartments in Walnut Creek. (Four
SF News Fifth Woman Assaulted In Walnut Creek Apartment Complex The folks running the Park Regency apartment complex in Walnut Creek need to get their act together after a fifth woman was attacked on Saturday. "The victim, a 43-year-old resident of the complex,
SF News Wanted: Sunglass Hut Thief SF Examiner reports that a "squinty-eyed crook" held up the Sunglass Hut (2327 Market) on Saturday night. The rapscallion, it seems, brandished his gun at store employees and demand them to fill a
SF News Meg Whitman Knew About Illegal Employee? Although gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said on Tuesday that she fired Nicky Diaz Santillan, her overly emotional maid, the moment he informed her that she was an illegal immigrant, that might not be
SF News State Supreme Court Blocks Albert Greenwood Brown's Execution Albert Greenwood Brown had yet another stay of execution handed to him, this time care of the California Supreme Court. The Chronicle reports: "The justices unanimously denied the state's request to allow new
SF News Police Seek S.F. Rape Suspect Police are looking for a man who allegedly raped a woman around noon on Tuesday at the Potrero Hill Housing Authority Development. According to reports, "Damir Shalako, 25, who has an 'SF' tattoo
SF News Six-Year-Old Oakland Girl Shot In Bed Oakland police responded to a report of gunfire on the 1600 block of Seminary Avenue a little after 2 a.m. today. Upon arrival, they found a six-year-old child hit with stray gunfire.
SF News (UPDATED) Death Penalty Opponents Will Gather to Demonstrate San Quentin Execution Update: Protests moved to Thursday night. If all goes according to plan, Albert Greenwood Brown will be the first San Quentin inmate to die since 2006. He was convicted of raping and murdering
SF News Next Wednesday: California's First Execution Since 2006 U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel has cleared the way for California's first execution since 2006 "after the state revised its lethal injection procedures." Albert Greenwood Brown, convicted of raping and murdering
SF News SF State Cheerleading Coach Accused of Stealing Students' Money Former SFSU student Ashlee Haley, 23, who ran the Gators Cheerleading Club now faces "criminal charges for allegedly embezzling nearly $20,000 from the team." (Side note: if your parents christen you "Ashley
SF News Man Attempts To Lure Walnut Creek Boy Into Car Walnut Creek police are asking residents to be wary of a man who allegedly tried to lure a 13-year-old boy into his car yesterday. "The boy was at the Encina Grande Shopping Center
SF News Man With Gunshot Wounds Found On Treat Street After officers "responded to the 1000 block of Treat Avenue just east of the 24th Street BART station after receiving a call at about 3:25 a.m. of shots fired there," a
SF News Man Who Threatened Pelosi Pleads Guilty Lee Giusti -- the man who called up Nancy Pelosi's office and home, and threatened harm and property loss if Nancy didn't vote against the health care bill -- pleaded guilty today to
SF News Stabbing, Mugging In Potrero Hill Last Night Last night on the 2200 block of 18th Street, a man stabbed and then robbed a woman shortly before midnight. "Police said a 36-year-old woman was walking down the street when a male
SF News 4 San Bruno Fire Swindlers Arrested In a failed effort to get "free food and other aid," four people were arrested on Tuesday after allegedly posing as San Bruno explosion victims. SF Chronicle reports: "The four submitted driver's license
SF News Jury Acquits Man of 2007 Metreon Shooting Death After a six-week trial, one that revealed police misconduct and witness tampering, Kenoye Stroman, 26, accused of gunning down a patron outside Jillian's in 2007, was acquitted today. Stroman stood trial for killing
SF News Mission Gutter Set Ablaze (Video) ;center> Egads! On Sunday night in the Mission, unidentified rapscallion(s) set a gutter ablaze. Mission Mission's Ariel Dovas reports, "[S]omeone lit the northside gutter between Mission and San Carlos streets
SF News Two Men Sought In Connection With Fremont Murder Alameda Country authorities are looking for Manuel Trujillo, 62, and Mohammed Kahn, 47, who allegedly kidnapped and killed 27-year-old Francisco Lopez "after mistakenly believing Lopez wanted to steal their marijuana." According to AP/
SF News Woman Killed After Prius Hit And Run Sad news. A 70-year-old woman was stuck and killed by a Priu in the Haight on Wednesday. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), the "woman had been crossing the street at Waller and
SF News SFist Blotter 8/31, CASTRO GLEN PARK: A female walking south on Castro Street (near Sussex) was accosted by a 20- to 30-year-old black man who grabbed her purse from behind, pulled her sweater over
SF News 888 O'Farrell Fire Might Have Been Suicide/Murder Attempt We mentioned yesterday a two-alarm fire in the tenderloin where a woman jumped to her death. According to The Chronicle, the "woman who leaped from the eighth story of her burning apartment in
SF News "Magician Sentenced to Six Years for Sexual Relationship with Boulder Creek Minor" Sometimes a headline is so grand yet horrifying, it doesn't need a blogger's reworking. And sometimes the story is so intriguing and well written -- this one involves everything from a magician to
