SF News How Guilty, If at All, Is Johannes Mehserle? As the Mehserle closing arguments wrap up, on Thursday, the Chronicle reports, jurors "were told that the video-recorded killing during an arrest at BART's Fruitvale Station in Oakland was either an intentional act
SF News Ed Perkins Not the 'Pink Saturday' Shooter Ed Perkins, the man arrested for allegedly killing Stephen Powell and wounding two others at Saturday's Pink Saturday in the Castro, will not be charged with with murder. BCN (via SF Appeal) notes,
SF News Mission Home Invasion Robbery Over on the 2600 block of Bryant Street on Monday, two men in their twenties knocked on the door of a nearby home, waited for the resident to answer, and started hitting the
SF News Two Shot at Vigil for 'Pink Saturday' Victim During a Monday night vigil for Stephen Powell, the Pink Saturday shooting victim, two people were shot. The gunfire was reported around 8 p.m. near the intersection of Third Street and Quesada
SF News Alleged Castro 'Pink Saturday' Shooter ID'd The man who allegedly shot and killed 19-year-old Stephen Powell during Gay Pride's Pink Saturday party has been identified as 20-year-old San Franciscan Ed Perkins. "Police are unsure what, exactly, led Perkins to
SF News <s>3 Wounded</s> 1 Dead, 2 Wounded In Castro 'Pink Saturday' Shooting (UPDATED) During last night's Pink Saturday festivities in the Castro, three people were shot at Market and Castro Streets. Police responded to reports of gunfire at around 11:30 p.m. BCN (via CBS
SF News Salinas Couple Arrested for Attempting to Sell Infant Outside Walmart A Salinas couple faces child endangerment charges today, according to the Chronicle, after they allegedly "tried to sell their 6-month-old baby for $25 outside a Walmart store." While riding high on meth, Patrick
SF News Mehserle Breaks Down In Court, Judge Clears Courtroom According to Beth Spotswood at Eye On Blogs, things took a turn for the LA Law-ish during today's Mehserle trial. It seems that, while testifying about shooting Oscar Grant, BART cop Johannes Mehserle
SF News Police Get Serious About Fireworks Season God, do we miss buying and igniting fireworks. So much third-degree fun, so deeply missed. SF Weekly reminds us that, starting this month until July 4, police are busting folks for firework possession.
SF News SFist Blotter: Arson, Brazen TV Theft Downtown/Arson: Yesterday, over on the 400 block of Mission Street near the sleek Millennium Tower, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to two bush fires. After extinguished the tiny blazes, authorities determined
SF News SFist Blotter: Stabbing, Robbery with Knife Hayes Valley/Stabbing: Near the the intersection of Fell and Laguna this morning, a 28-year-old man stabbed an 18-year-old man with a knife in front of several bystanders. After a nearby security guard
SF News Wanted: Midday Bank Robbery Suspect The fuzz is on the hunt for an elderly rapscallion who allegedly robbed a downtown bank on Monday afternoon. Bay City News (via SF Examiner) reports: "Police spokesman Sgt. Troy Dangerfield said a
SF News SFist Blotter Haight/Assault: Egads, how gruesome. Early Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m.-ish, an assault occurred near the intersection of Waller and Webster. William Valentine, 42, was arrested for attacking someone he
SF News Another Wealthy Peninsula Enclave Hosts Homicide A Woodside man, Pooroushasb "Peter" Parineh, was arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting death of his wife Parima in April, originally believed to be a suicide. Mr. Parineh had reported upon calling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ronnie Lee Gardner Executed, Other Famous Last Meals At midnight last night, the U.S. executed convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner by firing squad in Utah. This execution was most notable for two things: Gardner's decision to die by firing squad
SF News Hillsborough Plays Host To First Reported Homicide Since '04 Deliriously wealthy Hillsborough, located 17 miles south of San Francisco on the Peninsula, played host to its first reported murder since 2004. Bradley Kleiman, 30, allegedly shot and killed his friend in self-defense
SF News Meg Whitman's Son Physically Abuses Women Like mother, like son. California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's underwear skidmark of a son, Griffith Rutherford Harsh V, was arrested back in 2006 for assaulting a woman in Palo Alto, resulting in her
SF News Details Revealed In Sandra Cantu Killing "I shouldn't have taken Sandra from you. She did not suffer and I did not sexually molest your daughter," said convicted murdered Melissa Huckaby, who, just this morning, was sentenced to life in
SF News Melissa Huckaby to Be Sentenced This Morning Melissa Huckaby, the 29-year-old Tracy woman who you may recall kidnapped and murdered that 8-year-old girl last year, will appear in court this a.m. and is expected to receive a life sentence
SF News Bonds Steroid Test Results Won't Be Used In Court Former SF Giants great Barry Bonds scored a coup today in his perjury case. SFGate reports that prosecutors cannot use Bonds' positive steroids test results in court. "because Bonds' trainer refused to testify
SF News Elementary School Sexual Assault Suspect Arrested Police arrested Pedro Hernandez, 68, on suspicion of sexually assaulting a family member at Sanchez Elementary School on June 3. Discovered at a homeless shelter at Saint Bruno’s Catholic Church, Hernandez was
SF News Beware Fake Lotteries This must be some kind of ghetto thing we don't understand, but six people were arrested for running an underground lottery in which paper tickets were sold in stores in Richmond and San
SF News Teen To Be Tried As Adult In Ice Cream Vendor Shooting The 16-year-old teen accused of shooting Vallejo ice cream vendor Amarjit Kaur in February will be tried as an adult. Peter Montenegro is alleged to have shot Kaur after he and his pal,
SF News North Beach Bogeymen Intimidate North Beach Residents (Or Not) Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the Bogeyman. The North Beach Bogeymen, that is. New San Francisco resident C.W. Nevius yanks his hair
SF News SFist Blotter Mission/Carjacking: Last night at 21st and Folsom, a 53-year-old man was sitting in his parked vehicle when a suspect, believed to be in his 30s, yanked the victim out of his vehicle,
