SF News Updated: <strike>Unconfirmed</strike> Shooting at 24th and Shotwell Tonight [Update: Mission Local has the story.] A tipster reports that someone was shot tonight at 24th and Shotwell after the Carnaval festivities. Witnesses said the person had been shot in the face, and
SF News LimeWire Wants A Second Chance File sharing software gem LimeWire, something we know absolutely nothing about whatsoever, is in trouble. See, on May 11, according to Wired, "a federal judge ruled that LimeWire’s users commit a 'substantial
SF News Letter from Willie Brown Sparks Arrests of Gay Activists in Zimbabwe Over the weekend, Zimbabwe police arrested two members of the country's only gay rights group, GALZ. Though initially described as a "sting in which police were looking for pornography and drugs," the real
SF News Crime Declined Overall in '09, Despite Crap Economy Bucking conventional wisdom about how crime rises as incomes fall and unemployment rises, the FBI's latest report on nationwide crime statistics for 2009 shows an overall decline in both violent and non-violent crime.
SF News Who Murdered Pearla Louis? That's what the SFPD wants to know, who killed Pearla Louis and stuffed her inside a suitcase and tossed her into the SF Bay? On Tuesday, if you recall, Louis' body was found
SF News Body Found In Suitcase Identified SF Appeal reports that police released the identity of the woman found inside a suitcase floating on the waterfront near the Embarcadero. "The victim is a 52-year-old African-American woman named Pearla Louis," notes
SF News Meth-Infused Driver Arrested Near Amgen Tour of California Oh dear. This fractured face here is in all sorts of trouble after allegedly trying to mow down pedestrians near the Amgen Tour of California route on Tuesday afternoon. According to BCN (via
SF News Body Found In Suitcase In The Bay At around 9 a.m. this morning, a tourist walking along the waterfront with his niece found a suitcase holding a dead body. Margarito Real told KTVU, "There was a suitcase floating in
SF News Oakland Teens Plead 'Not Guilty' In Beating Death Lavonte Drummer and Dominic Davis, the 18-year-old Oakland residents accused of beating to death 59-year-old Tian Sheng Yu of San Francisco, pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Monday. Yu and his son,
SF News Self-Shooter Fakes Home Invasion Robbery Story On Sunday night, a man near the SFSU campus reported to be police being shot during a gruesome home invasion robbery. Which: not true. The man, who sustained non-life-threatening injuries, later confessed to
SF News Death Row Pooch Discovered In Reno Max the doomed pitbull was found in Reno yesterday, along with his owner's girlfriend, Melissa Perry, who absconded with the dog to a Reno hotel room to protect him from execution. On Wednesday,
SF News Max's Owner Arrested Alameda police arrested the man who allegedly kidnapped Max the dog just hours before he was scheduled to be executed. After confessing during a police interview this afternoon, Richard Cochran was arrested on
SF News Sneaky Home Invaders Cut Power To Victim's House A Hunters Point man was rudely awakened this morning after two home invaders cut the power to his house, then tried to unsuccessfully rob him. According to BCN (via SF Appeal), "When he
SF News Melissa Huckaby Pleads 'Guilty' Melissa Huckaby, the 28-year-old Tracy woman accused to kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in April 2009, made a surprise decision by pleading guilty to murder. In a crowded Stockton courtroom today,
SF News Thieves Steal Bikes, Car From Noe Valley Garage Oh brother, how brazen. Last night a thieves broke into the garage of a Stephen Fox's Noe Valley home, stealing two bikes and (far worse) a 2003 Acura RSX. According to his personal
SF News Judge Denies Defense Motion In Oscar Grant Trial Judge Robert Perry denied "a defense motion to allow police officers to be part of the jury pool for the upcoming trial" of Johannes Mehserle, the BART cop accused of murdering Oscar Grant
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Lost Custody of Son A recent divorce and losing custody of a child are a couple of reasons that might have exacerbating Antioch resident Layla Trawick's bipolarism and schizophrenia, prompting her to go on a stabbing spree
SF News Target Stabbing Suspect Sanity-Estranged, Says Mom Yesterday, Antioch resident Layla Trawick, 34, went on a stabbing spree at a Target store in Southern California. She sliced four customers, including a woman holding a baby, before being subdued and arrested.
SF News SF Cops' Shady Pasts Could Overturn Hundreds of Convictions In a story that could make the cocaine-stealing story look like schoolyard drama, The Chronicle has a brilliant gem of an investigative piece today. Brace yourselves: "more than 80 San Francisco police officers
SF News Felony Charges for White Separatists' Alleged Attackers Donnell Allen, 42, a black San Francisco resident, and Kelsey Musgrove, 19, a white female from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania were hit with felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and conspiracy, and
SF News White Supremacists Attacked During Immigration Rally Members of the Bay Area National Anarchists -- a group, according to SF Weekly that "believes in white separatism and which supports the controversial Arizona anti-immigrant law" -- were physically attacked during Saturday's
SF News Bayview Plays Host to Saturday Stabbing At around 9:15 p.m. at Keith Street and Quesada Avenue on Saturday night, a man was stabbed, resulting in his hospitalization. He is in stable condition. What's more, the man accused
SF News SFPD Arrest Knife-Wielding Bank Robbery Suspect Jason Dunlap, 35, was arrested in connection with a Wednesday afternoon bank robbery in downtown San Francisco. According to police, the incident, which happened at Borel Private Bank and Trust at 433 California
SF News 4 Stabbed at Prom After-Party We never had the chance to attend the prom during our halcyon high school days, but wish we had. It turns out, if the post-prom festivities at at the Marriot Hotel on South
SF News Potential Child Predator at Mountain Lake Park, Says SFPD UPDATE: SFPD has questioned and cleared the suspect of any wrong-doing. Sightings of the potential child predator at Mountain Lake Park have been officially confirmed by SFPD. A reader let us know that
