SF News Police Arrest Serial Bank Robbery Suspect The fuzz nabbed the man suspected of robbing several banks in downtown San Francisco in late Marc and early April. Earl Lee Williams, 38, was arrested on April 15 in connection with the
SF News BART Fires Another Cop From Oscar Grant Shooting BART purged itself of another cop (tangentially?) involved in the 2009 New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant. BART cop Tony Pirone, accused of being an "instigator" in the shooting, was fired this
SF News UC Davis Students Arrested for Torturing Hamsters Disturbing news, folks. UC Davis police arrested 18-year-old Henry Nguyen of Oakland and 19-year-old Josue Melendez of Los Angeles on Wednesday on suspicion of abusing hamsters, filming said cruelty, and then posting the
SF News Danielle Steel’s Bookkeeper Sentenced to Prison for Fraud, Tax Evasion You've got to love local author Danielle Steel. Her daughters look nothing short of delightful, she successfully extracted herself out of the inner SF society sect, and her house looks like this. Which
SF News Hayward Men Who Came to SF to Shoot Gay People Receive Jail Time Three Hayward men -- Shafiq Hashemi, 21, Mohammad Habibzada, 24, and Sayed Bassam, 21 -- pleaded guilty on Monday to shooting a 27-year-old man in the face with a BB gun. The incident
SF News Berkeley Man Shot, Killed in SF Over in San Francisco's Bayview District, a 20-year-old Berkeley man was shot and killed (a rather common occurrence in said neighborhood) on Saturday night. Stephen Powell was shot, according to BCN (via Oakland
SF News Driver Hospitalized After Muni Attack On Saturday night, according to CBS 5, "a number 9 San Bruno bus driver was pulled off his bus and attacked," sending the driver to the hospital. He was treated for a minor
SF News Students Keep Quiet to Help Stop LGBT Bullying Thousands of schools from across the country, including more than 100 in the Bay Area, are taking part in today's "Day of Silence," a protest "to raise awareness of the silencing of lesbian,
SF News Are You Safe? (Hint: No) If this doesn't make your inner Orange County tingle in ecstasy, nothing will. Are You Safe, an iPhone app that "lets you know how safe you are at all times based on your
SF News Rise In Home Garage Bike Thefts In Richmond, Sunset SF Examiner alerts: bike thefts have spiked to six times a week from about once a month in the Richmond and Sunset neighborhoods, according to recent police reports. "I honestly don’t think
SF News 4 Dead In 2 Days In Oakland Last night at around 10:40 p.m., a 57-year-old was shot and killed during an argument over a woman. An unidentified 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with his murder. The
SF News Officer-Involved Shooting In SOMA Shuts Down Folsom According to KGO Radio's Twitter feed, Folsom Street between 7th and 8th Streets are closed due to "SFPD dealing with an officer-involved shooting at 7th and Folsom. Police say they fired on a
SF News Nightclub Scapegoating Runs Rampant After Weekend Shooting Ever since 26-year-old Blair Henderson was shot and killed near the intersection of Second and Minna Streets on Sunday, the media's assault on nightlife spiked to hysterical proportions. Again. Most outlets (including SFist)
SF News Fatal Shooting at Second and Minna Streets After an early morning shooting in the city's SOMA neighborhood, one person is dead and three others hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. The incident, which happened a little before 2:30 a.m. on
SF News Fatal Stabbing In Noe Valley An unidentified man was stabbed to death in Noe Valley last night. The Chronicle reports that "[t]he victim, whose name was not immediately released, was attacked near the corner of 28th and
SF News Bay Area Lab Workers Pinched In Quaaludes Bust After a "three-year investigation into illegal Quaalude trafficking, federal authorities have announced the arrest of two Bay Area lab workers," Kevin Yan and Thomas Fairley, who helped make the drugs. Also, Quaaludes are
SF News Man Shot, Robbed In Mission District On the 100 block of Tiffany Wednesday afternoon, a 38-year-old man was walking with his 13-year-old daughter when two men approached the father, pointed a gun at him and asked for the diamond-encrusted
SF News Four Shot In Visitacion Valley; Gunman On the Loose A little after 10 a.m. this morning, four people were injured during a shooting in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley. The shooting, according to CBS 5, occurred at 83 Arleta Avenue. "The gunman
SF News SFPD Needs Your Help Locating Serial Bank Robbery Suspect Police are seeking the public's help with a series of bank robberies that have occurred since March 22 in downtown San Francisco. According to SFPD: In three of the incidents, the suspect approached
SF News Man Shot, Killed In Oceanview San Francisco played host to its 13th murder of 2010 last night. At around 11:40 p.m., cops responded to gunfire in the area of Plymouth Avenue and Broad Street. When the
SF News Violent Inmates Being Freed Early? A Dateline-worthy report from The Associated Press, according to NBC Bay Area, reveals that inmates "convicted of violent crimes are among those being freed early from California jails to save money, despite lawmakers'
SF News Muni Attacks Continue On 3rd Street T Line Route Alas, there's been yet another attack on the T Line. ABC 7 reports that on between the ages of 14 and 16 inside the Muni light rail on Third Street and Williams Avenue.
SF News Teen Girl Missing from SF Group Home BCN (via CBS 5) reports that police are searching for a girl who went missing from a Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a group home on Vicente Street. Jeanetta Toluao, 16, was
SF News Murder Suspect Nabbed After Potrero Hill Crash After a muirder occurred at a convalescent center over on the 5700 block of Mission Street this morning, the suspect was later arrested after a crash in Potrero Hill. According to BCN (via
SF News Couple Swindles Safeway & Nordstrom Out of Beaucoup Cash San Leandro residents Amanda Mata, 20, and her boyfriend Lamar Cotton, 27, allegedly bilked Safeway out of $232,000 in an elaborate (and admittedly clever) scheme involving phony credit cards and Nordstrom gift
