SF News Noted Bassist Murdered On I-80 In East Bay Dewey Tucker -- a 24-year-old Vallejo bassist who performed with loopy songstress Lauryn Hill, Bobby Brown, Chico, the Coup and James DeBarge, just to name a few -- was found dead a little
SF News Reality TV Character Accused Of SF Murder Turns out VH1's 2007 I Love New York 2 was more beneficial to society than originally thought. One of the contestants, Jamal Trulove, allegedly shot a man in Visitacion Valley shortly after taping
SF News 15,500 Northern California Kaiser Medical Records Stolen by Amy Crocker Medical records for around 15,500 Northern California Kaiser patients - 9,000 from the Bay Area - were compromised after an external drive was stolen from a Kaiser employee’
SF News Polk Street Residents Angry Polk Street Is A Lot Like Polk Street Polk Street corridor residents are fuming/titillated over an increase in prostitution affecting the notoriously gritty neighborhood as of late. CBS 5's Joe Vazquez has a great story on a new wave of
SF News Cab Driver Stabbed In Castro A taxi driver was beaten, stabbed, and robbed last night at about 7:15 p.m. while on the 200 block of States Street, off of Castro above Market Street. The 50-year-old driver
misc What's Going On Here, Bernal Hill? The anniversary of Oscar Grant's killing, who was (accidentally?) shot and killed at the BART Fruitvale station on New Year's Day 2009, hit Bernal Hill over the weekend.
SF News Rash of Violent Muggings Hit Mission District Last Night Be careful as you walk the streets of San Francisco's Historic Mission District tonight, folks. On Wednesday night, a series of muggings occurred. In once instance, a woman was reportedly slashed with a
SF News Oakland Woman's Attack Circulates On Internet After Oakland female rapper Mina Mack was beaten in the doorway of an Oakland recording studio on Monday night, according to CBS 5, "a friend told her that video of the punching and
SF News Rifle Used In Mission Mugging We gave you your sweet, now here's your sour: Yesterday a little before 6:30 p.m., according to Appeal, "two suspects, one reportedly armed with a rifle, are said to have robbed
SF News SF Sees Lowest Homicide Rate Since 1961 With a comparatively scant 45 homicides, and "a decline in lethal shootings, stabbings and bludgeonings of more than 50 percent from both 2007 and 2008," San Francisco will see a shockingly low homicide
SF News Armed Robberies Plague Bayview Two armed black male suspects, according to SF Appeal, allegedly "robbed and unspecified number of victims at Lane and Oakdale before fleeing on foot" on Monday night. No injures were reported, no arrested
SF News Triple Shooting Wounds 3 Near SF Ferry Building CBS 5/BCN reports that "[t]hree people were injured in a shooting adjacent to the San Francisco Ferry Building on Saturday night." The incident happened a little after 10:35 p.m.
SF News Nevius Confirms SFist Story: Haight Cleansed of Bullies Last week, if you recall, SF Chron columnist C.W. Nevius wrote about bullies with pit bull terrorizing the Haight neighborhood. A day later, SFist heard word that SFPD cleaned up said neighborhood
SF News Thieves Terrorizing Miraloma Park The residents and neighbors of Miraloma Park woke up today to discover inboxes filled with Christmas fear. For the past week, sketchy thieves have been targeting single family homes in the area and
misc Scene from a Holiday Shoplifter in Handcuffs While shooting in Union Square the other day, local photographer Henry Navarro came across this arresting scene. He describes it: I was taking photos on this corner and these three come barreling out
SF News Haight Cleansed of Bullies for the Night Yesterday, controversial SF Chron columnist C.W. Nevius talked about street kids bullying locals in the Haight. Last night, according to SFist commenter jline, the police responded. Update: the police responded to this
SF News Mother Arrested After Leaving Infant Alone in Parked Car in the TL After leaving an infant alone inside a parked car in the Historic Tenderloin District, a woman (claiming to be the baby's mother) was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment last night. At the
SF News Mugging at 23rd & South Van Ness According to reports, a mugging occurred in the city's boutique Mission district last night on Monday night. "A pedestrian at 23rd and South Van Ness says they were confronted by two men (described
SF News FiDi Bank Robbed Yesterday afternoon, according to SFAppeal, the Far East National Bank located at 500 Montgomery was robbed. Police say a white male entered the bank and "demanded money" from a teller. The teller handed
SF News For Your Neurotic Pleasure: Another Crime SF Map Following on the heels of CrimeReports and EveryBlock -- two other handy crime maps -- CrimeMapping.com unveiled their new crime map system. Like its predecessors, CrimeMapping.com allows you access to the
SF News Teen Accused of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl At El Cerrito School While school was in session last week, a 12-year-old girl at an El Cerrito school was raped by a 14-year-old boy. Allegedly. According to AP, "[p]olice say the girl was attacked at
SF News Alleged Muni Stabber's Mental Competency Questioned In what's a surprise to absolutely no one, Bobby L. Brown, the man who allegedly stabbed five people in San Francisco this year, might mentally-unhinged. Three of his cases were suspended today, it
SF News Carsonist Strikes In Richmond Again A car fire in the city of Richmond last night is, presumably, related to the other car fires sweeping the East Bay. KTVU reports: :Units responded to reports of a vehicle fire in
SF News Barry Bonds' Son Arrested Not to outdo his father, who has his own share of legal troubles, Nikolai Bonds, 19, the son of former Giants great Barry Bonds, was arrested on Saturday night, booked on suspicion of
SF News Oakland Shootout Kills One, Injures One Oakland, ranked no. 3 in the U.S. when it comes to crime, played host to a police shootout last night. "Oakland police officers opened fire on two armed suspects Thursday evening in
