SF News Formerly Jailed Journalist Josh Wolf On Jailed Journalists Concerned that today's sentencing will land, if all goes horribly wrong, Current TV journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee 12 years of hard labor inside a North Korean jail, we asked formerly-jailed journalist
SF News Two Children Shot Inside Berkeley Home A few days after a Vallejo toddler was shot while sleeping in her parents' bed, Berkeley played host to another kids-meet-gunfire incident. Two children aged 3 and 6 were shot inside their home
SF News Police Investigate "Sexual Battery Suspect" aka Muni Humper View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. SFPD have opened an investigation on the Muni Humper, now blandly coined "sexual battery suspect" in police speak, who has been plaguing the
SF News Young Vallejo Girl Shot In Bed Vallejo police say a three-year-old girl was shot as she slept in bed with her parents. The incident occurred on the 500 block of York Street early this morning. According to reports, the
misc Photo du Jour 427 Scene from yesterday's rally at Civic Center to free Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. Both are on trial in North Korea for something ridiculous, facing 10 years of hard labor.
SF News Quote du Jour: Judicial Misconduct in Mehserle Hearing? After ruling today that disgraced BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle will, in fact, stand trial for the New Year's Day killing of Oscar Grant, Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay said the following.
SF News Dead Ocean Beach Gal ID'd On Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco police identified the body of a woman found inside a vehicle at Ocean Beach as Mauvreen Zalaya, 38, of San Francisco. According to reports, "Police are calling Zalaya's
SF News Fallen OPD Officer to Get I-580 Honor The California State Assembly introduced la bit of legislation, one that would "designate a portion of Interstate Highway 580 in unincorporated Alameda County as the Sgt. Daniel Sakai Memorial Highway in honor of
SF News Drunk Driver Was Drunk -- <i>Really</i> Drunk Driving while drunk is a crime that should, arguably, in a perfect world, be punishable by public beheading. In addition to taking the life of an innocent driver and the lives of many,
SF News North Bay Blotter: Face Stabbing, Molestation The North Bay had a characteristically macabre Monday night. Last night at a little before 8:30 p.m., a woman was walking near Water Street near the Petaluma River when a sketchy
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? Newsom, That's Why. Yesterday, after SFist asked why the San Francisco murder rate in 2009 has been so low, the Examiner answered: Mayor Gavin Newsom. While the city almost hitting 50 at the same time last
SF News Protip: Do Not Twitter Your Vacation Plans In a virtual allowing-newspapers-to-accumulate-at-your-front-door-like move, Arizona resident Israel Hyman (tee hee, sounds like "hymen") left twitter messages mentioning that he was out of town. Then, as fate would have it, Hyman's residence was
SF News Death Penalty Upheld For Klass Killer Today, San Francisco's California Supreme Court made the decision to uphold the death penalty of Richard Allen Davis, the man convicted of kidnapping and killing 12-year-old Polly Klass at knife point during her
SF News Why So Low, Murder Rate? This year's murder rate -- which, as SF Appeal notes, the mainstream media cannot agree upon; it's 18 or 19, depending on who you read -- is kind of low. In fact, as
SF News Latinos Targeted in Recent Kidnappings, Muggings in the Mission Mission Loc@l reports that there have been three documented cases this month of Latinos being forced into a vehicle with the intent of mugging them, while walking in isolated parts of the
SF News Hooters Waitresses Claim Bosses Swiped Tips Hooters, the restaurant chain famous for employing waitresses with visibly erotic bustlines, is in hot water this morning. It seems eight former Hooters employees filed a class-action lawsuit against the boobs-and-food eatery, claiming
SF News Palo Alto Spat Leads to Cleaver Attack And now, for a dramatic morning dose of the macabre, we present too you a story about a man accused of attacking a colleague with a meat cleaver in Palo Alto. Happening at
SF News Broken Prom Curfew Results in Gunfire Prom season is in the air. And you know what that means, right? Tacky dresses, hymens smashed, newborns dumpstered, and fretting dads. Take, for example, a Union City father who fired off a
SF News Brutal Beating, Mugging on 24th Street / Capp Egads, this sounds awful. In yet another why reason teenagers should be handled with cattle prods and crammed with psychoactives at all times, a man was alleged beaten and robbed by a most
SF News Mission District Doctor Guilty of Sexual Assaults Jose Rosas, 56, a general practitioner, was found guilty yesterday of sexually assaulting three patients inside his Mission District office. The violations occurred from 2002 to 2007. Caring for mainly Spanish-speaking patients, Rosas,
SF News Novato Doctor Will Go on Trial for Molesting Patient Dr. Horace Bixby Newhard, 78, was ordered yesterday to stand trial for allegedly penetrating a 60-year-old patient during a gynecological exam, who had been a patient of Newhard's for several decades. During an
SF News "My Daddy Ate My Eyes," Bakersfield 4-Year-Old Tells Cops There are many reasons to fear parts of California not near the coast. So much so, in fact, that LAist editor Zach Behrens and your SFist editor tend to argue about which of
SF News Dead Infant Found in Union City Dumpster What with prom season in the air, and at the risk of sounding crude, it's only natural for things like this to happen. See, a dead infant was found inside a dumpster in
SF News SFist Blotter BERKELEY-OAKLAND/SATURDAY: Three people died after a murder and car chase through the East Bay Saturday night. "It all started at 6:35 p.m. when Berkeley Police responded to reports of gunfire
SF News Johannes Mehserle's Murder Prelim Hearing Starts Today At 9 a.m. today, the preliminary hearing for BART officer Johannes Mehserle began. Mehserle is charged with the murder of Oscar Grant. The former officer's defense, most likely, will center around the
