SF News Brief, Brutal Footage of Mini-Protest at Market Street Bob Brigham sent SFist the above footage from today's small protest on Market Street, which prefaces tonight's massive anti-war rally at Civic Center. The photographer getting manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is
SF News Teenager Rapes, Shoots 14-Year-Old Girl In the Mission District SF Crime (via Bay City News) has harrowing details that a 17-year-old boy sexually assaulted and then shot a girl on March 8. The alleged crime occurred somewhere on Cesar Chavez Street. So
SF News Pilot of the Cosco Busan Charged In Federal Court Although the National Transportation Safety Board has yet to release its report on the causes of last year's crash, today the pilot of the Cosco Busan, John Joseph Cota of Petaluma, was charged
SF News SFist Blotter Three men were shot in the Mission early Sunday morning at Valencia and Tiffany streets. According to the Gate, one of the victims, Jimmy Durwin Gongora, died from gunshot-related wounds; the other two
SF News Shooting at Valencia Gardens? Last night at the surprisingly gorgeous housing projects HOPE VI revitalization program, Valencia Gardens -- as close to every cyclists' and Quentin Tarantino's favorite local beer garden -- there was a shooting, reportedly,
SF News Mission Terrace Shooting Victim Expected to Live According to CBS 5, the shooting victim gave the fuzz a description of the two suspects whop shot him -- although we have yet to know, exactly, what said description is -- but
SF News 17-Year-Old Josue Raul Orozco Still At-Large, $10,000 Reward Offered Remember this guy? The guy who escaped from juvenile hall during recess, or whatever correctional facilities for the young call their break time? (Do you think they have "pizza Fridays" in juvie?) Well,
SF News Dead Body Discovered In Front of Boss Nightclub In SOMA Just seconds ago we came across frantic police activity at Boss nightclub (on Harrison Street between Third and Fourth streets). Police informed us that they found a dead body, and declined to give
SF News Breaking News: <i>Gilligan's Island</i>'s Mary-Ann Sentenced for Pot Possession Actress Dawn Wells -- i.e., Mary-Ann from Gilligan's Island -- was busted for smoking the doob, it seems. The Associated Press has the harrowing, mary jane-fueled details: On Oct. 18, Teton County
SF News $10,000 Tip Reward Offered for Richmond Murder Arrests Even if a tip doesn't lead to the conviction of a murder suspect, the Richmond Police Department just started offering $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of homicide suspects. While
SF News Market Street Hit-Run Injures Cyclist, Kills Dog A little before midnight on Sunday, at the notoriously dangerous Octavia and Market Street intersection, a driver plowed into a 27-year-old bicyclist, injuring her and killing her dog "who was either being carried
SF News Man Falls to His Death In Tenderloin Elevator Shaft, Two Arrested In the Tenderloin on Saturday night, three men were heatedly arguing in an apartment building over on the 400 block of Jones Street (at Ellis). During the fight, one man died after he
SF News Did You Hear It? After their American Idol hour was unforgivably interrupted by the San Francisco Police Department making an announcement last night, a reader writes to SFist asking: At about 8:55pm tonight, my viewing of
SF News Breaking News: Letter to Congress Claims Responsibility for Today's New York City Explosion Offices in Capitol Hill received a manila envelope with a letter claiming responsibility for today's bombing of a landmark military recruiting station in Times Square, NYC. Our parent site, Gothamist, tells us that
SF News UC Davis Dorm Evactuated After Explosives Are Found Mark Woods, an 18-year-old UC Davis economics major, was arrested today after authorities found a couple of pipe bombs in his dorm room, going well above and beyond the school's no hot plate
SF News Berkeley Sees Its Third Murder Of The Year An unidentified person was shot and killed on the 1600 block of Russell in Berkeley last night, brining the city's murder tally to three. (The much larger city of San Francisco, BTW, is
SF News Clift Hotel Employee Sexually Assaults Guest Over at the five-star Clift Hotel, home to the (in)famous Redwood Room, hotel employee Christian Rojas was arrested after he allegedly raped a hotel guest in her room. According to officials, the
SF News Days of Our Zoo: Man Arrested for Taunting Rhino On Thursday, Juan Zuluaga, 26, was arrested at the SF Zoo following a run-in with a rhinoceros. It seems, according to the Chron, that Zuluaga was busted for throwing acorns at Mashaki, a
SF News Huge Bay Area Meth Ring Bust Your weekend just got a little sleepier. Ten locations, including two in San Francisco, were busted today in connection with a methamphetamine distribution setup that went from San Francisco and the Bay Area
SF News SHAC7 Claims No Responsibility for UCSC Researcher Attack We just made contacted with a member of the reportedly elusive SHAC7. They told us the following: No--we are not responsible. In fact, the only knowledge we have of the whole ordeal is
SF News Extreme Animal Rights Activists Attack UCSC Faculty Member? Pro-life animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is being accused of taking part in a break in of a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, whose research using animals "sheds light on the
SF News Chauncey Bailey Wins Posthumous Polk Award Chauncey Bailey, former editor of the Oakland Post who was murdered last August while investigating Your Black Muslim Bakery and the Muslim splinter group's shady dealings, received the prestigious George Polk Award last
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News Oakland Woman Killed While Gettng Her Mail Just outside of her Montclair home, Laura Belkin, 58, was stuck and killed by a hit-and-run driver this morning as she was getting her mail on the 5900 block of Zinn Drive off
SF News Bernie Ward Child Porn Case: Who Is Sexfairy? The woman who sent KGO radio host Bernie Ward's career and reputation into freefall is thirty-three-year-old mother of three Linda Figueiredo. She also goes by the online moniker "Sexfairy," or more intimately, "Mistress"
