SF News A Weird Octavia Hit-And-Run Last night, around 11 p.m., a car coming off the freeway making the now-standard illegal right turn onto the Octavia Street freeway ramp hit a biker. [edit per CBS 5 story.] Alas,
SF News Update on Yesterday's Shooting This situation with Thursday's Western Addition shooting is just sad, sad, sad, and not just because a lot of people got hurt (seven, according to the news outlets who actually have time to
SF News SFist Blotter Police chase last night in the Mission: around 7 p.m., the SFPD started chasing one or two guys in a blue Cherokee at around 26th and Harrison. The Cherokee got on 101
SF News Busy 24 Hours At SF General At around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, there was a stabbing at Capp and 17th -- a guy was stabbed with an ice pick after getting out of a car. The stabber then
SF News Shooting in Western Addition this Morning San Francisco's most pleasant neighborhood had its cheery, safe veneer shattered this morning with a shooting -- 8:50am, Steiner and McAllister. We are shocked, simply shocked. Surely, city officials, police leaders, and
SF News CBS5's Sugarmonster Apprehended Breathe easy, San Francisco; KPIX's Mike Sugarman is paying his debt to society. According to a tipster who passed along the results of a Sunshine request, the crime baron was spotted onboard a
SF News SFist Blotter As discussed in the SFist Contributes tips page, what people heard in Ingleside Heights early yesterday morning was a mysterious car explosion. Witnesses saw a man park a car, get out of the
SF News Quark Crime Mark Pope, the guy who co-founded Quark Software, was working in his Pac Heights mansion last week when he heard some weird noises and looked out the window and saw a car (a
SF News SFist Blotter Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest Hole/Head: <i>Hazard</i> Curse you, Eve Batey! Our former co-editor is a huge horror/fantasy flick maven, and when she left SFist for greener pastures last October, we knew we'd have to watch some movies at
SF News Oh No Ed Jew! "I, we Have a Number of Attorneys ... and so Forth." Ed Jew alert! Friend-of-SFist Dan N. (or, if you like, D. Noyes) alerts us to a brand spanking new Ed Jew interview on the I-Team's website! Oh, faithful I-Team. Here's the juicy bit:
SF News And Now Some Very Sad News Hugues neighbors have encouraged friends and family to stop by and leave flowers, pictures, poems or candles. Please feel free to stop by Linden Street (between Laguna St. & Octavia St). That's pretty
SF News SFist Blotter A lot of weird car accidents in the news yesterday: an impatient guy trying to pass around congestion on the road killed a pedestrian on 19th Avenue in San Francisco, a drunk off-duty
SF News Incident at New Montgomery and Mission Today We saw your question in the Opera post about some commotion going down at New Montgomery and Mission this morning, and have the following information to pass along. --They arrested a shooter in
SF News Stabbing At Local Club The Chron's reporting that two people were stabbed outside the club Loft 11 on 11th and Folsom around 1:30 this morning. Apparently at the Loft 11 "Famous" Sunday night party, a fight
SF News So, Dude, Forgot Your Keys? These Google street views have captured all of daily life in our fair city, haven't they! Thanks to Poor Mojo for catching this one.sorts
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
SF News Dog Maul Case Back In The News We are deeply, deeply regretful that the cityblog format had not been launched back in 2001 and 2002, when we were totally obsessed with the Diane Whipple dog mauling case. For those of
SF News Another Hit And Run We're sorry to pass along the news that a pedestrian is near death after having been hit by a car in the Nob Hill/Polk Gulch area at around 5:30 this morning.
SF News SFist Blotter One person is dead after a dramatic shooting in the Sunset early Monday morning -- the shots were fired at a moving car, which then flipped over and crashed. The Chron has some
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to SFist, Sparkletack-Richard! We are giddy with glee to welcome Richard, author of the Sparkletack blog and podcast, to the SFist family. Richard's encyclopedic knowledge of San Francisco's past makes his history podcast mandatory listening for
SF News SFist Blotter There was a murder at Laguna and Eddy around 10:30 a.m. yesterday morning, ending three months of no homicides in District 5. There were also two shootings on Tuesday, one in
misc Faux Cardinal The girl, named Azia Kim, showed up on campus the day before freshman orientation this school year, and told two freshmen she was a freshman having temporary housing problems due to some kind
SF News We Have A Mayoral Candidate! Tony Hall's been famously irritated with Gavin Newsom ever since Newsom dumped him off at the Treasure Island Development Association to give his Supervisor's seat away to Sean Elsbernd and the Office of