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San Francisco Plans to Flood Mid-Market and Tenderloin With Cops and Community Ambassadors In Response to Chaos

With financial help from UC Hastings — who last year sued the city over the homeless problem in the neighborhood — San Francisco is launching a new initiative aimed at taming the chaos and open-air drug market of the Tenderloin and Mid-Market.

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Two Killed, Multiple People Shot When Party Bus Gets Riddled With Bullets During Oakland Birthday

Two young women were reportedly killed and possibly seven others were wounded when a party bus traveling on eastbound I-580 was shot up last night, during one woman's 21st birthday celebration.

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SFPD Offers Reward to Find Man Who Killed a Mission District Homeless Couple In 2016

The San Francisco Police Department has released a suspect sketch and is offering a $75,000 reward for information to help solve a cold case from 2016 in which a homeless couple was shot and killed.

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Parolee Out On Bail Mugs Elderly Woman In Japantown, Apprehended After Security Guard Alerts Police

There was yet another attack on an elderly Asian person in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the alleged perpetrator is now in jail — but it's also another case of a repeat offender who was out on bail at the time of his latest crime.

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Did a Panhandling Suspect Slash a Guy's Face Near Union Square for Refusing to Give Him Money?

The SFPD made an arrest Wednesday in a knife attack that may or may not have stemmed from the victim refusing to give a random stranger money when he asked for it.

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SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month

Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.

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Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder

54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.

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Verdict Reached In Italian Murder Trial of Bay Area Youths: Both Convicted, Given Life Sentences

The two young men accused in the July 2019 fatal stabbing of a police officer in Rome were found guilty of murder by a jury on Wednesday and given the harshest sentences possible.

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Shootout at SFO Grand Hyatt Likely Connected to Carjacking Attempt; Investigation Continues

A dramatic Monday evening shooting outside the new Grand Hyatt hotel at San Francisco International Airport involved at least two gunmen, and the suspects apparently tried to carjack a new getaway vehicle right around the time of the shooting.

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Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested

A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.

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Trial of Bay Area Men Accused In 2019 Stabbing of Police Officer In Rome Concludes This Week

The legal proceedings stemming from a tragic incident in July 2019 in Rome involving two teenagers from the Bay Area are still ongoing due to the pandemic, and this week, defense attorneys will present their closing arguments.

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One Wildfire In 2020's LNU Complex Believed to Have Been Arson to Cover Up Murder

One of last August's wildfires that merged with others to become the LNU Lightning Complex fires is now believed to have been the result of arson — and the culprit, according to the Solano County Sheriff's Office, is a 29-year-old man who likely set the blaze to cover up an earlier murder.

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Mission District Shooting Leaves One Man In Critical Condition

A Tuesday night shooting in the Mission District has left a 26-year-old man with grave injuries, and the circumstances surrounding it remain unknown.

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SF Man With Alleged Domestic Violence History Charged In Killing of Infant In His Care

A suspect with a history of prior arrests for domestic incidents has been arrested and charged in the April 20 death of a 7-month-old boy in San Francisco who had been left in his care.

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Tenderloin Police Seized Four Times as Much Fentanyl From the Streets In 2020 As In 2019

You may have heard this grim statistic already: 713 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco in 2020, mostly from fentanyl, and that's nearly triple the number of people who died from COVID here last year.

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Shots Fired at 18th and Castro Following Gathering

An altercation in the Castro Wednesday night led to a gunshot ringing out, alarming neighbors and people out on the otherwise quiet night.

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No Charges Filed In Oakland Liquor Store Shooting That Led to Deadly Arson

A fatal shooting in East Oakland on April 10 led to a cascade of retaliatory events, including an arson fire that killed a man and his baby daughter. And now, the man who turned himself in for the shooting is not being charged.

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Second Group Emerges With Campaign to Recall SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin

While one group has already been campaigning to recall San Francisco's progressive district attorney just over a year after his swearing in, a second committee has formed with perhaps different political leanings than the first, but the same end goal.

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Woman Shot In Tenderloin In Altercation With Four Young Female Suspects

A 46-year-old woman was shot and injured Wednesday afternoon in San Francisco following an altercation with four teenage girls.

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Mentally Ill Man Acquitted In Feb. 2020 Attacks On Two Women on the Embarcadero

A man who stabbed a female jogger on the Embarcadero last February and then assaulted a second woman with a tool all in a matter of minutes has been acquitted of assault charges for reasons of insanity.

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Adrian Gonzalez, Confessed Murderer of 8-Year-Old Maddy Middleton in 2015, Pleads Guilty

Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, who was 15 when his 8-year-old neighbor Madyson "Maddy" Middleton disappeared in the summer of 2015 in Santa Cruz, had long ago confessed that he killed her. But he's remained in legal limbo because of his age, and now, at age 21, he has pleaded guilty.

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Unmasked Uber Cough Monster Arna Kimiai Pleads Not Guilty In Assault on Driver Seen in Viral Video

Though she essentially already admitted to the attack and offered a half-apology on Instagram Live, accused Uber driver assault suspect Arna Kimiai entered a not guilty plea to multiple charges on Monday.

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Day Around the Bay: KPIX Reporter Nearly Robbed Of Camera for Second Time In SF

KPIX reporter Don Ford was robbed *again* in San Francisco — but the thief dropped the news camera while fleeing from his security guard; the SFMTA has approved four more Slow Streets; and a shooting in South Lake Tahoe leaves one dead.

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Retired Boxer Gets Misdemeanor Citation In Alleged Attack on Filipino Teen Outside Gino & Carlo Bar In North Beach

A story broke over the weekend that was initially characterized as another anti-Asian attack, this time outside a famed North Beach bar, with a victim who was 18 years old, but it appears to have been more of an interpersonal conflict.

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East Bay Couple Charged With Severely Abusing 11-Year-Old Daughter Who Died Last Month

A couple in the East Bay town of Rodeo has been charged with torturing and abusing an 11-year-old girl over a period of four months, and they may soon be charged with her murder.