SF News Unable To Stem Rising Tide Of Crime, SF Might Close Twin Peaks Lookout After Dusk Photos like the one above will be a thing of the past, should a San Francisco Supervisor have his way. After years of crimes at one of the city's hottest tourist areas, city
SF News Photos Released Of BART Note Passer/Attempted Mugger, Do You Recognize Her? The story of a bizarre attempted robbery on BART that some thought was too strange to be true...was actually true, it appears, after the transit agency released surveillance video of the woman
SF News Bizarre BART Mugging Attempt Goes Sideways When Victim Fakes Seizure When a BART passenger was handed a note demanding her wallet and phone, the quick thinking woman took an original approach to thwarting the theft: She pretended to have a medical emergency, which
SF News Recent SF Murder Seems Certain To Figure Into Sanctuary City Debate This week we learned more about the murder of 23-year-old Abel Enrique Esquivel, Jr., which happened on August 15 near the intersection of South Van Ness and 26th Street, and which involved a
SF News Roughed-Up Riders Suing BART For Inadequate Security The $3 million civil suit against BART brought forward by the family brutalized in the infamous deplorable teen flash mob robbery has now morphed into a much larger class action suit with more
SF News East Bay Dummy Stolen By Apparent 'Mannequin' Fan A window display display was swiped from a Pleasanton clothing store in a bizarre robbery in which the thief left behind $200 and a note signed with the name of a character from
SF News Accused Attempted Baby Murderer From Redwood City Had Secret Pregnancy And Bathroom Delivery Once Before OH MY GOD. This story out of Redwood City has just taken a turn for the very bizarre as we learn that 25-year-old Sarah Lockner, who was caught by a coworker allegedly trying
SF News Redwood City McDonald's Worker Charged With Trying To Flush Newborn Baby Down Toilet A worker at a Redwood City McDonald's who claims she didn't know she was pregnant was allegedly seen by a coworker trying to flush her newborn infant down the toilet, and she's now
SF News Yet Another Gun Is Stolen From A Cop, Yet Another San Franciscan Dies It's the crime reporters' version of Groundhog Day, to write what seems like the same confounding report again and again. But here we are, once more talking about a law enforcement officer who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Supervisor Calls For Excelsior Bar La Oficina To Be Closed After Murder Of Patron Around 12:30 a.m. on the morning of May 28, police officers arrived at La Oficina, a bar at 4234 Mission Street in the Outer Mission/Excelsior, to find bar patron Alvaro
SF News Brock Turner Is Now Literally The Textbook Definition Of 'Rape' You know that sort of hacky insult that goes something like "when you open up the dictionary to the definition of [whatever], you see [whoever's] picture"? That cliché is now reality for Brock
SF News Tuesday Night Shooting Sends San Francisco's Homicide Count To 48 San Francisco's homicide count seems headed for its highest in recent years, following a shooting in one of the city's public housing developments. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 20-year-old man
SF News New Details In Death Of Bubbles May Point To Hate Crime, Police Still Deny Hate Was Motive A few more details have trickled out in the ongoing investigation into the Saturday murder of 44-year-old Anthony Torres, a.k.a. Bubbles, in the Tenderloin. Police have been insisting since Sunday that
SF News NorCal Man Allegedly Pees On Cop During Nature Preserve Arrest, Poses For Alarming Photo A man who police say was "acting bizarrely" at a Placer County nature preserve was arrested last week, following a struggle during which he allegedly urinated on a deputy. The man you see
SF News [Update] Shooting And Crash Closes Stretch Of O'Farrell Street For Hours The San Francisco Police Department closed a stretch of Union-Square area street for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, on reports of a shooting on the block. ABC 7 reports that O'Farrell Street between
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Druggy Haight & Stanyan McDonald's To Be Purchased By City, Redeveloped As Housing The McDonald's at the end of Haight Street at Stanyan is not long for this world as the city has just about inked a deal to purchase the problematic property for redevelopment as
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Shirtless Burglar Steals Armload Of Ice Cream Cakes Continuing the trend of producing some of the Bay Area's most odd crime stories, Vallejo's police blotter brings us this latest crime involving a Baskin Robbins, a shirtless man, and what must have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newest Bay Area In-N-Out Site Of Frightening Altercation One of the Bay Area's newest In-N-Outs was the site of a scary fight last week, when a man threatened a fellow diner with a box cutter. The scene of the crime was
SF News Queer Nightlife Personality Bubbles Fatally Shot On Tenderloin Street Anthony Torres, the flamboyant 44-year-old DJ and nightlife personality known around the Tenderloin as Bubbles and typically wearing large wigs and pink lipstick, was reportedly shot and killed early Saturday morning across the
SF News Woman With Child Spits On, Smacks Muni Driver An angry woman remains on the loose today, after police say the late-night Muni passenger accompanied by a small child attacked a driver while riding a bus last week. The Chron reports that
SF News Deplorable Teens Playing With Fireworks Accused Of Causing 130-Acre Fire In Gilroy #"Bally" wild fire grows to 130 acres above #EagleRidge dev in west Gilroy. Air attack going strong despite hazy skies. A few sprinkles. pic.twitter.com/rcRCFikPLO— @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe) September 4,
SF News Tiburon Man Arrested For Allegedly Fatally Shooting Deer And Fawn A Tiburon man stands accused of animal cruelty in the deaths of a deer and her fawn whom he allegedly shot with a pellet gun for eating his expensive landscaping. Homeowner Mark Dickinson,
SF News SF Man Catches Prowler In The Act, Hangs Onto Him Until Police Arrive A prowler who broke into a Clay Street residence was arrested this morning, after his victim grabbed him and refused to let go until police arrived. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Illegal Downtown Parker Attacks Woman Who Asks Him To Move A man turned a parking misstep into what police describe as an "attempted robbery" Wednesday, when he attacked a woman who tried to get him to depart a space he improperly occupied. Police
SF News Alt-Right Figure 'Based Stickman' Pleads Not Guilty To Stick-Wielding Charges A beloved figure of the alt-right known for allegedly wielding a stick at a Berkeley rally is apparently turning his back on that identity, entering a plea of not guilty in court Tuesday
