SF News Local Psychologists Try To Explain Scary Clown Epidemic As Concord Woman Claims Clown Abduction Attempt The baffling and ultimately ridiculous creepy/violent clown trend may be just a twisted hoax gone viral, but it has come to the Bay Area and it's resulted in at least one creepy
SF News Tenderloin Cyclist Rides Up, Stabs Guy, Rides Off A man was left with life-threatening injuries Wednesday afternoon, after a bike-riding suspect stabbed him as he stood on the sidewalk. The 29-year-old male victim was standing on the 400 block of Turk
SF News Muggers Drag Ocean Beach Photographer By Car In Effort To Steal Camera A brazen mid-day mugging in a popular tourist area left a man injured Wednesday, after his robbers dragged him by car when he refused to give up the goods. It was 3:17
SF News Trigger-Happy Muggers Menace The Outer Richmond A sleepy block in the Outer Richmond was shaken Tuesday evening, when a gun-wielding mugger discharged his weapon during a robbery. It was 10 p.m. Tuesday when police say that a 37-year-old
SF News Gang Of Seven Attacks Man In Sharon Meadow An area of Golden Gate Park slated to be named after the late actor Robin Williams was the site of a violent crime Tuesday afternoon, when a gang of seven men attacked and
SF News Bernal Heights Package Thief Blends In With Stroller, Dog A package thief in Bernal Heights has landed on the perfect neighborhood camouflage for her crime: A stroller and a dog. The thief was caught on camera stealing a package from a stoop
SF News With Death Of Man Gunned Down At Shotwell And 24th, SF Hits 41 Homicides For 2016 As if San Francisco's violent weekend, during which four people were killed and a fifth died under suspicious circumstances, wasn't enough! In addition to the city's sudden rash of slayings — six in the
SF News SF Residents Arrested For Allegedly Distributing Child Porn Three San Francisco residents have been arrested following a wide-ranging child pornography investigation, police said Monday, with an additional two suspects busted in Sacramento and Los Angeles. According to a press release sent
SF News Day Around The Bay: Ten Robberies In The Mission Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. The DMV will no longer allow after-hours parking at
SF News Fashion Crime: Union Square 'Rainbow Crew' Robbers Finally Busted The retail bandits once known as the Rainbow Girls and later rechristened the Rainbow Crew have been busted after six years at large, District Attorney George Gascón reports to KRON 4. Originally consisting
SF News Cell Phone GPS Helps SFPD Nab Tenderloin Pickpocket A robber who swiped a cell phone from an unsuspecting victim's pocket ended up in handcuffs this weekend, after police used the phone's GPS to find the thief. The 22-year-old male victim was
SF News Dolores Park Skateboard Beating Sends Man To Hospital A man was the victim of a brazen afternoon beating near Dolores Park Friday, hit with a skateboard hard enough to send him to the hospital. According to the San Francisco Police Department,
SF News Violent Weekend For San Francisco: Four Homicides, One Suspicious Death Three men and one woman died violent deaths in separate San Francisco incidents this past weekend, while a fifth perished under conditions police characterize as "suspicious" pending further investigation. Here's the rundown of
SF News Investigation Into Hayes Valley Quadruple Homicide Stymied By Gang Silence, Fear An investigation into the fatal shooting of four men on Page Street in January 2015 has been slowed by the fact that witnesses have been afraid to come forward, and some of those
SF News Three Injured, One Dead In Early-Morning Tenderloin Shooting The San Francisco Police Department is seeking an unknown shooter or shooters Thursday, after early-morning gunfire in the Tenderloin killed one man and injured three others. Details remain scarce, but here's what we
SF News Key Plea-Bargain Witness In Meth-y Drifter Murder Case Explains Why They Chose Their Victims 25-year-old Sean Michael Angold, who admits to dealing and smoking meth around the time of the pair of seemingly random murders that shocked the Bay Area last October, took the stand Tuesday to
SF News In Wake Of Murder, Broken And Dummy Surveillance Cameras Found Across Oakland BART is not the only one with a security camera problem. According to CBS 5, Oakland city officials are scrambling this week to replace broken and dummy cameras across the city after it
SF News Testimony Reveals More Sad, Grim Details In Murder Of 23-Year-Old Backpacker Audrey Carey Further preliminary hearing testimony on Monday from an investigator who first interviewed 19-year-old murder suspect Lila Scott Alligood upon her arrest in Portland last October revealed a bit more about the killing of
SF News Haight Street Miracle: Street Kids Find And Return Stolen Bag Of Cash Call it a Haight Street miracle: Some homeless youths come across a stolen bag of cash on the sidewalk and, defying all expectations, return every cent to the rightful owner. This is not
SF News Two SFFD Paramedics Under Fire For Ambulance Sex It's called "the lights and sirens club," and if you don't know what that is then clearly you're not a member. Two San Francisco Fire Department paramedics were under investigation after it was
SF News Possibly Suicidal Man With Gun Shuts Down Civic Center Leading To Six-Hour Standoff White man with toy gun? 6 hr standoff. Gets help. Black men & children with toy guns (open carry state)? Executed. https://t.co/x6m4iyHFcy— Steve Locke (@steve_locke) September 25, 2016 A
SF News Hayward Man Allegedly Crashed Car Then Stole And Wrecked Responding Police Officer's Car Perhaps in a bid to challenge Vallejo for the title of Most Whack, a Hayward man stands accused of crashing his car last night, and then, while he was being treated on the
SF News Women Accused Of Holding Four Brothers As Slaves At Northern California Pot Farm In a tale straight out of a Northern California nightmare, two women stand accused of kidnapping four brothers and forcing them to work as slaves on a marijuana farm near the Sierra mountain
SF News As California Executions Hang In The Balance, Man Convicted Of Oakland Sleepover Murder Sentenced To Death Even as the future of California's death penalty hangs on two November ballot measures, a judge ruled Wednesday that the man convicted of a high-profile double murder in the East Bay should be
SF News Have You Seen This Artist's Converted Metermaid Vehicle, Stolen Yesterday? Amos Goldbaum, the popular local line-drawer and muralist whose designs grace walls and T-shirts all the town over, can usually be seen out and about in his converted city vehicle. "It's a funny
