SF News East Bay SPCA Seeks Public Help After Daisymae The Dog Snatched From Volunteer The East Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is hoping the public will help them track down a dog named Daisymae, after she was stolen from a volunteer at their
SF News $50K Worth Of Bull Semen Stolen From Turlock Truck Someone just stole $50,000 worth of bull semen. Or, more precisely, someone just stole multiple metal tanks filled with tens of thousands of dollars worth of the stuff. The liquid nitrogen-filled tanks
SF News Cops Bust Huge Civic Center Drug Ring, Arrest 48 The open-air drug market that is UN Plaza just got a bit less druggy after a joint task force consisting of the SFPD, Alameda County Narcotics Task Force, and the DEA made 48
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate drone behavior, and privacy paranoia all
SF News Prolific Tagger Fined Over $200K By City A tagger taken to civil court this past summer by the city of San Francisco learned her fate last week, and it is an expensive one. The City Attorney's office announced that it
SF News Car Break-Ins Are Up, Hit 5-Year High Last Summer Yes, you haven't been just imaging it — there are actually more car break-ins happening these days. In fact, data from the police department shows that we hit a 5-year high in the smash-and-grab
SF News Life-Size Bronze Statue Worth $80K Found Beheaded Remember that life-size, 300-pound bronze statue of a legendary UC Berkeley crew coach that was stolen from an Oakland boathouse last week? Well, police managed to recovered it Saturday night, but not before
SF News Shrimp Boy Described As 'Buddha-Like' As His Attorneys Vow To Appeal Verdict Following the guilty verdict two Fridays ago in the federal case against Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, former SF Appeal and SF Mag reporter Max Cherney sat down for a new jailhouse interview with
SF News Fearsome Hat Thief Menaces The Castro A man is learning out how to live a bare-headed lifestyle this week, after a Castro-area altercation ended with the theft of his hat. According to the San Francisco Police Department, the 49-year-old
SF News Video: Marc Jacobs Raiders Swipe $1700 Worth Of Purses The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a shoplifting trio that brazenly swiped a number of pricey handbags from a Pacific Heights store. In an email sent late Tuesday, SFPD spokesperson Officer Carlos
SF News SF's Most Criminal Block Is [Drumroll] Market Between 4th And 5th Powell Street BART. The Westfield Mall. The cable car turnaround. Market between 4th and 5th Streets is a hotbed for transportation, shopping, tourism, and yes, criminal activity. This one stretch of SF's central
SF News BART Shooting Victim And Suspect Had Prior Altercation After just over a week of investigation, BART police have determined that the January 9 shooting aboard a crowded BART train was not, after all, a random act of violence. Instead, police have
SF News Body Found During MLK Day Cleanup Along Oakland Shoreline A "moderately decomposed" corpse was discovered Monday by a cleanup volunteer who was taking part in the eight annual Day of Service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The discovery occurred along the
SF News 'Involuntary Manslaughter' Charges For Suspect In Beating Death Of Local Artist A month after a beloved North Beach sketch artist suffered a fatal random attack at a Market Street bus stop, the San Francisco Police Department says that they have made an arrest in
SF News Man Who Thought He Was Getting Into Lyft Robbed At Gunpoint This report has been updated following its publication. A user of the transportation network company Lyft had an unexpectedly scary ride this week, after a fellow passenger robbed him at gunpoint. According to
SF News BART Shooting Victim ID'd As Police Release More Suspect Photos BART Police this afternoon released the name of the previously unidentified victim in Saturday's shooting aboard a train car as it approached the West Oakland BART station. At the same time, BART officials
SF News International Meth Ring Lands SF Man In Court It seems that one San Francisco man aimed a little too high when he attempted to distribute 500 (or more) grams of methamphetamine as part of an international drug ring. The man pleaded
SF News Monterey Gynecologist Will Do Time For Unleashing Python On Her Cheating, Snake-Fearing Husband Dr. Mary Kay Brewster bought the three- to four-foot-long python in Salinas, all cash. According to the Contra Costa Times, the 58-year-old Monterey woman with what KSBW reports was a well-regarded gynecology practice
SF News No One Wants To Say Who'll Be Investigating What Might Be SF's First Homicide Of 2016 There was apparently a homicide in San Francisco last night — our first, it appears, of 2016. But even after multiple phone calls to the law enforcement agencies that might be involved in the
SF News Police Release Photos Of BART Shooting Suspect, Say It Could Have Been Random After All BART police yesterday released photos of the man they believe shot and killed another passenger aboard a crowded BART train this past Saturday. The SFO-bound train was pulling up to the West Oakland
SF News Life-Size Bronze Statue Of UC Berkeley Crew Coach Stolen From Boathouse A collegiate caper took place this week sometime between the hours of 11 p.m. Tuesday night and 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, during which a 300-pound life-size statue of onetime UC Berkeley
SF News Motorist Narrowly Misses Cyclist, Then Maces Her After Confrontation Police are investigating a case in which a confrontation between a cyclist and an errant driver turned violent near Potrero Hill. A woman leaving work Tuesday was maced by the driver of passing
SF News Does The Super Bowl Actually Bring With It Legions Of Prostitutes? A popular notion that's been sensationalized in the media each Super Bowl season over the last half decade is that every Game Week brings with it a huge influx of sex workers and
SF News Video: Thief Steals Child's Birthday Present, Gleefully Dances Away Let's face it, some people are just straight up a**holes. And while we frequently apply that label to thieves in general, one particular San Jose thief caught on tape really seems to
SF News Portland Python Thief Shoves Snake Down His Pants As the northwesternmost -ist site, it falls upon us to report on news coming from our friends in Oregon — for example, the armed ranchers who took over a federal building, or the firearms
