SF News Police Crack Down (Again) On Cocaine-Fueled Excelsior Gambling Clubs It seems like only yesterday that the City Attorney's office announced it would be closing down illegal gambling cafés in the Excelsior. The sweepstakes cafés, which have operated under a legal loophole in
SF News Notable UC Berkeley Professor Resigns Amid Sexual Harassment Claims University of California Berkeley astronomy professor Geoff Marcy resigned today, after a six-month internal university investigation found that he had repeatedly sexually harassed numerous students over the course of years. The investigation, which
SF News New York Times Mag Discovers Shrimp Boy, Adores His Anti-Government Attorney Tony Serra The New York Times Magazine this week delves deep into a profile of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow which is also, in turn, a profile of his flamboyant, anti-government defense attorney J. Tony Serra
SF News Allegedly Murderous Drifters Remain A Mystery, May Have Committed Other Crimes The three drifters accused of two murders, the first of a Canadian backpacker in Golden Gate Park and the second of a yoga instructor on a hiking trail near Fairfax, remain baffling to
SF News Matthew Keys Found Guilty In LA Times Hacking Case, May Face Jail Time Disgraced social media manager and avid Twitterer Matthew Keys was found guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento of conspiracy in a case dating back to 2013 involving Anonymous and the
SF News Three Years On, Accused Oikos University Shooter One Goh May Finally Face Trial It's been three and a half years since the tragic mass shooting at Oakland's Oikos University that took the lives of seven people in April, 2012. During most that time, accused mass murderer
SF News [Update] Noted Tantric Teacher Murdered, Dog Shot On Marin County Trail Search & rescue teams looking for clues in the murder of a hiker near Fairfax. #abc7now pic.twitter.com/LyAOEcmX42— Cbarnard (@CornellBarnard) October 6, 2015 On Monday evening, a Marin County hiker near
SF News Day Around The Bay: Judge Strikes Down Eviction Payment Law, Again The 27-year-old woman, Sharinna Beoncia Grady, accused of stabbing a 10-year-old boy on Muni last week pleaded not guilty today. [CBS 5] Remember how the Board of Supervisors passed a new law last
SF News Here's The Person Of Interest In The Oakland Muralist Slaying Oakland Police have identified a person of interest in last week's slaying of 27-year-old artist Antonio Ramos at least they have a photo of him from surveillance video anyway. The slender, twentysomething black
SF News Man Shot And Killed Driving His Ice Cream Truck In Oakland On Saturday, just four days after 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was shot and killed while painting a community empowerment and anti-violence mural in West Oakland, a locally known ice cream truck proprietor was also
SF News Oregon Gunman Described As Shy, Unfriendly, Empathized With Virginia Shooter Vester Flanagan The deceased gunman in yesterday's devastating mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer, and already reporters have been swarming around his two most recent residences
SF News Sheisty Uber Driver Allegedly Steals Sleeping Passenger's Wallet, Goes On SF Spending Spree The next time you find yourself nodding off in an Uber, just use this simple trick to stay awake: Remind yourself that one uber-shady Uber driver stands accused of stealing a passenger's wallet
SF News Local Artist Shot And Killed While Working On Anti-Violence Mural In West Oakland 27-year-old Antonio Ramos was painting a community mural under an Interstate 580 overpass in West Oakland on Tuesday when he was shot at around 10:30 a.m., according to Police reports. Spokesperson
SF News Shrimp Boy Possibly Linked To 2006 Murder Of His Ghee Kung Tong Predecessor Prosecutors in the federal racketeering case against Raymond 'Shrimp Boy' Chow said during a court hearing Monday that they have evidence that Shrimp Boy arranged the murder of 56-year-old Allen Leung, who was
SF News Double Homicide In Castro Valley Trailer Park, Suspect Detained Typically quiet Castro Valley, in the East Bay, saw a double homicide Monday afternoon. As NBC Bay Area is reporting, a male and a female victim were found dead in a trailer on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Owner Of Hong Kong Lounge I & II Is An Extremely Shady Dude The partial, perhaps soon-to-be-former owner of two Richmond district restaurants, Hong Kong Lounge I and Hong Kong Lounge 2 (the latter of which has a place on Bauer's Top 100 for it's excellent
SF News Horrible Person Steals Disabled Pug's 'Wheelchair' So, the above dog is Buddha, a 13-year-old San Francisco pug who suffers from Degenerative Myelopathy, a nerve disorder that afflicts a lot of older dogs (my dog had it, so I can
SF News Crazed Suspect In Oakland Drive-By Shot And Killed By Police In San Leandro E. 14th on & off to Hwy 238 in San Leandro shut after Al. Co. Sheriff's kill suspect of crime spree. ETO 9:30am pic.twitter.com/zsWcgNqUsz— Kim McCallister (@McCallisterKim) September 22,
SF News Video: Men Chase Alleged Up-Skirt Creeper Through Union Square After two Union Square tour bus company staffers saw a man they say was taking covert video up women's skirts, the duo followed the man and created enough of a scene that the
SF News Not Guilty Plea Entered In Maddy Middleton Murder Case The 15-year-old boy who stands accused in the shockingly brutal rape and murder of an 8-year-old neighbor in Santa Cruz appeared in court today for his arraignment and entered a plea of not
SF News SFPD's Gang Task Force Investigating 'Bizarre' Shooting On 280/101 Split Police say shooting on the freeway ramp exiting 280S onto 101S. Saw man carried away in ambulance. All lanes blocked. pic.twitter.com/G5TftKmvA9— Jonathan E. Chen (@wikichen) September 20, 2015 A mid-afternoon
SF News Unarmed Man Robs Clement Street Bank The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a man they're describing as "older" after a brazen mid-day heist on a busy Richmond District street. It was 1:12 p.m. Wednesday when police
SF News Accused Vallejo Kidnapper Matthew Muller Faints In Court, Pleads No Contest In Dublin Home Invasion Case Mentally ill kidnapping suspect Matthew Muller appeared in an Alameda County court in Hayward this morning and promptly fainted, necessitating his having to be revived. As the Contra Costa Times reports, Muller subsequently
SF News Video Of Stockton Police Roughing Up Jaywalking Teen Incites Outrage On Social Media Yet another example, caught on video, of police overreach and arguable brutality has been making the rounds on social media, this time out of Stockton, California. The two-and-a-half-minute video shows a 16-year-old black
SF News Kidnapped Woman Denise Huskins Suing Vallejo Over 'Hoax' Situation Denise Huskins the Vallejo woman who, it turns out, was legitimately kidnapped back in March, apparently by a mentally ill individual who's already confessed is now said to be filing a claim against
