SF News Should Airbnb Have Responded Differently To Madrid Sexual Assault Report? Another week, another horror story about the sharing economy making a victim out of someone somewhere in the world. This time it's the story of 19-year-old Jacob Lopez who traveled to Madrid and
SF News Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in
SF News Protests Close I-980 After Police Kill Armed 24-Year-Old Very large crime scene at 27th and MLK for OIS pic.twitter.com/NSfS2YP7kx— Alan McCann (@AlanSbcg) August 12, 2015 Protestors blocked off-ramps at Interstate 980, broke windows at an Oakland City Center
SF News One Year On, No Apparent Progress In Feather Lynn Murder It's been a full year since the "suspicious death" of 31-year-old Bryan Higgins a.k.a. Feather Lynn on Church Street, and six months since police said they had identified a person of
SF News Ex-Convict With Obvious Anger Issues Gets 12 Years, No Third Strike, For February Mayhem A 32-year-old man with a long rap-sheet and clear problems with authority, and following the law, got a reprieve from a liberal Superior Court judge who could have given him a 40-year "three
SF News 'Suitcase Murder' Was Totally A Murder After All, Autopsy Says Remember the suitcase murder? You know, the one that got that name back in January because police discovered a headless torso stuffed in a suitcase near Goodwill in SoMa? The case where the
SF News Dead Bodies Keep Turning Up In Tenderloin SRO No One Should Have To Live In The Crosby Hotel at 516 O'Farrell Street may be a case study in poorly managed, essentially neglected Tenderloin SROs. Not only was a 48-year-old man found dead in his room last week of
SF News Stanley Roberts Visits Outside Lands Just To Shame Uber Drivers Stopping In Bus Zones Yay! It wouldn't be a big festival/event day in San Francisco without KRON 4's Stanley Roberts finding some attendees "behaving badly." But rather than go after wristband scalpers or drug dealers this
SF News Three Of The Rainbow Girls ID'd Via Surveillance Video After Brazen Theft At Target The Rainbow Girls, now named the Rainbow Crew because two males have joined their ranks, have been terrorizing retail establishments around the city for five years now, and none have yet been arrested.
SF News Stolen Dog Found Inside SUV A Few Blocks From Where It Was Stolen Yesterday's story about the pair of dental students from the East Coast whose car was stolen near the Castro Safeway with their dog inside already has a relatively happy ending. KRON 4's coverage
SF News New Filing In Shrimp Boy Case Says Mayor Ed Lee Took 'Substantial Bribes,' Learned The Game From Willie Brown A potentially damning new filing on behalf of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in federal court today says that, in discovery, the defense found that the prosecution had significant evidence of corruption by multiple
SF News Young Tourists' Car Stolen From Castro Safeway With Dog Inside Well this is upsetting. While car break-ins and such petty crimes have been exploding citywide, we have a case of a brazen car theft from the Safeway at Church and Duboce in which
SF News Mother Of Madyson Middleton Says She Doesn't Blame Mother Of Accused Murderer Laura Jordan, mother of slain eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz, gave her first media interview over the weekend, one week after her daughter's death. The Chronicle tailed her for a bit
SF News Classmates Of Suspected Murderer Adrian Gonzalez Speak Out, Say He Seemed 'Sweet' The case of the assault and murder of 8-year-old Madyson Middleton is frustrating for a new reason as more friends and classmates speak out about the only suspect in the case, 15-year-old Adrian
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Car Chase Out Of The City Ends In Murder In South San Francisco A bizarre chase involving multiple people and two vehicles ended near a 30-foot cliff in South San Francisco where the Chron reports a body was discovered Tuesday afternoon, at the base of the
SF News 15-Year-Old Suspect Named, Charged As An Adult In Rape And Murder Of Maddy Middleton Earlier today, KRON 4 reported on new details in the case of the murder of eight-year-old Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday namely that she had been raped and strangled to
SF News Missing 8-Year-Old Found Dead In Santa Cruz Dumpster; Teen Neighbor Arrested Nationwide media attention and a statewide Amber alert ensued after reports of the disappearance of Madyson "Maddy" Middleton in Santa Cruz on Sunday just after 5 p.m. But after police canvassed the
SF News 93-Year-Old Foster City Man Charged In Stabbing Death Of 90-Year-Old Wife In a sad case of what appears to have been a botched murder-suicide, a 93-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his 90-year-old wife after he failed to adequately inflict a
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News SF Woman And Boyfriend Assaulted By Fellow Lyft Line Passenger Everyone who loves the cheapness of Uber Pool and Lyft Line, take heed: You never know who you're sharing a car with. A cautionary tale came in via the tip line regarding a
SF News Alleged Market Street Bank Robber Doesn't Get Very Far #SFPD Foil Downtown Bank Robbery. Suspect demanded money, only to be captured blocks away. http://t.co/dVRnRsmvxI pic.twitter.com/xRjkWXW6oc— Officer Manfredi (@OfficerManfredi) July 22, 2015 Tuesday was the wrong day
SF News Woman Found Imprisoned In Closet In Richmond For A Year By Facebook Mail-Order Husband A 35-year-old man and a male relative were arrested Tuesday in Richmond's Iron Triangle neighborhood on suspicion of human trafficking and a host of other offenses after a woman was rescued from the
SF News Alleged Vallejo Kidnapper Says His Mental Illness Is 'Extreme' And He's 'Relieved To Be In Jail' Over the weekend KPIX/CBS 5 snagged the first jailhouse interview with suspected kidnapper and all around freaky dude Matthew Muller. While they weren't allowed to bring a camera into the jail, reporter
SF News Courtroom Saga For Admitted Tagger 'Cryst' Continues, Statement To KTVU Held Against Him When Andrew "Cryst" Yarbrough explained to KTVU that the "Cryst" and "Sheep" tags he'd admittedly left all over San Francisco meant "crystal meth" and "conformist gentrification and all that other shit," he was
