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
SF News Former Colleagues Of Suspected Kidnapper Matthew Muller Describe Him As 'Really Sweet' But Strange In the latest update on the case against suspected home invader and kidnapper-for-ransom Matthew Muller, former employers and colleagues have come forward to describe some of his behavior during the short six-month stint
SF News Uber Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement With Family of Sofia Liu A precedent-setting case against rideshare behemoth Uber has been settled, and the family of Sofia Liu, who was killed in a crosswalk by an UberX driver on New Year's Eve 2013 has won
SF News Suspect In Vallejo Kidnapping Possibly Tied To Three More Home Invasions Since the big news yesterday that the FBI was arresting 38-year-old Matthew Muller on suspicion of kidnapping 29-year-old Denise Huskins of Vallejo back in March, Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn appeared at a
SF News SF's Public Housing Site Of Three Fatal Shootings In Two Weeks A 28-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday morning in what police say is the 27th homicide for San Francisco in 2015, and the third such slaying in the city's public housing in
SF News [Updated] Vallejo Kidnapping Of Denise Huskins Not A Hoax After All, Says FBI Prepare to have your minds blown: Remember the case of the bizarre, totally fake-sounding home-invasion kidnapping that happened in March in Vallejo that was quickly called a hoax by Vallejo police after the
SF News There Was An Armed Assault In Blondie's Bar Bathroom Last Night The bathroom of Blondie's Bar on Valencia Street (between 16th and 17th Streets) became the scene of an armed assault on a 25-year-old man last night. As the Examiner reports, a pair of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Who Stole $300K In Wine From The French Laundry Still At Large A quick update in the wine theft case that rocked the food world back in December: As mustache twins Matier & Ross report, the thieves responsible, and the wealthy wine collector in North
SF News Pleasanton Construction Firm Denied Access To Evidence In Berkeley Balcony Case; Erin Brockovich Joins Fight Against Them The story of the tragic collapse of that balcony on June 16 in Berkeley proceeds on, and as it turns out, the Pleasanton-based company Segue Construction that built the arguably faulty balconies on
SF News Police Say Woman Killed Next To Ferry Building Might Have Been Random Victim Of Attack [Updated] #SFPD confirms 31 y/o woman died after being shot on Pier 14 next to Ferry Building.#mapit pic.twitter.com/nqhNaJRs2h— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) July 2, 2015 In what police say was
SF News SF's 24th Homicide Of 2015: Fatal Shooting On Troubled Street One man is dead and another in custody following a mid-day Monday shooting at a troubled spot in a Potrero Hill public housing development. At about 12:50 Monday afternoon, a passerby found
SF News Pride Sunday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers Though San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr told the Chron that Sunday's Pride celebration and parade was "off the hook," he didn't mean that in an law-breaking way — the event that he
SF News Pride Saturday's SFPD Activity By The Numbers According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Officer Carlos Manfredi, Saturday was a busy day for police officers watching over the throngs of folks celebrating Pride. In addition to last night's shooting, Manfredi
SF News Buddhist Monk Stabs Buddhist Monk In East Oakland Oakland police are on the hunt for a Buddhist monk who stabbed the head monk of a monastery he had recently joined. The bizarre attack happened Tuesday evening at the Branch of International
SF News [Updated] Three People Shot Near Warriors Victory Rally Shooting scene @ Lakeshore & 18th after #gswparade in #Oakland. @warriors @oaklandpoliceca @insidebayarea pic.twitter.com/9JhfsemRBI— Tyska (@Tyska) June 19, 2015 Five blocks away from the end of the Warriors victory parade route
SF News Woman Who Punched Hipster Girl At Nordstrom Rack Pleads No Contest To Felony Assault Everyone's favorite Nordstrom Rack assault story is back in the news as the woman caught on surveillance video punching another woman who told her to quiet her child down has had her day
SF News Surveillance Video Shows Women Brazenly Swiping $7000 Of Stonestown Sunglass Hut Shades The San Francisco Police Department is seeking two women who shoplifted over $7000 worth of designer sunglasses from the Sunglass Hut store in the Stonestown Galleria. On May 19, the two women you
SF News Warriors Victory Celebrations Remain Mostly Peaceful, But Oakland Street Parties Lasted Into The Night The utter mayhem that many expected in the wake of a Warriors victory in the NBA Finals failed to materialize Tuesday night, despite thousands of fans drunk and partying in the streets on