SF News Ross Mirkarimi Got His Domestic Violence Conviction Expunged In a symbolic and expected turn of legal events, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has gotten his 2012 misdemeanor conviction on a false imprisonment charge involving his wife, expunged from his permanent record. He did
Arts & Entertainment KPFA Radio Personality Killed In Oakland Hit-And-Run Wesley Burton, a regular host and DJ on Berkeley-based KPFA, was killed early Saturday morning in a violent hit-and-run collision in North Oakland. He was on his way home from a shift, hosting
SF News Day Around The Bay: Woman Punched Over Muffin A Mission thief actually punched a woman in the face over a muffin. [Examiner] If you pony up enough dough, you can have lunch with Tim Cook. [Chron] Museum head in charge of
SF News Stuff Store On Valencia Is Latest Victim Of Smash-And-Grab Robbery The vast, high-end flea market known as Stuff was the latest victim of a smash-and-grab robbery on Wednesday morning, with a group of four to six thieves breaking through the glass front door
SF News Friends And Family Mourn Woman Who Was Struck And Killed During High-Speed Chase Friday 42-year-old Bridget Klecker was in the wrong place at the wrong time Friday night when she was struck and killed in a crosswalk at California and Kearny Streets by three armed suspects fleeing
SF News Car Burglaries And Thefts Are Way Up Over Last Year “It’s rare that you see no broken glass on any block in San Francisco,” said Police Chief Greg Suhr during a special Board of Supervisors meeting this past Thursday. As The Examiner
SF News Deplorable Teens Beat Up 50-Year-Old Woman For Telling Them To Hush Up On Muni We have an update on the local deplorable teen beat: A group of three rowdy girls, who were allegedly making a ruckus aboard a 21-Hayes bus Wednesday evening, began physically assaulting a 50-year-old
SF News Meth Head Acquitted After Crazy Home Invasion And Assault Involving Spaceships The highlight of this week's releases from the Public Defender's Office concerns the case of 41-year-old Santino Aviles, who was accused of robbery, attempted robbery, burglary, and assault with force, as well as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Try To Steal Bar Agricole's 500-Pound Patio Bar, Fail A photo posted by Bar Agricole (@baragricole) on Apr 6, 2015 at 4:36pm PDT As you might have guessed from the looks of their would-be haul, the thieves didn't get very far.
SF News Arrest Made In Unprovoked Attack Of Homeless Man In The Tenderloin Police have made an arrested a man in the brutal Wednesday night attack of a beloved homeless man in the Tenderloin. Arthur Lee Jones of Fairfield was arrested by an SFPD officer on
SF News Video: Beloved Tenderloin Fixture Randomly Beaten By Pipe-Wielding Man The San Francisco Police Department is seeking a suspect in a bizarre, seemingly unprovoked attack that left a popular Tenderloin man seriously injured. You can see the attack in the video below, but
SF News Man Acquitted In Brutal 2011 Nob Hill Roommate Murder Yesterday, 28-year-old Waheed Kesmatyar was found not guilty on all charges in a strange and sad case that dates back to 2011, relating to the killing of his 67-year-old roommate Jack Baker. At
SF News Trial Begins In Case Of Bay Area Teenager Who Killed Herself After Being Humiliated And Bullied The parents of Audrie Pott, the 15-year-old girl who took her own life in 2012 eight days after an incident of sexual assault and subsequent humiliation by several boys, are entering the final
SF News More Twists In Vallejo 'Kidnapping': Kidnappers Say It Was Just A 'Dry Run,' Nancy Grace Says 'Nope' World News Videos | US News Videos While supposed kidnapping victim Denise Huskins and boyfriend Aaron Quinn lawyer up and go quiet, there are more details emerging from the lengthy email/"manifesto" that Huskins'
SF News Supposed Vallejo Kidnappers Send Insane Emails To Chronicle Insisting They Are 'Gentlemen Criminals' In an apparent effort to clear the names of their supposed victims, the supposed abductors who supposedly kidnapped 29-year-old Denise Huksins last Monday morning have written multiple emails attempting to prove that their
SF News [Update] Crazy Vallejo Kidnapping Story Probably Total Hoax If the story of pretty 29-year-old Denise Huskins' sudden abduction from Mare Island in Vallejo early Monday morning sounded a little too Gone Girl for everyone to believe, that's because probably was. As
SF News Vallejo Woman Found Alive In Southern California Denise Huskins, the 29-year-old woman abducted from outside her home early Monday morning and whose kidnappers then demanded a ransom, has been found safe and alive in Southern California, apparently abandoned by her
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Woman Kidnapped For Ransom It's time to revive the Vallejo Is Whack tag as the city to our north presents us with another bizarre and scary crime. This time the victim is a 29-year-old woman (her Facebook
SF News 25-Year-Old Injured In West Oakland Collision Awakens From Coma Maggie Lowrie kisses her son Greg Lowrie as he recovers at Highland http://t.co/0QfRF1PsY6 #oakland @daviddebolt pic.twitter.com/BRedthLFni— Jose Carlos Fajardo (@jcfphotog) March 21, 2015 Greg Lowrie, the 25-year-old
SF News South Bay Man Kills Stepdaughter In Gruesome Drunk Driving Incident A Campbell man with a serious alcohol problem drove into, and then over, his 41-year-old stepdaughter on Thursday afternoon, and his wife is speaking out to the media about the terrible incident in
SF News Suspect In 2012 Quintuple Homicide Finally Going To Trial A truly horrible, grisly multiple murder occurred on a quiet street near City College in March 2012, and it was called one of the worst mass slayings in SF's history. The main suspect
SF News What Is Going On In Napa?: Body Found In Freezer, Also More Details About Vineyard Shooting Though mentioned in brief yesterday in Day Around the Bay, it's time to turn our full attention to the fact that Napa seems to have gone from quiet to crazy in the span
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bizarre Shooting At Napa Vineyard All this evening, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, AAA is offering free "tipsy tows" to anyone who's too drunk to drive. Just call 800-222-4357 and they'll pick up you and your car.
SF News Alleged 'Cryst' Tagger Faces 29 Counts Of Vandalism, Might Be Defending His Tags In SFist Comments Yesterday, according to CBS 5 San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon filed 10 felony counts of vandalism and 19 misdemeanor counts of vandalism against suspected tagger Andrew Yarborough. Yarbrough has allegedly tagged at
Arts & Entertainment Murder Victim Susan Berman Launched Writing Career In SF, Wrote About Dating Woes For City Magazine We noted briefly yesterday that The Jinx subject Robert Durst and his suspected victim Susan Berman had ties to the Bay Area in the 1970s, with Berman writing for the Examiner and working
