SF News Local News Station Rats Out Fun Looking Oakland Neighborhood Speakeasy, Cops Bust It Some clever entrepreneurs working a bit outside the law have taken to launching their own social-media-promoted, black-market bars out of their houses and garages. But you'd best be careful if you try this
SF News One-Time Reality TV Walk-On And Accused Murderer Jamal Trulove Is A Free Man After S.F. Retrial Jamal Trulove, now 34, has been acquitted in a retrial after spending the last seven years behind bars for a 2007 murder he maintained he did not commit. Some of you may remember
SF News Oakland Mother Of Three Killed While Trying To Protect Children From Flying Bullets Oakland had its 19th homicide of the year on Monday afternoon, and the circumstances were especially dramatic and terrible. A 30-year-old West Oakland mother of three, Chyemil Pierce, was struck and killed by
SF News Man Handcuffed, Robbed, And Beaten By Woman He Met At Chinese New Year Parade In a bit of rotten luck and poor judgment, a man visiting the Chinese New Year parade this weekend found himself robbed, handcuffed, and beat up after meeting a woman and taking her
SF News FBI Uses Facebook Messages To Nab Alleged Meth-Smuggling TSA Agents At SFO Two TSA screeners working at SFO were allegedly involved in a plot involving a third individual to smuggle multiple pounds of methamphetamine through security checkpoints in carry-on luggage. As the Examiner reports, all
SF News With Chronicle's Help, Assault Victim Reunited With Leg Last week brought us not one but two tales of prosthetic legs stolen from their owners, the first of which was found leaning up against a tree at Eighth and Market on Friday,
SF News [Update] Shooting On 580 In Oakland Shuts Down Two Eastbound Lanes, One Wounded Oakland: Shooting EB 580. 5 bullet holes in one car. Man wounded. 1 man in custody.#mapit pic.twitter.com/axXlejAEDQ— alan wang (@AlanWangABC7) March 5, 2015 A shooting this afternoon on eastbound
SF News Yolo County Woman Charged In Death Of Her 3-Week-Old Infant A woman whose baby was found to have meth in its system when it was born three weeks ago just outside Sacramento has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of the
SF News Smash-and-Grab Is Officially The Crime To Commit Of Early 2015 Yet another smash-and-grab robbery at a high-end audio equipment store happened early this morning, this time at Music Lovers Audio and Video on Bush Street a store which was also hit by a
SF News A Quick Update On The Hot Felon's Modeling Aspirtations Just in case you were worried about the fate of hot convict/hot felon Jeremy Meeks, who remains behind bars serving a 27-month sentence on a weapons charge, we have an update via
SF News Oakland Police Offer Reward In Shooting Death Of 14-Year-Old 14-year-old Davon Ellis was reportedly walking down the street with friends on Saturday evening in Oakland's Fruitvale district when he was fatally shot, and now Oakland police are offering a $20,000 reward
SF News Dolores Park Delinquents Break Dozens Of Bottles In Sandbox Another group of selfish, thoughtless, and this time particularly reprehensible Dolores Park patrons have inflicted further damage to a park under construction and in flux. According to KTVU, on Friday park maintenance staff
SF News [Update] Audiophile Thieves Commit Another Smash-and-Grab At Stereo Equipment Store At around 4 a.m. this morning, a group of audiophile bandits drove a vehicle into a high-end equipment store on the on the 1600 block of California Street. According to Officer Albie
SF News SFPD Releases 2014 Crime Stats, And They're Better Than You Might Have Expected It's Friday afternoon, and you know what that means: press releases from the San Francisco Police Department! This week, they've sent over the 2014's year end crime data. And, according to them, the
SF News Former Home Restaurant Has Been Illegal Squat For Homeless At least someone's been putting that empty eyesore to good use! We learn via Hoodline that the Fire Department was called to the former Home restaurant at Church and Market Tuesday afternoon after
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinatown Seriously Needs Sidewalk Help UC Hastings Law School is looking to build some huge new buildings in the Tenderloin. [Chron] Local woman thought she had the flu. Turned out to be flesh-eating bacteria. [ABC 7] Despite having
Arts & Entertainment Performer Wendy Ho Has 'Drag Bag' Stolen In SF, Seeks Donations Popular underground performer and YouTube artiste Wendy Ho, famous especially among gay fans for her offensive lyrics and faux queen persona, was just a victim of San Francisco's recent spate of robberies. She
SF News Local Official Indicted For Embezzling $1.3 Million From Bay Bridge Fund A finance director for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) who appears to have used $1.3 million of public funds to buy himself a home in Oregon, has now been indicted
SF News Yet Another Local TV News Crew Robbed Of Their Equipment In The East Bay A female KTVU reporter and her cameraman were robbed of their equipment early Wednesday morning outside a doughnut shop in Hayward, marking the umpteenth time an incident like this has happened in the
SF News Suitcase Body ID'd As Mark Andrus's Friend Omar Shahwan The SF Medical Examiner has positively identified the headless torso found stuffed in a suitcase on January 28. It is, as was suspected and reported as early as nine days ago, 58-year-old Omar
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Made It To Florida This Time, Checked Into A Resort Professional stowaway and highly articulate, obviously mentally ill person Marilyn Jean Hartman has been laying low since a spate of successful free trips she took around the western U.S. last summer, or
SF News 'Suitcase Murder' Investigation Continues Despite Suspect's Death Even though the prime suspect in the case of the dismembered body found stuffed in a suitcase on January 28 died over the weekend, the SFPD assures us all that the investigation is
SF News 'Hot Felon' Jeremy Meeks Gets 27-Month Sentence Assuming you've all been anxiously awaiting news of the fate of last summer's internet celebrity Jeremy Meeks, of hot mugshot fame, here it is: He's been convicted on that gun charge and sentenced
SF News Man Suspected Of Killing Trans Woman In Bayview Found Dead The SFPD says that the man who was the prime suspect in last week's fatal stabbing on McKinnon Avenue was found hanging from a fence, dead from an apparent suicide one day after
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Sideshow Becomes Music Video Check it! An apparently "secret" sideshow that took place on January 25th became the backdrop for this new music video. Credit for the footage goes to Ace at Fox Body Movement Car Club.
