SF News Video: Local Teen Thrilled To Marry Accused Attempted Murderer Behind Bars The Brits love to poke fun at trashy, gun-toting Americans and trust the British press was all over the story about the 3-year-old in New Mexico who accidentally shot both his parents. Add
SF News Armed Robbers Storm SF Tiffany's Store Dressed As Construction Workers, Steal Jewelry Wow. What is with 2015, you guys? There was just a crazy armed robbery at the Westfield Centre Tiffany's location on Wednesday afternoon, in broad daylight. Three armed suspects stormed the store in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Playland On Polk Suspended For Sale Of Cocaine, Marijuana According to the website for Playland, the Polk Street bar will be closed for a "remodel" until March 3rd. But the Chronicle is implying that's some coded language, and maybe not the first
SF News [Update] Suitcase Murder Still Might Not Have Been Murder, Suspect Gets Released Dismembered body suspect Mark Andrus leaves SF County Jail a free man. DA says case lacks of evidence. pic.twitter.com/Sdus0Exz6p— Lilian Kim (@liliankim7) February 4, 2015 SFist just received word from
SF News Rapper 'The Jacka' Shot Dead In East Oakland R.I.P. Bay Area legend @theJacka. http://t.co/WwBOwpNA7I pic.twitter.com/sHNwCa5eIo— The FADER (@thefader) February 3, 2015 37-year-old East Bay rapper Dominic Newton, more commonly known as "The Jacka,
SF News Dismembered Body In Suitcase May Have Belonged To Suspect's Friend And Roommate A man who was reported missing prior to the dismembered body being found in that piece of luggage on 11th Street last week may in fact be the victim, as the Chronicle is
SF News The Toilet Torcher Might Be Back Longtime readers of SFist will remember the on-again, off-again reports of the dreaded Toilet Torcher, who may indeed be more than one person, but who sent many a porta-potty up in flames between
SF News Murder Suspect Mark Andrus Has Lived In The Tenderloin At Least Five Years, Neighbor Calls Him 'Nice Guy' The prime suspect in what everyone is now calling The Suitcase Murder, Mark Jeffrey Andrus, had been living on and off for about a year in a friend's fourth-floor apartment at the Sala
SF News [Update] Police Release Photos Of Person Of Interest In Suitcase Murder The SFPD just released the photos above and below of the person of interest caught on a surveillance near the scene where that suitcase appeared on Wednesday afternoon containing multiple dismembered body parts.
SF News Once Home To Nudists, Castro Plaza Now Just A Magnet For Unruly Homeless Youths Jane Warner Plaza, the small plaza that began as a temporary parklet in 2009 after the city closed off the intersection where 17th Street meets Market and Castro, is drawing negative attention from
SF News Palantir Co-Founder Sued By Former Intern Girlfriend For Sexual Abuse Joe Lonsdale — a partner in the venture capital firm Formation 8 and co-founder of Palo Alto software company Palantir along with Peter Thiel and others — stands accused by a former girlfriend and onetime
SF News Suitcase Stuffed With Human Remains Discovered In SoMa Police responding to a suspicious package call in SoMa at 11th Street between Market and Mission streets discovered a suitcase stuffed with body parts. According to Officer Grace Gatpandan, the medical examiner's office
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Apple Watch Arrives In April The NYT just put out an opinion documentary about a 24-hour bus line in Silicon Valley that’s become a homeless refuge, because of the lack of adequate shelters. [NYT] Services for homeless
SF News SF Public Defender Detained By Police After Trying To Intervene With Questioning Of Client SF deputy public defender Jami Tillotson says she was only trying to protect her client's constitutional right to counsel on Tuesday when she was handcuffed and arrested by SFPD officers at the Hall
SF News Rolling Gun Battle Claims Life Of Young Mother, Second Dead Man Appears Moments Later It's been a violent year in San Francisco, and we're not even through January. Tuesday afternoon saw our eighth and ninth homicides for 2015, as a mother of three and a 38-year-old man
SF News Stanford Freshman Arrested For Raping Woman In Public A 19-year-old Stanford University student has been arrested and charged with sexual assault connected to a disturbing incident that happened in the early morning hours of January 18, on the university campus, according
SF News [Updated] 27 Days Into 2015, San Francisco Has Already Suffered 9 Homicides A 24-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday in what officials confirm was San Francisco's seventh homicide for 2015. According to the SFPD, officers responded to reports of a shooting at Third Street and
SF News 33-Year-Old SF Man Killed While Trying To Protect His Mother From Armed Robber The homicide that occurred last Tuesday night in Visitacion Valley now comes with some tragic details. The victim, who was shot while sitting in his car at the intersection of Sunnydale Avenue and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wines From December French Laundry Heist Recovered In North Carolina The huge cache of pricy wine that was stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day has mostly been recovered according to a new statement by the Napa County Sheriff's Department. As the
SF News (NSFV) Two Severed Boars' Heads Found On Berkeley Streets This post is not safe for vegetarians (and vegans). The first boar's head, blood-covered with dangling skin, was found yesterday. Today a second was discovered. No, this isn't Westeros or Middle Earth. It's
SF News How To Recover Your Stolen Bike: A Sting Op Procedural From Mission Bicycle Company comes a crime procedural of theft and recovery. It's a parable with a strong moral because the Valencia Street hand-built bicycle company would like you to please register your
SF News Rental Car Used In Hayes Valley Drive-By Traced To Walnut Creek The SFPD tracked the car that was used in the quadruple homicide on Page Street ten days ago, which witnesses had suggested was a rental car, to a Hertz rental dealership in Walnut
SF News Another Armed Robbery Hits Duboce Triangle Another armed robbery hit Duboce Triangle on Thursday night, the latest in a string of incidents that have neighbors worried about the increase in crime in the area. Around 9:45 p.m.
SF News A Drone Thief, A Tech CEO, and a Tech COO Walk Into A Radio Shack... This hilarious bit has come across the crime blotter this morning: A thief tried to pilfer a small drone and a remote-control helicopter from a Radio Shack on Polk Street Thursday morning, only
SF News If You Get In A Vehicle Accident In West Oakland You Will Get Robbed Proving that West Oakland is in fact still a rough place in which you don't want to take any unnecessary pauses, a cyclist was struck by a pickup truck there on Tuesday, and
