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.
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
