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
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Woman Seeks Birthday Dinner Date In Tokyo This semi-tragic SF woman seeks date for her 39th birthday dinner in Tokyo at the super exclusive Noma pop-up. Also, she's paying. And you should be a straight male from SF between the
SF News Another Sideshow Shut Down I-880 In Oakland On Sunday Oakland's grand tradition of sideshows continued Sunday with another freeway-closing doughnut rally that stopped traffic on I-880 for an indeterminate amount of time. As KRON4 reports, the driver of red Mustang you see
SF News [Update] Two People Possibly Shot At Turk And Leavenworth SFist is getting a report from former editor Brock Keeling, in fact that a shooting has just occurred this afternoon at Turk and Leavenworth in the Tenderloin. SFPD officers are on the scene
SF News Vigil Tonight For Four Men Killed In Hayes Valley Memorial at Laguna and Page in SF's Hayes Valley for four men killed in last night's shooting. pic.twitter.com/7XAAByfaFe— David DeBolt (@daviddebolt) January 10, 2015 As SFist reported on Friday, at
Arts & Entertainment New Doc Suggests The Silk Road Case Could Set Lasting Precedent For Fourth Amendment The federal prosecution of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged deep-web black marketeer known as Dread Pirate Roberts of The Silk Road, may have some major flaws when it comes to how the FBI built
Arts & Entertainment Bronze Tortoises Stolen Again From Nob Hill Fountain Back in May of 2007, two cast bronze tortoises were removed and stolen off of the beloved Fountain of the Tortoises in Huntington Park, atop Nob Hill. As photographer Sergio Ruiz shows us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gestalt On 16th Shut Down For Selling Weed Mission beer and bicyclist bar Gestalt Haus has had their liquor license suspended for 30 days after a doorman was caught selling marijuana. California Alcoholic Beverage Control spokesman John Carr issued a statement
SF News Guy Breaks Into SoMa Kennel, Frees Dogs, Steals Dog Toys, Gets Caught On this week's bizarre crime beat, we have the story of 59-year-old Michael Grunwald, an apparent dog-lover who broke in and tried to burgle a SoMa doggy daycare called K-9 Playtime (590 Brannan
SF News Suspect Arrested, Charged With Hate Crime In Stabbing Of Transgender Woman Brodes Wayne Joynes of San Francisco was identified as the sole suspect in the stabbing of a transgender woman, Samantha Husley, as police Sergeant Monica Macdonald has told the Examiner. Allegedly, it was
SF News Transgender Woman Harassed On Bus, Stabbed Near Civic Center “I’m very sorry for the nice man who was enjoying his McDouble when I ran in bleeding and screaming for police,” Samantha Hulsey told the Chronicle, who reported on the stabbing she
SF News SFPD Complies With Judge's Order, Releases Names Of Officers Who Killed Bernal Heights Man The Friday news release is long-known as "a transparent attempt to evade fallout by burying bad news ahead of the weekend," as Slate put it over a decade ago. Perhaps that's why, after
SF News Federal Judge Allows Nudists' Suit Against City To Move Forward The crusade to retain the right to be naked in the streets of San Francisco marches on as a federal judge has whittled down a lawsuit brought by nudist activists against the City
SF News One Dead In Berkeley Shooting Possibly Tied To Marijuana Robbery In what the Chronicle reports may have been a robbery involving medical marijuana in Berkeley last night, one man was killed with a shotgun and a woman was injured. The events took place
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [UPDATE] French Laundry Robbed Of $300,000 Worth Of Fine Wine On Christmas Day Famed Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry fell victim to a Christmas Day heist that only wealthy wine snobs can appreciate the gravity of. As Inside Scoop reports, a thief or thieves made
