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As Alleged Killer Of Bay Area Teen Awaits Trial, Family Suspends Search For Her Body

Three years after the disappearance of Bay Area teen Sierra LaMar, her family is suspending their weekly search for the girl's remains, saying that “we’ve run out of viable search

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Elderly Oakland Man Who Spoke No English Arrested And Held Several Days For Collecting Recycling

You would think Oakland cops had better things to do than arrest frail elderly people who are sorting through trash and trying to make a few nickels by collecting cans and bottles. But,

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Man Shot Late Friday Near Valencia And Duboce

In an incident that may have been gang-related, a man was shot in the vicinity of Valencia and Duboce Streets Friday night/Saturday morning around 1 a.m. and transported himself to

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Where In S.F. You're Most Likely To Be Shot By a Cop

This should be controversial: As part of a mapping contest at UC Berkeley, some urban planning students at UCLA created a sophisticated interactive map showing incidences of various kinds of quality-of-life

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Guy Fieri Testifies In Final Day of Lamborghini Thief's Trial

Does everyone remember the story of celebrity nacho chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini getting stolen out of a dealership showroom? This all happened over two years ago, and the kid who supposedly

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Mother And Two Daughters Injured In Oakland Shooting

Another shooting in East Oakland happened Sunday afternoon, injuring the intended target, a 17-year-old boy, as well as a mother and two daughters, aged 8 and 12, who happened to be

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Victims, Suspects Flee After Shooting On Party Bus In SF's SoMa District

There was, very clearly, a shooting aboard a party bus in SF's SoMa District late Saturday night/early Sunday, but the SFPD was unable to locate any victims or identify a

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Deliberations Begin In Trial Of Accused Serial Killer Joseph Naso

Closing arguments were heard Friday and Monday in the two-month-long trial of accused serial killer Joseph Naso in Marin County, and jurors began deliberations by Monday afternoon. As we've

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Cab Driver Stabbed After Deplorable Teen Can't Pay Fare

A cab driver was stabbed in the Potrero Hill neighborhood last night after a 17-year-old was unable to pay his cab fare. This all happened around 10:30 p.m. Thursday.

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Airline Employee Accused Of Stealing Luggage During Post-Asiana Chaos

A United Airlines customer service rep at SFO and his wife are accused of a scheme to steal the luggage of passengers whose flights were diverted following the July 6 crash of Asiana

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Oskar The Dachsund Dies From Meatball Poisoning

Oskar at Animal Internal Medicine and Specialty Services on in San Francisco. We have sad news to report following up on the July 4 week poisoning of several dogs via strychnine-laced meatballs:

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Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter

Here, once again, are some creatively phrased highlights from Captain Greg Corrales' weekly newsletter of the happenings at Park Station, and around the Upper Haight. Surprisingly, there are no amusing incidents to

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Two Shootings Reported Sunday Close To Pride Festivities

Two separate shootings near Civic Center Sunday evening both happened dangerously close to the LGBT Pride festivities, just as they were winding down. One shooting left two men injured. The first incident occurred,

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Two Women Stabbed Near 17th and Church

Amidst the revelry and happiness around much of the city there was some violent crime in the Mission Castro over the weekend. Around 9:20 last night two women were stabbed during an

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Elderly Man Attacked In North Beach

An older man was found just after midnight last night in an alcove on Columbus Avenue suffering from severe head trauma. This was on the 900 block of Columbus, between Chestnut and Lombard,

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Man Stabbed In The Neck Near Mission And 16th

Another charming story from the nightly circus at 16th and Mission: A 51-year-old man got into an argument with a man and a woman last night, and soon he was stabbed

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Child Shot While Home Sleeping in West Oakland Drive-By

An 11-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet while at home sleeping in his bed around 5 a.m. Sunday morning in Oakland. The shot came from a passing car on

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Female Carjacking Duo Strikes in Bayview

A pair of female suspects are being sought for a carjacking in the early morning hours of Friday, June 7. The women are described as being in their 30s or 40s. Thelma and

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Senior Citizen Shot In The Back Of The Head In Outer Sunset

A 67-year-old man was shot in the back of the head in an Outer Sunset garage Saturday night. Any possibly motive remains a mystery, and it's unclear whether anything

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Second Bank Robbery In A Month Hits The Sunset

On April 19, a Wells Fargo in the Inner Sunset, on Irving between 8th and 9th Avenues, was robbed by three masked, armed men. They did the usual thing of making everyone get

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Man Found In Suspicious Marina Hotel Death ID'd

The man who was found dead inside a room at the Francisco Bay Inn on Lombard Street last Thursday morning has been identified as 45-year-old Jaisingh Pawar. Police are saying little

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Haight: Man Punched, Kicked For Saying He Dislikes Marijuana

We know you're supposed to be pro-marijuana just to be allowed to live in this town, but maybe a couple of pot dealers took things a little too far over

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Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter

It's time once again to check in on Captain Greg Corrales and his cheeky roundup of the week's arrests and citations in and around the Upper Haight. First off,

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Man Dies Under Suspicious Circumstances at Marina Hotel

The death of a man early this morning at the Francisco Bay Inn at 1501 Lombard Street was ruled suspicious by investigators for the medical examiner's office. The man was found

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Oakland Woman Sentenced For String Of Violent 2010 Robberies

36-year-old Althea Housley was sentenced to 15 years and 8 months in prison today for four armed robberies in Oakland that left one man dead. In a plea deal in which