SF News Older Man Beaten In Head With Rock In SOMA Near a SoMa freeway overpass last night, a 61-year-old man was bashed in the head with a rock after an argument. The incident happened around 9 p.m. near 5th and Bryant, and
SF News Highlights From This Week's SFPD Park Station Newsletter We now realize, after posting a couple highlights last week, that it's Park Station Captain Greg Corrales whom we have to thank for the colorful, sometimes midcentury-archaic language he uses to round up
SF News Small Northern California Town Shaken After Stabbing Death of 8-Year-Old Girl A young girl was apparently stabbed by a male intruder Saturday in the small Calaveras County town of Valley Springs. The incident seems to have happened during a break-in, and the eight-year-old victim
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Shot In The Lower Haight A 22-year-old was shot in the leg last night on the 100 block of Pierce Street in the Lower Haight. He was a passenger in a vehicle that was exiting a parking area
SF News Thief Tries To Escape Arrest By Hitching Ride On Roof Of Car Here's a fun story from the crime blotter, via the Examiner and Nevius: A man who was suspected of breaking into a woman's garage in Ingleside and stealing a television tried to escape
SF News Shooting At 15th and Guerrero Leaves One Wounded A shooting on Friday afternoon at the corner of 15th and Guerrero left one man wounded with a non-life-threatening injury. The incident happened just before 4:30 p.m. and involved two suspects
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Tense Standoff With Police Ends In One Dead Vallejo is back in the news with a bizarre shootout and standoff situation involving a (possibly disturbed) man, a shotgun, and armored police van, and a house that didn't belong to him. Vallejo
SF News Mugging at 30th and Mission Ends In Shooting Word to the wise, everyone: When you are mugged at 4 a.m., assuming you are not armed, you are best to hand over your wallet or cell phone. A 30-year-old man was
SF News 23-Year-Old Woman Pleads Not Guilty in Twin Peaks Hit and Run The 23-year-old woman who allegedly drunkenly ran down those four people on Twin Peaks on December 20 has been identified as Gina Eunice. She was arraigned Monday morning in San Francisco Superior Court,
SF News Man Surrenders After Two-Hour Standoff at Castro Chevron Station A man in his 30s is in custody after a bizarre standoff with police at the Castro Chevron station Thursday morning. Around 10 a.m. the station attendant called police to report a
SF News Vallejo Couple Stashes Dead Dad in Backyard for Two Years, Collects His Pension Vallejo, ever the source of some of the Bay Area's most oddball crime news, gives us another gross story today. 22-year-old Joseph Romer and his girlfriend Sandeep Waloo have been arrested and charged
SF News Domestic Dispute on Nob Hill Results in Four-Hour Standoff With Police A loud fight between a man and a woman in an apartment building at California and Hyde Saturday night led to the police being called, and a four-hour standoff ensuing after police determined
SF News Man Shot Four Times at South Van Ness and 14th A man was shot four times and critically wounded on the 1300 block of Natoma Monday night, just before 8 p.m., near the intersection of 14th and South Van Ness. Police say
SF News Noe Valley Woman Nabs Package Thief, Chases Him Down With Sword, Sprays Him With Bear Spray Thanks to the bravery and frustration of one Noe Valley resident who was tired of her Amazon boxes being stolen, the man the neighborhood had dubbed the Bicycle Bandit is now in custody.
SF News Two Teenage Girls Found Dead in Oakland Sunday Were Best Friends We heard a report earlier about two women found dead together in the early morning hours of Sunday in East Oakland, and they've now been identified as two teenage best friends: Bobbie Sartain,
SF News Fremont Man Arrested, Charged With Attempted Hanging of His Girlfriend A Fremont man is in custody after apparently trying to hang his girlfriend from a tree in the backyard. Somehow she managed to get on a cell phone while tied up and gave
SF News CBS Cameraman Robbed of Camera Outside Oakland School Just after doing a live shot yesterday outside the Oakland Technical High School on Broadway, for a report on the passage of Prop 30, KPIX/CBS5 cameraman Gregg Welk and reporter Anne Makovec
SF News 25-Year-Old Jumped By Several Men, Gravely Injured Outside Richmond District Bar A 25-year-old male was left with life-threatening head injuries late Saturday/early Sunday when he was jumped by a group of several males and kicked repeatedly in the head. This happened around 1
SF News Publicly Drunk Pregnant Woman Gives Birth At Santa Cruz Jail A pregnant woman who was arrested in Santa Cruz for being publicly intoxicated was about to be released from jail Monday when she went into labor. And she ended up having the baby
SF News Man Shot, Killed Near 16th and Valencia A 22-year-old man was shot in the upper torso while walking either on Caledonia Street or 15th Street early Saturday morning at around 2:45 a.m. He seems to have run to
SF News Woman Choked and Robbed of Cell Phone Near City College A 19-year-old woman was grabbed from behind by a suspect who put his arm around her neck, stole her cell phone, and shoved her to the ground before running off yesterday morning. This
SF News IPad Thievery Leads to Car Chase, Big Crash In Hayes Valley Three suspects are in custody and one person was seriously injured after a collision in Hayes Valley that followed a high-speed chase stemming from a mugging in Pacific Heights. The three men, suspects
SF News Toilet Torcher Returns? Porta Potty Torched in Lake Merced Following on a couple of porta-potty torchings two weeks back in the Richmond, we're getting news today of another incident from last week of another porta-potty torched near Lake Merced. Is the infamous
SF News Public Toilet in Tenderloin Plays Host to Two Muggings It is a fact well known to San Franciscans that those seemingly attractive, green-painted public toilets on city streets are frightening havens of drug use, drug dealing, and prostitution. Not to mention they're
SF News Cell Phone Thieves Strike Again On Divisadero Around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, opportunistic cell phone thieves struck again on Divisadero, where the neighborhood is quickly becoming the city's #1 spot for snatchy-grabby phone robberies. The latest event happened
