SF News Hayward Man Charged With Hate Crime for Burning Israeli Flag at Israel-Hamas Protest 36-year-old Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is in jail for allegedly stealing two counterprotesters’ Israeli flags and setting one of them on fire at a January El Cerrito protest, and now faces arson, grand theft, robbery, and hate crime charges.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Pleads Not Guilty In Murder of Girlfriend The East Bay man arrested last month for the murder of Capitola resident Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, who was his girlfriend, was arraigned Thursday in Santa Cruz County.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theo Lengyel Arrested In Murder of Girlfriend; Remains Found In Tilden Park It was the week before Christmas that we learned that Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, a Bay Area musician and former member of the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, was being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend.
SF News Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
SF News BART Has Hired a Hawk to Manage the Pigeon Population In El Cerrito A hawk who has been given the name Pac-Man is patrolling the area around the El Cerrito del Norte Station, thanks to a contract with a falconer in what's sort of a last-ditch effort — after many failed attempts — to control the pigeon population there.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: $2400 For Crap House In El Cerrito Yay! Even parts of the East Bay that can't even be called hip are trying to charge absurd prices for terrible apartments. A tipster called our attention to an ad, since deleted, for
SF News Little Caesars Robbers Shoot Woman As She Hands Over Cash Little Caesars, the pizza chain known mainly for Crazy Bread and a cartoon mascot who mutters "pizza pizza," gained another reason for notoriety Monday night: Its El Cerrito location was the site of
SF News Fatality On The Tracks At BART El Cerrito Del Norte Service resumed to normal this morning after a three-hour delay as police investigated a death on the tracks at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station. "Police would not say if the dead
SF News 4.0 Earthquake Hits East Bay A minor 4.0 quake hit the Bay Area at 5:33 Monday morning, rattling parts of San Francisco and the East Bay. Did you feel it? According to USGS, it was centered
SF News Runaway Car Does a Flip in El Cerrito El Cerrito Patch, which is chock-full of great stories, featured this photo by reader David Block, of a parked and driverless Toyota that had rolled off of a hilly driveway this morning and
SF News Teen Accused of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl At El Cerrito School While school was in session last week, a 12-year-old girl at an El Cerrito school was raped by a 14-year-old boy. Allegedly. According to AP, "[p]olice say the girl was attacked at
SF News Infant Dies After Parent Leaves Him In Car All Day A four-month-old baby boy, Everett Carey, who was found unresponsive after being left alone for hours in his father's vehicle at the El Cerrito Plaza BART station for hours, died at the Doctors
SF News We Felt It! There was a small 3.2 quake that occurred in the East Bay at 3:30 p.m. today, one kilometer Northeast of El Cerrito. We at SFist felt it in the Tendernob
SF News Today's East Bay Restaurant Robbery: Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant El Cerrito played host to the most recent restaurant takeover at around 9:45 p.m. last night. Two masked men entered Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant and stole cash from employees and patrons
SF News Sexual Assault Under El Cerrito BART Tracks Parolee Troyshawn Robinson, 20, was arrested for committing a sexual assault "on an El Cerrito pathway underneath the BART tracks," according to the Gate. Robinson allegedly walked up to a male and female
SF News <strike>Love</strike> Moth-Killing Spray Is In the Air This Summer The little-known proposal to wipe out the light brown apple moth, which if it became established could destroy the region's agricultural industry, has developed increasing opposition among some residents who fear for their
SF News UC Berkeley Music Professor Hit, Killed By BART Car Jorge Liderman, 50, music theory and composition professor at UC Berkeley, died on Sunday after being hit by a BART car at El Cerrito Plaza. At around 9:30 a.m., it seems,
SF News SFist Blotter The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing
SF News Singin' In the .01" of Rain It's a record-breaking day! It has never in the history of the world (or, rather, in the history of weather record-keeping) rained on a July 18th before in the Bay Area. The .01
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
Arts & Entertainment The SF Women's Film Festival's On Its Way! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group of movie screenings, running from April 11 through Sunday the 15th, and organized into intriguing categories like LGBTQ short film (honoring Guinevere Turner
Arts & Entertainment What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
SF News Your Commute SFist hasnt seen "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," but after Mondays East Bay BART commute trauma, the flick described as "the Godfather of subway hijacking movies" is definitely moving to the