SF News 'I Thought It Would Be Pretty Safe,' Says Federal Ranger Whose Gun Was Stolen And Used In Steinle Killing In testimony on Day Four of the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate for the July 2015 murder of Kate Steinle, Bureau of Land Management Ranger John Woychowski described how he had secured
SF News If You Got Summoned For Jury Duty In SF This Week, It's Probably For The Kate Steinle Case With jury selection in one of San Francisco's highest-profile slayings set to begin, at least a thousand San Franciscans have been summoned for jury duty in an effort to find twelve people with
SF News As Jury Selection Is About To Begin In Kate Steinle Murder Trial, Suspect Changes His Name The accused man in the Kate Steinle shooting trial, which will begin jury selection on August 21, has until now been going by the name Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. This, it turns out, is
SF News Trial Of Man Accused Of Killing Kate Steinle Begins Friday At long last, the Kate Steinle murder trial begins tomorrow, Friday. Here's a quick refresher: 32-year-old Kathryn "Kate" Steinle of San Francisco was shot and killed on July 1, 2016 while strolling along
SF News Not Guilty Plea For Pier 14 Shooter, As Feds Scramble To Figure Out How He Got Their Gun The sad and bizarre case of the random shooting of a San Francisco woman by a transient Mexican man in the US without documentation has taken an even stranger twist, at the news
SF News Rebels Wanted: SF Public Defender's Office Now Seeking Trial Lawyers Are you a lawyer who's looking for a job? When you watch Law and Order, do you find yourself siding against Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy? Do you have a burning desire
SF News Matt Gonzalez Is Suing The City That Pays Him Matt Gonzalez, the former Board of Supervisors President and current chief attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, has been doing some moonlighting for a client with a $16 million lawsuit out
SF News Former VP Candidate Matt Gonzalez Appointed Chief Attorney Matt Gonzalez, former Board of Supervisors president, was appointed to Chief Attorney of the San Francisco Public Defender's office today. Gonzalez's position is effective immediately. "We wanted a top trial lawyer who understands
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day In response to some new collages that Matt Gonzalez posted on Facebook, Stephen Robert Lee says "Vibrant and beautiful, Matt. I also loved the analysis of the legal organization and the belief system
SF News Love Affair Between SF and Ralph Nader Over? The votes are in and Will Harper reports that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader received a dismal "4,000 votes in the city this year for his latest presidential experiment," while just eight
SF News Election 2008 Insanity Dear those of you who write addendums on posters, signs, and sticker: We love you. signed, the People's Republic of Earth PS, this was snapped up by crow soup (Flickr), who writes "I
SF News Matt Gonzalez Chats About Barack Obama The backlash has started. A few are livid over Barack Obama's surreptitious statements about the poor, armed, and God-fearing that he made over at the Getty manse; others are going into hysterics over
SF News Matt Gonzalez Answers Your Questions Live Today Just a quick FYI: vice presidential eye candy Matt Gonzalez will be taking calls live today on with Angie Coiro. You can find them chatting away over at 960 AM, from 3 p.
SF News Matt Gonzalez for VP, Says Nader Whenever a presidential candidate announces his VP choice this early in the game, it's either to try to help him win a state, or to strengthen a weakness. Take, for example, Bill Clinton
misc Crazy Boyfriend Has Headaches Making that splitting headache even worse, Farber was also formally presented with the paperwork for the second restraining order that Rahaim filed against him after Rahaim discovered the fire. (Farber violated the first
misc Day Around the Bay -- Those rectangular glassy lofts on Folsom and Fourth Streets are, in fact, award-winning rectangular glassy lofts. Also, love the windows. [Curbed] -- What to do in SF when it pours. [Gridskipper] --
SF News Gavin For Hillary, In Iowa Let's hope no oil tankers crash into the Bay Bridge this week -- Gavin's out of town again, this time bundled up for snow as he campaigns for Hillary Clinton in Iowa. Not
SF News Robin Wright Penn In San Anselmo We always love it when Drew Altizer sends over his latest A-list pictures for us to peruse! Here's a memento of Drew's trip up to the North Bay last week, to San Anselmo
SF News All I Need are Some Tasty Waves, a Cool Buzz, Matt Gonzalez, and I'm Fine According to the story, Matt really wasn't sure if his bud Sean was making a joke or not (although we've yet to hear Sean Penn make a joke and can't be sure he
SF News The Latest Progressive Hope Man, this dull-as-dishwater mayoral "race" is getting us in the blogging doldrums. Someone do something funny, quick! Meanwhile, we'll pass along the news of the latest progressive hope for the Newsom mayoral steamroller
SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Rykarda Parasol: Dreamy rock crooner (and fellow beverage taste-tester) performs tonight along with the Dilettantes and Brad Brooks. Show starts at 9 p.m. at Cafe Du Nord, 2174 Market; $10. --
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Bill Walsh dies. [Chron, Examiner, KGO] -- Tom Snyder dies. [Chron] -- Matt Gonzalez's chance at becoming SF Mayor dies. [Chron, KGO] -- Dog pimps FlexPetz to open SF brothel. (In related