SF News Nathan Burris, Convicted Murderer Who Dared the Jury to Give Him the Death Penalty, Given Death Penalty Nathan Burris, the 49-year-old man who killed his longtime girlfriend and a man who was courting her at the Richmond Bridge toll plaza in August 2009, has been sentenced to death.
SF News Oakland Tries Operation Ceasefire Once Again Gun violence in Oakland is on the uptick again. The homicide count in the city stands at 102 and is on track to be the highest in five years, unless something changes in
SF News Trans Woman Murdered In Oakland In Apparent Hate Crime A transgender woman was shot and killed while sitting in her car in downtown Oakland last weekend, and it's taken a few days for local media outlets to catch up to
SF News Fatal Stabbing In Outer Mission Last Night A 25-year-old man who has not been identified was found stabbed on Regent Street near Alemany Boulevard last night around 9 p.m. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter at S.
SF News San Jose Machete-Murder Suspect Appears in Court; Victim Was Mother Of Same-Sex Partner View more videos at: http://nbcbayarea.com. There are now some more details in that awful case we mentioned earlier this week, in which 40-year-old Santa Clara nurse Sagal Sadiq allegedly
SF News East Bay Foundation Gives Christmas Gifts To Murder Victims' Children Christmas came early for a group of 48 families touched by violence in Oakland. An organization called the Nemo Foundation, along with a battered women’s program, A Safe Place, threw a special
SF News 'Betty Boop' Murder Victim Exhumed For DNA Testing A woman known only to police as Jane Doe No. 89-3, found dead almost 23 years ago in Pacifica and never identified, was exhumed yesterday from her anonymous grave in Colma so
SF News Two Bodies Found In Suspicious Fire In Oakland The bodies of two as-yet-unidentified victims were found dead Saturday night/early Sunday on the 3100 block of Coolidge Avenue in Oakland, in burning second-floor apartment above an acupuncture clinic.
SF News Children in Fairfield Witness Parents' Murder-Suicide In Fairfield last night, police responded to a reports of a shooting just before 7 p.m. to find two victims, a 39-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, dead
SF News SFist Blotter: Shootings in the Mission, Counterfeit Money on Fillmore Mission / Multiple Shootings: The Monday night shooting we mentioned yesterday outside Hog & Rocks critically wounded 22-year-old Gaspar Puch-tzek, a line cook at the restaurant. The shooter is suspected to
SF News Was Oakland 3-Year-Old Carlos Nava Killed Because of the State's Penchant for Plea Bargaining? You may have heard that California's prisons are quite crowded. Well, now some folks are sounding alarm bells around last week's slaying of Carlos Nava, the three-year-old
SF News Missing Nursing Student In Hayward Now Presumed Dead We haven't been following the case of missing nursing student Michelle Le -- who disappeared May 27 from Kaiser Hospital in Hayward -- too closely, perhaps optimistic that she'd turn up.
SF News Oakland Block Party/Sideshow Leaves Two Dead A block party in East Oakland Sunday night, which turned into a sideshow with cars doing donuts, etc., turned deadly when an unknown assailant (or multiple assailants) began shooting into the crowd, critically
SF News Suspected Serial Killer Nabbed, Held in Marin for CA Murders, and Possibly Connected to Alphabet Murders in NY Joseph Naso, age 77, was arrested earlier this week for a probation violation in South Lake Tahoe and transferred to Marin County Jail where he's suspected in the killings of four
SF News Gary Scott Holland Was Probably Violating His Parole While Staying at North Beach Residence Hotel Accused killer Gary Scott Holland, who plead not guilty Friday to the brutal murder of Kathleen Horan in her Russian Hill apartment, had been calling the Castro Hotel on Vallejo Street home since
SF News 41-Year-Old Cold Case Solved Near Monterey A Texas man has been arrested in connection with the 1969 murder of Chris Lopes, a case which remained unsolved until now. The death of the 19-year-old basketball star and Monterey
SF News Fairfield Woman Kills Twin Girls, Botches Suicide A 28-year-old Fairfield woman stabbed her twin three-year-old girls to death last night and then attempted both to kill herself and set fire to her apartment. Firefighters discovered the
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Bayview Murder; Drama Erupts at Courthouse After Arraignment SFist's favorite crime reporter Mike Aldax over at the Examiner brings us an update today on the case of last month's home invasion and slaying of Dennis Wayne Dixon.
SF News Hillsborough Murder Suspect to Get Psychiatric Evaluation You may recall the June murder that occurred in deliriously wealthy peninsula enclave of Hillsborough, the first homocide to occur there in six years. Attorneys for the defense of accused murderer Bradley Kleiman,
SF News Girlfriend of Murder Suspect Efren Valdemoro Spoke to Boss During Car Chase The girlfriend of now deceased suspected killer Efren Valdemoro spoke to her boss at the nail salon where she worked, on her cell phone, from the car she was in with Valdemoro during
SF News Police Discover Two Dead Women, Bomb Materials in Vallejo Home It's been a bizarre and bloody few days in the North and East Bays, with five people dead and one still missing in a violent string of events culminating in a
SF News SFist Blotter: Sad and Angry Edition North Oakland / Murder: A woman jealous that her crack-addicted, homeless boyfriend was seeing another woman stabbed him in the neck on August 19, while the two sat in a parked car at
SF News Crime Lab Clusterfu*k Results In Noe Valley Murderer Rampage Via Noe Valley SF and the Chron we hear tell of the case of the unsolved murder Charles McAleer-Bonilla outside his home at 28th and Sanchez on April 8, which now appears
SF News Melissa Huckaby to Be Sentenced This Morning Melissa Huckaby, the 29-year-old Tracy woman who you may recall kidnapped and murdered that 8-year-old girl last year, will appear in court this a.m. and is expected to
SF News Crime Declined Overall in '09, Despite Crap Economy Bucking conventional wisdom about how crime rises as incomes fall and unemployment rises, the FBI's latest report on nationwide crime statistics for 2009 shows an overall decline in both violent and
