SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News Who's Defending Newsom Now! As promised -- when we find people defending Newsom, we diligently write 'em up in the column we call.... Who's Defending Newsom Now! Who's swinging for the mayor? --The mayor himself!: Before heading
SF News Bikes on Octavia As a result, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is not happy. Not happy at all. They are demanding something to be done about that particular intersection at Octavia and Market Street and to
SF News Cold Case: San Francisco Two people were arrested this morning in San Francisco, and others were arrested in Los Angeles, Florida, and New York. Two more are already in prison and a ninth is wanted but has
SF News Crack Kills So here's what we know. A man was pulled over by the cops for not having a license plate. That's where they discovered the bag. The cops say they brought him out of
SF News Hub This For those who've taken MUNI all the way down, a lot of buses (the 10, 30, 47 and 49) kind of end up there as it's a bus hub. It's one of those
misc SFist Needs Your Help Friend of SFist, Julie, sent us an e-mail this morning about yet another assault, this time in the Marina. Believe it or not, the cops weren't that much of a help in this
SF News I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated
SF News Today in Bakers Dozen First the news: it's sounding like the police are trying to send the case up to the DA and the DA is pushing it back to the police. Which means nothing is happening
SF News The Warriors: Signs of Life You can exhale Warriors fans, there is hope. The universe works in mysterious ways, and yesterday, it worked for the Warriors. Just when the flagging team needed it, on a day when they
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News Let's Catch Up on Choirgate Anyways, not much has gone on in the past few days but there have been a few developments. First up is that police investigators flew down to LA over the weekend to finally
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Other Things That Happened Today Sorry, we've become so obsessed with the upcoming Fake Question Time and those Yalie a capella singers that got beaten up that we totally didn't cover any of the other city news from
SF News SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition) So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters
SF News The Yale Choir Story, Again First up, the cops. After the fracas, they detained four of the assailants but let them go. As of right now, nobody has been arrested as police are saying they're still collecting evidence.
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
Arts & Entertainment The Funeral Procession SFist Jim Herd just got back from taking a couple of photos of the procession and funeral of slain police officer Bryan Tuvera. SFGate also has great photos of the funeral. Below is
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
SF News Did You Feel That? At around 10:50 p.m. tonight, there was a second earthquake almost in the exact same spot on the Hayward Fault (3 miles ESE of Berkeley) and at almost the same intensity
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
SF News Gavin Vetoes Foot Patrol Legislation Part II Gavin's main bone of contention is that he thinks the police chiefs should get discretion to do what they want to do. The Board of Supes main bone of contention is they've had