SF News FBI Once Again Rates The Safest And Most Dangerous Cities In The Bay Area Not shockingly, the safest city in the Bay Area is also the richest. And once again Oakland is rated the most dangerous, according to the FBI's annual "Crime in the United States" report,
SF News The East Bay Races: Oakland Gets A New Mayor, Chevron's Candidate Fails In Richmond, and More And, wrapping up today's election coverage, I bring you news from across the Bay, where Oakland ousted its incumbent mayor, Richmond elected a progressive candidate despite Chevron's million-dollar campaign against him, and a
SF News Four Races To Watch In Today's Election, Besides San Francisco's You may have heard some of the figures, but despite this being a mid-term election, this has, for various reasons, become the most expensive mid-term election in American history. And even though people
SF News Beware Of Crazed Blackbird That Attacks All Passing Humans Near Stow Lake Over in Golden Gate Park, there is a rogue blackbird which, maybe under the pretenses of protecting a nest or maybe because it's just insanely aggressive, has made a habit of pouncing and
SF News If You're Not Reading The Richmond Standard, Perhaps You Should Start A curious thing came across my feed last week. It turns out that former Examiner crime reporter Mike Aldax, whose saucy use of words like "thug" and "goon" always livened up my morning
SF News Richmond Police Chief Shames Sex Workers With Tweet [Update] Today in inappropriate tweets, sassy Richmond police chief, Chris Magnus, tweeted—then later deleted—a comedic bit that landed with a thud. Luckily, SFist grabbed it before it went away. Ahem: "4 Johns
SF News Customers Of Local Sex Workers Might Have Their Photos Tweeted Richmond, California's 23rd Street and Ohio Avenue are both reportedly hotbeds of prostitution, and the local police department's so frustrated that they're going to do the same thing many of us do when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Vess Cola Sign Revealed On Side Of Fire Damaged Building Richmond Blog and David Gallagher bring your attention to an old Vess Cola sign revealed on the side of a building damaged in a fire at Clement and 12th Avenue. Richmond Blog reports:
SF News Bay Area Gang Members Are Boasting About Homicides On Instagram Law enforcement in Richmond, Calif. have found a new way to keep a tab on gang violence happening in their city: on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Like everyone else, it seems gang members
SF News Ringleader In 2008 Gang Rape Of Lesbian Woman Convicted Of 15 Felonies Humberto Salvador, the alleged Sureño member and ringleader who orchestrated the harrowing 2008 gang rape of a lesbian woman in Richmond, California was convicted yesterday of 15 felonies related to the incident. According
SF News Three Arrested For Raping Two Teenage Girls In East Bay Park More horrific news from the city of Richmond. This week three teenage boys — one 15 and two 17 — were arrested for allegedly raping two teenage girls at an East Bay Park. The attacks
SF News Man Killed Crossing I-80 In Richmond A 32-year-old man was struck multiple times and killed while trying to cross Interstate 80 in Richmond early this morning. His car had collided with the center median and he was attempted to
SF News Google Satellite Image Captures 14-Year-Old Boy's Homicide Scene [Update] In an example of Google's all-seeing eye unintentionally capturing an unsettling moment in time: Richmond, California father Jose Barrera claims a satellite image that appears in Google Maps shows the body of his
SF News Two Women Terrorized During Road Rage Shooting, Car Chase Two women were terrorized Wednesday night by someone in a white pickup truck who shot at them and then possibly chased them all the way from I-880 in San Leandro to I-80 in
SF News Richmond, California Just Gave Wall Street A Big Middle Finger This morning in Richmond, California the city council of the small Bay Area city voted 4-3 to follow through with an unprecedented plan that will rescue local homeowners from a plague of underwater
SF News Two Richmond High School Gang Rapists Sentenced 22-year-old Jose Montano and 20-year-old Marcelles Peter, two of the rapists found guilty of brutally assaulting a 16-year-old girl on the Richmond High School campus in 2009 were sentenced Thursday in a Contra
SF News 38 Geary Catches Fire Oh dear. A 38 Geary line in the Outer Richmond caught fire this morning. The minor blaze erupted at around 6:45 a.m. in the engine of as the bus was parked
SF News Richmond High School Gang Rape Defendants Found Guilty The verdicts have been delivered in the cases of two of the men accused in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl on the Richmond High School campus in 2009. After a six-week
SF News Verdict Reached By One Of Two Juries In Dual Richmond High School Rape Trials Two parallel juries who heard arguments simultaneously in a dual trial of two of the accused rapists in the brutal 2009 rape of a young woman at Richmond High School were in deliberations
SF News Complaints Fly Over Gay Pride Flags in Richmond, Calistoga The rainbow flag is flying at Richmond City Hall for the first time ever, this being 2013 and Pride month and gay marriage being front and center at the Supreme Court and all.
SF News Trial Begins In Richmond High School Gang Rape Nearly four years after a 16-year-old girl was beaten, robbed and raped for over two hours outside of her Richmond High School homecoming dance, a rare dual trial will begin today for two
SF News City Of Richmond: 1-Year-Old Takes Bullet To The Neck A 1-year-old boy was whisked to Children's Hospital Oakland after taking a bullet fragment to the neck. The incident, innocently enough, happened while he was being fed by his grandparents inside an apartment
SF News Man Fatally Shot At Richmond BART Station Late Thursday afternoon, an unidentified manin his 30s was shot and killed just outside the Richmond BART station. The incident occurred at the stairs near the 19th Street and MacDonald Avenue entrance. He
SF News Richmond District Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations Several homes have been ordered to evacuate after a gas leak occurred at 25th Avenue and Geary in San Francisco. Aa tear was punctured in a 2-inch gas main was reported a little
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Woody Shot of Woody Allen filming in the Inner Richmond by Justin Beck.