SF News Reporter Becomes Story After Western Addition Smash-and-Grab Attack While doing a story on smash-and-grab robberies in the Western Addition, NBC 11 reporter Cheryl Hurd herself became a victim of a smash-and-grab theft. (Cue Morissette.) While waiting in her NBC 11 van,
SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Mayhem Edition Taking a cue from the East Bay's recent restaurant robberies, an armed gunman entered Valencia Street Italian eatery Beretta (formerly Last Supper Club/Radio Free Valencia) on Tuesday morning and robbed the joint.
SF News East Bay Restaurant Heists Continue at Scary, Steady Pace So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on
SF News Parking Meters to Rob Drivers of More Money Under the plan before the Municipal Transportation Agency, all tickets under $90 would go up $10 - including the ever-popular street-sweeping ticket, which snagged 664,361 people last year and would increase to
SF News Purse Snatchers Attack Asian Women Thieves calling themselves (or called by the media, we're not exactly sure) "the Rippers" are snatching purses from women walking across San Jose parking lots. The men, it seems, are targeting Asian women,
SF News SOMA Scene To Early Morning Beating Death The San Francisco Police Department are on the hunt for someone who robbed and then beat to death a 72-year-old man in SOMA at Mission and Mary Streets. The murder occurred at around
SF News "Pill Hill" Standoff Ends This morning's brief Oakland standoff between police and an old-fashion robbery suspect ended today with neither fuss nor muss. (That is to say, no bloodshed. Good for you, Oakland.) The robber surrendered outside
SF News Robbery Suspect Standoff In "Pill Hill" A standoff is underway right now in Oakland. The fuzz claims that a robbery suspect is holed up inside studio apartment, near 32nd and Telegraph Avenue. Due to the nail-biting action, police have
misc Dennis Kucinich's Brother Found Dead Perry Kucinich, the brother of Democratic Prez candidate Dennis Kucinich, has been found dead according CBS 5. His other brother, Larry, found 52-year-old Perry at his Cleveland home at around 9 a.m.
SF News Congrats, Now Your Lives Are Over, Too! Convictions In Iko's Murder. Two brothers and a friend (ages 16, 15, and 13) were convicted in juvenile court today of first-degree murder. While neither of the three rapscallions was the actual shooter, they were found guilty
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Watch out, SF. Last night's armed robbery spree shakes up, shakes down residents. [SF Crime, SFGate] -- Ding, ding: bike rally at City Hall. [Left in SF] -- Your Contemporary Jewish Museum.
SF News Some Have Snuffaluffagus; Other Have Rapists Last November's harrowing story about a Glen Park woman being raped twice by the same man, it seems, was just that: a story. It turns out that she fabricated the tale of first
SF News Pizza Delivery Gone Wrong What makes the story even sadder is that the deliveryman was a 38-year-old immigrant named Thanh Thach who became a U.S. citizen last September and leaves two children. He was working two
SF News SFist Blotter (Barry Bonds is on SFGate's Crime page. Ha!) -- A 19-year-old woman was shot -- "in the back today...at 5:39 p.m." Huh?-- during an attempted street robbery in SF's
SF News SFist Blotter Between the oil spill and Barry being his Bonds self, crime has been a wee bit sloooow over the past few days -- well, at least reports of foolish mischief seem sluggish. --
SF News Guy Robs Bank, Carjacks, Kidnaps, Gets Cuffed Within a 10-minute span, some poor sap ruined his life. According to San Francisco Crime (via Bay City News), at 9:05 a.m. this morning, Sacto resident David Bryant, 51, jumped over
SF News SFist Blotter Why, we've been so preoccupied with murder right down the street from SFist, we forgot that the rest of the Bay Area is also littered with shootings and bloody tomfoolery. Forgive us, won't
SF News Arrests Made in the Halloween Slaying of Teen Rachael Ray Admirer Although we're not sure at this point whether or not Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's assailant is in custody, according to CBS 5, "at least three boys were taken into custody Tuesday morning after police
SF News SFist Blotter Happy day after, All Hallow's Eve. Although the Castro was tame, others parts of the Bay Area, it seems, were not. Last night at Washington Park in Alameda, a 15-year-old girl was shot
SF News The Warriors: 2007-2008 Season Preview- Part One What a difference a year makes. Come opening night of 2006, most of Warrior Nation was just hoping that the newly unretired and rehired Don Nelson could somehow resuscitate the franchise from its
SF News SFPD/McDonald's Bystander/Discharge SNAFU This morning a little before 1:30 a.m., the fuzz tried to take down a couple of robbery suspects at an Ingleside McDonald's (mmm -- sorry, we had a couple of beers
SF News Tenderloin Robbery-Shooting Arrests "Help me. I've been shot," cried a Tenderloin hotel desk clerk who received life-threatening injuries after getting shot before 2:30 a.m. this morning. James Talley, 20, and London Shaw, 19, of
SF News SFist Blotter Oh No, Chris Kavanaugh! Berkeley's own Ed Jew, a Green Party member of the Berkeley rent board who was actually living (and litigating with his landlord) in Oakland, pled not guilty to three
SF News A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Ross Mirkarimi Sandwich Ross Mirkarimi, the supervisor for the Western Addition/Lower Haight's District 5, was out for a jog this morning around 9:45 a.m. (guess Ross doesn't get into the office early) when
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy If I'm not mistaken, 1 dog (must be muzzled) on a vehicle at a time. I like suckafree's idea of the kiosk. Maybe not at every stop, but every so often or at
