SF News Teacher Busted for Filming Students In Bathroom Mills High School English teacher David Lista, 35, of Belmont has admitted to filming underage girls using the bathroom at the high school where he taught. it seems he was arrested yesterday afternoon
SF News Sheriff's Deputy In Fatal Bicyclist Crash, Asleep at the Wheel? Alas, it was not a good weekend for cyclists of the Bay Area. The sheriff's deputy that accidentally crashed into three cyclists in Cupertinio over the weekend -- a collision that killed Olympic
SF News Layoffs II: San Jose Mercury News In more pink slip sadness today, (owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group) eliminated 50 jobs. Fifteen newsroom employees and 19 employees from "other parts of the paper" were let go today. Citing a loss
SF News Man Loses Arms In San Jose Airport Accident Billion-dollar expansion work at Mineta San Jose International Airport came to a halt this morning after a 28-year-old construction worker's arms were severed below his elbows in an accident. Yikes. According to NBC
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Warriors 120 Washington Wizards 117- Playing at home? Playing a team that's tired, losing, and banged up? Easy peazy, right? But not for your Golden State Warriors who seem to be unable to
misc Dennis Herrera vs. Mark Garagos, Rounds 2 & 3 It's not, apparently. Witness this letter signed by Mark Geragos just yesterday. It goes on and on. (And there's more here in the Geragos interview with the San Jose Mercury News) We knew
Arts & Entertainment Vandalism Report Card: Los Gatos Church We're not one to laugh at church vandalism. Ever. But the following story in today's Mercury News is goddamn hilarious. And hilariously bad. Los Gatos police believe the suspects who scrawled swastikas and
misc Caltrain Delay Three weeks ago, a Caltrain conductor told the San Jose Mercury News that "Trains stay on tracks and if you stay off the tracks, it's very easy not to get hit by a
SF News Palo Alto Teen Rapist Was Just Cranky, Okay? Todd David Burpee, the man who kidnapped and raped a Palo Alto teen last week, just busted out a heavy confession detailing the hour-plus moments he spent with his victim. It seems that
SF News Sany San Slaying Suspect Commits Suicide Luis Alvarado, 18 -- one of the two men charged with kidnapping, raping, and stabbing to death Sany San -- committed suicide in his jail cell using a bedsheet today. San, a Cambodian
Arts & Entertainment De-Union-ification At The Tribune Well, first the MediaNews conglomerate moves the Oakland Tribune from its iconic downtown Oakland tower (at left) and then they take away recognition of the Tribune's Newspaper Guild labor union. MediaNews claims they're
Arts & Entertainment SFFW Doesn't Want Bloggers' Coverage Beloved Jennine from The Coveted writes here about how this year’s San Francisco Fashion Week denied her and other bloggers precious invitations to cover the event or (worse) any of its VIP,
Arts & Entertainment Monopoly This whole thing started when the San Jose Mercury put itself up for sale, or it's overlords Knight Ridder did. In swept MediaNews, who bought it from McClatchy Newspapers who owned the Mercury
SF News It's Monday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is? According to the complaints, various things have fallen from the top of the stadium onto whole section of stands and the parking lot. Luckily, nobody was there at the time but the fact
misc Fantasy Football: Not Just For Losers Anymore Or so says a professor out there who developed a curriculum on teaching fantasy football to students as a way of learning math. The curriculum was then picked up by a math teacher
misc A Very Late Day Around the Bay Last night's "Battlestar Galactica" was....awesome. Just awesome. -YMCA plan to cut down trees for their Camp Jones Gulch camp near La Honda not going down well with people who live near there.
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
Arts & Entertainment Save The Mercury News Last week, San Jose newspaper publishing company Knight-Ridder was purchased by another company, McClatchy. McClatchy then decided it didn't want to keep publishing the hometown newspaper of the company it had just purchased,
Arts & Entertainment Oh Fun, Tsunami Jokes The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that local hip-hop station Wild 94.9's hired a new radio producer for their morning show, Rick Delgado. Who's Delgado? Well, he's the guy who produced
SF News A Bump in the Road "" by the Doobie Brothers played in the background as the governor confidently strode into a residential San Jose neighborhood to pave a pothole and attempt to get some positive press for his plans
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Beat L.A.! When the Giants signed Benitez, the thinking was that a closer stabilizes things in the bullpen. Everyone knows their roles and so everyone can concentrate on doing what they need to do-- bullpen
SF News Craigslist -- Newspaper Killer We’ve often thought of Craiglist as being many things- place to buy furniture, place to look for apartments, and a place to try and find casual sex, but there’s one thing
SF News Do You Know The Way to the New San Jose City Hall? San Francisco's not the only Bay Area city rife with local political scandal! San Jose has been roiled for the last month about allegations that city officials worked a secret deal with local
SF News Big Brother Will Let You Know That He's Watching You SFist is intrigued by SB 1841, which was passed yesterday by the California State Assembly with a vote of 41-29. This bill would require employers to inform employees if job site e-mail and
