SF News Two Survivors Found Mounted on Plane Wreckage in the Bay This morning at around 11:30 a.m., two people were seen standing on top of a single-engine A35 plane that crashed into SF Bay. The plane went down near (and, thankfully, not
SF News SFist Blotter The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
Arts & Entertainment Bluepulse CEO Ben Keighran Brings Us Out Of The Stone Age Bluepulse, which recently acquired $6 million in funding, is all about mobility: it's a phone-based social network of more than 2 million people in 150 countries. It's accessed via software on your phone
SF News Have You Seen This Fugitive Fundraiser? Fundraiser, five-head sufferer, and possible one-time kidnapping victim Norman Hsu skipped his San Mateo County Superior Court appearance this morning and is now the lam! He is wanted for a 15-year-old felony warrant
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Sixth Street did not explode. [Chron] -- Neither did Hayward. [CBS5] -- Friday's party for Barry, Bonds/Newsom connection. [GNS] -- Pigeon crap on bridges falling down, falling down, falling down... [Chron]
SF News Your Second SFist Blotter Of The Day First up, remember May Zhou, the Stanford graduate student who was found dead in her car trunk in Santa Rosa? Well, her father remains convinced it was not a suicide, and cites a
SF News SFist Blotter [sorry we're late today!] Close call! A truck driver careened off the San Mateo Bridge yesterday afternoon, but managed to miss both the bay and a shed full of explosive material right by
SF News SFPD Rookie Shoots, Doesn't Score In a bit of tragic news: SFPD officer, James Gustafson, 23, accidentally/fatally shot himself this past Saturday morning while partying it up with friends in his San Mateo apartment. Although his death
Arts & Entertainment Alas: Merv Griffin Dies San Mateo boy made good -- very good -- Merv Griffin died today at age 82, via prostate cancer. After a stint as a singer and Broadway baby, rumored homosexual Mervyn Edward "Merv"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheap, Loud, And Drug-Laden: Taqueria's Owner And Chef Busted There aren't a lot of reviews out there for Lol Tun Restaurant, on Folsom between 19th & 20th streets. The folks participating on Yelp generally say the food is good and cheap, but
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Will Harper has it that Chris Daly might run for mayor now that Gonzalez is out. Whoa, a real contender! Interesting. [The Snitch (SF Weekly)] -- Proposed designs for the new Transbay
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Jackson West interviews Matt Stroud, SF Weekly's former web editor, just before he leaves SF. [Future Fresser] -- Oakland Post's editor, Chauncey Bailey, shot and killed in downtown Oakland. [Chron, Examiner, Oakland
SF News SFist Blotter Campus tree residency news! At Cal, it turns out those people living in the trees to protest the UC's plan to cut them down themselves did significant damage to the trees in question
SF News Day Around The Bay --Picture of a woman collecting bottles from people in the iPhone line by reader zombie. Thanks for sending them in, zombie! [ZombieTime.] --Four murders in San Francisco this weekend, 10 murders throughout the
SF News SFist Blotter Remember the Berkeley journalism student that got in the car accident that killed author David Halberstam? The San Mateo County DA's charging him with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter (the same charge for which the
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Early Bird What's Ed Jew doing today, now that he's been excused from jury duty? This has got to be the first time anyone's been to get San Francisco jury duty, ever. --The Chron's got
SF News Your Commute: Worst Bay Area Traffic The envelope, please! Here's your list of the 10 worst commutes in the Bay Area, compiled by the Metropolitan Transit Commission. 1. I-80 W to the Bay Bridge, in the a.m. 2.
Arts & Entertainment Local Realtor Weighs In On Wilting Newspaper Biz A realtor called Chris Iverson was commenting on the "death of the newspaper industry" over at the 3 Oceans real estate blog. You may think "who the hell is this guy" to comment
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Permits --So you know what that $40,000 would've bought the Quicklys? A letter from Ed Jew to the Planning Commission to get a business permit, the Examiner says. The Quicklys' rival bubble tea
misc Teachers In E. Palo Alto School Dist. Going To Be Slightly Less Underpaid Ahh, teaching. That difficult, underpaid profession. We're totally behind those who are bringing future generations up to speed with the world being better compensated. Unfortunately, the salary typically given to this profession is
SF News Now That's What We Call an "Undercover Mission" The cop in question is San Mateo County Sheriff Greg Munks. Munks and Undersheriff Carlos Bolanos were both caught up in a police sweep of a bunch of brothels right outside of Vegas.
SF News I Fought the Law and I Won Here comes the numbers: -San Francisco sent 436 people to prison in 2005, the same number as Sonoma County which has 300,000 fewer people. It is also 300 fewer than were sent
SF News Bad Day to Be Commuting While we were stuck in some really bad traffic this morning, we turned on the radio to get a traffic report and heard that we weren't the only ones having a rough commute.
