SF News Seriously Injured Man Discovered Outside SF General A man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds was found just steps from San Francisco General Hospital on Thursday night, and now police are trying to figure out where the shooting took place. According
SF News One Dead After Double Shooting In SF Public Housing Project A double shooting in one of San Francisco's public housing projects claimed the life of one man and has left another hospitalized, a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson says. At 9:33 Friday
SF News Loud Noise At SF General Freaks UCSF's Twitter Account Out An erroneous report of gunfire at SF General sent an estimated 100 cops to rushing the hospital, in an panic that a spokesperson has described as "a false alarm in the Internet age.
SF News Update In the Case Of Woman Who Went Missing At S.F. General And Was Found Dead There have been some new revelations in the tragic case of Lynne Spalding, the 57-year-old woman who was found dead in a stairwell at S.F. General after going missing for over two
SF News SF General Wants LA Dodgers To Pay Up San Francisco General wants the Los Angels Dodgers to reimburse the hospital $1.2 million for "extensive trauma care" given to Giants fan Bryan Stow. If you recall, Stow was brutally beaten by
SF News SFist Blotter What a care- and crime-free life SF is living right now,right? And we don't believe any of it. According to local media outlets, SF is safe and sound. But according to a
SF News Mission Murder Misses Media Radar While Oakland received tons of press over the weekend for its recent spate of murder, this Mission murder, which happened near 25th and South Van Ness (be careful, Phone Booth patrons!), went all
SF News SFist Blotter Well, we thought your usual SF criminals were getting all Christmas-y into the spirit of the holiday season what with so little crime reported this past week. the festive spirit is not as
SF News Still a Hella (Ella Ella) Good Fight Over a Helipad SF General UCSF has been holding several community meetings over the issue and came up with several proposals to alleviate concern. The proposals include changing the flight plan so the helicopters spend more
SF News SFist Blotter ...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over
Arts & Entertainment Free Movies In Union Square? Inconceivable! Who doesn't love free movies? Comcast and cable channel IFC are sponsoring three nights of free movies starting today through Thursday in Union Square, to celebrate the awesomeness of indie film. Plus: free!
SF News San Francisco Homicide Rates Up 20% This Year It's time for the San Francisco crime mid-year report card, and we're not doing so great -- homicide rates are up 20% from last year. The SFPD reports that drug-related homicides are up
SF News A Murder And A Fire There was also a one-alarm fire by Fifth Street and Market around 6:00 a.m. One person was hospitalized. Picture of the crime scene in the Mission from KTVU.
SF News A Weird Octavia Hit-And-Run Last night, around 11 p.m., a car coming off the freeway making the now-standard illegal right turn onto the Octavia Street freeway ramp hit a biker. [edit per CBS 5 story.] Alas,
SF News Busy 24 Hours At SF General At around 5:40 p.m. yesterday, there was a stabbing at Capp and 17th -- a guy was stabbed with an ice pick after getting out of a car. The stabber then
SF News SFist Blotter Hey kid. An SFist editor would like to have some words with you. A 16-year-old from Belmont was arrested for planting those bombs around SF General yesterday. He was caught with another explosive
Arts & Entertainment Contest! Free Passes To the SwapSF Clothing Swap! SwapSF is a fun freecycling group where people can embrace new things without spending a lot of money to get them -- so bring your gently-used clothes to the Phritzery from 12-3 p.
SF News Shootings in SoMa The first one occurred early this morning at Townsend and Seventh streets when police saw a man acting suspiciously and talking to people in a jeep. When the police went to investigate, they
SF News A Hella Good Fight Over a Helipad First the details. In 2003, the San Francisco’s Health Commission approved a plan to build a helipad on SF General. The target date for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was 2005. It
misc Now Tell Us Something We Don't Know First, there's a new study out saying that, yes, marijuana does help ease pain. It is also pretty good for "Lost" and listening to Tool but we don't think the study measured that.
misc Norman Yee On The Mend Turns out Norman Yee is an avid salsa dancer, and was crossing Bryant and 4th that Tuesday with the light in his favor to get to a local club (maybe the Glas Kat?
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 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 Ohmeed Popal In Court Ohmeed Popal, the man who ran down 18 pedestrians last week, appeared in court today, dressed in the prison jumpsuit and looking "bewildered" at the proceedings. Popal first pled not guilty to the
SF News Driver Hitting Pedestrians The police caught a driver in a black Honda SUV in Laurel Heights, at Laurel and California Streets, where he'd hit two people (one who died). A child was also struck and suffered
