SF News Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's Suspended Driver's License Nightmare Is Over, But Big Questions Remain According to a statement from the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, the Ross-Mirkarimi's-suspended-driver's-license saga has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper (and a call to California's Department of Motor Vehicles). Still,
SF News Outside Lands 2015 Arrests, Citations, And Crimes By The Numbers Nearly everyone had a great time at Outside Lands, right? Especially this guy. But some folks had a little too much fun (or tried to) and the numerous San Francisco Police Department officers
SF News Two Critically Injured In 24th Street Drive-By Shooting Two men are fighting for their lives after a shooting just steps from the 24th Street/Mission BART station Monday night. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Michael Andraychak, at 10:
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Not Guilty Plea For 43-Year-Old SF Woman Accused Of Killing Teenaged Lover The 43-year-old woman accused of shooting and killing an 18-year-old student at Balboa High School cohabited with the youth prior to the slaying, her attorney says. As previously reported, 43-year-old Silvia Lorena Montoya
SF News SFPD Investigates 'Suspicious' Mission District Death After a young woman died near San Francisco General Hospital, police say they are investigating her death as "suspicious." Police say that the body of 23-year-old San Francisco resident Melanie Oliveri was found
SF News With Thursday Death, SF Is On Track For Its Highest Homicide Rate In Years A man found dead in a Tenderloin residence appears to be a victim of San Francisco's 30th recorded homicide for 2015, putting the city on track to hit its highest number of annual
SF News Report: 42-Year-Old Woman Might Have Been Dating SF Teen She Allegedly Killed A 42-year-old woman arrested in the shooting death of a San Francisco teenager might have been dating the high-schooler, according to a local newspaper's report. According to a press release sent by San
SF News Wednesday Morning High-Speed Chase Sends SFPD Across SF A man and two women are in custody Wednesday following a high-speed chase that sent San Francisco Police Department officers through Hayes Valley, Russian Hill, the Tenderloin and the Mission. It all started
SF News SF's 29th Homicide For 2015: Western Addition Shooting Kills Woman, Injures Others Just days after planning began for a park spanning Buchanan Street between Grove and Eddy Streets to "help redefine the neighborhood’s identity," tragedy has befallen the site: on Saturday night, a 19-year-old
SF News Video: San Francisco Airbnb-er Breaks Into Locked Room, Steals $35,000 Of Host's Stuff [Updated] When an Outer Sunset woman decided to rent her home out via Airbnb, she was likely hoping to make an extra couple hundred bucks. Instead, over $35,000 of her possessions were stolen,
SF News 24-Year-Old Man Suing SFPD Over Excessive Force During Post-Dyke March Protest There were various reports about some chaos, and police intervention, outside the old Lexington Club on Pink Saturday, after an offshoot of the planned Dyke March went rogue and decided to follow the
SF News Wiggle Cyclists Halt Traffic In (Effective?) Act Of Civil Obedience In a widely publicized protest, the cyclist activists of "The Wigg Party" snarled traffic yesterday on their eponymous route, The Wiggle. Emphasizing their objection to the letter of the law, hundreds of bicycle
SF News Handcuffed Man Dies On Lombard Street Sidewalk Following Confrontation With SFPD @kron4news pic.twitter.com/9vq5O9Fk7t— MAVolousONE (@MAVolousONE) July 30, 2015 A handcuffed man is dead and two San Francisco Police officers have been injured after a vehicle collision on Lombard Street took a
SF News City Settles For $20K With Cyclist Beaten By Police At Valencia Gardens Though it seems like a fairly paltry sum of money, the City Attorney's office has settled with a man who lives at the Valencia Gardens housing complex who claims he was brutalized and
SF News Uncooperative Witnesses Impede Investigation Into Shooting At Mission Homeless Encampment The investigation into a possible drive-by shooting at a Mission District homeless encampment Tuesday night is hitting a dead end after witnesses to the incident stopped cooperating with police. San Francisco Police Department
SF News SFPD Officer Shoots Dog Outside Asian Art Museum Less than a week after a US Mint cop shot a reportedly aggressive dog on Hermann Street, police have fired upon another canine, this one just outside the Asian Art Museum. At 6:
SF News Women Struck By Muni Driver in Mission, Car Driver In Potrero Hill Two San Francisco pedestrians are recovering from their injuries today, after one was mowed down by a Muni bus driver on Friday, and another was struck by a car on Monday morning. At
SF News In Rare Event, Cyclists Plan To Follow Laws (To Prove That Laws Suck) In order to demonstrate the genuine ineffectiveness of some rules of the road strictly applied to cyclists, some bike activists are planning to go ahead and actually follow the laws for once. Many
SF News Spike In Car Break-Ins Has Many Blaming Prop 47 Since last summer we've been talking about the recent spike in petty crime, in particular car burglaries and car thefts, and new numbers out of the SFPD suggest that car break-ins in particular
SF News SF's 28th Homicide For 2015: Woman Found Dead In Apollo Street Home A 43-year-old woman was found dead inside a San Francisco home Saturday morning, the victim of a fatal shooting and the city's 28th homicide for 2015. According to San Francisco Police Department spokesperson
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Show Off $50,000 Toy In The Waters Of McCovey Cove Giants fans kayaking in McCovey Cove have to be on their best behavior now. On Saturday, the SFPD made what's seemingly the public debut of a $50,000 toy in the waters next
SF News SFPD Officer Shoots Carjacking Suspect Who Yelled 'Shoot Me!' Near SFO Watch raw video of SFPD Chief Greg Suhr's press conference via KPIX SFPD officers shot and wounded a carjacking suspect at SFO earlier this morning after he allegedly wrecked a stolen car and
SF News Fundraiser Seeks To Help SF Examiner Photog Mugged Outside Hall Of Justice San Francisco Examiner photo editor Mike Koozmin joined a club that no one wants to be a member of Thursday morning: the fraternity of reporters robbed of their equipment while on the job.
SF News Alleged Market Street Bank Robber Doesn't Get Very Far #SFPD Foil Downtown Bank Robbery. Suspect demanded money, only to be captured blocks away. http://t.co/dVRnRsmvxI pic.twitter.com/xRjkWXW6oc— Officer Manfredi (@OfficerManfredi) July 22, 2015 Tuesday was the wrong day