SF News It's Back.... Hey, you might be wondering, whatever happened to those nice young boys from Yale who got pummeled by a few townies for singing the National Anthem all acapella style? Well, the answer would
SF News We Are So Screwed The jist of the report is that in times of trouble, it's the non-profit people who are able to provide the best relief to the people in need and that they're not ready
SF News Hey, Teacher...Leave Those Kids Alone Nice. So what happened was that when she was told she should leave, the school took her kids and put them in the library to give her time to grab her stuff. Instead
SF News Aqua Teen Hunger Force Strikes San Francisco After the events of today, the marketing company behind it all told the SFPD where they could find the things so the police could disable them. It’s not quite known where all
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
SF News And Now...More Gleegate You can read the whole thing (it's pretty good), but there are several points to be had in the piece. -There was booze at the party but people brought it with them-- it
SF News Crack Kills So here's what we know. A man was pulled over by the cops for not having a license plate. That's where they discovered the bag. The cops say they brought him out of
SF News I'm Elected Electric Spy, I'm Protected Electric Eye By a 5-0 vote, the Police Commission last night voted to install twenty five of those anti-crime cameras throughout the Mission, SoMa, and the Tenderloin. As expected, last night's hearing was pretty heated
SF News Today in Bakers Dozen First the news: it's sounding like the police are trying to send the case up to the DA and the DA is pushing it back to the police. Which means nothing is happening
SF News The Warriors: Signs of Life You can exhale Warriors fans, there is hope. The universe works in mysterious ways, and yesterday, it worked for the Warriors. Just when the flagging team needed it, on a day when they
SF News Let's Catch Up on Choirgate Anyways, not much has gone on in the past few days but there have been a few developments. First up is that police investigators flew down to LA over the weekend to finally
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 SFist Blotter (Wednesday Edition) So many crime stories of note today that we're running an off-cycle SFist Blotter! A casual carpool driver from Hercules was carjacked this morning. She picked up the usual crew of city-bound commuters
SF News The Yale Choir Story, Again First up, the cops. After the fracas, they detained four of the assailants but let them go. As of right now, nobody has been arrested as police are saying they're still collecting evidence.
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
misc Well Wishes To Norman Yee San Francisco school board president Norman Yee remains in intensive care after being hit by a car on 4th and Bryant the day after Christmas. However, he's in stable condition after undergoing two
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
SF News Gavin Vetoes Foot Patrol Legislation Part II Gavin's main bone of contention is that he thinks the police chiefs should get discretion to do what they want to do. The Board of Supes main bone of contention is they've had
SF News Who's Newsom Attacking Now! It's a slight variation on our Who's Attacking/Defending Newsom Now columns -- Gavin goes on the offensive! The gay-focused Bay Area Reporter runs a column this week in their Political Notebook about
SF News CHiPs First up is this story from San Jose about a crazy guy, an ambulance, a carjacking, and a stolen police car. Apparently this one guy was picked up for psychiatric care (it's unknown
SF News SFPD's Funniest Home Videos All of this isn't going down with at least some measure of controversy. Police Commissioner Joe Alioto Veronese complained that it took almost a year for the investigation to take place. After all,
SF News Gary Delagnes In The News Man, the San Francisco Police Officers' Association president Gary Delagnes is all over the news these days! We're setting up a Google News Alert for Delagnes even as we speak! --On Heather Fong's
SF News This Month In God Beyond that, there's not much news in this month's issue; some blah-blah-blah about cloning, something about the Freemasons trying to destroy everything, and two locals are suing the city for violating the Establishment
SF News Seven Shot At Halloween In The Castro Update: 11/1, 11:45 a.m. Alix Rosenthal is holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. today at Harvey Milk Plaza (the main entrance of the MUNI stop at Market
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.