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Alleged drunken driver smashes into Mission district parklet and fire hydrant
by Rob Nagle A second parklet was damaged this week, but the culprit wasn't graffiti this time. A reportedly drunken driver smashed through a parklet in the Mission early Monday morning, miraculously...
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Woman robbed of purse at knifepoint in Upper Haight
by Rob Nagle A 68-year-old woman was robbed at knifepoint in the Upper Haight on Sunday, police said. The victim was asked the time by the suspect at Page and Cole streets about 7:30 a.m., police...
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Market Street Safeway recycling center slated to close in September
by Andrea Koskey Recyclers along the Upper Market Street corridor are going to have to find another location to redeem cans and bottles for cash. San Francisco Community Recyclers, located in the...
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South City foster mom faces jail time in bleach burning incident
by Mike Aldax A former South San Francisco foster mom will not serve time in prison after soaking her 20-month-old baby's diaper in bleach three years ago, prosecutors said Monday, but she could find...
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San Mateo County siphons money for veterans as demand for services rises
by Rachel Swan Nena Truch's husband, John, spent a third of his life in the Navy, serving in both World War II and the Korean War as a lieutenant commander before the couple married and resettled in...
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San Francisco drug arrests tumble as police focus on serious and violent crime
by Chris Roberts On his way out of City Hall on a recent evening, Police Chief Greg Suhr encountered a crime in progress — a man sitting on the steps of a basement entrance, syringe in hand. Suhr said...
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CleanPowerSF once again finds itself at pivotal stage
by Joshua Sabatini San Francisco's clean energy program is once again at a pivotal point in which it can either continue to languish or move forward months after being approved by the Board of...
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San Francisco vehicle-charging company warns about prospects
by The Associated Press Ecotality Inc., which makes charging systems for electric vehicles, said Monday it could be forced into a sale or bankruptcy filing "in the very near future" after...
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Holder goes after mandatory federal drug sentences
by The Associated Press Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation's prisons with...
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76-year-old woman stabbed in San Mateo
by Mike Aldax A 76-year-old woman was stabbed in San Mateo Monday afternoon following an argument with a male family member. The stabbing was reported at 51 W Fourth Avenue at 3:35 p.m., police...
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San Francisco police arrest man suspected of stealing candy
by Rob Nagle Taking candy from a grocery store didn't turn out as easy as taking candy from a baby for this suspect. A 42-year-old man reportedly walked into a grocery store in the 3300 block of...
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Security guard belted with buckle in San Francisco beer burglary
by Rob Nagle Police are on the lookout for a couple of belt-wielding booze hounds who pilfered some pilsner from a San Francisco supermarket Monday. The two suspects, a man and a woman, both in their...
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San Francisco police seize $1.5 million worth of Ecstasy
by Mike Aldax In what might be the San Francisco Police Department’s largest “club-drug” bust in history, 23 kilograms of powder MDMA and 30,000 pills of the same drug were seized last weekend when...
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Phish fan arrested on suspicion of selling nitrous oxide
by Mike Aldax A driver traveling the wrong way on Howard Street after leaving a Phish concert earlier this month was allegedly hauling a 20-gallon tank of nitrous oxide, 100 miniature canisters of the...
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CleanPowerSF rate setting fails to pass muster, leaving program in peril
by Joshua Sabatini The chances of San Francisco's clean energy program ever launching took a hit Tuesday when a city commission failed to approve the proposed rates. For more than nine years, city...
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Outages at PG&E-owned streetlights in San Francisco increases 442 percent
by Chris Roberts Outages of PG&E-owned streetlights in San Francisco have quadrupled in recent years — a rate much higher than in other areas — and it comes while the utility giant plans to charge...
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Latino drivers cited often in Atherton for having no license
by Max A. Cherney Police in tiny Atherton, where fewer than 4 percent of residents were Latino as of 2010, issue a disproportionate number of citations to Latinos driving without a license, according...
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Body ID'd as missing Oakland federal investigator
by The Associated Press OAKLAND — A woman's body found near a Northern California park last week is that of a missing federal investigator, authorities said Tuesday. The Alameda County Coroner's...
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Man critically injured in UN Plaza stabbing
by Rob Nagle A man was critically injured in a stabbing at UN Plaza on Tuesday, police Officer Tracy Turner said. The 32-year-old victim was involved in an argument about 11:20 p.m. that escalated...
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Festival-goers left the darnedest things at Outside Lands
by Staff Report Did you lose your favorite hoodie at Outside Lands? Don't head down to American Apparel to buy a new one just yet.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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