Police Seek 'Plaid Bandit' Linked To 4 San Francisco Robberies
FBI and San Francisco police officials are seeking the public's help in identifying a man dubbed the "Plaid Bandit" who is linked to four robberies in the city since June 2010.
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FBI and San Francisco police officials are seeking the public's help in identifying a man dubbed the "Plaid Bandit" who is linked to four robberies in the city since June 2010.
Prisoner rights advocates rallied outside San Francisco's State Building Friday after corrections officials announced that thousands of inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison have ended their second hunger strike after 18 days.
The Apple store in downtown San Francisco opened an hour early Friday to begin selling the latest incarnation of the tech giant's popular smartphone, the iPhone 4S.
A crash near San Francisco's Parkmerced on Thursday night involved a shuttle with 14 elderly people on board and hospitalized seven people, including one critically, police and fire officials said Friday.
A man was arrested Wednesday for stealing a woman's iPhone after a passenger on a San Francisco Municipal Railway bus overheard him bragging about the robbery.
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday in connection with a shooting last month that injured a 5-year-old girl in San Francisco's Bayview District.
Two men were convicted last week of beating up two Mexican nationals in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood in November, but although prosecutors said the attack was racially motivated, the jury rejected hate crime enhancements to the charges.
A laptop was stolen early Thursday morning in a break-in at a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco's Bayview District where an employee was sleeping, a police spokesman said.
Anger directed at Wall Street is also stoking a new philosophy of investing called "Slow Money."
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon said Wednesday he has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that donors to interim Mayor Ed Lee's campaign laundered money.
Protesters have blocked the doors to Wells Fargo's corporate headquarters in downtown San Francisco Wednesday morning. At least 11 protesters were arrested.
president of the city's Transportation Board, Tom Nolan, is questioning whether San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera should be allowed to give legal advice on the Central Subway Project, given his vocal political opposition to the project.
A cost-saving program to divert low-level crimes away from criminal courts to community courts in San Francisco neighborhoods has been so successful it's being expanded to seven other neighborhoods.
115,000 San Francisco voters are getting voter information pamphlets that instruct them to go to the wrong polling place on Election Day.
A man who was shot in San Francisco's Bayview District 10 years ago succumbed to his injuries last month, and the Police Department's homicide unit is investigating, a police sergeant said.
San Francisco police investigated a bomb threat and two suspicious packages found in the Mission District Tuesday night.
Early voting started Tuesday for San Francisco's Nov. 8 election and many candidates took advantage, filling out their ballots at City Hall.
The economy has been rough, but there are still people in the Bay Area that can brag about having a high credit score.
Just in time for November's lucrative crab season, one of the oldest families in the San Francisco crab and fish wholesale industry is back in business after a 10 month shutdown.
A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Ebrahim Shabudin and Thomas Yu on charges that they falsified corporate books, lied to auditors and conspired to hide substantial loan losses at United Commercial Bank.
Homeless advocates have occupied several vacant buildings in San Francisco to call for more housing for the homeless.
The 11 candidates vying to be the next mayor of San Francisco all sounded remarkably similar Monday as they fielded questions about transportation, jobs, homelessness, even public nudity.
Tuesday marks the first day of early voting in the November election in San Francisco, in which voters will decide the city's new mayor, district attorney and sheriff, as well as several propositions.
Just days after vandals released 40,000 juvenile Chinook salmon into the San Francisco Bay, the remaining 20,000 young fish were released from their pens at the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies over the weekend.
In his travels About the Bay, Mike Sugerman takes a look at what voters know and don't know about the mayoral candidates in San Francisco.
