Hayward

Smooth Pride: The Legacy of Malo's "Suavecito"

Blind Spot: A Motorcycle Death Raises Unanswerable Questions

Michelle Le Murder: Experts Say Giselle Esteban Did Extensive Computer Search for Le's Name

Prosecutors introduced some disturbing testimony today, claiming that Giselle Esteban, the woman accused of murdering Michelle Le last year, had conducted a comprehensive search on Le as well as tactics to harm someone just before the nursing student went missing. According to KTVU, FBI compute ... More >>

Swoosh Dreams: How Nike Helped Turn the Oakland Soldiers Into Pros

High Hopes: Undefeated Mayfield Puts His Title on the Line

Jablow's Meats Launches a Pastrami Pop-Up

Jablow's MeatsJablow's pastrami sandwich with potato salad, and pickle.​Dan Jablow, a cooking school grad and former Fatted Calf employee, has been refining his recipes for lunch meats for more than a year, showing up at the monthly New Taste Marketplace events to test them out with the public. Op ... More >>

Giselle Esteban, "Jealous" Woman Accused of Killing Michelle Le, Pleads Not Guilty

​Giselle Esteban, the 27-year-old woman accused of killing her former classmate, Michelle Le, appeared in court today where she pleaded not guilty to murder charges. The Union City woman, who recently gave birth to her second child while in jail, was reportedly ordered to appear in court on Feb. 1 ... More >>

SPCA Raising Money for Stolen Dog Found with Eye, Ear and Teeth Missing

This tragedy has the Wicked Witch of the West written all over it.​As if we needed any more reason to doubt the future of humanity, here's yet another horrifying tale. Yvette Acevedo's 12-year-old Yorkie, Toto, was stolen out of her backyard in Hayward early last year. After canvassing the neighbo ... More >>

Enter: A Superhero: The Ray Faced Down Cops to Help Occupy, But His True Mission Is Darker

Giselle Esteban, Murder Suspect in Michelle Le Case, Gives Birth in Prison

Suspect and a mom​Giselle Esteban, the 27-year-old Union City woman accused of killing her former high school friend, Michelle Le,  is a new mother. Esteban, who appeared in court today, but did not enter a plea, gave birth to a baby boy right before Thanksgiving, according to the Chron. A so ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Body Found in Sunol

Michelle Le​Medical authorities are working to determine whether the body found in a rugged area near Sunol Canyon this weekend is Michelle Le, the 26-year-old nursing student who went missing in May.Over the weekend, a volunteer discovered a badly decomposed body in the Sunol Canyon near Pleasant ... More >>

Giselle Esteban, Murder Suspect in Michelle Le Death, Is Taken to Hospital

Giselle Esteban ​Giselle Esteban, the 27-year-old woman accused of murdering Michelle Le, missed her arraignment this afternoon in Alameda County because she was taken to the hospital for a nonemergency situation. Alameda County Sergeant J.D. Nelson wouldn't provide details about her medical condi ... More >>

Fight Night: San Francisco's Amateur Boxing Championships

Joseph Schell​Sporting crowds make lots of different noises: Cheers, boos -- in Europe they sing. But, every once in a while, a crowd makes that most distinctive of sounds -- the collective reaction of people who've witnessed something that impressed them but they wish they hadn't seen. The "OHHHH ... More >>

Hilarious: Local Rappers Erk Tha Jerk and LoveRance Beef on Twitter Days Before They Gig Together

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Michelle Le Update: Vigil Tonight for Missing Student, Reward Increases to $40,000

Michelle Le​Family and friends of Michelle Le, the nursing student who went missing a week ago, will gather tonight for a vigil at the site where her abandoned car was found last Friday.The vigil will be held at Ponderosa Court in Hayward, about a half-mile from Kaiser Hospital, where Le, 26, was ... More >>

Michelle Le Update: Police Issue Search Warrants and Question 20 People

Michelle Le has been missing since Friday ​Over the last five days, police have interviewed some 20 people -- even arresting one briefly. They've issued search warrants and tracked down a few "persons of interest," only to remained stumped as to what happened to Michelle Le, the 26-year-old nursin ... More >>

Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

Family Pup Stolen During Home Burglary

Looking for Zoe ​A distraught Lauren Cox is pleading with burglars to return her 9-pound Maltese Shih-Tzu named Zoe who was stolen when Cox's house was broken into earlier this week. Zoe was taken Monday afternoon when Cox's Livermore house was burglarized in broad daylight. When Cox's fiance came ... More >>

Mama's Empanadas: New Food Truck Has Roots In Chile, Italy

Mama's Empanadas/FacebookMama's Empanadas' Chilean-Italian heritage mirrors its namesake's history.​Three things San Francisco loves: 1) empanadas; 2) Mediterranean food; and 3) food trucks. They converged two weeks ago, when Mama's Empanadas made its premiere run on the Peninsula. The food tr ... More >>

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

New Year's Eve Guide 2011

Rent wars: Court says landlord must make poor tenants rich

Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse

Facing foreclosure? Con man Paul Noe II has a deal for you

He Ran Away to Join the Circus . . . And Now He’s Stuck in an AT&T Park Parking Lot

Starbucks, We Hardly Knew Thee (Nostalgia for a Place I Never Frequented)

He's No Angel

They once called him a savior who helped people in need. Today, Edwin Parada is accused of taking money from Latinos unfamiliar with real estate laws.

Building Racism

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Paper Chase

The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

Bay Area's MySpace Top Ten

Barred for Life

Desperate prison lifers turn to Charles Carbone when trying to navigate the unfair process of parole denials

Toxic Acres

The fill below Treasure Island is filled with dangerous toxins left by the Navy

B.A.D. Girls

Iva Vendetta, Miss Moxxxie, Ghoulina, and the other Bay Area Derby Girls are into piercings, tattoos, partying, sexual innuendo, and whatever they decide roller derby is going to be

Vlad the Mad

The hardest-working angry young russian comic in town

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

Reps Etc.

Nailed?

Lawyers for hundreds of sex-abuse victims have California's Catholic dioceses in a dire financial bind. Can church leaders finagle an escape, or are they ...

SOUL Trainers

A nonprofit school known by the acronym SOUL is working to undermine The System with The System's own money. But does SOUL teach anti-capitalist subversion -- or how to sell out?

The Spectre Inspectors

When it's a question of spectral orbs -- or ectoplasm, or cold spots, or plain old ordinary ghosts -- who are you going to call? Why, Bay Area Paranormal Investigations, of course.

Organ Failure

An ambitious plan to relocate a historic pipe organ to the Embarcadero threatens nothing but sour notes

Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang -- You're Dead

Two-plus months after police shot Idriss Stelley 20 times, they still won't release their reports on the death

Welcome Home

How shortsighted neighborhood activism fuels the city's housing crisis, and pushes the best of San Francisco deeper and deeper into the suburbs

Unappreciated at Any Speed

Seventy Bay Area enthusiasts -- and thousands more across the nation -- don't care what Ralph Nader says. They want their Corvairs.

Affirmative Action Derailed

With Prop. 209 looming, an airport contract battle shows how S.F. has failed to keep faith with minority business

Battle Hymns

Bouncers vs. fans as Slayer pounds the Troc: A field log

The DA's Svengali

Earlier this year, the District Attorney's Office was flirting with farce. Then Terence Hallinan called in David Millstein.

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch

Politicos, prudes, and the paranoid protest the programming heard on Bay Area radio stations to the highest authority in the land -- the Federal Communications Commission

Heartbreak Hotel

Traveling room to room in the Columbia, a Tenderloin SRO, shows that fixing a building up is one thing. Repairing broken lives is another.

Slap Shots

The Last Seduction (Part II)

Spurned by term limitations, Willie Brown turns his political affections on San Francisco. But how long will our small-town ways hold his fancy?