Aaron FarmerTapioca Ed Jew now blames a brain-freeze (of sorts) for his corruptionA tired writer could describe Ex-Supervisor Ed Jew's rise and fall as "meteoric" -- but, then, meteors don't really rise that often. So let's liken Jew to a bottle rocket -- he ascended gloriously before flaming out for all to see and falling back to the earth in singed chunks.Jew's final descent concludes -- so far as we can tell -- on Friday, when he is sentenced for extorting $80,000 from San Francisco tapioca-d
Persons of interest...Search warrants indicate that police confiscated 860 marijuana plants growing in a structure a stone's throw from a Bayview warehouse that burst into flames last month -- a strong indication that initial theories blaming careless pot-growers for the blaze may well be accurate. A firefighter was injured in the fire last month at a warehouse located at 2265 Revere; an illegal converter box clued police in that a marijuana growing operation might be tied to the blaze (known as
A San Francisco man experienced a wake-up call immeasurably more wretched than the standard bleating of an alarm clock over the weekend when his neighbor allegedly emptied a pan full of boiling cooking oil on him while he slept. Police followed a trail of splattered oil down the hall from the scene of the crime and back to the SRO room of 50-year-old William Pious, who is accused of walking through the door of his rival neighbor and dousing him. The 44-year-old victim supposedly kept the door
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