Injuries and Traumas

Man Clinging to Life After Hit-And-Run Accident

A 54-year-old man is in the hospital today fighting for his life after he was hit by a driver who left him bleeding at the scene. Sgt. Dennis Toomer said the victim was walking in a crosswalk at Steiner and Lombard streets at about 10:22 p.m. when a car hit him and fled the scene.

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Scott Nau, Man Hospitalized After Assault, Dies

San Francisco police say the man who was brutally beaten in SOMA 10 days ago has died from his head injuries. He's been identified as 34-year-old Scott Nau, of San Francisco. According to Officer Albie Esparza, police were called to the 1500 block of Mission near 11th Street on Jan. 18 at about 11 ... More >>

Dexter Oliver, Man Accused of Setting Girlfriend on Fire, Arrested

Police caught up with the 22-year-old man who has been on the lam after he allegedly set fire to his girlfriend after the two got into an argument at a local laundromat. Sgt. Michael Andraychak says Dexter Oliver was found at a hotel in Oakland at about 9 p.m. where he surrendered to police.

Police Looking for Dexter Oliver, Man Accused of Setting Woman on Fire

Police are looking for a 22-year-old man who is on the loose after allegedly tossing flammable liquid on the woman he's been dating, and setting fire to her. Yesterday at about 12:17 p.m. officers in the Bayview responded to the area of Hollister and Jennings streets on reports that a women who wa ... More >>

Benching Alex Smith Is the Ultimate Alex Smith Decision

Initially, the concussion that cost Alex Smith his starting position with the 49ers looked like the result of a textbook Smith play. With a minute and a half left in the first quarter of last month's contest against St. Louis, Smith dropped back to pass, panicked without a second's hesitation when h ... More >>

Giants Fan Clinging to Life After Brutal World Series Assault

Police are reporting that a 37-year-old man is suffering major head trauma after he was attacked by a group of men as he celebrated the World Series in the Haight District Sunday night. According to police, the victim joined thousands of other baseball fans who took to the streets after the Giants w ... More >>

Dumb Crooks Steal iPad, Crash into News Van, Become Today's News Story

CBS News brings us this insane report about another iPad robbery, and this is one story reporters didn't have to chase.The incident started at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, when an unidentified man hopped out of a Mercedes SUV and ripped a backpack, with an iPad inside, from a woman sitting outside a Peet's ... More >>

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Man Clinging to Life After Being Robbed in a Porta Potty

A 54-year-old man is in the hospital today with serious head injuries after being attacked and robbed while in a Porta Potty last night. According to police, the man, who has not been identified, was with a black man and woman in a Porta Potty on the corner of Larkin and Myrtle (who even wants to k ... More >>

Woman Clinging to Life After Hitting Light Pole

A 25-year-old woman is in the hospital today with serious head injuries after she crashed into a light pole yesterday morning in the Inner Sunset. According to police, the woman, who has not been identified, was driving along 19th Avenue and Lawton at 8:23 a.m. when she crashed into a light pole for ... More >>

Construction Crane Takes a Tumble in the Tenderloin

Update(1:53 p.m.): The intersection where the crane toppled will be closed "indefinitely," Police Officer Gordon Shyy said.Police will make a report about the incident and will share this report with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspections, who, with Cal/OSHA, will look into an investig ... More >>

Jealous Wife Ordered to Trial for Allegedly Killing Husband With Boiling Water

Talk about getting burned by your ex. A judge has ordered trial for 39-year-old Jesusa Tatad, who, in a jealous rage, went into her sleeping ex-husband's room and allegedly poured a pot of boiling water over him. Tatad, a Daly City woman, was allegedly upset because she believed her ex-husband ... More >>

Dad at Stow Lake Hits Elderly Woman Who Scolded His Kid

A temperamental father proved himself a bad role model when he smacked an 82-year-old woman at Stow Lake in front of his kid, after she allegedly scolded the youngster for pestering the geese on Friday.Officer Gordon Shyy tells us that the woman was walking the lake with her husband when she spotted ... More >>

Elderly Woman in Serious Condition After Being Hit by Alleged Drunk Driver

An 80-year-old woman is clinging to life today after she was hit by a drunk driver late last night in the city's Cow Hollow neighborhood. According to Officer Albie Esparza, the woman was crossing the street at Van Ness and Vallejo streets at about 11:40 p.m.when a black four-door sedan hi ... More >>

Curtis Whitley: NFL Is to Blame for Former Raider's Death, Lawsuit Claims

Retired football players have died young at an alarming rate and each death repeats the question: Exactly how culpable is the NFL? In May 2008, Curtis Whitley, an offensive lineman who played in the league for six years, died from a reported drug overdose. He was 39, and in the years before he died ... More >>

S.F. Elderly Woman Fights Foreclosure, Predatory Lending

Latanya Marie Session, a San Francisco woman, is locked in a bitter dispute over her foreclosed home, which she lost while she was in the hospital suffering from a brain injury.Session's daughter and appointed guardian, Bess Kennedy, filed a complaint in 2010 after the bank foreclosed on her mother' ... More >>

Randolph Ang, Local Cyclist, Charged with Death of Dionette Cherney -- Finally

post election charges​Four months after a cyclist blew through a red light on the Embarcadero, killing 68-year-old  Dionette Cherney as she walked across the street, the District Attorney's Office has brought charges against the biker. Randolph Ang, 23, has been charged with misdemeanor vehic ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Ryan White, Kid Critically Injured in Hit and Run, Gives a Thumbs Up

Ryan White​Ryan White, the nine-year-old Phillies fan who was tragically hit by a drunk driver after the Giants game last week, has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, his parents said Tuesday afternoon. Ken and Roseanne White released a statement to the media thanking the community ... More >>

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Bryan Stow, Beaten Giants Fan, to Arrive at S.F. General Hospital Today

Dr. Geoff Manley, the neurosurgeon taking over the care of Bryan Stow today.​Bryan Stow, the Giants fan suffering brain damage after being beaten by Dodgers fans, will be delivered to a hospital on the Giants' home turf today. Stow is set to arrive at San Francisco General Hospital by 5 p.m., a ho ... More >>

Dave Duerson, Former NFL Safety Who Shot Himself, Had Brain Trauma

Illustration by Doug Fraser​Another startling indication of the potential prevalence of football-related brain degeneration came to light yesterday, as the disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was diagnosed in the autopsied brain of deceased Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson.The ... More >>

It’s All in Your Head

Not the Crime Kind, the Other Kind

Leave Jay Cutler Alone!

Maybe not for long...​It's hard to believe, but Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler -- one of the most reviled men in sports -- has given people yet another reason to dislike him. After coming out of Sunday's championship game with a nondescript knee injury, players and fans alike excoriated the ... More >>

Broken, Not Shattered: Adam Stephens and his band celebrate life after a tour accident

Is Football Without Brain Damage Possible?

Chris Brymer, far left, pictured with XFL teammates​Last month we reported in a cover story on the case of Chris Brymer, a former star lineman at USC who has been charged with hate-crime assault in San Francisco. Interviews with medical experts and with Brymer's friends and relatives indicated he ... More >>

Head Case

Experts say ex-football players with head injuries often end up in the criminal justice system. Former USC lineman Chris Brymer is exhibit A.

Alleged Lovers' Spat Induces Leap from Moving Vehicle

Love is a many splendored thing...​Yes, love hurts. The roadway hurts more. A Saturday police report details what appears to be a particularly messy lovers' quarrel -- undertaken at high speed. The cops' involvement started at 2:10 in the morning when officers responded to calls of a person lying ... More >>

Dog Mauls Nob Hill Woman in Park Her Family Gave to City

Marion Cope -- the 73-year-old widow of Newton Cope, former owner of the swanky Huntington Hotel in Nob Hill -- was seriously injured last month when she was attacked by an off-leash dog in Huntington Park, according to police records reviewed by SF Weekly.​This is not only sad but deeply ironic - ... More >>

Strange Courtfellows — Driver and people he ran into in parking lot

S.F. Neighbors' Spat Leads to Sleeping Man Being Doused in Boiling Cooking Oil

​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 sce ... More >>

Warrants Indicate Hundreds of Pot Plants Seized From Property Adjoining Bayview Warehouse That Suspiciously Burned Last Month

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. ... More >>

Ex-S.F. Supe Ed Jew's New Defense: My Brain Hurt

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 fo ... More >>

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