Until the crash is cleared, N-Judah trains traveling inbound will be diverted along the J line to Church and 16th streets, where they will be turned around. Inbound J-Church trains are being turned around at Church and Reservoir streets.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on October 1, 2008.

A member of the Mongols, 37-year-old Christopher Ablett of Modesto, is being sought by police in the Sept. 2 slaying of the leader of the Hells Angels' San Francisco chapter, Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46. Guardado was shot to death outside a Mission District bar about a mile from the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Tennessee Street, where he lived.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 18, 2008.

A member of the Mongols, 37-year-old Christopher Ablett of Modesto, is being sought by police in the Sept. 2 slaying of the leader of the Hells Angels' San Francisco chapter, Mark "Papa" Guardado, 46. Guardado was shot to death outside a Mission District bar about a mile from the Hells Angels' clubhouse on Tennessee Street, where he lived.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 18, 2008.

The network is available to certain residents in neighborhoods including the Mission, Bernal Heights, Haight Ashbury and North Beach, and Meraki hopes to expand coverage to neighborhoods such as the Richmond, Sunset, Excelsior and Marina by the end of the year.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 17, 2008.

The $20,000 campaign will be concentrated in three neighborhoods: The Mission, Bayview and Visitation Valley.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 16, 2008.

There’s some cool art to see, and people from all over the place, and everyone’s into just hanging out, and there are none of the Mission vs. Marina social barriers we have to deal with back here because everyone’s pretty much dressed the same, which is in neon fake fur and goggles, and it’s not immediately apparent whether the person you’re talking to would be someone you’d talk to back in the real world or not.

Published by Mission Mission on September 16, 2008.

Were they here to discuss the recent spike in shootings in the Mission District? The murder of a Western Addition teenager three days earlier? The effectiveness of gang injunctions in those neighborhoods? The upcoming march on City Hall of students from June Jordan High School demanding leadership from the mayor on the rise in violence?

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

The Mission District has been swarming with police officers lately. They were present and visible in large numbers in recent weeks in an effort to stem a recent tide of mostly drug- and gang-related killings in the heavily immigrant neighborhood.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

Amid a sea of reporters, I sat in a community meeting in the Mission District last week as city officials struggled to address the rash of homicides that have occurred in the past two weeks. As we listened to the endless chatter, I was greatly dismayed because we were avoiding the elephant in the room — the complete lack of trust between the police department and our communities of color.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

The stakes couldn't be higher — and not just for the Mission, Potrero Hill, South of Market, and Dogpatch districts, but for the entire city. Because if the supervisors can't get this right, the pattern will be set for development that will profoundly change the demographics (and politics) of this city.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 16, 2008.

We were just talking to someone about how they moved out of that neck of the woods this week because of all the recent gunplay. Do you still go to the Mission these days? If so, why?

Published by SFist on September 15, 2008.

Hells Angels sporting patches from Alaska to Maine, from Rhode Island to Hawaii, and from Italy to Australia joined members of other motorcycle clubs to form a mile-long caravan that stopped traffic and startled onlookers on its path from Daly City, through San Francisco's Mission District, and on to Colma, where Guardado was buried.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 15, 2008.

There was no school that day, and I was gleefully anticipating an afternoon overflowing with a bike ride which I intended to loop along the Bay, to glide past the Golden Gate Bridge, to wind south from the northern tip of San Francisco to Market Street, to coast victoriously back into the Mission by nightfall or, who knows, to see the sunset out at Ocean Beach.

Published by Mission Mission on September 15, 2008.

Guardado, 46, was shot dead around 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 outside a bar in San Francisco's Mission District, allegedly by a member of the rival Mongols motorcycle group.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 15, 2008.

Guardado was found around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at 24 and Treat streets in San Francisco's Mission District suffering from gunshot wounds. He was transported to San Francisco General Hospital where he died.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 14, 2008.

Hundreds of San Francisco public school students, mostly from June Jordan School for Equity, filled the steps of City Hall Friday afternoon to demand more city action in response to the rash of killings in the Mission District and elsewhere over the past few weeks.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 13, 2008.

Mark Guardado was shot and killed last week in San Francisco's Mission District. Witnesses say he got into an argument and a wrestling match with the shooter, who got away on a motorcycle.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on September 13, 2008.

Authorities say 37-year-old Christopher Ablett is a member of the rival Mongols Motorcycle Club and has been identified by several witnesses as the man who shot 45-year-old Mark "Papa" Guardado last week in the Mission District.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 12, 2008.

Mr. Jim Herd has word that a couple of hundred or so high school students from the Mission have taken to the steps of City Hall. Why? Because of the recent spike in murder that has plagued the Mission district. And they're none too thrilled. (Really, you don't want to upset a Mission High student. Trust us.)

Published by SFist on September 12, 2008.

151 Noe St. (at Henry Street), San Francisco; (415) 437-2600 or www.lardoisesf.com.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 10, 2008.

7:30 p.m. // Books & Bookshelves (99 Sanchez) // free

Published by SFist on September 10, 2008.

Seven people have been murdered in San Francisco's Mission District in the past three weeks. We talk with community members, the mayor's office and the police about what can be done to stem the increase in violence in the neighborhood.

Published by Mission Mission on September 10, 2008.

151 Noe St. (at Henry Street), San Francisco; (415) 437-2600 or www.lardoisesf.com.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 9, 2008.

Neither developers nor community activists are happy with the plan approved Aug. 7 by the Planning Commission, which sets zoning, policies, and funding levels for new development in the Mission District, eastern SoMa, Potrero Hill, and the Central Waterfront.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 9, 2008.

One would hardly even notice there was a beehive in the garden behind the Mission District's Kaliflower Collective, except for the winged traffic shuttling industriously between the four-tiered bee box and the fruit trees flowering just overhead.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 9, 2008.

Neighbors Project is an organization dedicated to improving urban neighborhoods by teaching people how to be better neighbors. They throw block parties, publish how-to guides, and sponsor special social experiments like the Food & Liquor Project, which encourages people to shop exclusively at corner stores (known as “food and liquors” in Chicago, apparently).

Published by Mission Mission on September 9, 2008.

MISSION/POTRERO HILL: This and this helped spark last night's peace march in the Mission. Looks like there was a large turnout, with numbers reaching somewhere in the hundreds. (Good job, concerned Mission dwellers!) Did you go?

Published by SFist on September 8, 2008.

“All of the law enforcement in the world is not going to create a peaceful environment,” said Mayor Newsom. “I don’t want to get into the details of these investigations, but you got folks from all over the Bay Area who happen to be in San Francisco doing things that they shouldn’t be doing.”

Published by Mission Mission on September 7, 2008.

Authorities said they would take several steps in response to the violence, including increasing beat patrols along Mission Street, adding cars to parts of the Mission and Ingleside neighborhoods and doubling the number of school resource officers at Mission High School.

Published by Mission Mission on September 6, 2008.

San Francisco police plan to increase patrols in the city's Mission District after two people died and three others were wounded in two separate shootings Thursday night.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 5, 2008.

Police Lt. William Canning told members of the San Francisco Police Commission Wednesday evening that since February, police have conducted 25 robbery abatement team decoy operations, or RAT ops, in the city's Bayview, Ingleside, Mission, Southern and Tenderloin police districts, resulting in the arrests of 109 robbery suspects.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on September 4, 2008.

The Eastern Neighborhoods plan envisions a huge new influx of housing into the area, and city planners admit the result will be a loss of blue-collar jobs. So the city can't let the Bayshore site sit empty for years while some North Carolina–based megaretailer decides the neighborhood's fate. And the last thing the Bayview, the Mission, and Bernal Heights need is another drawn-out conflict over a home improvement store.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on September 3, 2008.

This man was shot near my house in the Mission District of San Francisco. We heard about 4 shots and I went up to see him face down in the street. The picture was taken right after they rolled him over. He was shot right in the face.

Published by SFist on September 3, 2008.

Prosecutors with the San Francisco District Attorney's office have charged Teresa Sheehan with five felony counts, including assault on a peace officer with a deadly weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, as well as making criminal threats against a social worker at her Mission District transitional housing apartment unit.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on September 3, 2008.

It is done. 12 Galaxies, the Mission club named after mentally unfit local color Frank Chu and that sign he carries, came to end this past weekend. Local indie rock outfits StitchCraft and Big Light were the last bands to stomp the floorboards there. And even Mr. Chu himself beamed in for the final show. Read more about it here. (Mission Mission)

Published by SFist on September 2, 2008.

The group braved the mean streets of San Francisco on Friday night, getting their beautiful optical illusion of a school bus unceremoniously tagged with graffiti while parked in the Mission District.

Published by SF Weekly on August 31, 2008.

One such robbery took place at Cafe Petra in the Mission district about two weeks ago. A woman was sitting in the cafe when three men stormed inside grabbed her laptop and ran. Police say that theft was one of at least seven during that particular week.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on August 30, 2008.

Some highlights of this $6.1 million project, according to DPW’s Great Streets Program: the center median will be removed; the sidewalks will be widened from their current 10 feet to 13-15 feet, allowing for more foot traffic, for outside seating in cafes and hopefully for room to push through swarms of bluegrass-crazed people congregating outside busy Mission establishments.

Published by Mission Mission on August 28, 2008.

OPINION There have been eight murders in the Excelsior in the past 120 days. And Sup. Gerardo Sandoval, who represents the area and is running for judge, has been the subject of press attacks for suggesting that gang injunctions in the Mission District may have driven crime into surrounding areas.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 26, 2008.

And you wouldn't be completely wrong; the place, opened last winter by the Valle brothers (Ramón and Samuel) and Roger Magaña in a cavernous Mission District setting that had previously been the home of Bahia Restaurant, does offer a token selection of sparkling wines, including a rather wonderful espumosa de muscatel from Reymos ($7 a glass): a bit on the fruity-sweet side, but not cloying.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 19, 2008.

"The problem here goes back to the city allowing developers to take advantage of loopholes in the law," said Sarah Murray, a jury consultant who has owned a live-work loft in the Mission District for four years. "Making current owners pay after the fact for the city's mistakes doesn't seem fair."

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 18, 2008.

On Jan. 3, 2005, Ramirez caught a taxi to the hotel where Baisden was staying in the Mission District after being released from jail, according to court documents. Upon his arrival, Ramirez called the victim, telling her to come and pay for this cab ride.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on August 15, 2008.

On Jan. 3, 2005, Ramirez caught a taxi to the hotel where Baisden was staying in the Mission District after being released from jail, according to court documents. Upon his arrival, Ramirez called the victim, telling her to come and pay for this cab ride.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on August 15, 2008.

According to court documents, Baisden broke up with Ramirez while he was incarcerated on another matter. While still in custody, Ramirez threatened to hurt Baisden. When he was released from jail, he immediately took a taxicab to the Baisden’s hotel in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on August 15, 2008.

9 p..m // The Transfer (198 Church) // $3

Published by SFist on August 14, 2008.

It must be said that if you want clear skies and warm days, the Sunset may not be for you! Being someone who complains EVERY summer about how freaking cold, windy and depressing it is here even in the “fogfree-ish” zones like the Mission, Bernal Heights and Potrero Hill, I have to say that if you want real warmth, move to Palm Springs!

Published by SFHotlist on August 14, 2008.

A 60 year-old woman who was shot by police last week in the Mission District was apparently armed with a knife and lunged at officers before they opened fire.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on August 12, 2008.

Many Mission residents may be worried by the recent attacks on San Francisco status as a Sanctuary City. We need to be clear that our Sanctuary Ordinance is not the cause of crime.

Published by Mission Dispatch on August 9, 2008.

The so-called eastern neighborhoods plan covers the Mission, Showplace Square/Potrero Hill, the eastern area South of Market and the Central Waterfront. Neighborhoods described as ground zero in the fight over gentrification.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 8, 2008.

Remember the lady who was shot several times in her Mission district apartment? Well, the victim, Teresa Sheehan, 56, "lunged at officers with a knife" before officers turned her into the female 50 Cent.

Published by SFist on August 8, 2008.