The Chronicle has the skinny on today's bomb scare that shut down 26th and Valencia earlier:

The Salvation Army called police at 10:27 a.m. to report that someone had included what looked like a cannonball with items donated to its store at 1500 Valencia St., police Capt. John Loftus said.

Fearing the object could be explosive, police closed off 26th Street between Valencia and Guerrero streets while they removed the object to render it safe.

Read on.

[Photo by Colin Brumelle]