SF News Hayward DUI Suspect Charged With Killing Woman and Seriously Injuring His Own Son, Though He’s Not in Custody An alleged DUI driver stands accused of a drunken 88 MPH crash in Hayward that killed his 20-year-old passenger, seriously injured his own son, and left another passenger comatose. Though oddly, he was released from jail.
SF News Families In Homes Destroyed By Gas Explosion Identified, Three Remain Hospitalized The East Bay family living in a home where a gas explosion occurred Thursday has been identified by family members who say they "lost everything they owned" in the blast.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Fires Five More SF Immigration Judges, to Hire ‘Deportation Judges’ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her retirement after her public falling out with Trump; ICE agents were turned away at a Hayward elementary school Friday; and Trump has fired five additional SF immigration judges to be replaced by “deportation judges.”
SF News BART Service Impacted by ‘Unstable Individual' Barricading Self at Train Yard In Hayward BART officials say that an “unstable individual” with a knife barricaded themselves in the Hayward BART maintenance complex for about four hours Thursday morning, though that person has been taken into custody and trains are largely back on schedule.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Domestic Battery, But Not Charged The man from the viral “Blinking White Guy” meme lives in SF; the perpetrator of a Hayward murder-suicide was fighting with his parents over his hygiene; and the sheriff’s department is investigating a deputy accused of domestic battery.
SF News Saturday Links: Climber’s Death on El Capitan Inadvertently Livestreamed by TikToker One speed camera in SF’s South Beach generates a quarter of the city’s tickets; a fake Mission District lawyer and MAGA supporter won’t stop giving legal advice to immigrants; and the sole witness to climber Balin Miller’s death also livestreamed it.
Politics Hayward, Alameda County Propose Redress Fund for 1960s Russell City Demolition Survivors Hayward and Alameda County leaders have proposed a $900,000 reparations fund for residents whose land was seized during the demolition of Russell City — a historically Black and Latino community — to make way for an industrial park in the 1960s.
SF News SF Man Charged After Allegedly Attacking a Pedestrian in Hayward While Yelling ‘I’m a Pimp’ A 28-year-old San Francisco man was recently arrested and charged in Hayward after allegedly grabbing and threatening a woman on Jackson Street, shouting “I’m a pimp” as he tried to force her into prostitution, according to police.
SF News Marine Veteran Dies After Sedation in Hayward Police Custody During Mental Health Crisis Marine vet Nathan Hoang died in Hayward police custody after being sedated with midazolam during a mental health crisis. His case, disclosed 6 weeks later, raises concerns over sedative use and police response to psychiatric emergencies.
SF News Four People Shot Outside Hayward Restaurant, Shooter Still At Large All four people shot are described as being in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, after a quadruple shooting Saturday night outside a Filipino restaurant in Hayward where the suspected shooter is still on the loose.
SF News Alleged Hayward Drunk Driver Leads Highway Patrol on 90 MPH Chase With Four-Year-Old In Car Today’s Darwin Award nomination goes to a woman allegedly driving in Hayward at twice the legal DUI limit, going 90 miles an hour, and apparently had her four-year-old daughter in the car at the time.
SF News Five Arrested After Driving Recklessly In Allegedly Stolen Vehicle Across Multiple Bay Area Counties Five individuals were arrested Saturday night after an hourslong chase that involved the Alameda County Sheriff's Office helicopter tracking a speeding vehicle through the East Bay and back and forth across the Bay.
SF News SFPD Touts Drug Bust That Seized Eight Pounds of Fentanyl, 32 Pounds of Meth A very heavy drug bust, as SFPD says they arrested four people for having 44 pounds of illegal drugs, and all were East Bay residents who allegedly supplied “street-level dealers who frequent the Tenderloin.”
SF News Vallejo Suspect Leads CHP on 50-Mile Car Chase, Doesn’t Stop Even When Tires Are Spiked A high-speed chase that originated in Vallejo Wednesday night went all the way down to Hayward, featuring wrong-way driving, and a suspect who didn’t even stop after his tires had been spiked.
SF News Contract With Woke Kindergarten Terminated at East Bay School Following Controversy Long after the Hayward Unified School District entered into a $250,000 contract with a teacher training program called Woke Kindergarten, a school board member and a teacher at the school raised objections to it, and the story launched into the national conservative media morass.
SF News School Board Member Being Investigated and Teacher Put on Leave Amid Ongoing 'Woke Kindergarten' Dustup In East Bay In case you hadn't heard, a Bay Area school district has been the subject of some national conservative outrage over federal money that it spent on a program that is misleadingly named Woke Kindergarten.
SF News Now City of Hayward Suffers Cyberattack, Forced to Shut Down Website It’s back to snail mail and landines for the city of Hayward, who discovered “a cyber-security incident and intrusion into its computer networks” Sunday, and has yanked its website and all city portals offline.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Hayward Shooting of Pregnant Ex-Wife Arrested in Seattle The man suspected of shooting and killing his pregnant ex-wife, and also injuring her current boyfriend in the shooting, has been on the run for two weeks. But U.S. Marshals arrested him in Seattle this week.
SF News Grandmother of Tortured and Murdered Hayward Girl Sues Alameda County for 'Horrifying Inaction' The family of Sophia Mason, the eight-year-old girl whose body was found a year ago in a bathtub in Merced following months of abuse and neglect, has now formally filed suit against Alameda County over social workers' failure to identify and address that abuse.
SF News Six Bodies and 154 Remains Found In Suspended Crematorium's Hayward Warehouse The crematorium, Oceanview Cremations Corporation, had allegedly been operating on a suspended license for the past few years, and its owner wouldn't pick up the phone to tell families where their loved ones' remains were.
SF News Alleged Bay Area Serial Killer David Misch May Face One or Two Trials For Killings of Two Women and a Nine-Year-Old Girl A court is set to decide if 61-year-old David Misch, accused in two separate Alameda County murder cases from the mid-1980s, will stand trial for both cases simultaneously, or if they will be severed.
SF News Hayward Teacher Placed On Leave Over Allegedly Giving ‘A Master Class in Antisemitism' An English teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School may have gone a little too Kanye West, adding to the curriculum a pamphlet that accuses Jewish people of a “Well-outlined Plan for World Dictatorship.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Teen Who Won on Food Network Show Opens Cake Shop In Hayward The youngest-ever contestant to win one of the adult baking competition shows on Food Network, Max Soto, has just opened his own Bay Area cake shop, called Max's Cakes.
SF News Six-Month Manhunt Ends With Arrest of Dhante Jackson, Accused In the Abuse and Killing of 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The man believed responsible for the brutal abuse and killing of an 8-year-old East Bay girl, who has been on the run for the last six months, has been arrested along with several women who have been helping him hide.
SF News Harrowing Tale of Abused Young Girl Murdered In Merced Gets Worse With Details of Abuse Reports A clear example of a young girl whose case slipped through some (possibly very wide) cracks of the child protective services apparatus is now the subject of an investigative report.
