SF News Day Around the Bay: Family Sues South Bay Mortuary For Allegedly Giving Them Bag Containing Son’s Brain A second SF fire displaced ten near Balboa Park Friday; San Diego high school students discovered their school gym was being used for a porn shoot; and a family says a Santa Clara mortuary gave them their son’s remains instead of his clothing.
SF News Video: Teen in Salinas Crashes Dirt Bike, Catches Fire, Then Walks Away With Minor Burns A shocking video has been circulating of a dirt bike crash that erupted into a large fireball last month in the Monterey Bay city of Salinas. The teen rider, who suffered minor burns and a broken ankle, is shown stumbling away from the crash — with flames clinging to him.
SF News Saturday Links: South Bay Police Chief Suspected of Commuting From Idaho An ophthalmology professor from Stanford University created a device that helps people with vision loss read again; Newsom signed a bill calling for a state commission on the inclusion of trans athletes in competitive sports; and the Millbrae police chief is suspected of commuting from Idaho.
SF News San Jose Police Expected to 'Strictly Enforce' Shelter-In-Place Order Starting Monday SF police have taken a more relaxed tone on ticketing people breaking the now Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order; thus far, not a single citation for violating the mandate has been issued. San Jose law enforcement, however, has other plans beginning Monday.
SF News South Bay Badger And Coyote Filmed ‘Playing’ In Historic First, Cuteness Ensues As if pulled straight from 1940's animated Disney film, a coyote was filmed gamboling with a peculiar playmate — a North American badger — in a South Bay tunnel, the first time this behavior has ever been recorded inside a man-made structure.
SF News Former Startup Castle Residents Speak, Say It's 'Like A Prison' "One of the largest estates in Silicon Valley with everything you need to live and launch your greatest ambitions." That description of the place called Startup Castle in Woodside might be more accurate
SF News Have You Heard About The Startup Castle In Woodside? Because It's Ridiculous And Sexist A huge mansion in tony Woodside has been rebrand the Startup Castle, as of about a year ago, and it's offering "monk-like" lodging for startup bros in a bizarre, stately setting, straight out
SF News New 'Judgmental' Map of the South Bay Will Amuse, Offend Conflating judgment with casual racism, here's the latest installment of "Judgmental Maps" in the Bay Area. The humor series has included this take on San Francisco, which flagged the Castro, simply, as "Rainbow
SF News Stanford Students Launch New, Unpermitted Rideshare App For Late-Night Lifts To The South Bay Unhappy with paying $60 to $80 to get back to Palo Alto from the city via Uber, a couple of Stanford seniors have launched a new app called Fleet that ferries people along
SF News Teens In Audrie Pott Sexual Assault Case Received Really Light Sentences The three unidentified teen boys involved in the September 2012 rape of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who later took her own life, admitted their guilt in the case and received sentences of 30 to
SF News Morgan Hill Teen Accused Of Raping Woman He Helped Home On Saturday, police in Morgan Hill, California arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of raping and burglarizing a 40-year-old woman whom the boy had helped home earlier in the night. The woman had
SF News Obama Arriving In The Bay Area For Pricey Fundraisers President Barack Obama will be in the Bay Area starting today. He'll attend receptions in Palo Alto and Portola Valley today and give a speech on Obamacare at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Psycho Donuts Giving Away Psychotic Foie Gras-Filled Donuts Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi draws our attention to something taboo. Something daring. Something involving a pipette. (No one speaks of pipettes anymore, do they?) You see, foie gras--the sale of which is now
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Off The Grid Now In Belmont Every Monday Listen up, San Mateo County dwellers: Off the Grid, the city's wildly successful roaming food truck explosion in your mouth, now happens every Monday in Belmont. Yes, Belmont. Featured trucks on the day
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Psycho Donuts Creates Fruit Loop-Topped Chick-Fil-A Protest Donut In response to the Chick-fil-A brouhaha (maybe you heard about it?), the harbingers of decency and sweets, Psycho Donuts, have concocted their own protest food. Behold, the Gay Bar. Look at it. No,
SF News Meanwhile, In Santa Clara... A newly posted sign pops up at the proposed site for the new San Francisco 49ers football stadium in Santa Clara this morning.
SF News Palo Alto Apple Store Windows Covered By Memorial Notes Photographer (and cherished SFist commenter) Katy German snapped these shots of the Palo Alto Apple store's window today. Fans left a slew of notes, Pixar-based characters, flowers, a comparison to him as our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Jose Has Nudie Coffee Shops Angry housewives have come unglued in the South Bay as San Jose continues to allow nearly-nude coffee shops to operate in full glory. Shameless! One particular coffee joint, Café Quyen, boasts "scantily clad
SF News Three Killed in San Jose State University Parking Garage Shooting, Including Alleged Shooter Three people were shot and killed last night at around 8:30 p.m. in the 10th Street parking garage at San Jose State University, including the alleged shooter. A weapon was recovered
SF News 3.2 Earthquake Barely Rumbles In South Bay Did you feel it? Yeah, neither did we. But according to the U.S. Geological Survey an earthquake "with a preliminary magnitude of 3.2" rattled Santa Clara County today. The slight shaker
SF News Santa Clara County Declares Swine Flu Emergency Santa Clara County declared a local emergency yesterday, setting aside $500k for free clinics, which will administer the swine flu vaccine to thousands of uninsured residents when the vaccine becomes available in mid-October.
SF News Sex Offender Sweep Hits South Bay Planned way before the recent Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping story came to light, the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement task force conducted a recent shakedown of sexual predators who haven't registered in the South
SF News Phone Outage Affects Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties Thousands of Santa Clara, San Benito, and Santa Cruz county residents are currently without phone service this morning. They can't even call 911 in case of an emergency. Why? Because of an old,
SF News American Musical Theatre of San Jose Brings the Final Curtain Down One of the South Bay's "longest-running cultural institutions," American Musical Theatre of San Jose, is calling it quits. The Broadway musical-ish theater will halt all performances this week and file for Chapter 7
SF News A Look at the Map and List of National Prop 8 Protests The above image -- showing just how large scale Saturday's national Prop 8 protest will look -- is from the flyer used to promote the big event. All of the demonstrations start at
