SF News Hayward Cop Accused of Extorting Brothel For Sex, $1,000 In Exchange For Protection A Hayward police officer faces felony charges for allegedly extorting an illegal brothel and taking a $1,000 bribe and free sex services in exchange for protection against police, and he could face up to four years in prison if convicted.
SF Politics Alameda County Group Launches Drive to Put $30 Minimum Wage on the Ballot In November If a coalition of labor groups and community organizers gets their way, the hourly minimum wage in Alameda County for companies with 100 or more employees could double in the next few years.
SF News Baby Gets Locked Inside East Bay Family’s Electric Car After Defective Battery Dies An Antioch family’s electric vehicle suddenly shut down due to a faulty battery, trapping a 12-month-old child inside for 30 minutes as the family scrambled to unlock it, and they eventually figured out the car’s single metal key is hidden in a fob accessed through the rear hatch.
SF News Cesar Chavez Day Likely to Be Renamed Farmworkers Day Via Bill Before California Legislature A bill is already being introduced in the California legislature to rename Cesar Chavez Day, which is coming up on March 31, as Farmworkers Day, one day after revelations of his past abuse of girls and women came to light.
Business & Tech Teens Sue xAI, Allege Grok Was Used to Create Sexualized Deepfakes A class action lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk’s xAI by three teenagers who say the company deliberately allowed its Grok software to power third-party apps to create nonconsensual nudes and sexually explicit images of them and 18 others as minors.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Ski Resorts Calling It Early Amid Snowmelt Two Tahoe ski resorts announced early closures this week due to the warm weather; SF police officers have a tentative deal for a 14% raise over four years; and Elon Musk is yelling about politics again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman Injured In SF Hit-and-Run Involving E-Scooter A woman was injured Monday in a hit-and-run by an e-scooter on Market Street; the first gray whale death of the year has been recorded in the Bay; and Orlando's Pulse nightclub has been demolished to make way for a memorial.
SF News Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Tesla Over Faulty Door Locks Jordan Miller, the sole survivor of the horrific Cybertrack crash in Piedmont during Thanksgiving week in 2024, filed a lawsuit against Tesla Tuesday, claiming that Tesla’s faulty door locks trapped him in the vehicle and contributed to significant injuries from which he’s still recovering.
SF News Newsom Says He's Open to Changing Name of Cesar Chavez Day, Says 'Farmworker Movement Is Greater Than One Man' The fallout has only barely begun from the bombshell revelations about iconic labor activist Cesar Chavez, whose name is emblazoned on schools and streets up and down the state of California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sam Smith, on the Way Out of Town, Declares Lovely's a '10 Out of 10 Burger' If you haven't been following Sam Smith's endearingly "piggy" Instagram account devoted to his food consumption around the Bay Area, you're missing out. And as Smith was getting ready to leave town this week, they posted one last video on the roof of the Castro Theatre.
SF News SFO, Oakland on FAA’s 'Hot Spot' List of Airports Most at Risk of Runway Close Calls Nine Bay Area airports, including SFO and Oakland, are on the FAA’s “hot spot” list notifying pilots about areas on the ground at US airports that could potentially be the sites of collisions or near-misses due to confusing layouts and busy runway crossings.
SF News Oakland Officers Heard Laughing About 'Ghost Chase' Crash That Killed One In New Video In a new video compilation presented in court in a wrongful death case, two former Oakland police officers can be heard laughing after witnessing — and arguably causing — a high-speed crash on June 26, 2022 that killed 28-year-old Lolomanaia "Lolo" Soakai.
Arts & Entertainment Contemporary Jewish Museum to Sell Its Downtown SF Building The Contemporary Jewish Museum, which has been closed to the public for over a year, now plans to sell its Yerba Buena area building in order to "right-size" the organization.
SF News Revelations of Abuse by Cesar Chavez Followed By Bombshell From Dolores Huerta: Chavez Assaulted Her, Too A bombshell New York Times investigation reveals details about the abuse of two girls at the hands farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez, and now Dolores Huerta, who helped found the United Farm Workers, has a bombshell of her own: Chavez assaulted her and fathered two of her children.
SF News Woman Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries In Violent Attack Near SF’s UN Plaza, Suspect Arrested On Monday morning, SFPD officers patrolling the 7th and Market area came upon the scene of a suspected aggravated assault that left the female victim lying on the ground with life-threatening injuries, and they detained the suspect who was attempting to walk away.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Rideshare Drivers File Complaint Over Waymo Transporting Minors The California gig workers union has filed a formal complaint over Waymo transporting unaccompanied minors; an Audi driver was killed in a Livermore crash; and there was a widespread outage on Xitter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16 Vehicles Involved in Bay Bridge Sideshow Seized, Impounded An SF couple on a cruise in the Middle East were stranded in Qatar for a week when US-Iran first bombed Iran; crews are working late into the night getting the “Bay Lights” ready; and 16 vehicles that were involved in the Bay Bridge sideshow in December were seized and impounded for 30 days.
SF News ‘Safe Street Rebel’ Group Takes Its Own Measures to Slow Traffic Where 2-Year-old Was Killed The group Safe Street Rebel installed plastic buffer posts at the intersection of Fourth and Channel streets in SF’s Mission Bay where a two-year-old girl was recently killed, in an effort to push SFMTA to take more drastic measures to improve pedestrian safety there.
SF News Union Co-Founded By Cesar Chavez Cancels Annual Celebration of Him, Citing Allegations of Sex With Minors Labor union hero Cesar Chavez, who is celebrated annually with a California state holiday on March 31, is now the subject of troubling historic allegations of abuse of young women and girls, according to the union he co-founded.
Business & Tech Sam Altman Posts Tone-Deaf Tweet Thanking Coders For Making Themselves Obsolete OpenAI CEO Sam Altman probably should have kept his thoughts to himself Tuesday morning. But instead, like his rival Elon Musk often does, he took to Xitter to say something utterly tone-deaf about the present moment.
SF News Bear Spray Incident In Alameda Sends Child, Adult to Hospital, Injures Four Others A person who residents say is a former tenant entered an Alameda apartment building Monday and intentionally sprayed bear repellent, leading to the evacuation of the building and surrounding vicinity, and injuring six, including an adult and child who were taken to the hospital.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Hit Play 'Oh, Mary!' Coming to San Francisco This Fall The Tony Award-winning, ahistorical hit play by Cole Escola about the imagined life of Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic would-be cabaret star is heading out on tour this year and will come to the Curran Theater in SF this October.
SF News Norovirus ‘Stomach Bug’ Cases Spike in Portions of SF, Marin County, and Silicon Valley Wash those hands extra well, as portions of the Bay Area are experiencing spikes in norovirus infections, the highly contagious gastrointestinal bug that’s typically foodborne, including parts of San Francisco, Marin County, and Silicon Valley.
SF News Former Fire Marshal Who Wrote SF's High-Rise Sprinkler Mandate Now Consulting With Condos It's Impacting Not long after SF condo owners in older high-rise buildings got a reprieve of several years for getting sprinkler systems installed, it's coming to light that the guy who wrote the rules on that may now be profiting from the ensuing chaos.
Business & Tech What Happens When the Waymo You're Riding In Gets Attacked By a Robot Hater? Not Much, and You're Sort of Trapped As Waymo prepares to launch its robotaxis in 20 cities this year, we're likely going to hear more stories of Waymo passengers who become the unwitting victims of anti-AI rage.
