SF News Humpday Headlines: Aisha Wahab Advances In East Bay House Race Progressive Aisha Wahab took the most votes in Tuesday's election and will advance to a runoff for Eric Swalwell's term remainder; the family of deceased 49er Aldon Smith is having his brain checked for CTE; and fans packed Levi's for another World Cup match.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lurie Releases Final Concepts For Embarcadero Park Redesign The founder of Kink.com sold three SF properties amid an ongoing dispute; the brother of NFL star Pat Tillman was sentenced to five years in federal prison; and images of the final concepts for the redesign of SF’s Embarcadero Park redesign have been released.
SF News Alameda Residents Demand More Police Presence After Beach Takeover Double Shooting A double shooting during a teen "beach takeover" event in Alameda last week has sparked renewed debate about the trend, with some demanding more police enforcement while others are calling for more spaces for teens to congregate peacefully.
SF News Comedian Says Deputies at San Mateo County Jail Humiliated Him, Broke Several Bones Arab American actor and comedian Ahmed Ahmed has filed a lawsuit alleging deputies at a jail in San Mateo County caused serious injuries and attempted to pull down his pants while laughing at him, following an arrest at SFO last year for which he was never charged.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Castro Bars Raise Privacy Concerns With Facial Recognition Cameras at the Door Three Castro neighborhood bars serving a primarily queer clientele are using facial-recognition cameras to help "verify guests" and check for fake IDs, but the company providing these cameras also can flag other things in its databases.
Business & Tech East Bay Residents Fight Plans For Massive Data Center Adjacent to Contra Costa Canal Some in the community of Pittsburg are pushing back against the city’s plan to build a 300,000-square-foot data center as part of a phased 76-acre redevelopment adjacent to the Contra Costa Canal.
SF News SFPD Launches Pilot Program In SoMa That Will See Drones Arrive at Crime Scenes Before Cops Do A drone pilot program is being planned for this fall in SF's South of Market neighborhood in which the SFPD will be testing out the use of drones as pre-first responders to crime scenes or potential crime scenes, to provide assessments of the situations at hand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award For Outstanding Chef Goes to Quince's Michael Tusk, and Other Local Winners Revealed The chef and restaurant portion of the James Beard Foundation Awards happened Monday night in Chicago, and while LA continues to steal some of the West Coast spotlight from the Bay, a couple of prominent awards were won by local folks.
SF News Body Found at San Leandro Waste Management Facility Identified as Missing Emeryville Man An investigation is now underway to determine how a 30-year-old man who was last seen in Emeryville on May 31 ended up dead in dumpster, with his body turning up two days later at a San Leandro garbage facility.
SF News Recording Artist, Former SF State Student Oliver Tree Confirmed Dead In Brazil Helicopter Crash Musician Oliver Tree, who was born and raised in Santa Cruz and attended San Francisco State, has been confirmed dead following a horrific mid-air crash between two helicopters in Brazil that killed all six passengers onboard.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Chakrabarti Going All In For Chan Saikat Chakrabarti has turned his campaign into a PAC supporting Connie Chan; the Giants could be giving its evangelical players a pass over those Pride Night hats; and why are there so many shopping carts stuck in Colma Creek marsh?
SF News Day Around the Bay: SoCal Faults Reach Historic Stress Levels, According to Study Stress has grown to the highest levels in 1,000 years on the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults; a mountain lion has been captured in Redwood City; and a restaurant co-owned by E-40 was robbed on Sunday.
Bay Area Sports Self-Described 'Christian' Homophobes In Giants' Bullpen Deface Pride Night Hats Well, the San Francisco Giants' pitching staff isn't winning any fans in the Bay Area's very large LGBTQ+ community, and several of them used Friday night's Pride Night game to show a quiet act of protest over the team's annual gesture of inclusivity.
SF News UC Berkeley Police Arrest Man Suspected of Sexually Assaulting 11-Year-Old Camper In Dorm A 27-year-old man believed to be a camp counselor was arrested Saturday on suspicion of sexually assaulting a child camper overnight in a UC Berkeley dorm, and his resume indicates he’s worked at a long list of local schools.
Arts & Entertainment Fireworks to Happen on Golden Gate Bridge For Nation's 250th on July 4th For the first time in 14 years, and only the third time ever, there will be a big fireworks show on the Golden Gate Bridge to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday on July 4th.
SF News Laney-Merritt Colleges Approve Merger Amid Faculty, Student Pushback In an effort to address steep enrollment declines, Merritt and Laney colleges announced the approval of plans to merge under the new “Oakland City College” name by next fall, while keeping both campuses open — a move that some students and faculty say left them blindsided.
Bay Area Sports The Government of Qatar Gave All-Expense-Paid Trips to 1,000 Qatari Soccer Fans, Had Them March In SF Most countries don't pay for their fans' travel to see World Cup matches, but then most countries aren't as wealthy as Qatar and hoping to make a splash in their first World Cup that they actually qualified for.
SF Politics Newsom Says Trump Is Now Having DOJ Investigate Him and His Wife Next on the list of political enemies whom President Donald Trump has pettily sought to intimidate or punish using the Department of Justice is Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
Business & Tech Over 100 Stanford Grads Disrupt Google CEO’s Commencement Speech Over Contract With Israel As Sundar Pichai began his commencement address at Stanford University Sunday, more than 100 graduates staged a walkout, blowing whistles and chanting in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus contract with the Israeli government.
SF News Trader Joe's Theft Suspect Killed In Struggle With Police Was Former Store Employee The details remain unclear surrounding a Friday death on Nob Hill in which SFPD officers were seen wrestling with an alleged thief outside the Trader Joe's, a struggle that ended with the two officers and the suspect all struck by a passing vehicle on California Street.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Near Altamont Pass Quickly Contained A wildfire grew to 22 acres near the Altamont Pass Sunday afternoon; there were multiple big sideshows around San Jose Saturday night; and World Cup fans swarmed Levi's Stadium for the first match there between Qatar and Switzerland.
SF News Suspect in Two Unsolved California Homicides Captured in Laos, Extradited Back to Santa Clara to Stand Trial On Friday, a rare joint release from two California counties confirmed that 31-year-old Myung Jin Kim was arrested in Laos and extradited back to California earlier this week to face prosecution in Santa Clara and Orange County in relation to two unsolved fatal shootings from the past decade.
Bay Area Sports Former 49ers All-Pro Pass Rusher Aldon Smith Found Dead at 36 On Saturday morning, 49ers All-Pro pass rusher Aldon Smith was found unresponsive in the front passenger seat of his pickup truck by a friend in Los Gatos. Less than an hour later, the former No. 7 overall NFL draft pick in 2011 was declared dead at San Jose's Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 36.
morning links Sunday Links: San Jose Car Crash Leaves One Dead, Three Injured A car crash in San Jose left one dead and three injured after the driver reportedly ran a red trying to evade police, Vallejo's Six Flags Discovery Kingdom suffers power outage, and beloved film critic Gene Shalit dies at 100.
SF News Vigil at SF Castro Honors Pulse Nightclub Victims on 10-Year-Anniversary of Mass Shooting On Friday, a vigil was held at San Francisco's Castro Theatre in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead a decade ago. The annual gathering marked a major milestone this year as people gathered to recognize the tenth anniversary of the tragedy.
