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Amid Spike In Fentanyl Deaths, SF Man Sentenced In Fentanyl-Selling Case

After going on the lam with his wife in Mexico, getting caught, and pleading guilty in federal court last July to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, a San Francisco man was sentenced Friday to 200 months (16 and a half years) in jail.

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Car Passenger In Critical Condition After I-580 Freeway Shooting In Oakland

An unidentified passenger in a vehicle traveling on eastbound I-580 in Oakland this morning was shot and critically wounded in what's being characterized by authorities as a targeted hit.

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Activists Want to Rename South Van Ness Avenue as ‘Dolores Huerta Boulevard’

An online petition hopes to honor the labor movement icon by naming South Van Ness Avenue after her, but the logistics are perhaps a little overwhelming.

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Esteemed French Restaurant La Folie Closing After 32 Years In SF

Beloved San Francisco chef and onetime James Beard winner Roland Passot has decided to close his 32-year-old Russian Hill restaurant La Folie on March 14 and go into semi-retirement.

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New Study Finds Direct Link Between Melting Arctic Ice and Extreme Weather In California

For the first time, climate scientists have illustrated a direct cause-and-effect relationship between melting sea ice in the Arctic and the uptick in extreme weather events and "atmospheric rivers" on the Pacific Coast of the U.S.

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1906-Era Earthquake Cottage Sells For $535K, Becomes SF's Cheapest Single Family Home

A 1,000-square-foot, one-bedroom one-bath cottage in the Excelsior District just sold on Friday for the bargain price of $535,000. And at that price, it is possibly the least expensive free-standing single-family dwelling to sell in SF in recent years.

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Berkeley Police Release Name and Mugshot of 'Armed and Dangerous' Hit-and-Run Driver

The driver in a fatal hit-and-run collision on University Avenue in Berkeley last Monday remains at large, and Berkeley police now say they've identified the suspect thanks to tips from the public.

Bay Area Sports

Chase Center Lit Up In Memory of Kobe Bryant; Bay Area Basketball Fans Mourn

San Francisco's Chase Center was lit up purple and gold Monday night and its main exterior video screen displayed just a still image of the late Kobe Bryant, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in Southern California along with eight others.

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Monday Morning Headlines: Coronavirus Evacuation Flight May Come to SFO

A flight out of Wuhan, China evacuating U.S. personnel may come directly to SFO, over a dozen kids on bikes were harassing motorists in Fremont, and enforcing a car-free Market Street could prove difficult.

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Ocean Acidification Is Literally Dissolving The Shells Of Dungeness Crabs

San Franciscans fawn over Dungeness crab. Cracking their carapaces and dunking the retrieved meat into melted butter, consuming these crustaceans is a local right of passage. But if our oceans continue to acidify, that bit of ceremony could go the way of Friday nights once spent at Blockbusters.

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[Update] Imposter Impersonates Kin Khao On Seamless, Grubhub

A Thai kitchen in an unknown location in San Francisco has been masquerading as Michelin-starred Kin Khao and offering delivery meals on Seamless and Grubhub unbeknownst to Kin Khao and its owner Pim Techamuanvivit.

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Chesa Boudin Withdraws Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Attacked SF Police Officer In December

In a move bound to ruffle some feathers — one coming after Boudin effectively ended cash bails in San Francisco on Wednesday — the newly elected DA has chosen to hold off on the charges against a 24-year-old man accused of attacking an SF police officer in December.

Sunday Links: Anti-Abortion Activists March Through SF, Again

Thousands of anti-abortion activists marched downtown yesterday in the 16th annual Walk For Life rally, Ron Howard's documentary on the 2018 Camp Fire draws praise and applause at Sundance, and BART is going to build 22 canopies over four different station entrances along Market Street.

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This 'Most Silicon Valley' Job Posting Goes Viral For Its Laughable Absurdity

Are you something of a self-knighted travel agent, one who’s also gifted at long division? Do you, too, possess buckets of athleticism? Can you both bake and ice a (vegan) cake with ease? If you've nodded to all the above, then this Menlo Park-based nanny gig might just be right for you.

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SF Opens First Transitional Housing Project For Transgender And Gender Non-Conforming Adults

Thursday's ribbon-cutting ceremony along Washington Street in Chinatown marked the grand reveal of a first for the city: A transitional housing project aimed at helping transgender and gender non-conforming San Franciscans.

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Saturday Links: Patients Tested For Deadly Coronavirus In East Bay

The Alameda County Health Department reports a number of people were tested for the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, former California congressman Fortney 'Pete' Stark has died at 88, and a man was arrested in relation to the body found on Treasure Island last Friday.

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Day Around the Bay: SFPD Prepares For Mission Chaos If 49ers Win

Elizabeth Holmes phoned into an important hearing in her Arizona civil case without a lawyer, mental health activists protest in Civic Center, and 49ers Faithful get fresh tattoos.

Business & Tech

Bay Area Couple To Be Jailed For Massive Ponzi Scheme Worth $1 Billion

A Martinez couple who was operating a seemingly legitimate business selling solar generators pleaded guilty Friday to various charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that netted them $1 billion in fraudulent income — affording them an extremely lavish lifestyle.

Arts & Entertainment

Tickets Still Available for Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Freestyle Love Supreme' Tonight at SF Sketchfest

A musical improv show that grew out of a hip-hop improv group started by Lin-Manuel Miranda and his friends, called Freestyle Love Supreme, is being performed twice tonight in San Francisco following a run on Broadway and just before a documentary about it premieres at Sundance.

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Many Bay Area Hospitals at Risk of Earthquake Collapse, 12 Years Past Retrofit Deadline

More than 40 California hospitals are well past their seismic compliance deadline, and a group of Bay Area hospitals are at significant risk of collapsing in an earthquake.

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HBO Documentary Highlights Oakland Schoolkids and the MLK Oratorical Festival

A new documentary premiering on HBO next month showcases the annual MLK Oratorical Festival that is now a 40-year tradition in the Oakland Unified School District.

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Private Cars Face $238 Fines For Driving Up or Down Market Street Below Van Ness

Starting on Wednesday, January 29, Market Street between Steuart and Van Ness will be almost — but not entirely — free of cars. And if you or your Uber driver mess up and turn onto Market anywhere downtown, you or they may be subject to a ticket and a $238 fine.

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Bizzy's Dry Bar Debuts In Oakland With An All Alcohol-Free Mocktail Menu

Catering both to the sober community and the sober dabblers of Dry January and Dry July, a new sober drinking space debuted last weekend over in Oakland. It's called Bizzy's Dry Bar, and it's operating out of a space that's a coffee shop by day, Black Spring Coffee (2930 Telegraph Avenue near 30th).

Bay Area Sports

If the 49ers Win the Super Bowl, the Parade Would Be In SF, Not Santa Clara

In case this really needed clarification, former SF Mayor Willie Brown has it some authority that planning is underway for a possible 49ers victory parade in San Francisco — not in Santa Clara where, technically, the team actually plays these days.

Arts & Entertainment

'Matrix 4' Casting Extras For February Shoots In Financial District

A call has gone out for extras and notices have gone out to neighbors for three weeks of shooting (with helicopters!) for "Project Ice Cream" starting on February 9, and we all now know that this is the fourth installment of The Matrix franchise.

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