SF News 16-Year-Old Arrested for Fatal Shooting of Oakland 15-Year-Old on Way to Soccer Practice An arrest has been made in the shooting of an Oakland teenager Monday that has sent the local community reeling, in which a 15-year-old boy was killed while walking with friends to soccer practice.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Abducted Oakland Woman Comes Forward A woman seen on video being abducted in Oakland two weeks ago has come forward; a Bay Area man could face 100 years in prison for a Monterey crime spree; and Sherri Papini is back in court fighting over custody of her kids.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds Claim Evidence that ‘RawRicci415’ Sexually Abused 13-Year-Old Girl on Camera Orinda’s St. Mary’s Gaels are ready to storm the March Madness tournament; Trump appears to have abolished the Department of Education, and right-wing SF Twitter celebrity Ricci Wynne faces charges that he recorded his own sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl.
Bay Area Sports Video: Enormous Coca-Cola Bottle at Giants’ Ballpark Gets Sweet New Animated LED Lighting Set-Up Eagle-eyes have noticed that there’s been unexplained scaffolding around the oversize Coca-Cola bottle at Oracle Park. The Giants just gave a preview of what these upgrades are all about, and that Coke bottle will now have animated LED light displays on it.
SF Politics Fired City Hall Director Back In Hot Water Over $19K In City Funds Used for Her Son’s UCLA Tuition If you thought it was bad when an SF City Hall director got fired over using city money to pay for a $10,000 Martha’s Vineyard house rental, wait ‘til you hear that she also got $19,000 of your tax dollars to send her kid to UCLA grad school.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Venerable Polk Street Vietnamese Spot Crustacean to Open In New Downtown Location Shortly It's happening probably within a few weeks: 34-year-old Vietnamese institution Crustacean is opening in the Financial District and getting a bit fancier — with the original Polk Street spot slated to close later this year.
SF Politics SF City Hall Department Head Placed On Leave Over Apparent $10K Side Gig, Conspicuously Pricey Conferences We’ve got another City Hall department head embroiled in scandal over alleged unauthorized moonlighting and no-bid contracts to previous clients for extravagant conferences, and Department on the Status of Women director Kimberly Ellis has been put on leave.
SF News Emeryville Man Arrested for Attempted Murder Following Mountain View Stabbing Mountain View police arrested a suspect Sunday in a stabbing that was reported by the suspect's sister.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ali Wong Brought Boyfriend Bill Hader to New Turtle Tower for Pho SF-born comedian Ali Wong has long been a fan of the famed chicken pho at Turtle Tower, and so it's only fitting that when she was back in town this week, she brought boyfriend Bill Hader to the new incarnation of the restaurant downtown.
SF News Slow Down! Those Speed Cameras Are Now Up in SF, Starting Today Effective right now, San Francisco is the first city in California to have speed-monitoring cameras that will snap pictures of any vehicle going 11 mph over the speed limit. Though the fines won’t kick in for another 60 days.
SF News SFPD and Sheriff's Deputies Do Another Drug Sweep, This Time at Van Ness and Market The Whac-a-Mole games continued Wednesday night with another law enforcement sweep and mass arrest on San Francisco's Mid-Market Street, resulting in 40 more drug users and/or dealers arrested.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Postal Workers Protest Possible Privatization Postal workers protest the Trump administration's talk of privatizing the US Postal Service; there was a vigil Wednesday for the slain 15-year-old in East Oakland; and DOGE seems to be getting pushback on its canceling of federal office leases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Interim Oakland Mayor Challenges Lurie to 3-Pointer Contest The UC system is instituting a hiring freeze as it faces Trump cuts; the Defense Department erased and then restored a page about Jackie Robinson; and federal judges are raising alarms about online threats against them.
SF Politics Contra Costa DA Diana Becton Faces the Latest Bay Area Effort to Recall a District Attorney Recall-mania has spread to Contra Costa County, where District Attorney Diana Becton has a recall effort in effect against her, though she’s been elected twice and may be better able to beat it than Chesa Boudin or Pamela Price were.
SF News Woman Who Died During Conjugal Visit to Sacramento Area Prison Likely Strangled By Inmate Husband A coroner has ruled that a woman died by strangulation during an overnight visit to Mule Creek State Prison in November, and she was alone with her convicted murderer husband at the time.
Arts & Entertainment That 45-Foot-Tall Nude Woman Statue Is Coming to SF After All, and Will Be at Embarcadero Plaza Union Square was forced to disrobe its plans for placing a 45-foot-tall Burning Man statue of a nude woman there, but the statue has found a different home at the Embarcadero, and will have its unveiling on April 10.
SF News SF City Attorney Shuts Down Two 'Wildly Illegal' Nightclubs, Three Gambling Dens Two illegal nightclubs and three gambling dens have been successfully shut down in San Francisco in recent months thanks to enforcement actions by the SF City Attorney's Office.
Arts & Entertainment The SF Zoo’s 56-Year-Old Female Chimpanzee Maggie Has Died The female chimp Maggie at the SF Zoo was one of the five oldest chimpanzees in the United States, but had been suffering from lymphoma, and the SF Zoo just announced that she has died.
SF News Five Muni Bus Lines Will Likely See Changes, Turn Around at Market Street, Starting In June The SFMTA has been threatening to make service cuts as they struggle to avoid a financial cliff, and those cuts are now likely being made real on five Muni bus lines, starting this summer.
SF News Police Arrest Employee at Castro Walgreens Who Allegedly Stabbed Shoplifter In the Eye It was a violent morning on Castro Street Wednesday when an employee at the Walgreens store there allegedly stabbed a shoplifter in the eye during a street altercation.
SF News City Hall Revises Now-Moribund Central SoMa Plan By Allowing More Housing and Much Less Office Space The Central SoMa area between the Moscone Center and the Giants' ballpark was supposed to boom thanks to an ambitious City Hall plan, but the pandemic made that go bust, so now officials are revising the plan with more of a focus on housing and retail.
Arts & Entertainment New Artists' Facility Begins to Take Shape at Former SF Art Institute The historic San Francisco Art Institute is going to be undergoing a renovation in the coming year, and it's now looking like it will re-emerge in a few years' time as an arts organization and studio facility, the exact details of which are still to be revealed.
SF News SF Anti-Crime Crusader and Twitter Troll Ricci Wynne Now Indicted for Child Porn A loudmouth social media figure who made a name for himself with sensational videos of drug use and depravity in San Francisco's Tenderloin is now facing even more serious charges than he already had been, following an arrest late last year.
SF News East Oakland 15-Year-Old Shot and Killed Over Attempted Robbery of His Backpack Less than a month shy of his 16th birthday, an East Oakland teen was shot and killed while walking with his friends to soccer practice, in what was merely an attempt to steal his backpack that quickly turned deadly.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Suspect Killed In Santa Rita Jail A 37-year-old man suspected in a 2022 vehicular homicide on Highway 24 was killed at Santa Rita Jail; a state bill banning street vending has been reintroduced; and there are two possible measles cases in Tuolumne County.
