- The month of June saw San Francisco’s lowest number of fatal drug overdoses in two years, according to the SF Medical Examiner’s Office. Data released this week showed 48 people died from accidental overdoses in June, which is down 15% from the 57 such deaths in June 2023, and the lowest monthly SF overdose death total since the 43 recorded in July 2022. [KQED]
- The Rolling Stones played the 10-year anniversary concert for Levi’s Stadium Wednesday night, despite saying they’d never play at that place again, and Mick Jagger got some pretty good local humor in. “I booked a Waymo to come here, but it got hit by an aircraft wheel, and then someone slashed the tires,” the 80-year-old Jagger joked. “But we made it in the end.” [Chronicle]
- SF City Hall is moving forward on a plan to turn the Motel 6 on the Great Highway in the Sunset into a 216-unit affordable housing project for seniors. This project would be more than twice as large as the 2550 Irving Street affordable housing complex that rankled some Sunset NIMBYs, but recent state legislation makes this project more appeal-proof. [Examiner]
- Trump’s VP pick, a former San Franciscan, Senator JD Vance, gave his Republican Convention speech Wednesday night, but Gavin’s Newsom’s crazy ex-wife Kim Guilfoyle was a warm-up speaker and gave another strange and shout-y speech. [USA Today]
- Thieves rammed a car through the gates of the Oakland SPCA and stole a van this weekend, and while the van was recovered the next day, it was badly damaged. [KTVU]
- 19-year-old Lowell High graduate Luis Arguello Inglis, who was shot and killed in Dolores Park last month, has been memorialized with a new mural at 24th and Folsom streets. [Mission Local]
Image: INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JULY 10: (L-R) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Steve Jordan of The Rolling Stones perform onstage during The Rolling Stones 'STONES TOUR '24 HACKNEY DIAMONDS' at SoFi Stadium on July 10, 2024 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)