SF News On Real ID Eve, Bay Area Airports Say You Can Still Travel With Your Old ID — Just With Lots of Extra Hassle The new Real ID law kicks in at airports across the nation on Wednesday. Authorities now say you can still board a plane with your older ID, but TSA will pull you aside and give you the runaround, so get to the airport a heck of a lot earlier.
SF News Video: Black Oakland Chef Tased, Detained In Dallas, Says He Was Wrongfully Accused Of Drug Possession Dallas police were filmed tasing and arresting Michael Singleton, a Black executive chef based in Oakland and Dallas, as he told onlookers he was being wrongfully accused of possessing cocaine. Singleton has since been released and all charges dropped.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Day After DC Plane Crash, San Carlos Airport Might Lose All Air Traffic Controllers Mark Zuckerberg is none too pleased that Facebook staffers are leaking his Trump capitulations to the media; a whopping 1,500 dolphins had a caravan through Monterey; and the San Carlos Airport might get rid of all air traffic controllers right after that horrific DC crash.
SF News Oakland Airport Hits Back on SFO Injunction, Claims SFO 'Manipulated Results’ Showing People Went to Wrong Airport The latest legal drama regarding whether Oakland Airport can have "San Francisco" in its name comes from the Oakland airport, which has filed its opposition to SF’s injunction, and claims SF is faking the data that customers are confused by the name change.
SF News California Could Ban TSA Line-Skipping Service ‘Clear’ From CA Airports Under New Bill The pricey, $189-a-year service called Clear that lets people cruise through airport TSA lines could be banned in California, under a proposed bill from state lawmakers who think its unfair to people can’t pay the extra 200 bucks.
SF News Japan-Bound Flight Makes Immediate Emergency Landing At SFO After Flames Seen Coming From Engine A flight bound for Tokyo that took off from SFO at noon Monday had to turn around and make an emergency landing back at SFO after flames were seen coming out of one
SF News Flights Delayed Through Friday Night At SFO Due To Weather The rain is picking up as we cross into Friday afternoon here, and the heaviest of our weekend wetness is supposed to occur in the next few hours. And, predictably, the rain has
Arts & Entertainment Video: Two Planes Landing At SFO In Beautiful Synchronicity While it won't make everything right with the world, this short video of two planes landing simultaneously at SFO is pretty cool. And it might, just for a few seconds, provide you with
SF News Video: California Man Thrown Off Plane Yells About His 176 IQ, $4 Million Salary, And Six Homes Money certainly cannot buy class. This much we already knew, but video depicting an apparently drunk California man being thrown off a Jet Blue plane last Friday really drives the point home. According
SF News Police Searching For Uber Driver Who Allegedly Assaulted Man After Dispute In San Jose San Jose Police are on the lookout for a man they believe to be an Uber driver after a dispute last Thursday regarding speeding got heated. According to police, a worker at Mineta
SF News [Update] Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Arrested Again In Chicago The sad case of serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman popped its head up again today as we learn that the 64-year-old was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport yesterday for the second time. Hartman,
SF News SF Mag Talks To Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman, Tries To Make Sense Of Her Former SF Weekly investigative journalist Joe Eskanazi was on the perplexing case of Marilyn Hartman for San Francisco Magazine in recent months, tracking her down first at the Florida jail where she landed
SF News [Updated] Austin-Bound Virgin Flight Out Of SFO Returns To Gate After Passenger Threatens Suicide Virgin America flight 218 from SFO to Austin had to turn around while taxiing for takeoff around noon today after a passenger made an apparent suicide threat. Passenger (and angel investor) Erik Berg
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Pops Up In Chicago, Gets Arrested Possibly clinically depressed, possibly otherwise mentally ill, but seemingly always on the move with the cunning and quickness of a fox, Marilyn Hartman has been arrested yet again, this time at Chicago's O'Hare
SF News Pre-Holiday Airport Report: Delays, And Ways To Pass The Time At SFO The Bay Area's busiest airport, SFO, expects to handle 1.3 million travelers between last Friday and December 1, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Add that to the designation as the
SF News Serial Stowaway Marilyn Hartman Admits She Is Mentally Ill Marilyn Hartman, the 62-year-old woman who can't seem to stay out of airports or off of flights she hasn't purchased tickets for, now says she is suffering from chronic depression, as well as
SF News 49er Aldon Smith Arrested At LAX, Claims He Had A Bomb Whether you're a clueless 14-year-old "white girl" or a lauded football star, offhand comedic bits about committing acts of terrorism don't land well with authorities. Take, for example, 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith who
SF News Raiders Fan Tazed After Stripping, Urinating At UK Airport A man dressed in a Raiders t-shirt made a lasting international impression when he stripped naked on the tarmac at Manchester Airport. The 52-year-old man, who appears to be British (unless Oakland residents
SF News SFO Plane Crash Victims Identified As Teen Girls Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China, were identified as the passengers killed during yesterday's Asiana Flight 214 crash at San Francisco International Airport. The crash also
SF News Man Allegedly Tries To Fool TSA With Foil-Wrapped Gun No longer just for deflecting mind-reading waves from outer space, aluminum foil was allegedly used in an attempt to conceal a firearm on a flight from SFO to Europe. Kerry Lee Bobo, 53,
SF News TSA Removing Some Whole Body Scanners From Bay Area Airports [Updated] Amid concerns from airline passengers of allowing TSA workers to see what they look like naked, the agency has finally relented and will remove the controversial full-body scanner machines. The government had previously
SF News Gavin Newsom Furious At United Airlines, Tweets Traumatic Tarmac Wait California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom is learning what we've known for eons — namely, not having access to the Jetty sucks. On an airport tarmac somewhere last night, Newsom was none too thrilled that
SF News Man Tries To Board SFO Flight Carrying M-80s, Water Bottle Filled With Flash Powder Far be it for us to call anyone stupid, because that's just rude, but we're having trouble understanding the mindset a man who boarded a flight from Philadelphia to San Francisco carrying fireworks.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: San Francisco International Opens World's First In-Airport Yoga Studio In a press event at San Francisco International Airport this morning, SFist witnessed airport officials announce the grand opening of what they believe is the world's first in-airport free yoga studio. Because, well,
SF News TSA Finds Weed in Rapper's Luggage, Lets Him Keep It Anyway What's up with TSA inspectors these days? First they're leaving inappropriate notes for ladies who travel with (ahem) electronic accessories and now Freddie Gibbs, a rapper from Gary, Indiana, received the following note
