SF News Four Wounded In Oakland Shooting An unwelcome gift for the new Oakland police chief Anthony Batts? Last night's shooting on the 17500 block of 85th Street, which saw four people get shot a little after 9 p.m.
SF News Bonny Doon Fire Continues More than 2,400 residents are under a mandatory evacuation as the Bonny Doon wildfire continues to singe over 4,100 acres. So far, the blaze has torched two unidentified structures. As of
SF News Previously on BART Stike: 1997 View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. Remember the BART strike of September 1997? Which lasted an entire week? Turning into a nightmare. Well, what with BART officially announcing a
SF News Day Around the Bay The real reason Dede Wilsey quit the Arts Commission. [Sweet Melissa, Bigelow] Top Chef house for sale. [Curbed] Eric Wareheim (of Tim & Eric Awesome Show) and something called the "daggering craze." [SFBG]
SF News BART Strike <s>Now Very Possible</s> On Sunday Night The looming BART strike, which has been a verbal threat every since union negotiations crumbled, might be a distinct possibility. More of a distinct possibility, that is, than we thought earlier. This afternoon,
SF News Hackers Break Into Berkeley Journalism School's Server While j-schoolers at Cal are busy bemoaning the state of the Journalism and perfecting that well-worn journalist look (hint: spiral notepad, unkempt hair, elbow patches, lots of chin scratching), a hacker breached UC
misc Signs of San Francisco Here's another set of local signage that photogs captured in all of their clever, weathered, colorful, informative and matter-of-fact glory. Enjoy.
SF News Moving Van Crashes Into SF Building According to a few frantic Twitter messages this morning, a moving van plowed into the side of a building, either near Dolores Park or somewhere in the Tenderloin. cbs5: "Just In: moving van
SF News Mirant Power Plant To Close By End Of 2010 Ciy Attorney Dennis Herrera just announced a agreement with Mirant to close the Potrero power plant by 2010, one of the city's last remaining large power plants. According to our sources, Mirant will
SF News Laura Ling and Euna Lee Say 'Thanks' Oh hey, look! Former North Korean captives Laura Ling and Euna Lee have posted a thank-you video for all of you who helped get them released. You know, those of you who wrote
misc Admission Free At National Parks This Weekend Entrance fees to national parks will be waived this weekend, folks. (Yay!) In addition to free admission, according to the LA Times, "many park partners, including area hotels and restaurants, will offer discounts
SF News Bonny Doon Wildfire Roars Hundreds of residents have fled their homes after a Santa Cruz county wildfire in Bonny Doon started last night. According to CBS 5, "authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations for about 600 people on
SF News Day Around the Bay Woo hoo! Giants avoid three-game sweep by Dodgers. [Examiner] Supe Ross Mirkarimi aims again at Newsom's security details. [Appeal, SFBG] Facebook re-creates its own Coca-Cola Classic. [Valleywag] Beth Spotswood and your SFist editor
SF News Turmoil and Strife at KRON 4? SFGate 'City Bright' Rich Lieberman has word that, behind the joy that is Darya Folsom and Gary Radnich in the morning, turmoil is brewing behind the scenes at KRON 4. (Which would make
SF News Marijuana, Nature's Chemotherapy? Noted no-nonsense humor haters Stuff Stones Like came across some revealing pot news. It seems a recent scientific survey suggests that kind bud protects against cancer. Pretty cool, huh? And with that in
SF News Obama Honors Harvey Milk With Presidential Medal of Freedom, Kind Words Later this evening, President Obama, who has been soft on gay issues thus far during his administration, awarded Harvey Milk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. Sapphic tennis player Billie Jean King, Sen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iced Jumbo Green Onions Recalled Packaged in 48-count iced cartons, iced jumbo green onions, branded under the Omo and Fu Choy names, are being recalled as a precautionary measure due to the possible presence of Salmonella. The iffy
misc Photo du Jour 484 Can we call it a season yet? Because last night's Giants game was brutal, with the Los Angeles Dodgers slapping us into submission 9-1. (OK, turtle_276 makes a good point. We're only
SF News Kaiser Permanente to Slash 1,200 Jobs Kaiser Permanente plans to eliminate about 1,200 Northern California jobs due to the tanking economy. The primary areas affected by this most recent slash include "housekeeping, pharmacy techs/clerks, unit assistants, transcription/
SF News North Beach Fire Displaces Six Late yesterday morning, a three-alarm fire in North Beach tore through four units on the 600 block of Green Street (also known as Beach Blanket Babylon Boulevard), next door to the famed Beach
SF News Suspect in Toll Bridge Shooting Arrested The man suspected of shooting and killing a toll collector and transit worker at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza last night has been arrested. Richmond resident Nathaniel Burris, 46, "was spotted by
SF News Search for Missing Oakland Boy Intensifies FBI agents armed with search dogs have joined the effort to help find Hasanni Campbell, the five-year-old boy who went missing in Rockridge on Monday afternoon. According to the Oakland Tribune, "Louis Ross,
SF News Day Around the Bay Can the Richmond end its "60-year stagnation"? [Curbed] Grassfire roaring in the Redwood Regional Park area, in the East Bay hills. [KGO] This is what one wears to a $50 million deal in
SF News Car Rams Into Pedestrians In The Sunset A Honda hybrid, it seems, "[c]lobbered a few pedestrians and stopped the N for a bit in both directions" this morning at 7th Avenue and Irving. We asked SFist reader blarfiejandro, who
