SF News Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
SF News Pacifica Woman Allegedly Shoots Son, Drives Off, and Is Killed By Police An officer-involved shooting occurred in Pacifica Wednesday morning, and reportedly the person shot was a woman who had just shot her adult son.
SF Politics East Bay Man With Habit of Threatening Federal Officials, Including Nancy Pelosi, Gets 11 Months In Prison A Concord man who left threatening messages on the office voicemails of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 11 months in federal prison.
SF Politics SF Bar Association Says DA Brooke Jenkins Is Inflaming Controversy Over Light Sentence; Judge Now Getting Death Threats A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and judges say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence.
SF News SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell.
SF News Humpday Headlines: New Oakland Police Chief to Be Formally Introduced New Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is being introduced at a public event today; Oakland's downtown economic outlook is worse than SF's; and designer Ken Fulk's loft and office space on 7th Street is on the market at a reduced price.
Business & Tech Instagram and Threads Now Making You Opt In If You Want to See Political Content, or Anything Related to Anything Important It turns out that Meta's definition of "political content" is quite broad, as the company rolls out a new feature — or, some would say, involuntary content filter — that will scrub your feeds of most anything that isn't cat/dog videos.
Business & Tech Denver-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Suffers Bird Strike, Returns to Gate After Takeoff Another United flight out of SFO had an issue on Saturday morning, but this one was due to natural causes, or, rather, a random collision with nature.
SF Politics Silicon Valley Lawyer (and Sergey Brin's Ex) Nicole Shanahan Named as RFK Jr.'s Running Mate The spoiler third-party presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a running mate from the Bay Area: Silicon Valley lawyer and previous Democratic donor Nicole Shanahan.
SF News Alleged Lululemon Thieves In Napa Chased By CHP Plane to Oakland, Where They Crashed Their Car A car crash on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue Monday afternoon was apparently connected to a retail theft at a Lululemon store in Napa and a law enforcement chase across four counties.
SF News Portola District Deaths Being Called Murder-Suicide The deaths of a couple found in their Portola District home Sunday evening are being attributed to a murder-suicide.
SF News Power Outage Hits Russian Hill, Pac Heights, Presidio and Marina District A fairly significant power outage left thousands in the dark Tuesday morning across a northern swath of San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Golden Gate Bridge Tolls Rise Again A major bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after being struck by a container ship overnight; the SFPD has made an arrest in connection with a January homicide in Mission Bay; and tolls are rising again on the Golden Gate Bridge in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Double Rainbow Seen Over the Castro The man killed by a wrong-way driver in that MacArthur Maze crash has been identified; more rainy weather is arriving by midweek in the Bay; and Saturday's weather created a double rainbow over San Francisco.
SF Politics Mark Farrell Wants to Bring Car Traffic Back to Market Street Downtown — Is That Wise? It could just be campaign bluster and empty talk, but mayoral candidate Mark Farrell is among those talking about reopening Market Street to regular vehicle traffic. And Chronicle urban design critic John King has some thoughts.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Has Done Away With 10% 'Dine-In' Surcharge, But Will Add 5% Charge Emerging from the pandemic, San Francisco restaurant Che Fico took a controversial approach to realigning the economics of dining, and now they're backing off a bit, at least by 5%.
Business & Tech Judge Tells Musk His Lawsuit Against Hate-Speech Watchdog Group Is Just 'Punishment' For Their Speech Self-proclaimed 'free speech absolutist' Elon Musk went after several nonprofit organizations last year for their speech last year. One of those lawsuits was just tossed out by a federal judge with a blistering, 52-page order.
SF News Two Dead In Double Shooting In San Francisco's Portola Neighborhood Two people were found fatally shot Sunday evening by San Francisco police inside a home in the Portola neighborhood.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Trump Gets Reprieve From Appeals Court Three people were shot in a verbal dispute in East Oakland Sunday; residents of the West Portal neighborhood remain shaken after last week's fatal crash; and Donald Trump has gotten a reprieve from an appeals court in New York in his fraud case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Boichik Bagels Land In SF Saturday Wayfare Tavern confirms they are relocating a few blocks away, Boichik Bagels opens their first SF location Saturday in Laurel Heights/Presidio Heights, and Bar Jabroni makes a splash in the Lower Haight.
SF News Protesters Rally Against Light Sentencing For Defendant In 2021 Stabbing of Elderly Asian Woman The stabbing of a 94-year-old Asian woman in San Francisco's Tenderloin made many headlines when it occurred in June 2021, and that was in a year when there were many high-profile acts of violence committed against Asian seniors in particular.
Arts & Entertainment 21-Hour Marathon of All Nine 'Star Wars' Movies Happening at Alamo Drafthouse Are you such a big Star Wars fan that you'd like to sit through all nine movies of the saga in one go with a bunch of other Star Wars fans? Well, Alamo Drafthouse can give you this experience.
SF News Avoid Being Scammed By Fake FasTrak Texts Telling You to Pay Penalties Bay Area drivers should know that a scam has been going around involving fake websites posing as the FasTrak toll system trying to extract payments from people.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Civic Center Gets Evasion-Proof BART Gates BART's new evasion-proof fare gates are getting installed at Civic Center Station today; a 28-year-old man was found shot at an Oakland motel; and rain arrives again this afternoon.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Gets More Like Being In the Club This Season With New Soundsystem, Lighting Effects Going to a Giants game this baseball season — or, likely, to any upcoming concerts at Oracle Park — is going to have a lot more nightclub vibes, thanks to a major lighting and sonic upgrade at the stadium.
