SF News Tahoe to Get First Big Snowstorm of the Season on Saturday San Francisco will get a sprinkling of rain starting Saturday morning, but the storm system moving in from the north will be bringing the first major snowfall of the winter season to the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Teen Killed In NYE Fireworks Accident ID'd The 18-year-old who was killed in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island has been identified; the 10-year-old boy in Sacramento who fatally shot a friend with his father's gun will not be charged; and the Pacifica Pier is closed for a damage assessment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fast-Casual Cafe and Pizzeria With Golden Gate Views Opening In the Presidio A new cafe, with pizza, cocktails, beer and wine, is opening January 15 in the former Transit cafe space at the Presidio Transit Center (215 Lincoln Blvd.), right at the entry of the Presidio Tunnel Tops.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF Politics Florida Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Swalwell's Kids A 72-year-old Florida man (and likely Trump supporter!) has been arrested after allegedly making criminal threats against Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell and his family.
SF News People's Park Once Again to Become Flashpoint of Protest as UC Berkeley Moves to Wall It Off We are likely to see another few days of protest at Berkeley's People's Park, after campus and city police descended Wednesday night to execute an elaborate operation in which 160 shipping containers are to be used to wall off the park on all sides.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Men Charged In Oakland Cop Killing Make Court Appearance The two men charged in the killing of OPD Officer Tuan Le make their first court appearance; there was a vigil in SF for the 13-y-o boy killed in a pre-Christmas hit-and-run in Antioch; and House Democrats release report showing millions Trump received from foreign governments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Teens Caught Stealing Cow-Crossing Sign, Others A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
SF News 27-Year-Old Stockton Man Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Oakland Cop Served Five Years For Another Oakland Shooting The suspect who Oakland police say fired the gun that killed Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le on Friday morning has now been publicly identified, and it turns out he already served time for killing another man a decade ago, when he was still a juvenile.
SF News Naked Man Reportedly Shooting Off Gun Amid Mental Health Crisis In Outer Richmond A man who was reportedly naked and having a mental health crisis was firing off a gun on New Year's Eve morning, and he was arrested and thankfully no one was struck by any of the bullets.
SF Politics Manny Yekutiel Now Says He Won't Run For Mayor This Year It honestly didn't seem that wise or plausible to begin with, but Manny Yekutiel has officially said that his very hypothetical candidacy for San Francisco mayor has been put on the back burner for now.
SF News Guest at SF Marriott Last Summer Sues Over Alleged Attack By Homeless Person A man who stayed at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis last year has filed a lawsuit against the Marriott corporation claiming negligence after he was allegedly assaulted by a person he says was homeless on hotel property.
SF Politics Oakland City Councilmember Pushing Mayor to Declare State of Emergency, Push Aside Police Commission Tensions are mounting in Oakland over the nearly yearlong selection process that has still not resulted in a satisfactory nominee to be the city's next chief of police. And following the on-duty death of a police officer last week, one city council member is urging the mayor to take decisive action.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theo Lengyel Arrested In Murder of Girlfriend; Remains Found In Tilden Park It was the week before Christmas that we learned that Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, a Bay Area musician and former member of the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, was being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Rescued From Sinking Sailboat Off Alameda One person was injured this morning when a Caltrain struck an occupied vehicle on the tracks; a man had to be rescued in Alameda when his sailboat became submerged; and the burglarized cannabis business near which the Oakland cop was shot has been identified.
SF News Berkeley's Ban On Gas-Powered Appliances Once Again Blocked By Ninth Circuit On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling denying an "en banc" rehearing of a case that was decided by a three-judge panel of the court last April, blocking Berkeley's ban on natural gas appliances in new construction.
SF News Oakland Police Make 'Several' Arrests In Connection With Fatal Shooting of Officer Following Dispensary Burglary The investigation continues into the tragic killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer last week who was among several officers responding to an alleged cannabis dispensary burglary. And over the holiday weekend, the OPD says it made "several" arrests.
SF News Victim Identified In Fatal SoMa Stabbing A man who was fatally stabbed in SF's South of Market neighborhood before the New Year's weekend has been identified, and the condition of the second victim is not known.
SF News One Dead, Two Injured In New Year's Day Rollover Crash on Highway 1 In SF A crash Monday night at the southwestern edge of San Francisco, near the Oceanview neighborhood on Junipero Serra Boulevard/Highway 1, left one person dead and two others with serious injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fresh Storm Rolling In BART resumed normal service this morning after Monday's derailment disaster; a storm is rolling Tuesday afternoon with some heavy rain; and a high surf advisory has been issued for Wednesday for the NorCal coast.
SF News Person Killed In Fireworks Accident on Treasure Island A person died early Monday in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island, less than an hour into the new year.
SF News New Year's Day Links: BART Train Derails, Injuring Nine A person was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in Oakland on New Year's Eve; a BART train partially derailed outside Orinda Station Monday morning, sparking a fire and injuring nine passengers; and another storm is heading our way.
SF News Former UC Davis Student Accused In April Stabbings Deemed Competent to Stand Trial The 22-year-old man who was arrested in connection with three stabbings in Davis last spring, two of them fatal, who has been in mental health treatment since shortly after his arrest, has been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
Business & Tech Judge Rules That Musk's X Must Abide By California's Content Moderation Law In another blow to Elon Musk's quest for absolute free speech, a federal judge has rejected Musk and his attorneys' argument that a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their content-moderation policies and procedures.
SF News [Updated] Oakland Police Officer Shot and Killed In 'Ambush' Near Jack London Square Details are starting to emerge in an early Friday confrontation near Oakland's Jack London Square, which ended in a crashed pickup truck and one Oakland police officer shot and critically wounded.
