SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Shot By Police While Holding Knife In Tenderloin A man who was shot five times by the SFPD in August in a widely covered incident in the Tenderloin is going free after being jailed for the last four months, after the cops in the case declined to testify.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: City Worker Struck By Car and Seriously Injured In SoMa A city parking-enforcement worker was struck and injured by a fleeing suspect in SoMa; a 63-year-old woman was beaten by teens in a SoMa garage; and California's secretary of state is allowing Trump on the ballot.
Business & Tech GM Sues San Francisco Over Cruise Tax Bill, Which It Says Is Unfair General Motors, the parent company of autonomous taxi outfit Cruise, has filed suit against the City of San Francisco over a $108 million tax bill that it says was incorrectly charged. And this may be some sort of revenge for the city and state's treatment of the company.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong Was One of Three Candidates for Chief That Mayor Thao Rejected The latest drama in the long fight between the mayor and the police commission came with the mayor's rejection of a slate of three finalist candidates for the next chief of police that the commission sent to her desk earlier this month.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: High Surf, Flood Warnings For Entire Bay Area Coast Santa Cruz is under an evacuation warning and the entire Bay Area coast is under high-surf and flood warnings; Oakland airport was a mess this a.m.; and Dungeness crab fishing season can begin January 5.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Rejects Police Commission's Candidate List A man was shot and possibly killed in the Tenderloin Wednesday morning; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has rejected a list of three candidates for police chief; and there was a fire at the San Leandro Marina.
SF News Owner of Tenderloin Best Western Who Installed Sprinklers to Soak Homeless Wishes City Would Just Buy His Hotel The owner of the beleaguered Best Western hotel at Eddy and Polk streets in SF's Tenderloin would really like the city to just buy the place already and turn it into homeless housing, because he says it's not doing much business as a hotel.
Business & Tech New York Times Sues OpenAI, Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Content In what may prove a pivotal legal moment for the artificial intelligence industry, the New York Times has filed suit against OpenAI over the unauthorized use of years of journalistic content in the training of its generative AI models.
SF News Over 7,000 PG&E Customers Lose Power In San Francisco; Outage to Be Fully Resolved By Afternoon On Wednesday morning, an estimated 7,050 households and businesses lost electricity in the center of San Francisco, and as of late morning, over 1,000 customers were still without power.
SF News Fleeing Suspect, Police Chase Tuesday Evening Causes Multiple Injuries In SF A hit-and-run suspect who was fleeing from San Francisco police on Tuesday allegedly struck a car and a pedestrian as he tried to escape arrest, leading to multiple injuries.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Delayed After Body Found at Embarcadero Station BART service was temporarily disrupted Tuesday evening after a body was discovered at Embarcadero Station; a car fire in the Caldecott Tunnel caused some evening traffic; and the Michigan Supreme Court is letting Trump stay on the primary ballot.
SF News A New Grocery Store Likely to Replace Former Safeway Near Fisherman's Wharf We have an update on the beleaguered, mostly empty NorthPoint Centre near Fisherman's Wharf, at the edge of North Beach, and its adjacent apartment complex, and it's good news for those in the neighborhood who miss having a full-service grocery store.
Business & Tech Lawsuit Over Twitter/X Employees' Unpaid Bonuses Moves Forward After Judge's Ruling A lawsuit brought by one former Twitter exec who stayed on with company following the Fall 2022 purge by new owner Elon Musk, claiming that Musk reneged on a promise of bonuses for all those didn't resign, is moving to trial.
SF Politics Sen. Laphonza Butler Says Being In the Senate Was 'Not on My Bingo Card,' Hopes to Create Space For Younger People In Congress Two months into her tenure, the new junior senator from California, Laphonza Butler, has offered a fuller explanation for why she decided she would not be running for a full six-year term next year.
SF News All Muni Fare Gates Will Be Open and Bus and Train Rides Will Again Be Free on New Year's Eve Riding Muni will be free again this New Year's Eve, giving you one less excuse for making poor choices and another option for getting home after partying this end-of-year holiday weekend.
Business & Tech Apple's Legal Woes Over Apple Watch Oxygen Monitor Leads to Device Removal From US Shelves, Biden Declines to Help The newest models of the Apple Watch have been pulled from shelves across the U.S. due to an ongoing patent-infringement legal battle with the maker of blood-oxygen monitoring technology.
SF News Post-Xmas Headlines: 49ers Disappoint In Loss to Ravens A Christmas morning encampment fire sent smoke billowing over downtown Oakland; a storm is on its way Wednesday so you should take down any outdoor decorations now; and the 49ers were a mess in their Xmas game against the Ravens.
SF News Christmas Monday Links: Outcry Over a Beloved Chain Fence By the Golden Gate There's been an outcry over a plan to remove an antique chain fence near the Golden Gate Bridge; 'Christmas Tree Lane' in Alameda was a major destination on Sunday; and George Gascon could face a tough re-election down in L.A.
SF News Christmas Eve Links: Food Truck Workers Injured In Stove Accident at Union Square Two boys ages 12 and 13 were killed Saturday in a hit-and-run in Antioch; three food truck workers were injured in their truck near Union Square in a stove accident; and the SFPD made 18 retail-theft arrests last week.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protester Climbs Union Square Christmas Tree In SF A protest in SF's Union Square Saturday seeking to disrupt the holiday shopping rush and call attention to the war in Gaza led to one protester climbing the Union Square Christmas tree.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Laying Off Everyone Elon Musk's dreams of building a high-speed steel-tube transit network that would theoretically make train and short-haul airline travel obsolete appear to be dead. Hyperloop One, founded in 2014, is shutting down.
SF News Jury Convicts SF Man of Public Nuisance After He Displayed 'Free Fentanyl' Sign Outside Public School On Friday morning, a jury convicted a homeless man of "willfully and unlawfully creating a public nuisance" after he piled belongings on a sidewalk and displayed signs near a school advertising "Free Fentanyl 4 New Users."
SF News Suspect In Pacifica Homicide, a Colma Firefighter, Found Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound In Ukiah The suspect in Thursday's double stabbing in Pacifica, which was described as an incident of domestic violence and in which one male victim died, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ukiah.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lines Out the Door at Oakland Airport A dog had to be rescued after a fall at Fort Mason Thursday night; a Daly City man is in critical condition following a shooting; and lines were already reportedly snaking out the door early Friday morning at Oakland Airport.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco 2023 Despite the dominant narrative about San Francisco being "over" this past year, you wouldn't know it from the vibrant, resurgent restaurant scene. Here are our picks for the dozen new restaurants everyone who loves food should try.
