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.
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.
