SF News Dana Rivers, Convicted In 2016 Triple Murder In Oakland, Seeks New Trial Dana Rivers, the trans rights activist and alleged biker gang "enforcer" who was convicted in November of killing two women and their son in a gruesome 2016 triple murder, has launched a last-ditch effort to avoid a spending the rest of her life in prison.
SF News Oakland Woman Reunited With French Bulldog Stolen In April Toya Zheng, the Oakland-based lawyer who went on local television to plea for the return of her two-year-old French bulldog Boba after he was stolen out of her car in April, now says the dog has been returned to her.
SF News Person of Interest In Mission District Shooting Is Also Wanted In Oakland Homicide The SFPD is on the hunt for a person of interest whom they've identified by a connection to a vehicle seen fleeing the scene of a shooting in the Mission District Friday that left nine people injured.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Employs First Cat In Its Wag Brigade There was a standoff outside the Coliseum BART station on Sunday that shut down the station briefly; Reddit users are in revolt over a new policy around third-party apps; and SFO is employing its first cat in the Wag Brigade.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Pizza, Bagel & Beer Fest Launching In North Beach In August A new food festival for the carb-crazed is coming to North Beach this summer, and it's being organized by none other than Tony Gemignani, of Tony's Pizza Napoletana fame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Excellent, New-ish Burgers to Try In San Francisco A hankering for a burger is, for many of us, a pretty regular occurrence. And the city of San Francisco is home to many, many good and great ones. But a few have popped on our radar only recently, and we thought you should know.
SF News Oakland Woman Charged In Horrific Death of 10-Year-Old Daughter An Oakland woman whose daughter was found dead in her apartment last month has been charged with the girl's murder, in addition to several enhancements. And a relative says this was the sad result of a home plagued by domestic violence.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Bon Appetit Editor as New Lead Restaurant Critic The Chronicle announced Friday that the paper's new lead restaurant critic will be Bay Area native MacKenzie Chung Fegan, who's lately been a senior editor at food magazine Bon Appétit.
SF News Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Was Arrested In 2005 Stabbing Incident Evidence favorable to the prosecution continues to be collected in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, the sole suspect in the April 4 killing of Bob Lee in downtown San Francisco. And the latest is a case of violence from 18 years ago.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Transit Protesters Shut Down Octavia Off-Ramp Protesters shut down the intersection of Octavia and Market on Thursday over transit funding; Frank Somerville has been formally charged after his Berkeley arrests; and the BART board has voted to increase fares again.
Arts & Entertainment Restyled 'Wizard of Oz' at A.C.T. Delights In Goofy Gags A stage-musical version of The Wizard of Oz adapted from the iconic 1939 film starring Judy Garland has just hit A.C.T.'s Toni Rembe Theater, and it's a fun, lightly reimagined romp through familiar material that succeeds in many laughs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Employees Cite Multiple Reasons for the Quick Collapse of the Much-Ballyhooed Hi Felicia The opprobrium and dirt-slingings continue in the story of Oakland "vulgar fine dining restaurant" Hi Felicia, which garnered widespread, entirely positive media attention in 2022 before abruptly closing last month.
SF Politics SF Sheriff's Department to Employ Emergency Unit to Crack Down on Drug Users as Part of Breed Plan Just in time for tourists to descend on downtown for Pride at the end of June, San Francisco sheriff's deputies will be out in force making arrests for drug dealing and open-air drug use, as part of Mayor London Breed's previously announced plan.
SF News Castro Hate-Crime Suspect May Have Repeatedly Targeted the Neighborhood, Tells Judge the LGBTQ Community Goes 'Against God' Happy Pride Month, everybody! A 20-year-old suspect who was arraigned Wednesday for an alleged hate-crime attack on two men in the Castro neighborhood Monday may be a repeat offender, according to prosecutors.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Air India Plane From Russia Lands at SFO That ferry flight from Air India taking stranded SFO-bound passengers out of eastern Russia has made it back safely; the Temecula school board is doubling down on calling Harvey Milk a "pedophile"; and the El Nino season is arriving early.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Hate-Crime Attack On Two Men In the Castro A 20-year-old suspect has been arrested for an alleged hate crime in the Castro; the Oakland Police Commission is being blamed for taking too long in the hiring process for a new chief; and Stockton's county building won't be getting a Pride flag this year, say the supervisors.
Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday In the Mission District A beloved "front porch festival" that first happened in San Francisco in 2015 is returning this weekend for a day of local music on sidewalks and porches in the Mission District.
SF News Prolifically Violent MS-13 Gang Member From SF's Mission District Convicted, Faces Life In Prison In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
SF News Homeless Woman Interviewed For CNN's San Francisco Doom Special Says They Misrepresented Her and Others' Stories It should come as no surprise that CNN's gratuitous San Francisco hit piece several weeks ago — a Sunday evening, hour-long special about how the city has gone to hell, in the vein of Fox News — didn't embrace any nuanced angles about the lives of homeless people.
SF News Big Sur Likely to Be Inaccessible From Highway 1 From the South Through the Summer as Cleanup Work Continues The southern route into Big Sur on Highway 1 is going to be closed for the next several months, Caltrans says, in an update on the progress of work to clear debris from a major landslide that occurred this past winter.
SF News Overturned Garbage Truck, Landscaping Truck on Fire Cause Bay Area Freeway Backups An overturned garbage truck was causing a major traffic headache Wednesday morning on I-680. And separately, an Amazon truck dumped packages on Highway 92, and there was a landscaping truck on fire on 101 North in Marin County.
Business & Tech Hotel Expert: Hilton Owner's Declaration on Loan Might Just Be Negotiating Tactic It was one of the biggest local stories of the week, but is the owner of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels just negotiating with its bank by publicly saying they're defaulting on their loan?
SF News Gas and Water Main Leak Causes Disruption Near Duboce Park There was a simultaneous water main rupture and a gas leak Wednesday morning just above Duboce Park, near the intersection of Duboce Avenue and Castro Street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Air India Sends Ferry Flight To Rescue SFO-Bound Passengers Stranded In Russia An Air India ferry flight has left Mumbai en route to Magadan, Russia to rescue those stranded SFO-bound passengers; New York is getting a taste of wildfire smoke; and the HRC has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ rights.
SF News Lake Oroville Spillway In Active Use as Lake Shasta Nears Capacity as Well The last time Lake Oroville neared capacity was four years ago, and very quickly it plunged into drought territory and has seen low water levels until this winter. And now that billion-dollar, renovated spillway is back in use as the reservoir is back at 99% of its capacity.
