SF News SF District Attorney Announces Arrest of Another Alleged 'Prolific' Retail Thief The San Francisco District Attorney — and Mayor London Breed — are eager for residents to know that something is being done about rampant retail theft in the city. And another arrest of an allegedly prolific retail burglary suspect was just announced.
Business & Tech Some Upheaval at OpenAI as Company Announces Plan to Become a For-Profit Enterprise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made some public comments at a conference in Italy on Thursday indicating that the company intends to restructure and let go of its nonprofit structure, but he said the departures of several key executives a day earlier were unrelated.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Scores of A's Fans Tailgate Before Final Coliseum Game Over 1,000 A's fans were already in the Coliseum parking lot before 8 am today ahead of their final home game; two Vallejo firefighters were injured during a rescue; and BART ridership hit a new post-pandemic record on Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video of Nima Momeni Pantomiming Stabbing Will Be Shown to Jurors A video of Nima Momeni that defense attorneys say should be protected by attorney-client privilege is admissible, a judge says; the stray cats of Golden Gate Fields need homes; and Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Continually Operating Business, Boudin Bakery, Turns 175 It may not be the first place San Franciscans think about going for their fresh bread these days, but Boudin Bakery is one of the remaining vestiges of San Francisco's "49er" days in the early Gold Rush.
SF News Pleasanton Police Investigating Following Death of Dog on Sweltering Apartment Balcony A possible case of animal cruelty is being investigated in Pleasanton after a video went viral on social media of a dog barking and whining while trapped on an apartment balcony in 100-degree heat.
Business & Tech What's Up With Mark Zuckerberg Talking to Trump on the Phone Twice This Summer? The New York Times and Mark Zuckerberg would like us to think that Zuckerberg is "done with politics." But is he, though?
SF News Hayes Valley's PROXY Likely to Stick Around for Years as Affordable Housing Development Remains Stalled What was intended to be a temporary community benefit on a site slated for affordable housing development within a few years, Hayes Valley's PROXY, shows no signs of going away anytime soon, despite some activists pushing for the housing to be built.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Police Searching For Missing 12-Year-Old Girl A man hijacked a city bus in LA this morning and a passenger was killed; police in Berkeley are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl; and concession workers at the Oakland Coliseum face an uncertain future.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Neighborhood Wants In on Night Market Game, Will Host One On 18th Street Next Month A first-ever Castro Night Market will be happening on Friday, October 18, following the success of recent neighborhood night markets in Chinatown and the Sunset.
SF Politics Does Janet Jackson's Beef With Kamala Harris Stem From Comments Harris Made Before Michael Jackson's 2005 Trial? Pop star Janet Jackson has not walked back some odd comments she made during an interview with a UK publication, repeating falsehoods promulgated in right-wing circles about Kamala Harris's race. And this has raised questions about what Jackson's motivations may be.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Pro Artem Chigvintsev Won't Be Charged In Napa Domestic Violence Case The Napa County District Attorney's Office announced Tuesday that Artem Chigvintsev will not face charges relating to a domestic violence arrest last month that made national headlines.
SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Near Collision On United Flight Injures Two A near-miss collision event on a United Airlines flight into SF last week left two passengers injured; Oakland fans are not reacting well to A's owner John Fisher's goodbye note; and this heatwave will subside tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Janet Jackson Called Out For Repeating Misinformation About Kamala Harris's Race Janet Jackson is facing backlash for saying she'd "heard" that Kamala Harris isn't really Black; two brothers from Hayward are facing murder charges stemming from a botched robbery; and SF Travel has a new, permanent CEO.
SF News More Details Emerge About Officer-Involved Shooting at Powell Street BART Station We're now learning a bit more about what led to the police shooting of an allegedly armed man at Powell Street Station two Fridays ago, and it was actually some proactive policing.
SF Politics It's a Boomer vs. Boomer Battle Over Political Speech In One Small East Bay Retirement Community Out in eastern Contra Costa County, there have been political battles being waged in the pages of the community newspaper and in small demonstrations, and tensions this election year even boiled into a physical fight on a pickleball court.
SF Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle Is No Fan of Kamala Harris, and Their History In SF Politics Is Personal The New York Times is dredging up some old dirt about a longstanding beef between presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and Trump's almost-daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle, which dates back to when Harris was an assistant DA.
SF News VTA Employee Arrested For Friday Slaying of Coworker In San Jose A Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee was arrested Sunday in San Jose in connection with a fatal shooting of a coworker Friday in a VTA parking lot.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Mateo County Sheriff Files Complaint San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus has filed a complaint against a male colleague; port workers in Oakland and elsewhere could be headed for a strike; and a night market on the Great Highway was a success.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mexodus' at Berkeley Rep Takes a Riveting Musical Journey Into a Little-Known Piece of History Berkeley Rep kicked off its new season this week with a new musical piece by a pair of talented performers and musicians that delves into a mostly untold piece of pre-Civil War history.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial Calls It Quits Le Colonial says "au revoir" after 26 years, a tiny Thai-Lao restaurant debuts in Parkside, and Four Kings gets a new national accolade, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Cruise Comes Crawling Back, Re-Launching Driverless Cars, With Drivers, On Peninsula Autonomous taxi company Cruise is slowly trying to reintroduce its robocars in the Bay Area, one year after the company went into freefall following a brutal collision in which one of the cars dragged an injured pedestrian.
SF News SF Jury Convicts Two for 2017 Murder of Photographer on Twin Peaks A brutal 2017 murder case that stemmed from a robbery of a photographer who was shooting pictures of the under-construction Salesforce Tower has finally come to a close, with the two suspects convicted more than seven years later.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mother Killed While Crossing Burlingame Street The mother of a special needs child was killed while crossing a street in Burlingame last week; shots rang out in Brentwood Thursday night and one man was injured; and homicides are at their lowest level in 60 years in SF.
