SF News SFFD Ambulance Stolen In Outer Sunset As Patient Was Being Brought to It, Taken on Joyride to Oakland A San Francisco Fire Department ambulance was stolen out from under some EMTs on Monday evening, and multiple law enforcement agencies got involved in its pursuit until it was ultimately found abandoned on the other side of the Bay.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Auction Kicks Off There were shots fired on Geary Blvd. near Laurel Heights early this morning; a stabbing in the Mission left a man with serious injuries; and bidding has kicked off in the Twitter surplus office-furniture auction.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: Two Dozen Cars Get Flat Tires From Pothole on 101 Caltrain's NorCalMLK Celebration train ran for the first time in three years today, the CHP is seeking help identifying a suspect in a Jan. 1 hit-and-run in Concord, and at least 25 cars got flat tires from the same pothole on Highway 101 in Redwood City.
SF News Big WWII-Era Bunker Thing Falls Off Cliff, Lands On Beach at Fort Funston Stuff is falling off cliffs all down the NorCal coast after drenching rains have saturated the already unstable sand and rock embankments that have at tendency to break apart this time of year. So be careful out there!
SF News Large Boulder and Rockslide Crash Onto Highway 1 Near Devil's Slide A great big rock and a bunch of other rocks are currently blocking the southbound lane of Highway 1 just north of the Tom Lantos Tunnels/Devil's Slide Bridge, and Caltrans says that motorists should "expect delays" in the area as they attempt to remove the rocks.
Business & Tech Musk Heading to Trial Over 2018 Tweets About Taking Tesla Private — Which He Was Already Fined For By the SEC Elon Musk failed in an attempt to get a trial moved out of the Bay Area, and now he will face a lawsuit here brought by Tesla investors who are still sore about tweets he published four years ago claiming he was about to take the car company private.
SF News Mudslide Prompts Evacuation Warnings In Berkeley Hills, Edge of UC Campus A mudslide Monday morning prompted a warning to avoid an area near the Clark Kerr Campus at UC Berkeley, and an evacuation warning was issued for residents near a second mudslide near Tilden Park.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: We Are In For a (Mostly) Dry Week, Everybody Don't place any big bets on it but we are forecast to have a pretty dry week except for a stormy Wednesday night; the body of a fisherman missing since Christmas was found in San Pablo Bay; and new SF Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin broke his phone.
SF News Big Rig Overturns In High Wind On Golden Gate Bridge Saturday Not long after the National Weather Service had issued a warning about high winds near the Golden Gate on Saturday, a gust toppled a semi truck on the bridge, leading to a traffic headache that lasted hours.
SF News Creepy: 'Skeletonized' Remains Found In Long-Shuttered Building on UC Berkeley Campus Human remains — basically just a skeleton — were found in a building on the UC Berkeley campus earlier this week, and so far there's no explanation or identification of the remains.
SF News Sentencing Delayed In Wacky San Jose Kidnapping Case as Suspect Now Claims Her Estranged Husband Made Her Do It A San Jose woman whose apparent web of lies led her to mastermind a kidnapping last spring is now claiming innocence in the case, months after pleading no contest and waiving her right to a trial.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Want to Buy Fresh Dungeness Crab Straight From a Boat, You'll Need to Wake Up Early on the Weekend Now that we are finally (finally!) in Dungeness crab season, it's time to take advantage of the new policy that lets you go down to Fisherman's Wharf and buy crab directly from crab fishermen, right off the boat.
SF News Suspect Arrested After Assaulting Muni Bus Driver With Fire Extinguisher San Francisco police on Wednesday arrested a suspect who apparently ran up to a Muni bus that was stopped at a red light, jumped into the driver's side window, and attacked the driver, spraying the driver with a fire extinguisher.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain, Rain, and Yes, More Rain We are in for three more days of rain with a few breaks in between, an SF man is fighting against the release of a mentally ill man who attacked him, and restaurant owners in Oakland's Temescal district are tired of paying for costly vandalism repairs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Defense Seeks to Disqualify SF DA From Troy McAlister Case The public defender for Troy McAlister is looking to get DA Brooke Jenkins and her staff disqualified from the high-profile case; SF's biggest landlord has defaulted on a loan; and a previously rejected condo project is back on deck in SoMa.
SF News Exposé Finds San Francisco Doled Out $90M Last Year to Nonprofits That Are Not In Good Standing With the State A huge portion of San Francisco's annual budget gets paid to nonprofit partners that perform much of the work that certain city departments are responsible for. And it looks like it's been a while since anyone has audited where this money is going.
SF News San Francisco Police Seek Public's Help In Locating 18-Year-Old Missing For Six Days An 18-year-old male who lived in the Tenderloin has not been seen since leaving his apartment last Friday afternoon, and the SFPD is now seeking the public's help in locating him.
Arts & Entertainment Of Course the Atmospheric River Has a Twitter Now, and His Name Is Bob In the illustrious tradition of Karl the Fog, we now have a Twitter account for this winter's atmospheric river — and presumably others to come.
SF News 5-Year-Old Boy Still Missing After Being Swept Away In Paso Robles Flood; Mom Says He Told Her to 'Be Calm' The search continues for five-year-old Kyle Doan, who remains under "missing" status after being swept out of his mother's grip in rushing floodwaters near Paso Robles on Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Struggling SF Bar Owners Say People Aren't Drinking Like They Did Pre-COVID Is it true that people are going out to bars less often now than they did three years ago? That may not be true in many parts of the country, or even in parts of San Francisco, but for some neighborhood and after-work bars, things still haven't gotten back to normal.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Arrest Oakland Man With Slew of Ghost Guns Oakland police arrested a man shooting off weapons in his driveway who had a slew of crazy looking ghost guns, robbers are targeting Mike's Camera stores in the East Bay, and Lake Mendocino is filling up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed at 16th and Valencia A 64-year-old woman was struck and killed while crossing the intersection of 16th and Valencia, Oakland appears to be losing out on a federal grant linked to the A's stadium site, and there will be a recount in the Oakland mayor's race.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes New Legislation to Make More 'Gentle Density' Happen In Westside Neighborhoods Supervisor Myrna Melgar introduced legislation Tuesday to create a so-called "family housing opportunity special use district" on the westside that would make building triplexes and fourplexes easier on the sites of mostly vacant single-family homes.
SF News Bay Area Mother Who Was Bosnian Refugee Sentenced to Three Years For Cyberstalking, Bullying Teen Daughter's Friends A Brentwood mother of a teenage girl who participated in teen beauty pageants has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for cyberstalking and harassing teenage acquaintances of her daughter after they had fallings-out.
SF News SF Gallery Owner Who Sprayed Homeless Woman With Hose Could Face Battery Charge; He Blames the City A viral video that has sparked outrage this week, showing a San Francisco gallery owner spraying a homeless woman with a hose, could wind up resulting in criminal charges, as the SFPD continues investigating.
