SF News Humpday Headlines: Pelosi Attack Suspect Faces Preliminary Hearing Pelosi attack suspect David DePape is appearing in court today for a preliminary hearing, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he takes responsibility for controversial moderation decisions, and Mayor London Breed doesn't want to end traffic stops for minor infractions.
SF Politics Progressive Supes Defy Mayor and Health Department Over Safe-Consumption 'Wellness Hubs,' Say They Will Open Plans to create a dozen "wellness hubs" around the city to replace the Tenderloin Center and permit safer consumption of dangerous drugs like fentanyl are stalled due to legal concerns.
Business & Tech United Airlines Planning to Hire Thousands More SFO Employees Next Year The contraction of the air travel industry in 2020 has been followed by a steady rebuilding, and now United Airlines says it's planning for a major expansion at San Francisco International Airport and other hubs.
SF Politics SF Elections Commission Reverses Itself, Backpedals After Uproar Over Proposed Director Search A perceived misstep by the SF Elections Commission last month, saying they were not planning to renew the contract of 20-year veteran director of the Department of Elections John Arntz in favor of conducting an executive search to seek a diverse array of candidates, has now been reversed.
SF News Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured A shooting Monday evening in SoMa was heard by many in the area, as dozens of shots rang out in the vicinity of Bryant and Ninth, near Dore Alley, and two men were reportedly injured, one of them seriously.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Dissolves Trust & Safety Council Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly dissolved the company's Trust & Safety Council last night, Joe Biden will sign same-sex marriage rights into law today, and parts of the Bay Area saw freezing temps this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
Business & Tech Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab Prepare Big Announcement About Advance In Nuclear Fusion Nuclear physicists from the Bay Area will be center stage Tuesday at a Department of Energy announcement about a breakthrough in fusion technology that could ultimately lead to clean energy plants without hazardous nuclear waste.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF News Suspect In Violent Ambulance Hijacking In Best Buy Parking Lot Arrested and Charged The suspect in a bizarre late August incident in which two SFFD paramedics had to flee from their ambulance as a crazed man allegedly hijacked it and tried to run them down, has finally been arrested and charged.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mount Hamilton Sees Blanket of Snow A rock slide temporarily shut down lanes of Highway 101 in Sausalito, much of the Bay Area saw two or more inches of rain over the weekend, and Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County got blanketed with snow.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chef at Locanda and Prairie to Open Pasta Spot In the Inner Richmond Chef Anthony Strong, who might have had a hit on his hands with Prairie in the Mission District if it weren't for a certain pandemic, has never been one to stay idle for too long.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Broadway Revival of 'Into the Woods' Is Coming to the Curran Next Year A new production of Sondheim's fairy tale mashup 'Into the Woods,' which won rave reviews and became an immediate hit of the latest Broadway season, is heading to San Francisco for a limited engagement in June 2023, as part of a national tour.
Arts & Entertainment For This Year's February Firefall Phenom In Yosemite, You'll Need Reservations The ever-growing popularity of the brief winter window for Yosemite's "firefall" phenomenon means that in 2023, reservations will be required.
SF News 66-Year-Old San Jose Man Allegedly Shoots Unarmed Black Man Renting Airbnb In His Neighborhood A white San Jose resident has been charged in the unprovoked shooting of an unarmed Black man in October who was leaving an Airbnb he was renting to head to a grocery store.
SF News Swedish Tourists Allegedly Kidnapped and Assaulted By Disturbed Man In Sonoma County Meth is a helluva drug. But seriously, two Swedish tourists just had a frightening run-in with a suspect whom police are calling "delusional" in a hotel parking lot in Petaluma, and they ended up assaulted and bloody.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: School Board Throws $6M More at Payroll Problem The SF school board just authorized another $6M to pay contractors who are trying to fix the broken payroll system, a mask mandate may return in LA, and forecasters say this La Nina will fade by April.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Is Trying to Thwart New Year's Eve Party Rentals Airbnb is once again trying to keep people from renting homes for New Year's parties in SF and elsewhere, a prominent activist in San Jose was killed in a pedestrian crash, and downtown architecture firm Gensler has just signed a big new lease.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Northern Italian Spot Ciccino, From Former Rich Table/Italian Homemade Co. Chef, Now Open for Dinner On Nob Hill A new Northern Italian restaurant that was initially only open for lunch this fall has debuted its full dinner menu, and early reviews are coming in.
SF News Ex-Warden of Dublin Women's Prison Convicted of Sexually Abusing Inmates The jury returned swiftly with a verdict in the trial of former FCI Dublin warden Ray Garcia, and he's been found guilty on all eight counts he was charged with, seven of which stemmed from sexually abusive conduct toward three female inmates.
SF News Rainy Day Will Give Way to Cold and Dry Friday, With Atmospheric River Hitting Saturday A cold front is bringing some moderate rain to San Francisco and all of the Bay Area today, but it will pass, there will be a chilly lull, and then comes the bigger storm.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Brittney Griner Is Free WNBA star Brittney Griner is on a plane back home after a prisoner swap with Russia, Santa Clara County has a new sheriff starting his job early, and the Bold Italic has been handed over to political group GrowSF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Faces $19K Ethics Fine Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is facing a fine for not disclosing her ownership of some property, an Oakland high school student was stabbed by another student at school, and a motorcyclist died in a Mission District collision.
Arts & Entertainment NYT Mini Crossword Erroneously Refers to BART as SF's 'Metro,' and People Flip Out It's de rigeur in these parts to get very haughty about mistakes that East Coasters make when they write about our fair city. And the NYT Crossword editors have some explaining to do.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani Sentenced to 13 Years In Theranos Fraud — 2 More Years Than Holmes A federal judge has deemed the actions of former Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani to be a little bit more egregious than his partner in fraud Elizabeth Holmes — two years' worse, to be exact.
