SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisors Express Their Alarm Over Baby Exposed to Fentanyl, Possibly at Playground One father's post on Nextdoor on Tuesday night set off a cascade of media coverage Wednesday about a highly sensational — and scary — incident involving a baby accidentally ingesting fentanyl, possibly at a city playground.
SF News People Being Warned Not to Drive to Tahoe Today/Tonight Anyone looking to get a jump on ski season and this first big snowfall up around Lake Tahoe should probably have left yesterday, as snowy roadways are already causing problems for drivers in the area.
SF News Prosecutors: French Bulldog Theft In South San Francisco Was Arranged By Ex-Girlfriend With Help From Gang Members A case from the summer of 2021 — one of a spate of high-profile robberies involving French bulldogs in the Bay Area — is finally hitting a courtroom in San Mateo County, and it was not a random theft.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Morning Rain Will Be Followed By a Serious Chill Get ready for a very chilly night to kick off December, police in Antioch have made an arrest in Saturday's gas station killing, and a big Silicon Valley law firm just laid off 150 employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Expands Service to Renters Who Want to Host Travelers Airbnb is partnering with corporate landlords to allow renters to sublet units to travelers for short stays, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have mended fences, and Steph Curry sold that mansion in Atherton so where's he living?
SF News Mistrial Declared In Antioch Murder Case After Defendant, Representing Himself, Shouts Profanities at Prosecutor and Judge A 27-year-old man from Oakland, representing himself in a case involving the murder of his ex-girlfriend, has spent a fair bit of time shouting profanities and slurs at the prosecutor and judge, and generally interrupting the proceedings. Now the judge has declared a mistrial.
Business & Tech Musk Drops Twitter's COVID Misinformation Policy, Because Of Course He Did In another stellar move celebrating unfettered free speech in the Twitterverse, Elon Musk has jettisoned another redeeming guardrail that was keeping the rabid anti-vaxxers in check.
SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisor Has Twitter Account Hacked The Twitter account of SF Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton has been hacked, David DePape is due in federal court today, and police are seeking a bank robbery suspect in South San Francisco.
SF News Muni Bus Hijacker Identified; SFPD Officer Stopped Bus Before It Hit Oncoming Traffic We have a suspect ID and some further details about a wild Friday-after-Thanksgiving incident in the Mission District, in which a guy allegedly assaulted a Muni bus driver and bus-jacked the bus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Before New Guide and Star Announcements, Michelin Adds Three Bib Gourmands From Bay Area We're now a week out from the release of the 2022 Michelin Guide to California — which should probably be called the 2023 guide at this point but now that it's all app-based I guess it doesn't matter.
SF News In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.
SF News Man Shot Near Bus In West Oakland Is City's 112th Homicide of the Year A man was fatally shot Monday night in West Oakland, and an AC Transit bus may have been struck by the gunfire.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Major BART Delays Due to Problem at Millbrae There were major BART delays this morning due to an equipment problem at Millbrae, a UCSF specialist is telling everyone to get their flu shots now, and there's a big game for the US in the World Cup against Iran.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Suit Over Misleading Pixel Phone Campaign Google/Alphabet and iHeartMedia are settling a lawsuit over a misleading Pixel 4 ad campaign, the air quality management district wants to buy your old (pre-1999) car, and the UC worker strike is in its third week.
SF News As SF DA's Office Prepares For Preliminary Hearing of David DePape, Judge Recuses Herself Over Pelosi Link A preliminary hearing date has been set for the accused attacker of Paul Pelosi, David DePape, in the state case against him — and the initial judge on the case has decided to recuse herself.
SF Politics For the Umpteenth Time, Gavin Newsom Insists He Won't Run for President In 2024 Newsom seems to really want to tamp down the loud rumor that he's looking to replace Biden on the 2024 ticket.
Business & Tech After Layoffs and Resignations on Trust & Safety Team, Twitter Faces Challenge With Chinese Propaganda, Protests China's state-run propaganda machine appears to be working overtime to flood Twitter searches with porn and escort ads, whenever anyone searches for the name of a Chinese city where protests might be occurring.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: I-880 Reopens After Long Overnight Closure Due to Gun Incident I-880 in Oakland was closed for around three hours Sunday night after a man was seen brandishing a gun, five pets were killed and a person was injured in an East Bay house fire, and Meta was just fined again by the EU's data privacy regulator.
SF News Thanksgiving Hangover Headlines: Holiday Homicide In Bay Point There's some rough surf and high chance of sneaker waves at local beaches today, a 63-year-old Bay Point man has been arrested for a Thanksgiving morning homicide, and Elon Musk fired a couple dozen more engineers.
Arts & Entertainment Where to Go to See Some Twinkly Holiday Lights Around SF Hey! The world doesn't seem to be imploding on itself just yet, and it's the holidays! So grab your flask, strap on one of those beer hats, and go out in search of some distracting/numbing seasonal cheer.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Shuts Down Hateful Marjorie Taylor Greene Tweet After Her Account Was Reinstated Elon Musk's decision to reinstate the personal Twitter account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going super well!
SF News SF Hotels That Served as Pandemic Homeless Shelters Continue Seeking Millions In Damages From City The full accounting of what it cost the city of San Francisco to provide emergency shelter in the form of hotel rooms to homeless individuals during the height of the pandemic is still likely many months away.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: The Travel Crush Continues The accused Colorado Springs shooter is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is bracing for a post-holiday surge of patients, and Bay Area airports are bracing for big crowds.
Bay Area Sports Watch World Cup Matches On a Big Outdoor Screen In Downtown SF, In Union Square and at The Crossing at East Cut The first games of the World Cup were shown Monday morning at a not-so-well-known outdoor venue — The Crossing at East Cut. And more games are going to be screened there at various times over the next few weeks, as well as at the city's official World Cup Village in Union Square.
