SF News Torture Charges Filed In Gambling Den Beating Incident In Oakland Prosecutors say that a patron at an illegal gambling den in Oakland was stripped naked and brutally beaten for six minutes in a January 2022 incident caught on video, and the three men believed responsible now face torture charges.
SF News Two Alleged Squatters Charged In Vallejo Death of Friend and Sword Attack on Landlord It had apparently been three years since some suspect squatters had paid any rent to stay on property belonging to an 80-year-old man in Vallejo. And their stay ended in tragedy, and now two of them have been charged with murder and attempted murder.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: We Could Be In For Another Pretty Sunset The SFPD announced two arrests in a May homicide in the Mission District, Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed again, and a "leak" of moisture amid a high-pressure system could make for some dramatic sunset clouds this eve.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Great Dickens Christmas Fair Returns In Full Glory Two suspects — a teen and a 23-year-old — have been arrested in connection with a deadly Redwood City crash, a man was randomly stabbed on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue today, and Gov. Newsom has unfrozen those homeless funds he previously froze.
SF Politics Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price Claims Victory as Alameda County's First Black District Attorney Pamela Price has all but certainly been elected to the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County, becoming the first Black person to hold the job — beating out opponent Terry Wiley to take over from retiring DA Nancy O'Malley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Upscale, Italian-Inspired Cocktail Spot Opens Today In FiDi A swanky new cocktail and snack bar is opening today in a new spot that was never home to a bar or restaurant before, just above Clay Street in the Financial District.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF LGBTQ Community Mourns With Colorado Springs A candlelight vigil Sunday in the Castro brought out mourners for the Colorado Springs shooting, the family of Alexis Gabe had their own vigil for her in Amador County, and the UC worker strike enters its second week.
SF News Take A Look at Your New Muni Subway Map — With Central Subway Starting Some Service Saturday Saturday is the soft opening of Muni's long-awaited, much-delayed Central Subway, with free weekend service beginning to just the four new stops on the new line. It's January when the big service changes begin.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years In Federal Prison It was a bad day to be Elizabeth Holmes, as she appeared in a San Jose federal courtroom Friday to learn her fate, which is a sentence that is nearly as harsh as prosecutors were asking for.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Will Be Naming a Drag Laureate Early Next Year San Francisco is one of two West Coast cities that will, for the first time, be naming its first Drag Laureate — a local drag queen to serve as a city ambassador to and promoter of SF drag culture. And the Mayor's Office officially opened up applications for the position on Thursday.
SF News Body Found In East Bay House That Appeared to Be Set On Fire Investigators in the East Bay city of Concord suspect foul play in the death of a person whose remains were found in a house that was likely set on fire Thursday evening.
Business & Tech On Day of 1,200 More Departures at Twitter, Activist Projects Insults to Elon Musk On Side of Building Thursday was another day of chaos at Twitter as Elon Musk continues his master class in how not to take over a company. And of course someone began projecting a scroll of insults directed at Musk on the side of Twitter headquarters.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Masks Recommended Again Amid LA COVID Surge The health officer in Los Angeles County is "strongly recommending" indoor masking as COVID surges again, Lisa Gillmor has won the Santa Clara mayor's race, and a very ill bear cub has come to the Oakland Zoo.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Esquire Names Three SF Spots (and One In Sonoma) As Best New Restaurants In the Country San Francisco got short shrift the last couple years when it's come to the James Beard Foundation Awards and Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants lists, but Esquire is still paying attention to our food scene.
Business & Tech As Deadline Passes For Twitter Employees to Commit to Being 'Hardcore,' Some Wonder If It's All a Trap Elon Musk's erratic behavior and flippant comments since taking the helm as Chief Twit two weeks ago have some Twitter employees worried that he might be setting them up to fail — or that he might not follow through on his severance offer.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Announces She Will Not Seek Reelection to House Leadership, Will Remain a Rank-and File Member In relatively brief remarks, but with some fanfare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to announce her retirement from leadership — but not from the House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Early Morning Crash Near Pittsburg Claims Five Lives A wrong-way crash on Highway 4 in Pittsburg killed all five people involved, the Berkeley police union president is now on leave over a text scandal, and Nancy Pelosi is announcing "future plans" today in the House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seven Injured When Two Muni Metro Trains Collide On Embarcadero Seven people were injured when two Muni Metro trains collided in South Beach Wednesday, Matt Mahan is officially the new mayor of San Jose, and Kara Swisher says Elon Musk is... complicated.
SF News Mayor Breed Launches Guaranteed-Income Program for Low-Income Trans People On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially launched a first-of-its-kind program offering guaranteed monthly income to low-income trans residents of the city.
SF News Weinstein Lawyer Asked Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Fake an Orgasm On Witness Stand You've got to be a special sort of cynic to want to represent Harvey Weinstein in court, and one shining gem of an attorney asked the wife of California's governor to fake an orgasm on the stand on Tuesday.
SF News Vallejo Squatters Whom Neighbors Referred to as 'The Cult' Implicated In Crazy Sword Incident and Shooting An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
