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.
SF News 43-Year-Old Woman Found Dead In Submerged Car Near River Road In Sonoma County A Ukiah woman who had called 911 for help when her car became stuck in floodwaters Tuesday morning in Sonoma County was found dead on Wednesday after rescuers could not locate the vehicle earlier.
SF News Surviving Stockton Serial Killer Victim Speaks Out, Says Police Failed Her Natasha LaTour was homeless and addicted to meth and lingering in a shadowy part of Stockton next to train tracks around 3 a.m. when a stranger approached, his clothes seeming to hang off him, and fired eight or ten shots at her.
SF News Humpday Headlines: FAA System Failure Causes Widespread Flight Delays A critical FAA system went down Wednesday causing widespread flight delays and cancellations; a 71-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in West Oakland this morning; and you can expect more rain throughout the day today, along with possible thunder.
SF News Mother and Daughter Rescued From Car After Tree, Power Lines Fall on Fulton Street A mother and daughter were able to be rescued — and their car appeared mostly undamaged — after a very big tree fell along Fulton Street Tuesday, bringing power lines down with it, one of which blew out their sunroof.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Drops, Includes Björk, Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean BottleRock beat them to the punch by a day, but now Coachella's organizers have unveiled the lineup for 2023's dual-weekend fest in the desert — the first lineup in three years that is a wholly new bill and not a cobbled-together lineup of rescheduled acts from a COVID-canceled festival.
SF News Fallen Tree Crushes Car Near Japantown; Tree Falls on Muni Bus Near Union Square A big tree fell over Tuesday next to the Hamilton Playground and tennis courts on Post Street between Pierce and Steiner, totaling a parked car and temporarily blocking part of the street.
SF News Update: Lightning Strikes Transamerica Pyramid, Sutro Tower Lightning strikes in San Francisco were caught on video people on Twitter on Tuesday, and bolts appears to strike the tip top of the Transamerica Pyramid — which is not unheard of — as well as Sutro Tower.
SF News Longtime Bay Area Meteorologist Roberta Gonzales Still Lives For the Drama at KTVU We at SFist have long been fans of weatherwoman Roberta Gonzales, who blithely delivered the weather for two decades over at KPIX for decades, and now she's in the middle of all this weather news in her post at KTVU.
SF Politics Orange County Rep. Katie Porter Announces Run For Dianne Feinstein's Senate Seat Fresh on the heels of her latest meme-worthy display at the Capitol — quietly reading The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the cameras while the Kevin McCarthy speaker-vote drama raged — Rep. Katie Porter says she is running for the Senate.
SF News Here's a Satellite Image of the Storm Currently Battering Northern California The storm bringing with it heavy rain, high winds, and thunderstorm cells can be seen as a distinct cyclone off the coast of Oregon and Northern California — and it's not through with us yet.
