SF News Chico Man Lived With Dead Roommate's Body For Four Years In Order To Cash His Checks A Chico man has been charged with forgery and identity theft after prosecutors determined he had been impersonating his dead roommate in order to collect his U.S. Navy retirement benefit checks.
SF News 3.4M Earthquake Gives a Small Shake to the San Jose Foothills A smallish Wednesday morning earthquake rattled the area of the Alameda-Santa Clara county border, and it was measured at 3.4-magnitude by the USGS.
SF News [Update] Rape Suspect Arrested After Hiding Inside Pleasant Hill Nordstrom Rack A standoff ensued Tuesday evening and into Wednesday at a Nordstrom Rack in Pleasant Hill after police pursued a wanted rape suspect to the area, and he managed to keep himself hidden in the store for over 12 hours.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Swung Axe at Muni Driver Police are seeking a suspect who allegedly swung an axe at a Muni driver near Van Ness and California, a carjacking suspect tried to carjack an off-duty SFPD officer's car, and Elizabeth Holmes may succeed in getting her sentencing delayed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Causwells Reopens In the Marina With New Look, New Menu, and a 'Dirty Tequila Martini' Eight-year-old restaurant Causwells in the Marina District just closed for a two-week remodel and a revamp of its entire menu, and while there is still that popular cheeseburger, there's some more adult stuff to find there as they reopen Tuesday night.
Business & Tech Facebook Takes Down Influence Campaigns Originating In Russia and China Regarding Ukraine War Meta/Facebook says that it has discovered and removed "the largest and most complex Russian-origin operation" to influence social media users since the war in Ukraine began, as well as a separate, smaller, more inept campaign out of China.
SF News Manslaughter Charges Have Been Filed Against Alleged Sideshow Participant Who Caused June Death In East Oakland A 19-year-old whose reckless driving was implicated in the death of a 28-year-old Oakland man and injuries to his family members has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter.
SF Politics In Truly Bizarre Twist, Tucker Carlson Was Invited to Speak at Sonny Barger's Funeral If you're trying to make sense of the state of American politics right now, I don't suggest trying to square this with your understanding of who plays for what team.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Car Fire On Oakland Freeway Quickly Spreads to Brush A car fire along I-580 near Edwards Avenue quickly spread to nearby brush and grew to four alarms Monday evening, an SFFD truck caused some damage to parked cars, and Hurricane Ian is bearing down on western Florida.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Peskin Apologizes For Comments Directed at Honey Mahogany One arrest has been made in a double homicide in Hayward, federal officials have seized a PG&E utility pole where the Mosquito Fire began, and Supervisor Aaron Peskin is apologizing for some "inelegant" comments about supervisor candidate Honey Mahogany.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Starred Marlena Re-Debuts In Bernal Heights With Remodeled Space Marlena, the Bernal Heights restaurant that won over Michelin inspectors after making a mid-pandemic debut in the summer of 2020, has just reopened after closing earlier this year for a remodel.
SF News Pair of Homicides In San Francisco: One In Bayview, One Near Union Square San Francisco's homicide count just rose by two following an assault that proved deadly on Third Street in the Bayview, and a fatal stabbing in Hallidie Plaza.
SF News Alameda Sheriff's Deputy Arrested In Double Murder Failed His Psych Exam; Now 47 Other Deputies On Leave Due to Failed Exams We now know that all was perhaps not so well with the Alameda County Sheriff's deputy whom the sheriff's office had previously said had a spotless record, after he turned himself in for a double murder.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Closes Out With Chemical Brothers, No More Crowd Incidents, and Some Noise Complaints This past weekend's inaugural Portola Music Festival — which was not in the Portola neighborhood but over on Pier 80 — was a well attended debut with a ton of great EDM acts, crowd-control issues notwithstanding.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moulin Rouge' Is a Terrific Spectacle, and That May Be All It Wants to Be Baz Luhrmann's postmodern 2001 film makes for an exuberant and dazzling stage show, but the plot elements feel almost unnecessary.
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Officially In CDC's 'Low' Tier For COVID BART had similar Transbay Tube electrical problems this morning as it had on Sunday, a noted SF stalker/creeper is back and harassing women, and the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "low" tier for COVID transmission once again and finally.
SF News Marin Kayaker Successfully Rows Himself From California to Hawaii The second time was the charm for French-born, Marin-based kayaker Cyril Derreumaux, who set off for Hawaii on a solo kayak journey earlier this summer and made it there earlier this week.
SF News The Century-Old Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill Has Closed, Owners In Default The Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which most recently had been rebranded as the Huntington again after spending four years as the Scarlet Huntington Hotel, is now closed until further notice along with its longtime restaurant, Big 4.
SF News Matthew McConaughey Was At Dreamforce Talking About Running for President Someday Actor, activist, spokesmodel for Lincoln Motor Company, nude bongo player, and generally affable stoner Matthew McConaughey says that it's "inevitable" that he should run for president one day, and he'll likely just get "pulled into it."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Comes Out Against Homelessness Commission on November Ballot The Board of Supervisors is in agreement that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), with its massive budget, needs better oversight. Mayor London Breed doesn't agree.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Fatal Freeway Shooting In Oakland A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man Acquitted After Spending Five Years Jailed for Murder A 26-year-old SF man has been acquitted for reasons of self-defense after spending five years in jail for a New Year's Day 2017 killing, Michelle Obama is coming to SF in December, and 24th Street's Roosevelt Tamale Parlor has closed permanently (again).
