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.
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.
