SF News SFPD Seeks Help Finding Suspect Who Attacked and Strangled a Woman In Visitacion Valley Last Weekend San Francisco police have released photos of a man who they say attacked and strangled a woman randomly on the street last Saturday, and they're seeking the public's help to identify him.
SF News Grandfather and Uncle Arrested In San Jose Exorcism Murder Case There are a couple of more developments in the disturbing case of a three-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered last fall by her mother, grandfather, and uncle in an "exorcism-like ritual" in a back-room San Jose church.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Issue New Statement Strongly Urging Mask-Wearing Indoors Amid Uptick In Hospitalizations COVID hospitalizations in the Bay Area ticked above the 500 mark for the first time since early March on Thursday, and daily new case counts continue to be high in San Francisco and elsewhere around the region amid the BA.2 surge.
SF News [Update] Building Fire at Ellis and Laguna Sends Smoke Over Western Addition, Injures Five, Displaces 18 A two-alarm fire broke out around 10:20 a.m. Friday at a residential building in the Western Addition, sending smoke up over the middle of San Francisco that could be seen from around the Bay.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Millennium Tower Fix Hits Yet Another Potential Snag An underground wall could pose a problem for the ongoing Millennium Tower fix, SFO had a computer meltdown this morning, and Newsom's office is discussing "inflation relief" checks and a higher minimum wage.
SF News Police: San Jose 3-Year-Old Killed By Mother and Grandfather During 'Exorcism'; Church Also Linked to Infant Kidnapping A creepy-sounding Pentecostal church in San Jose that police apparently linked to the recent kidnapping of a three-month-old boy is also connected to a previously unreported death of a three-year-old in September — a death that occurred during an attempt at exorcism.
Arts & Entertainment Massive New Furniture Showroom and Restaurant From RH (Restoration Hardware) Opens In Dogpatch After a majorly ambitious, six-year renovation project, the company formerly known as Restoration Hardware is ready to unveil perhaps its grandest showroom-restaurant combo to date in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, at Pier 70.
Business & Tech Twitter CEO Ousts Two Top Execs, Freezes Hiring, Cuts Spending Ahead of Musk Takeover In what may be a bid to right the ship after a disappointing quarter, or a gesture toward trying to hold on to his job when Musk's purchase of the company closes, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired two top executives and laid out cost-cutting measures in a memo to employees this week.
Arts & Entertainment Chair of Company That Now Owns Bay to Breakers Is a Trumper, Gave Money to Right-Wing Loons Greene and Gaetz A North Carolina-based company called Capstone Event Group quietly acquired the rights to host Bay to Breakers back in 2019, and now when you pay your registration fee it is going to an organization whose founder is a donor to far-right-wing political candidates, and Donald Trump.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Three Wildfires Break Out Around State Three fires are burning around the state after Wednesday's winds including one that's destroyed 20 homes in Laguna Beach, Catherine Stefani likely tops London Breed's shortlist for Boudin replacements, and a retail theft ring was busted in Pittsburg.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD May Be Banned From Making Low-Level Traffic Stops San Francisco may soon prohibit low-level traffic stops by police, Chesa Boudin continued his media blitz on KQED today, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is crafting a plan to lure businesses to California if abortion gets banned in their states.
Arts & Entertainment A Brief History and Fun Facts About Bay to Breakers, a.k.a. Straight Pride, a.k.a SF's Oldest Footrace It's Bay to Breakers again this weekend, and it's the first Bay to Breakers in three years thanks to a stupid plague that hasn't quite left us. And in case you didn't know, there's a lot of history to this race — and it's not all beer-soaked.
SF News Mills College Will Celebrate Its Last Commencement as an Independent Women's College This Weekend It will be a bittersweet graduation weekend for Mills College's Class of 2022 to be sure, as this will be the last undergraduate class of women to complete their studies at the school as we know it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa's Park Central Hotel Has Become a Second Hyatt Regency, and It's Getting a French Brasserie From Mina Group Spinoff Confusingly, downtown San Francisco now has two Hyatt Regency hotels, and this summer, the new one at 50 Third Street will be home to a French-inspired brasserie from Mina's spinoff group called La Société Bar and Café.
SF News Alameda County Sheriff's Office Makes Huge Fentanyl Bust In Oakland High School Parking Lot The sheriff's office announced Tuesday that deputies had arrested four individuals and seized a whopping 15 pounds of fentanyl.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Woman on Scooter Killed In Tenderloin A 25-year-old woman on a scooter was killed in a hit-and-run on Sunday, the SF school board approved far fewer layoffs than had been expected, and Elon Musk is hinting that he'll move Twitter out of the Bay Area because of "strong left bias."
SF News Quickly Boba Shop on Larkin Busted In DA's Office Sting, Was Allegedly Helping Front a Car Burglary Ring As Chesa Boudin's office scrambles to score some public wins ahead of the June recall election, news arrives of a big bust involving a boba tea shop that was being used to traffic good stolen in SF car burglaries, some of which ended up shipped to Hong Kong and Vietnam.
SF News Second Santa Rosa Toddler In Three Years Dies From Fentanyl, Parents Arrested The parents of a 15-month-old toddler in Santa Rosa who was found unresponsive on Monday next to some suspected fentanyl and drug paraphernalia have been arrested.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Will Let Trump Back on Twitter, Saying Permanent Bans 'Fundamentally Undermine Trust' In the Platform So even though Musk claims to want what's good for democratic society, he's happy to hand the megaphone back to the man who's bent on destroying it.
SF News Mike Tyson Won't Be Charged For On-Plane Assault at SFO San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says that no criminal charges are going to be filed against heavyweight champ Mike Tyson for that videotaped beating gave to a fellow passenger on a JetBlue flight out of SFO last month.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin Schoolkids Being Told They Should Mask Up Again Around 20 Marin County schools are having COVID outbreaks, Chesa Boudin did a prime-time interview with KRON4, and there was a Roe v. Wade town hall at Manny's on Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steve Kerr Out With COVID, Ja Morant Out With Knee Injury for Warriors-Grizzlies Game 4 Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr is entering NBA COVID protocols after testing positive Monday, the Grizzlies' star play Ja Morant is out with a knee injury for Game 4, and Uber is having a moment of financial comeuppance.
SF News UCSF's Dr. Wachter on COVID Watch After Wife Tests Positive While Traveling One of our local pandemic-era soothsayers, UCSF Medical School's Dr. Bob Wachter, may soon be dealing with his own bout of COVID-19 for the first time, in a story now increasingly familiar among those who have been extra-cautious and COVID-free up until now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Handroll Project, the Hotly Anticipated New Casual Sushi Spot From a Ju-Ni Chef, Opens In the Mission A new sushi restaurant devoted entirely to handrolls — sort of like the open-faced-sandwich version of a maki roll — has opened in the prominent former AL's Deli/Yuzuki space at 18th and Guerrero, and it's bound to be a big hit.
SF Politics Breed's Pick for D6 Supervisor Is Matt Dorsey, Longtime Politico, Advisor to City Attorney, PR Guy for the Cops Mayor London Breed is set today to swear in her appointment to the Board of Supervisors to fill the District 6 seat vacated by Matt Haney, and it's another Matt who has been roaming the halls of City Hall for a couple of decades.
