SF News Thursday Morning, What's Up: Lafayette Homicide Possibly a Road Rage Incident More details are emerging a broad-daylight shooting on a quiet suburban street in Lafayette, Sonoma County authorities are investigating a homicide in Guerneville, and hundreds of SF city workers protested Wednesday about understaffing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Car Owners Could Get Up to $800 For Gas Under Newsom Proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing $400 debit cards for every registered car in the state as a gas rebate, two arson suspects were arrested in Contra Costa County for setting vegetation fires, and Madeline Albright has died.
SF News Driver Killed In Wrong-Way Crash Near Carquinez Bridge Identified As Missing 29-Year-Old SF Woman A woman who was reported missing by family and friends on Sunday after last being seen getting into her car in Cow Hollow Saturday night has been identified as the wrong-way driver who caused a fiery crash in the East Bay, killing both her and the driver of the other vehicle.
SF News BART's Only Black Board Member, Lateefah Simon, Reinstated Two Weeks After Her Announced Removal BART staff members seem to have royally effed up a situation involving board member Lateefah Simon, relating to her residency status in the district she represents.
SF News Reckless 19-Year-Old Driver Who Targeted Three Pedestrians In Oakland Hills Road Rage Incident Gets Probation A teen driver who used his vehicle as a weapon and repeatedly threatened to run over three people in a frightening incident in the Oakland hills last summer, has taken a plea deal and an attempted murder charge has been dropped.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Temperature Records For March Get Toppled Hot temps are fueling wildfire concerns around the Bay and several small grass fires broke out Tuesday, a 107-year-old temperature record was toppled in San Jose, and Contra Costa County deputies fatally shot a person during a "domestic situation" Tuesday night.
Business & Tech Alphabet Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit By Former Diversity Recruiter for Google A former Google employee who was tasked with hiring more Black people to the company, and who was herself fired in 2020, has filed suit against Google/Alphabet claiming she was retaliated against for calling out discriminatory practices at the company.
SF News Hillborough Heiress Tiffany Li, Accused In Murder Plot Involving Ex-Boyfriend, Is Claiming Anti-Asian Bias Now A settlement in a wrongful death case brought by the mother of Keith Green is just about reaching completion in a San Mateo County court. But Tiffany Li, Green's ex who was acquitted of his murder, wants the settlement amount kept secret.
SF Politics Mandelman Reintroduces Shelter-for-All Proposal at Board of Supervisors, Hopes to Get It to a Vote This Time Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is reviving, for a second time, proposed legislation that would require the city of San Francisco to provide shelter to anyone who needs it — something that has been established law in New York City for decades.
SF News Video: Vigilante In Alameda Takes Down Walgreens Shoplifter, Claims 'Citizen's Arrest' A dude who witnessed some brazen shoplifting at a Walgreens store in Alameda on Saturday decided to take matters into his own hands and tackle the guy, claiming citizen's arrest. This probably isn't the answer, dude!
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Heatwave Begins With Gusty Winds This week's spring heatwave will bring temps to the Bay that are 20 degrees above normal, limited service returned to BART's Red Line this morning, and the SFPD is investigating a deadly hit-and-run collision in the Bayview that happened Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Woman Confesses to Killing Her Mother A 27-year-old woman called San Jose police on Sunday and said she killed her mother, the family of missing Antioch woman Alexis Gabe continues to search for her, and a well loved Mission mural is getting a touchup in honor of its 10th anniversary.
Arts & Entertainment No Need for Vaxx Cards at Chase Center Starting Next Month, But You Still Need Your Mask If You're Unvaxxed The lifting of mandates has come at a very fast pace in California in recent weeks, and now we officially have word from the Chase Center that they will stop checking vaccination status as of April 1.
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF News California DMV Now Letting You Take Written Renewal Exams Online In a gesture toward joining the 21st Century and reducing the amount of time you have to spend at a physical DMV office, the California DMV is now going to let you take written exams online.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: HIV Activists Rally at SF's City Hall Steelworkers are going on strike at Richmond's Chevron refinery today, one person is dead following a high-speed chase in Healdsburg on Sunday, and HIV/AIDS activists are rallying at SF's City Hall to call for renewed attention on treatment and detection of the disease after the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Chef Christopher Kostow Opens 'Jew-ish' Deli and Bagel Shop In Napa Originally set to open Friday and pushed into next week, Loveski Deli is the newest project from Michelin-star chef Christopher Kostow and his wife Martina, inside Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
SF News Bay Area Men Recount Meeting Accused Murderer In Honolulu A pair of friends from San Francisco and Oakland befriended a man in Hawaii who was arrested earlier this month for a murder there, and they say he "seemed very nice."
SF News Light Storm With Possible Thunder and Lightning Arrives Saturday Morning Some more welcome rain is coming to the Bay Area on Saturday, though rainfall totals will be pretty modest. And you may see some lightning.
SF News Matthew Muller, Culprit In Denise Huskins' 2015 Kidnapping and Rape, Set to Be Sentenced to 31 More Years Muller's trial in a state rape and robbery case had been delayed in part by his mental health treatment, but on Friday he was set to plead no contest to the charges and receive a sentence on top of his previous federal sentence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: USF Dons Knocked Out In First Round Santa Clara County marked the two-year anniversary of the shelter-in-place order, a teacher's strike in Sonoma County has ended, and the USF Dons unfortunately got knocked out in the first round of March Madness on Thursday night.
SF News Enormous New NorCal Reservoir Project Moves Forward With Federal Loan The state of California is getting set to forge ahead with constructing a huge new reservoir in Colusa County that would be capable of storing enough water to supply three million households, and it just got the green light from the feds.
SF News Italian Appeals Court Reduces Sentences for Bay Area Men Convicted In Cop Killing An appeals court in Rome has reduced the sentences of two young men from the Bay Area who were convicted last year in the July 2019 killing of a Roman Carabinieri (policeman), but both will still serve over 20 years in prison.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Politics Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
