SF News Bay Area Tech CEO Arrested for 1992 Cold Case Murder In Mountain View A 1992 cold case in which a 25-year-old woman, Laurie Houts, was strangled to death in Mountain View has now led to a re-arrest of a prime suspect who was already tried twice for the crime, and the suspect is a Bay Area tech CEO who has been living abroad.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara ER Shut Down Briefly By Threatening Person The emergency room at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara was the scene of a tense situation this morning, containment of the Washburn Fire has gone down slightly, and the White House has reaffirmed legal protection for emergency abortions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Shooting Claims One Life In Potrero Hill A fatal shooting in Potrero Hill on Saturday was SF's 26th homicide of 2022, kids have been vandalizing schools in Richmond on their summer break, and SF Supervisor Matt Dorsey has COVID.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Has No Patience For Peet's Version of Boba Peet's Coffee & Tea has decided to join the bubble tea game, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho would like to know why.
SF News Two Stabbed In Livermore In Chaotic Scene In Residential Neighborhood, Suspect Arrested After Standoff A 22-year-old woman was stabbed by a man or relative with whom she lives in Livermore on Sunday night, and the suspect reportedly tried to harm himself before being peacefully arrested by police.
SF News Umpteenth Fire At Oakland's Wood Street Encampment Shuts Down Part of MacArthur Maze Another fire — at least the fourth in the last several months — has broken out at the Wood Street encampment in West Oakland, involving multiple RVs.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Doctor Proposes Floating Abortion Clinic In Gulf of Mexico A UCSF doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico to skirt state bans, California is anticipating a surge of abortion patients, and a third person in two weeks has drowned in Lake Berryessa.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Bid to Buy Twitter Looks Officially Dead Elon Musk made his desire to withdraw from his bid to buy Twitter official Friday, sending a letter to the company's board and filing his intent to back out with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
SF News Monkeypox Vaccine In Short Supply In SF as Hundreds of Potentially Exposed Pride Party-Goers Clamor For Shots San Francisco's queer community is following a trajectory similar to what unfolded a month ago in Berlin, with experts fearing that a wider outbreak of monkeypox could be afoot. But where are the vaccine supplies?
SF Politics New SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Says She'll Get Tougher on Repeat Offenders, But Still Be Progressive Newly installed SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will have her work cut out for her managing a transitional DA's Office, being perceived as tougher on crime than her predecessor, and also sticking to progressive ideals about incarceration. But she is starting to explain how she'll do that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Infamous, Beloved Queer Dive Truck Makes Triumphant Return In the Castro We've lost some LGBTQ spaces in recent years in SF, but now one bar that closed a full seven years ago is making a comeback — at least temporarily.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes' Former Boyfriend and Business Partner Sunny Balwani Found Guilty of 12 Out of 12 Fraud Counts The San Jose jury in the federal trial of former Theranos President Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani found Balwani guilty of 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy Thursday morning.
SF News SF's Pandemic Exodus Was Mostly White Twentysomethings As you probably could have guessed without the census data to back it up, most of the people who fled San Francisco almost immediately after the pandemic began in 2020 were white people in their 20s.
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out In Corona Heights Park — Second SF Hills Brush Fire In Two Days Stop lighting San Francisco on fire please! The last thing we need this fire season is wildfire on our actual doorstep in SF proper, but we've had two of them, likely both caused by fireworks, in just the last two days.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Poll Finds Newsom Could Beat Trump Newsom could beat Trump or DeSantis in a general election according to a poll, a 19-year-old severely injured in a Vallejo sideshow is clinging to life, and gas prices in the Bay Area may finally fall back below $6.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein Is Among the Dems Who Might Not End Filibuster for Abortion Rights 'Dilbert' cartoonist and East Bay resident Scott Adams is at it again angering people on Twitter, Sen. Dianne Feinstein hasn't confirmed her stance on the filibuster in re: abortion, and 24-year-old Berkeley restaurant Cesar has a closing date.
SF Politics Ballot Measure Heads for Approval That Would Create Oversight Commission for SF's Dept. of Homelessness San Francisco's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), which was created under Mayor Ed Lee's administration less than a decade ago, probably could use more independent oversight. And voters will likely get to decide that this November.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Square Pie Guys Opens Third Location at SF's Ghirardelli Square A deep-dish, Detroit-style pizzeria that became a pandemic delivery hit, Square Pie Guys, is ready to welcome San Franciscans — and wharf tourists — in for a sit-down meal in Ghirardelli Square.
SF News SF Man Accused of Stealing Xfinity Van, Dressing As Comcast Technician to Rob Marin Home A San Francisco man was arrested on July 4th for allegedly trying to break into a home in San Rafael well posing as a Comcast technician, with the help of a uniform and a stolen Xfinity van.
Arts & Entertainment Op-Ed: Why You Should Be Giving Your Money To Local Bars and Theater and Not These Fly-By-Night Theme Bar 'Experiences' The carnival's come to town, only it's doing so practically every other month with a new "immersive" themed "experience" that involves a couple of weak, overpriced drinks, selfie traps, and some performers trying to make a buck in something that's not exactly theater.
SF News Humpday Headlines: A's Howard Terminal Project Gets Another Leg Up The Oakland City Council has voted not to put the A's Howard Terminal stadium project on the November ballot, a San Pablo man drowned while trying to save his son in Lake Berryessa, and Carlos Santana collapsed during a concert last night.
SF News [Update] Monkeypox Likely to Have Spread During SF Pride; 40 Total Cases In the City As of This Week As an outbreak of monkeypox infections grips the gay communities of Germany and the UK, there are increasing reports of cases here in the U.S. and in the Bay Area — also primarily among gay and bisexual men.
SF News Three Shootings In SF on July 4th, None Fatal At least three people were injured by gunfire in San Francisco on the July 4th holiday, and one of those was a 14-year-old girl who was watching a fireworks display.
SF News SFPD Says 12 Officers Injured Amid Hostile July 4th Crowd In Mission In an echo of an incident reported after the Warriors' NBA Championship celebrations in the Mission District three weeks ago, the SFPD says that a dozen officers sustained injuries from a hostile crowd shooting off fireworks and continuing to party after midnight Tuesday morning.
SF News Car Careens Into Inner Sunset Bus Stop Injuring Four Pedestrians A car crash at the intersection of 9th Avenue and Lincoln Boulevard on Monday evening sent one vehicle careening into a bus shelter where four people were waiting for a Muni bus.
