Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Was Robbed at Gunpoint In Oakland Two armed thieves in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood likely didn't know they were robbing the current reigning champion of Jeopardy!, but Amy Schneider was robbed of her wallet and phone on Sunday — and she's okay.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Warriors Ticket Prices Soar for Klay Thompson's Possible Sunday Return Bay Area schools are hoping to manage Omicron through at-home testing, Oakland just saw its third homicide in the first five days of the year, and ticket prices for Sunday's Warriors game are soaring on the possibility it will be Klay Thompson's first game back in 2.5 years.
SF Politics Republican Radio Host Larry Elder Announces He Will Not Run For CA Governor In 2022 The Trumpiest of Republican candidates in September's gubernatorial recall in California, Larry Elder, has just announced that he will not run again in 2022 — which means Gavin Newsom is unlikely to face any viable competition for reelection.
SF News Suspect In SF's First Homicide of the Year Turns Himself In A 43-year-old man linked to a fatal Monday shooting near the Embarcadero turned himself in to San Francisco police shortly after the shooting.
Business & Tech Will Elizabeth Holmes Face Stiff Sentence, or Will Judge Go Easy On Her Because of Baby? The specter of the Theranos collapse could linger on both with the upcoming trial of alleged co-conspirator Sunny Bulwani, and with Holmes's sentencing, which could come in mid-2022. But her jail time could be delayed pending an appeal.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Napa County Reaches Full Capacity In ICUs The SFPD is investigating the first SF homicide of the year in SoMa, 146 students in Stanford dorms are currently isolating with COVID, and Napa County has just reached its regular ICU bed capacity — though not just because of COVID.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty On Four Counts of Fraud, Not Guilty On Four Others, Jury Remained Hung on Three The verdict is in, at least two-thirds of one, for Elizabeth Holmes, and while she'll surely appeal, some time in the clink looks fairly inevitable for the disgraced entrepreneur.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Clocks State's Third-Highest COVID Transmission Rate SF now has the third-highest COVID transmission rate in all of California, Apple just became the first U.S. company worth $3 trillion, and the NYT had a piece ready to publish today on the "Epic Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Holmes."
SF News 52-Year-Old Asian Man Robbed and Beaten Next to Fillmore Area Restaurant A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.
Arts & Entertainment Good News!: Bonded Peregrine Falcon Couple Revives Their Courtship Atop Berkeley Campanile, Following Injury As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
SF News French Bulldog Stolen on New Year's Day in the Marina Has Been Returned A nine-month-old Frenchie named Rosie has reportedly been returned to her family, though it's not yet clear whether someone collected the $10,000 reward being offered.
SF News San Francisco Ends Year With Richmond District Homicide A New Year's Eve shooting became San Francisco's 56th homicide of the year, marking an uptick in the homicide rate seen in recent years.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations In SF Cross 100 For First Time Since September; Bay Area Number Doubles Since Mid-December The first days of the new year look depressingly similar to the first days of last year, with COVID cases once again surging and hospitals filling up from a spike in holiday-season infections.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: State Begins Unique Study of COVID Antibody Prevalence Oakland's first homicide of the year happened on New Year's Day, Willie Brown calls London Breed's Tenderloin tough talk "very bold" and "grandmotherish," and California is launching a unique study of COVID antibody prevalence across the state's diverse population.
SF News The CA Drought Map Has Changed a Lot Since September We aren't out of the drought yet, and we won't be unless January, February, and March are as ridiculously rainy as December was. But most of California and the Bay Area is officially out of 'exceptional drought' status.
SF News KTVU Anchorman Frank Somerville Arrested In Suspected DUI Crash In Downtown Oakland KTVU anchor Frank Somerville was arrested Thursday night after allegedly rear-ending a car in a downtown Oakland intersection and then pushing that car into a pole.
SF News Starting Saturday It Will Cost Eight Bucks to Cross the Bay Bridge During Rush Hour With the new year comes a new hike in bridge tolls on seven state-owned bridges in the Bay Area. And this hike will put rush-hour tolls on the Bay Bridge at a whopping $8 per car — a 167% increase from the $3 we were paying in 2003.
SF News New Year's Eve Constitutional: Search Called Off for Missing Tahoe Skier The search for missing Tahoe resident and Northstar employee Rory Angelotta has been suspended, Oakland police made a second arrest in a murder by Lake Merritt, and a 400-person NYE yacht party in the Bay has local experts worried.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Seeks Suspects In Mission Car Assault Oakland's 'Jeopardy!' champ makes more history, Litquake's favorite laundromat has permanently closed, and an intentional Mission District hit-and-run has left a man seriously injured.
SF News SoCal Couple Offering Reward for Return of Beloved Cat Minnelusa, Who Was Stolen In Car Burglary In SF A smash-and-grab car burglar in San Francisco likely got a prize they didn't want last Monday in the form of a one-year-old tabby cat in a cat-carrier. Now, the cat's parents desperately want her back.
SF News Serial Armed Robbery Suspect From Stockton Charged With Nov. Murder of Young Woman at Lake Merritt A 33-year-old man from Stockton has been charged with the November 11 murder and attempted robbery of 22-year-old Devani Aleman Sanchez, on a street next to Lake Merritt — and he's been connected to multiple other armed robberies.
SF News A Whole Lot of December's COVID Cases In SF Are In the Marina San Francisco's whitest neighborhood, the Marina, is experiencing its highest COVID case rate of the pandemic this month — and in a turnaround from last year's trends, it's currently seeing the city's lion's share of new cases.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Morro Bay Shark Attack Victim ID'd As Sacramento Man A body found last week in the Napa River has been confirmed to be that of a missing Napa woman, the boogie-boarder in the fatal shark attack in Morro Bay has been identified, and the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial is now off until Jan. 3.
Business & Tech Apple Reportedly Doles Out Special Six-Figure Bonuses to Engineers to Keep Them From Getting Poached By Meta Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Buy Fresh Local Dungeness Crab Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
