SF News Union Square Smash-and-Grab Arrestees Range In Age From 23 to 53 SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced felony charges against nine individuals on Tuesday in connection with Friday's widespread robberies at Union Square retailers, and they range in age from 23 to 53.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: SF Asks Residents to Curb Water Use By 5% The SFPUC has declared a water emergency and is asking for residents to cut back usage, CNN looks at the smash-and-grab trend nationwide, and BART trains now have new air filters to further protect against virus spread.
Bay Area Sports Plans For Redeveloped Oakland Coliseum Include NFL and WNBA Teams, New Convention Center A group that has been selected by the City of Oakland to redevelop the Oakland Coliseum and Arena properties has big ambitions for the future complex, which include bringing both a new NFL team to Oakland and establishing a new women's basketball team in the city.
SF News Oakland Police Head to Sacramento and Houston to Arrest Three Men Suspected In Gas Station Robbery/Shooting Oakland police on Monday announced three arrests in connection with a violent armed robbery attempt at a West Oakland gas station that ended with one of the suspects shot and the victim critically wounded.
SF News 'Caravans' of Cars With Some Armed Suspects Targeted Oakland Cannabis Businesses Amid Weekend Robberies Mobs of organized thieves targeted retail businesses in multiple corners of the Bay Area. But some incidents in Oakland suggest a more loose affiliation between suspects, and group tactics that perhaps came together on social media.
SF News Amtrak Train Crashes Into Big Rig In East Bay, No Passengers Injured A westbound Amtrak train crashed and the engine derailed after striking a semi truck that became stuck on train tracks in San Pablo Monday night, but thankfully there were no serious injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Masks Return In Santa Cruz Amid Rising Cases SF DA Chesa Boudin is announcing felony charges today for eight suspects caught in Friday's retail robbery spree, PG&E just got fined again by the CPUC, and Santa Cruz County has reinstated its mask mandate amid rising COVID cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Killed In San Francisco Over the Weekend SF and federal authorities busted an alleged weapons trafficking ring, Hillary Clinton came to SF on Sunday to promote her new novel, and the Newsom family is off to Mexico for the Thanksgiving holiday.
SF News California Boasts Lowest COVID Test-Positivity Rate In Nation; Bay Area Back in Yellow Tier San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area have bounced back into the CDC's yellow tier indicating "moderate" COVID transmission, down from the orange tier — and following a number of weeks when San Francisco County has bounced between the two.
SF News Newsom Says Organized Smash-and-Grab Robbers Will Be Punished, Says Mayors Must 'Step Up' Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday he was speaking as a victimized business owner himself when he made comments about last weekend's swarm of organized smash-and-grab robberies around the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Trans Woman Heads Into Monday Night's 'Jeopardy!' a Three-Day Champion An Oakland-based computer scientist and standup comedian is Monday's returning champion on 'Jeopardy!', and she's hoping to champion trans awareness while also making a bit more money to pad her already considerable total.
SF News Monday Morning Happenings: Three Racehorse Deaths In a Week at Golden Gate Fields The smash-and-grab robbery swarm hit a mall in Hayward Sunday night, three racehorses have died in a week at Golden Gate Fields, and Dungeness crab season will open for waters north of the Bay Area on Dec. 1.
SF News Arrest Made In High-Rise Double-Homicide In Oakland The killing of two people in an Oakland high-rise on Wednesday night may have been a "domestic incident," and Oakland police say they now have one suspect in custody.
SF News SF's Lowell High School Could Potentially Return to Merit-Based Admissions Following Judge's Ruling A San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled against the San Francisco Board of Education Thursday, dealing another blow to the embattled school board that can hardly afford the attorneys fees it's incurred.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Hit Lowest Count Since Early July While much of the country is bracing for a winter surge in new COVID cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, the Bay Area has seen only the slightest hints of an uptick in new cases, and local hospitals are not yet seeing a rise in severe cases either.
SF News 29-Year-Old Mother On Way to Job Interview Fatally Shot On Freeway Near Bay Bridge Toll Plaza A 29-year-old mother of two was fatally shot through the window of the SUV she was riding in as the car approached the Bay Bridge toll plaza on Thursday morning. While the shooting was targeted, authorities say, it's not clear that she was the intended target.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kamala Harris to Briefly Serve as Acting President President Joe Biden is briefly transferring power to VP Kamala Harris today while he undergoes a colonoscopy, local airport officials say today is actually the biggest Thanksgiving travel day, and the woman behind the programming at the Chase Center speaks about her job.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Gets Another Chik Fil-A, Lines Form For Sandwiches A Chik Fil-A just opened in Daly City, there was a contentious hearing at City Hall over the canceled homeless drop-in center in the Haight, and a 40-year-old Sonoma County man just got sent to prison after his 10th DUI.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Rep Reopens With Charles Mee's Delightfully Odd 'Wintertime' It was an emotional night at Berkeley Rep's Roda Theater on Wednesday, as the theater officially reopened its doors and had an opening night for the first time in 20 months.
Arts & Entertainment Grinnell the Falcon Returns to Berkeley Campanile, and the Drama Continues Grinnell, the Berkeley peregrine falcon who had been mated for life to a female named Annie until he had to go to the hospital for a couple of weeks and a new young buck moved in on his lady, has now returned home, and there will be drama.
SF News Balmy Weekend Ahead With Light Rain Tonight — And Too Many Clouds to See the Eclipse A light rain system will be passing through the Bay Area late Thursday and into early Friday morning — and cloud cover all but guarantees that tonight's lunar eclipse will not be visible in most of our region.
SF News Two Found Dead of Gunshot Wounds In Uptown Oakland High-rise A man and a woman were found dead of gunshot wounds in an Oakland high-rise apartment just after midnight on Wednesday night, and the circumstances have not yet been explained.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: CVS to Close Hundreds of Locations By Spring CVS says it is closing 900 stores nationwide over the next three years, the cheapest gas in the Bay Area is in Hercules, and CA's MyTurn site for vaccine scheduling has stopped asking eligibility questions for boosters.
SF News Thieves Targeting Garages In Pacific Heights Nightly, Owners Amused By Ingenuity Thieves with sophisticated equipment, some of it apparently custom made, have been targeting garages in Pacific Heights nearly nightly.
SF News Old Bay Clay and Foundation Piles: Millennium Tower's Tilting Troubles and Fixes Finally Well Explained Practical Engineering, a YouTube channel with 2.4 million subscribers, which has now done an excellent 13-minute video explaining the history of Millennium Tower's troubles.
