SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Big Rig Falls Off East Bay Overpass A big rig plunged off an overpass onto a road below in Lafayette this morning, a Jewish house of worship was possibly torched in San Jose, and Oakland Airport was already very busy first thing this morning.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF News Omicron Almost Certainly to Blame As San Francisco Cases Surge; Two Studies Suggest Variant Is Less Severe As opposed to last year's holiday season, there is a mix of good and bad news with this Omicron surge, even though the virus seems to be spreading at a very fast clip.
SF News Arrests Made In Murder of TV News Security Guard Kevin Nishita, Third Suspect Still at Large Two individuals have been arrested in the Nov. 24 fatal shooting of TV news security guard and former police officer Kevin Nishita, and a third suspect is still being sought.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zuni Cafe to Start Requiring Booster Proof For Indoor Dining Next Week In a sign of things to come in San Francisco, Zuni Cafe announced that it is going to begin requiring not just full vaccination but also proof of a booster shot for indoor dining starting next week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Verdict In Holmes Trial Likely Coming Before Christmas The rain we're getting is from a "decaying cyclone" over the Pacific, the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial could return a verdict Thursday, and the last Michael Vick dog-fight ring dog has died in Oakland.
SF News Tenderloin Camera Shop Was Front For Retail Theft Fencing Operation, According to DA's Office San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that two indictments have been filed and five arrest warrants written in a two-year sting operation targeting organized retail theft in the city.
SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Omicron Already Represents 73% of U.S. Cases The CDC says Omicron is quickly overtaking Delta as the dominant variant in the U.S., a mall shooting in San Jose prompts shelter-in-place order, and jurors are still out in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
SF News Omicron Community Spread Apparent In 3 Mission Cases; Restaurants In SF and Oakland Temporarily Close Out of Caution A likely deluge of new COVID cases is on the horizon for the Bay Area, due to the Omicron variant and despite widespread vaccination.
SF News 6.2M Earthquake Strikes Off Humboldt Coast, Felt In Parts of Bay Area A 6.2M earthquake struck at 12:10 p.m. PT, with an epicenter in the Pacific at a depth of 9.3 km, 38 km west of Petrolia, in Humboldt County. And shaking was felt in many parts of the Bay Area.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Showing No Signs of Omicron Slowdown A woman was fatally shot Sunday at an East Oakland homeless encampment, Omicron is not deterring holiday travelers through SFO, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker both have COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Late Night Fireworks For Metallica's 40th Anniversary & Matrix Premiere Confuse Many, Lead to 'Explosion' Reports on Social Media The second of two Metallica concerts at the Chase Center this weekend, in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary, ended with a series of fireworks blasting off that many in San Francisco could not see — but they and their dogs could hear them.
SF News Jailed Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Still Has Not Entered Plea, Will Spend Xmas In the Clink Accused, possibly pervy corrupter of teenagers/sexual assault enabler Shannon O'Connor has gotten a new attorney, and she has yet to enter a plea in the Santa Clara County case involving multiple alleged teen victims.
SF News Morning Power Outage Impacts Transit Center, Downtown Businesses A Friday morning power outage in the Financial District and SoMa was impacting multiple downtown businesses, as well as the Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center.
SF News 18-Year-Old Suspect Arrested For Fatal Shooting at Sunnyvale Airbnb House Party A suspect has been arrested in connection with the August 7 house party shooting at a rental house in Sunnyvale, where a raucous teen party attracted police attention even before the shooting occurred.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Case Goes to Jury The SF school board officially extended lottery-based admissions at Lowell High, Santa Clara County's health officer is warning of a "deluge" of Omicron cases, and the Elizabeth Holmes case gets handed to the jury today.
SF News Bail Reduced For Accused Caldor Fire Arsonists; Clue Emerges About Machine Gun We still don't know what the prosecution's theory is in the ignition of the Caldor Fire in August, but the father and son accused of starting it are now free on drastically reduced bail.
SF News SF Couple Tells Harrowing Tale of Coyote Attack That Almost Killed Their Dog A couple was walking their dog in the Inner Richmond last week when they say a pack of four coyotes emerged from shadows grabbed their 13-year-old terrier Roscoe.
SF News Police In Richmond Fatally Shoot Apparently Drunk Man Holding Airsoft-Style Handgun A man was fatally shot by San Pablo police Wednesday in North Richmond after he appeared to be playing with a handgun in a menacing fashion outside some businesses — but the gun turned out not to be real.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Healthcare Conference In SF Canceled Closing arguments begin today in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, a brazen mugging happened Wednesday afternoon in Pacific Heights, and JP Morgan just canceled an in-person healthcare conference in SF in January.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Opens For SF/Sonoma Coast Before NYE Local Dungeness crab will again be available before New Year's, the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors has voted to limit residential development in an agricultural area, and the Senate has just confirmed two of Biden's appointees to the Ninth Circuit.
