SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Chief Apologizes for Last Week's Officer-Involved Shooting The California attorney general is taking over the case of the Vallejo police shooting of Sean Monterrosa, the SFPD is apologizing for an officer-involved shooting last week, and the Roxie is reopening with 'Cinema Paradiso.'
SF Politics Permit Expeditor Walter Wong to Repay $1.45 Million to San Francisco to Settle Corruption Lawsuit A longtime contractor with the city of San Francisco and a well-known consultant known to be able to grease the wheels of city departments to get notoriously slow permit processes to magically speed up is going to be repaying over $1 million in contract awards to the city.
SF News Parolee Out On Bail Mugs Elderly Woman In Japantown, Apprehended After Security Guard Alerts Police There was yet another attack on an elderly Asian person in San Francisco on Tuesday, and the alleged perpetrator is now in jail — but it's also another case of a repeat offender who was out on bail at the time of his latest crime.
SF News CDC Says Vaccinated People Can Take Masks Off Indoors; Your Move, San Francisco The Centers for Disease Control took what some may say is a major step in the pandemic Thursday, changing their guidance about indoor mask-wearing for vaccinated people.
SF News Pittsburg Landscaping Contractor Found Dead at Job Site In Marin County; Employee Confesses A 42-year-old Pittsburg man working for a landscaping company was found dead at a job site in San Rafael on Wednesday, one day after he was reported missing.
SF News Did a Panhandling Suspect Slash a Guy's Face Near Union Square for Refusing to Give Him Money? The SFPD made an arrest Wednesday in a knife attack that may or may not have stemmed from the victim refusing to give a random stranger money when he asked for it.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: House of Prime Rib Closes For Inspection An arrest was made in a Wednesday morning knife attack on Powell Street near Union Square, Bay Area parents can now sign up their 12- to 15-year-olds for vaccines, and the House of Prime Rib is closed today for a voluntary re-inspection by the health department.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Reopens For Weddings June 7 The family of a man fatally shot by a Napa sheriff's sergeant is suing, an 11-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested for a San Leandro assault on an elderly Asian man, and SF City Hall reopens for weddings and more on June 7.
SF News Marin School Board Votes to Rename Sir Francis Drake High School After Beloved Teacher Archie Williams One of the first official school renamings to take place in the Bay Area after debates during the last two years over the legacies of racism and slavery is happening in Marin County, where Sir Francis Drake High School, known familiarly as Drake High, will get a new name next school year.
SF News East Bay Parents Lose Their Minds Over Teacher Who Wouldn't Teach In Person, But Is Going to Mexico For 12 Days There's been another dustup in the many-months' war between Bay Area parents and their children's teachers and school districts, and this time it's about a kindergarten teacher taking a trip out of the country while she's still supposed to be teaching.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Remain Stubbornly Consistent Despite Vaccines For the past six weeks, the number of people in Bay Area hospitals with COVID-19 infections has gone down and up and down again, but hovered in the 300 to 400 range consistently instead of steadily dropping.
SF News Newsom Says Masks Will Only Be Needed In 'Massively Large Settings' After June 15 Newsom said Tuesday that California won't have a broad mask mandate after June 15 in the majority of public settings. But that doesn't mean the Bay Area will roll with that right away — and we likely won't.
Business & Tech Tesla 'Backseat Driver' Nabbed By CHP A man who had been seen multiple times on Bay Area roads happily sitting in the backseat of his Tesla while it drove him places on Autopilot has been arrested by California Highway Patrol. But it sounds like no lessons have been learned.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Homicide Rate Trending Double the 2020 Rate California health officials are getting set to approve giving Pfizer shots to kids 12-15 starting Thursday, a Richmond school has shut back down due to a van with threatening graffiti, and Oakland just had its 49th homicide of the year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Joins SF in 'Yellow' Tier New California AG Rob Bonta announced the creation of a Racial Justice Bureau, the family of the 25-year-old man killed on Polk Street Saturday say they're shocked at his murder, and San Mateo County just made it to the 'Yellow' tier.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Prime Rib Hit With Wave of Complaints About Possible Foodborne Illness; Beef Source Being Investigated A small wave of complaints about food poisoning from the House of Prime Rib have come in to the Department of Public Health (DPH) — and the restaurant's Yelp page.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's Once Again Threatening to Leave Oakland as New Stadium Subsidy Comes Up for Vote In a not-very-veiled threat via a statement from Major League Baseball, the Oakland A's are following a familiar playbook to coerce the Oakland City Council to approve an $855 million payment for new infrastructure around the Howard Terminal site.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote On Recology Settlement That Comes With $190 Refunds for Trash Customers Recology customers in San Francisco are set to get refunds and lower rates from the company, and the city will get a $7 million payout under the terms of a settlement in a lawsuit from the city attorney.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
SF News Alameda Callers Did Not Use 911 to Report Mario Gonzalez Being Drunk; Civil Rights Attorney Asks AG Merrick Garland to Investigate What were initially reported as two separate 911 calls about an apparently intoxicated but non-threatening man in an Alameda Park last month were actually calls to the city's non-emergency line.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom to Add $9 Billion For Homeless Housing Famed Bay Area interior architect Art Gensler dies at 85, Newsom wants to cover all back rent for low-income Californians, and Santa Clara County and the 49ers are teaming up to get teens vaccinated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF High School Seniors May Get to Return In-Person for One Day SF high school seniors may get brought back to a couple of schools for a day just so the district qualifies for some state funds, SFMTA introduces a new temporary bus line, and Mayor Breed proposes new "wellness teams" to join SF's street crisis teams.
Arts & Entertainment 'Monumental' New Sculpture Installation Commemorating America's First Slaves Likely Coming to Golden Gate Park A collection of 350 sculptures that commemorate America's "original sin" of slavery is set to arrive by Juneteenth at the Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
SF News Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder 54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.
