SF News 39 Sonoma County Residents Got COVID After Being Vaccinated — But That's OK, Experts Say, and None Were Hospitalized Sonoma County public health officials revealed Tuesday that 39 people in the county have been so-called "breakthrough" COVID cases, meaning that they became infected with the coronavirus more than two weeks after getting their second vaccine shot.
SF News Humpday Headlines: All SF Residents Age 16 and Up Can Get Vaccine Appointments Now Both SF and Santa Clara counties announced that everyone (16+) can now get vaccine appointments ahead of the state's Apr. 15 date, Hayward police are warning women about car smash-and-grabs, and Bernie Madoff is dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Breed Proposes Meth Sobering Center In SoMa Supes Preston and Haney are still pushing for fare-free Muni this year, experts offer advice for those who have received the J&J vaccine (you're almost definitely fine), and London Breed has a new spot for a 30-bed meth sobering center in SoMa.
SF News Unmasked Uber Cough Monster Arna Kimiai Pleads Not Guilty In Assault on Driver Seen in Viral Video Though she essentially already admitted to the attack and offered a half-apology on Instagram Live, accused Uber driver assault suspect Arna Kimiai entered a not guilty plea to multiple charges on Monday.
SF News Arrest Made of Longtime Prime Suspect In Kristin Smart's Unsolved 1996 Murder With the anniversary of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart's disappearance approaching in May, San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials have just announced the arrest of who they now say is their "prime suspect," 44-year-old Paul Flores.
Arts & Entertainment Porn Star Mary Carey Is Running for Governor Again In Recall: 'I Am Not Going to Take This Position Laying Down' You were warned. This California recall election is going to be a circus just like the last one that succeeded in happening in 2003, and proving that point, we have former porn star Mary Carey of course announcing that she'll run again, just like she did in 2003.
SF News Maserati Attempting to Flee From CHP Pursuit In Oakland Launches Up and Under Overpass In Crazy Crash A Maserati SUV that was reportedly speeding above 100 miles per hour in Oakland on Sunday morning ended up wedged in the elbow of an embankment and a freeway overpass, but remarkably the driver escaped unharmed.
SF News FDA and CDC Recommend Pausing J&J Vaccinations Following Blood Clot Cases Six women came down with a rare blood-clotting disorder within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, prompting federal authorities to recommend Tuesday that states pause in distributing the vaccine just as broad vaccine eligibility begins.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Police Get Funding Back For Sideshow Unit The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to re-fund the police department on Monday following cuts last year, another drop-in vaccination site opens Thursday in the Mission, and Steph Curry just surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's career point record with the Warriors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Capacity Limits for Places of Worship Are Lifted A San Francisco man has been charged in a possible DUI vehicular homicide in the North Bay on Sunday, Windsor residents are moving to recall Mayor Dominic Foppoli, and California just lifted all capacity limits on places of worship.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Extended For One Month, Without FEMA Help Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Oakland Coliseum — technically now RingCentral Coliseum — mass vaccination site will continue operating for four more weeks past its scheduled sunset date, which was on April 11.
SF News Four More Alleged 'Boogaloo' Associates of Suspect In Oakland and Santa Cruz Murders Indicted for Obstruction Four men who were part of a local group with some affiliation with the 'Boogaloo' movement were indicted Friday in federal court for allegedly destroying evidence connected to indicted murder suspect Steven Carrillo and his May and June 2020 shootings of law enforcement officers.
SF News Bay Area Traffic Is Fully Back, and On One East Bay Bridge It's Worse Than Pre-COVID People have been saying it for a couple months now: Traffic around the Bay Area is pretty much back to pre-pandemic levels. But what transportation planners warned of last year appears to be coming to pass — it's going to be worse than before until BART use ramps back up.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch the Four Peregrine Falcon Hatchlings Get Fed In Downtown SF Nest Of the four eggs laid by mom Val this season, all four have now hatched and appear to be lively little white puffballs. And the dad, Canyon, hasn't killed any of them yet!
SF News SFMTA and Health Department Use Street Artist Fnnch's Honey Bear for New Vaccination Campaign Local street artist fnnch's masked honey bear mascot of the pandemic is being put to use in an official capacity in a new ad campaign from the SF Department of Public Health (DPH), encouraging the vaccine-hesitant to go get their shots.
SF News One Adult, Two Preteen Boys Rescued From Rip Current at Ocean Beach Three people had to be rescued from a rip current on Sunday afternoon at Ocean Beach, and all three survived without serious injury.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 30 Schools Reopen Across San Francisco Salesforce has announced a plan to bring some employees back to the office on a volunteer basis next month, 30 public schools are back open in SF today, and a new model predicts 14,000 American lives could be lost with mask wearing through August.
SF News 6,000 Show Up For Drop-In Vaccines at SF General After Zip Code Expansion With vaccine appointments nearly impossible to find a few days ahead of the statewide expansion of eligibility to everyone age 16 and up, the possibility of a quick and easy drop-in vaccine brought out thousands of people on Saturday, most of whom went home disappointed.
SF News San Francisco Expands Eligibility for Drop-In Vaccines to More Zip Codes, All Ages If you're 16 or over and live in one of eight SF zip codes that the city considers "high-impact neighborhoods" in the pandemic, you can go line up for a same-day vaccine at two different drop-in vaccination clinics.
SF Politics Biden Tasks Special Commission With 'Studying' Potential Expansion of Supreme Court President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to "study" different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices.
SF News San Francisco Won't Enter 'Yellow' Tier Due to Case Numbers, But a Few More Restrictions Get Lifted Next Week Though San Francisco expected to be the first county in the Bay Area to enter the "Yellow" tier for reopening next week — returning where it was for a brief period last fall in terms of falling COVID case numbers and hospitalizations — that won't be happening yet.
SF News Large Rockslide Cuts Off US-50 Route Into South Lake Tahoe A massive rockslide is blocking Highway 50 just outside of South Lake Tahoe, preventing traffic from moving in either direction on Friday morning.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART May Resume Normal-ish Hours In September The Sonoma County Sheriff is now investigating sexual assault accusations against the mayor of Windsor, Facebook is making its Menlo Park headquarters available as a vaccine site, and BART may resume more regular hours starting in September.
SF News Day Around the Bay: West Oakland's Only Grocery Store In Danger of Closing West Oakland's only grocery store says it may not be able to stay open without financial help, the SFPD has released an updated sketch of a toddler who went missing when her mother was killed in 2016, and Uber and Lyft are both spending big on incentives to bring drivers back.
SF News [Update] Four Whales Turn Up Dead In Bay Area In a Week, One Killed By Ship Strike Another gray whale has died in the Bay Area, the fourth in just eight days, and it washed ashore on Muir Beach in Marin County on Thursday morning. This spate of gray whale deaths is reminding biologists of 2019.
