SF News Day Around the Bay: No Changes to Bay Area County Tier Statuses A married couple from the Central Valley was convicted for the 2019 road-rage shooting of Raul Garcia, Meals on Wheels just opened a new SF facility, and SF has avoided a move to the "Purple" tier at least for a few days.
SF News Massive Fraud Scheme Netted 'Hundreds of Millions' For CA Unemployment Scammers Using Prison Inmates' Names A scam involving the names and identities of tens of thousands of California prison inmates — including convicted wife murderer Scott Peterson — has apparently enabled scammers and some inmates themselves to make off with at least $140 million.
SF News History Reminder: The 1918 Flu Came Roaring Back In January In San Francisco Because People Stopped Wearing Masks Now as we're at least ankle-deep in a growing surge of cases in the Bay Area, it's worth remembering that San Francisco suffered its worst part of the last pandemic after the holidays, in January 1919, when a lot of people were sick of wearing masks.
Arts & Entertainment Winona Ryder Sells Union Street Home She Bought In 1995 Actress Winona Ryder is selling a San Francisco home that many San Franciscans likely didn't know she owned — since she bought it at the height of her fame in the mid-1990s and isn't often spotted around town these days.
SF Politics Tuesday Morning Topline: Pressure Builds For Newsom's Senate Pick San Francisco is still expected to move into the "Purple" tier this week (or today), Elon Musk just overtook Bill Gates as the second-richest person in the world, and California just broke its own record again for new daily COVID cases with over 20,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein Steps Down From Judiciary Committee Role Sen. Dianne Feinstein has caved to pressure from the Left and will remove herself from a powerful Senate committee, the Twin Peaks tunnel will begin its expensive fix next week, and the GSA has given Biden the transition nod at last.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Server Blames Indoor Dining for Her COVID Infection; Contact Tracing In SF Has Failed to Identify Hot Spots San Francisco has 244 people working on contact tracing, and yet the data on where COVID cases are largely coming from remains slim — still, indoor activities like dining and house parties *seem* to be fueling some of the current surge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Pliny the Younger Won't Have Its Usual Splashy Release in 2021, But Bottles Will Be Sold Online For First Time Russian River Brewing just announced that its now annual tradition of releasing its obsessed-over triple IPA Pliny the Younger won't be happening in February like it usually does — with all the incumbent release parties and lines of beer geeks.
Arts & Entertainment Like Everything Else, Macy's Holiday Windows Are Going Virtual With Videos of Adoptable Kittens and Puppies The annual tradition of seeing adoptable puppies and kittens in the windows of Macy's in Union Square, courtesy of the SPCA, will be more of a virtual affair this year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Three of Newsom's Kids Exposed to COVID That major fire in Berkeley is still active, two people were killed in a stabbing during a religious service at a San Jose church Sunday night, and three of Gov. Gavin Newsom's four kids were recently exposed to a COVID-positive CHP officer.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Mountain Lion 'Captain Cal' and Adopted Sisters Head to Columbus Zoo Three orphaned mountain lion kittens rescued during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last month are heading to a new home in Ohio.
SF News SFMTA Reveals Blunder In Twin Peaks Tunnel That Will Cost 'Tens of Millions of Dollars' The SFMTA brass got a talking-to from the Board of Supervisors this week about their inability to complete big projects on time and on budget — and the scolding came after the revelation of another blunder by staff.
SF News San Francisco Likely Slipping Into 'Purple' Tier Next Week, Curfew to Follow SF is likely to join the 41 counties in the "Purple" tier by next week, and with that comes the shutdown of all gyms, movie theaters, and places of worship once again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deaf-Owned Pizzeria Mozzeria Closes After Nine Years It's a particularly sad closure for the Bay Area Deaf community, given that this was one of the only Deaf-owned and operated restaurants in the country.
SF News Highrise Fire At Gateway Apartments Injures Four, Displaces Dozens A fire that began on the 11th Floor of 440 Davis Court in San Francisco led to a late-night evacuation of several floors of the Financial District highrise, and injured at least four residents.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Covidiots Give Nazi Salute at Solano County Meeting Demonstrators marched on Thursday to protest the Tuesday police shooting outside the Westfield mall, 100 employees at Golden Gate Fields racetrack have COVID, and some anti-maskers gave a Nazi salute to the Solano County Board of Supervisors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Slows Down Process of Moving Homeless Out of Hotels The Census Bureau told Trump their counting would not be finished by the end of his term, Mayor Breed is putting Prop H into effect sooner than next year, and Klay Thompson has a season-ending Achilles tear.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Newsom Announces 10 PM Curfew For 41 Counties In 'Purple' Tier Through Christmas week and possibly longer, residents in California counties in the state's "Purple" tier for reopening must now stop gathering with anyone outside their household or doing anything after 10 p.m., says the governor.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Announces Closure of North Beach, San Jose Locations Growing local taco restaurant empire Tacolicious has permanently closed two of its locations, the owners say, due to the pandemic and the economic climate. The seven-year-old North Beach location and the Tacolicious at Santana Row in San Jose are no more.
SF News H&M Has Permanently Closed On Powell Street After 15 Years Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M has become the latest casualty in the slow collapse of SF's Union Square, as the company announces that it has permanently shuttered its West Coast flagship store on Powell Street.
SF News Suspect In Seemingly Random June Killing of UC Berkeley Student Confessed, Says Friend Murder charges were filed in August against a neighborhood resident with a criminal past, and now a key witness has testified that the suspect confessed to the killing in the weeks after it happened.
Bay Area Sports San Francisco Unsurprisingly Rejects Warriors' Proposal to Allow Thousands of Fans Back Into Chase Center We're now probably months away from allowing 50-percent capacity inside a sports arena, but the Warriors say they'll be ready "when the time is right."
SF News Video Emerges of Police Shooting Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect Remains In Critical Condition An eyewitness video appeared on Instagram Wednesday showing, at least from one angle, how an incident unfolded on the Market Street sidewalk outside the Westfield shopping center Tuesday evening in which a man was shot by SFPD officers.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Free Testing Sites Swamped With Holiday Travelers Taking Precautions A car crash at Fillmore and Waller following a police chase leaves the driver in critical condition, North Bay commuters wake up to intense fog, and SF residents are being discouraged from swamping the city's free COVID testing sites for holiday travel peace of mind.
