SF News Death of Marin Real Estate Investor Reveals Allegedly Vast Ponzi Scheme A well known Republican donor and real estate mogul who attracted over 1,000 investors into what was allegedly a Ponzi scheme dating back decades died of a heart attack in May, leaving his ex-wife to sort out a major financial mess.
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Arrives For New Documentary About Robin Williams' Battle With Dementia Robin Williams' tragic suicide took the world by surprise in August 2014. Six years on, his widow wants the world to understand the nature of the disease that was tormenting him in his final months, via a documentary titled 'Robin's Wish.'
SF News Vallejo Seeks Change Of Venue And Gag Order For Civil Rights Case In Sean Monterrosa Shooting The city attorney in Vallejo is already seeking a change of venue and a gag order on the attorneys and plaintiffs involved in the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court pertaining to the police shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Announces Inside Lands, a Virtual Festival Featuring 12 Years Of Great Performances As other festivals have done, Outside Lands will move online for a free, virtual event later this month called Inside Lands, featuring videos of past performances and interviews from the festival's last 12 years, all on Twitch.
Bay Area Sports Tiger Woods Overheard Hating on the SF Giants During PGA Championship Golf great Tiger Woods may have just lost some fans in the Bay Area, after he was overheard Thursday morning chatting with another player about how much he hates the San Francisco Giants.
SF Politics Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."
SF News Outspoken San Mateo Health Officer Calls State's Watch-List Process 'Arbitrary' and 'Misdirected' Dr. Scott Morrow, who has the distinction of being the longest-serving county health officer in the state of California, has been mincing no words from the start of the pandemic. And this is no exception.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Zuckerberg Is Now a Centibillionaire California marks its 10,000 coronavirus death, a shooting in East Oakland claims one life, and Mark Zuckerberg is now worth over $100 billion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Approves Fines For Mask Scofflaws Community organizations are scrambling to figure out where 18,000 newly released inmates might live, Uber lost $1.8 billion last quarter, and Laney College is featured on Netflix's 'Last Chance U.'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Mint Plaza Sushi Spot Hashiri Debuts Dining Under Plastic Domes The $200-per-person kaiseki and omakase menu experience is possibly the most high-end dining option available in SF right now, and it's outside, but not completely.
SF News San Francisco Announces Continued Impacts From State COVID Data Reporting Tool While San Francisco's COVID patient data may be somewhat better than other counties due to a move made early in the pandemic with regard to how labs report to the city's health department, it is still seeing the impacts of statewide underreporting.
SF News SoCal Man Beaten and Robbed of $200,000 Life Savings Outside Chase Bank The story of a Los Angeles-area who was just beaten and robbed of his life savings outside a bank where he'd just withdrawn it is enough to make you hate 2020 all over again.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves To Fire Officer In 2019 Shooting As Family of Sean Monterrosa Sues For Wrongful Death In a federal court filing today, the Monterrosas and their attorneys say that the June 2 shooting was "brutal, malicious, and done without just provocation or cause."
SF News San Leandro Police Officer Fatally Shoots Car Theft Suspect In Oakland A San Leandro Police officer shot and killed a suspect in an allegedly stolen vehicle following a chase into Oakland Wednesday night, after the suspect allegedly emerged from the car with an assault weapon.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Alameda County To Pay COVID-Positive People To Stay Home NY Attorney General Letitia James is moving to dissolve the NRA, SF and San Mateo still have COVID numbers just above the danger threshold, and Alameda County is giving people a stipend to self-isolate after testing COVID-positive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Meth Lab Busted at City-Leased Motel For Homeless A pair of homeless people in a city-leased motel room in SoMa were busted for allegedly cooking meth there, state prisons are set to grant early release to over 17,000 inmates, and WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann just listed his Marin County home for $27.5M.
SF News New Data-Mapping Tool Estimates Chances Of Encountering a COVID-Positive Person in Any Group If you're heading out to meet a group of ten people in someone's backyard in San Francisco tonight, the chances that one of those people will be currently infected with the coronavirus is 15 percent. Raise the group number to 25, and the probability rises to 34 percent.
Arts & Entertainment 5-Bedroom Home Overlooking Marina Green Lists For Eye-Popping $25 Million A Marina District home with views of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge has just set a neighborhood record as the most expensive single-family home ever to hit the market.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Bluefin Tuna Are Showing Up Near Half Moon Bay, Thrilling Sport Fishermen In a remarkable turn for local anglers, the rare but not technically endangered tuna, which are prized for sushi meat in Japan especially, have been swimming in closer to shore than they ever do.
Business & Tech Self-Driving Car Engineer Anthony Levandowksi Gets 18-Month Sentence For Stealing Waymo Technology One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Bay Area Sports 90 of the World's Most Elite Golfers Land In San Francisco For the PGA Championship Thursday marks the kickoff of the PGA Championship, the only major golf tournament in the 2019-20 season, and it's happening in San Francisco's Harding Park without any fans able to attend.
SF News CDC, Stanford Doctors Now Saying Workers Who Test COVID-Positive Can Return To Work After 10 Days Multiple Bay Area counties are now going to be recommending that businesses allow workers to return to work 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19, so long as they have a relatively mild case.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Standoff With Armed Suspect At San Jose Jail Ends Peacefully A body found by the road in San Bruno last month has been ID'd as a Vallejo man, Marin County is discussing a Sir Francis Drake Blvd. name change, and Clorox says its wipes won't be fully restocked until next year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four Bears Struck By Cars In Yosemite in Recent Weeks A CA GOP consultant laments getting COVID along with his wife, four bears have been struck by cars in the last three weeks in Yosemite, and a 22nd San Quentin inmate has died of the coronavirus.
SF Politics Biden Leads Trump By 39 Points In CA, As Trump Loses Support From His Base A new public opinion poll from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) found that former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over President Trump in California has eclipsed Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump around this time four years ago by 9 percentage points.
