SF News Humpday Headlines: COVID Outbreak Infects At Least Five at UCSF Hospital Two patients and at least three healthcare workers in one unit at UCSF Parnassus have tested for COVID-19, Fairfield police are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old, and PG&E issues the "all clear" for those who lost power.
Business & Tech Former Santa Clara Police Captain Pleads Guilty In Bizarre eBay Cyberstalking Case 55-year-old former Santa Clara police captain Philip Cooke entered a guilty plea in federal court in Boston Tuesday, joining six other former eBay employees implicated in a wackadoo intimidation scheme aimed at a couple of Boston-based bloggers.
Arts & Entertainment Diane di Prima, Noted Female Voice in the Beat Generation Boys' Club, Dies at 86 Onetime San Francisco Poet Laureate and one of the only feminist voices to keep company with the Beat Generation, Diane di Prima, has died.
SF News Bay Area Sees Slight Uptick In COVID Case Counts, Hospitalizations as Three More Counties Enter 'Orange' Tier The Bay Area isn't seeing anything close to what some other states and regions are seeing, and hopefully we will not as flu season arrives. However there are at least small signs of a slight uptick in cases outside of San Francisco in the past week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Files For Bankruptcy Amid Owner's Legal Troubles Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur named in a federal indictment earlier this year stemming from an FBI probe of corruption in SF City Hall, has now filed for bankruptcy for one of this businesses, longtime hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's.
SF News Fire Breaks Out in Oakland Hills, Destroys Two Homes In Vicinity of 1991 Fire A fire broke out Tuesday morning in the Oakland hills, on the final day of an extended Red Flag Warning amid record-dry conditions, and it engulfed two homes and spread to nearby vegetation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Says Shutoffs Prevented Some Potential Fires A 300-acre fire in Suisun City on Monday was likely caused by a cigarette butt, Oakland police are investigating a shooting death of a driver who crashed their car, and PG&E is in the process of restoring power for 180,000 customers today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supreme Court Nightmare Ensues With Barrett Confirmation Stocks slumped on news of surging virus cases, Jared Kushner got racist on "Fox & Friends," and a UCSF doc says that if the entire country had followed SF's lead there would be 175,000 fewer dead in the pandemic.
SF News Sacramento Sex Worker Who Kidnapped Teen In San Francisco and Trafficked Her Gets Almost Seven Years A Sacramento woman who had herself been forced into prostitution at a young age was formally sentenced on Thursday for her role in recruiting and grooming a 15-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution three years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Gay Activist and Creator Tom Taylor, of Tom & Jerry Christmas House Fame, Dies at 77 Tom Taylor, the creator of the Tom & Jerry House Christmas display with its enormous tree at 21st and Church Street passed away last week. The cause was reportedly prostate cancer.
SF News Why?? Iconic Coca-Cola Billboard Being Removed From SF After 83 Years Details are few at the moment, but for reasons not entirely clear, the Coca-Cola Company has decided to pull down the iconic neon sign that has stood beside I-80 in SoMa since 1937.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Is Urging People to Narc on Their Neighbors' Halloween Parties The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crazy Night of Wind But No Major Fires There was a peak wind gust of 89 mph on Mount St. Helena last night, a brush fire in Castro Valley came within 50 feet of a home, and the Pope Fire in Napa County was 100-percent contained before the winds whipped up.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Festival Eat Drink SF Morphs Into Something More Like Restaurant Week For This Year Local restaurant lobby group the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) still wanted to bring some attention to the hobbled local food scene during the time of year when they would normally be hosting their Eat Drink SF festival.
SF News Muni Rider Details Comedy of Errors As Bus Driver Attempts to Keep From Picking Up More Than 30 Passengers In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
SF News Pregnant 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Berkeley Drive-By A 19-year-old mother of a 10-month-old baby, who was carrying her second child, was fatally shot in a brazen drive-by shooting Wednesday while her entire family was in the same car with her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Debate Drive-In Viewing Party Draws Crowd An encampment fire in Oakland damaged at least two buildings, convicted murderer Scott Peterson is having a virtual hearing today from San Quentin, and Uber drivers are suing the company over Yes on 22 pop-ups.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Barricaded Gunman With Hostage Surrenders After Tense Day in East Oakland A raccoon got into SF City Hall, nurses are suing the city for overtime pay, Dr. Fauci is headed to the Bay Area, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been sentenced in a 2015 rape case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Restaurant Tadich Grill and Noted Hofbrau Tommy's Joynt Plan Reopenings The oldest restaurant in San Francisco, Tadich Grill, which dates its establishment to 1849, is re-emerging from a pandemic closure next month, cioppino, steaks and all. And Tommy's is reopening before Halloween.
SF News Extreme Wind Event Arrives Early Next Week With Even Greater Potential Fire Danger, More PSPS Likely The relentlessness of 2020 with its anxieties and miseries lumbers on with yet another fire weather forecast that no one wants to hear. But a coming wind event that begins Sunday brings the most danger so far, according to one meteorologist.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower Crown Will Run Red With a 'Blood Red River' on Halloween LED installation artist Jim Campbell has something new up his sleeve for the top of Salesforce next weekend.
SF News Potential Mass Shooter Gunned Down at Idaho Campsite After Screaming About 'All You F***in' Californians' An angry 73-year-old man was fatally shot in an Idaho campground incident in which he allegedly fired on a group of campers after being heard yelling at them for being in what he claimed was his campsite, and accusing them of coming from California.
Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel Opens In Golden Gate Park and the Views Are Pretty Sweet Book your rides on the 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park while the weather's still nice and clear! The new attraction celebrating the park's 150th birthday opened to the public on Wednesday.
