SF News Overwhelmed By Lab Data, State and County COVID Cases Currently Being Undercounted While other metrics like declining hospitalizations appear to show a positive trend in the pandemic in California, the current confirmed case numbers for many counties represent undercounts due to a technical issue.
SF News Vallejo Man Suspected Of Kidnapping a Woman Crashes Maserati After Police Chase A Vallejo man was arrested early Monday following an incident involving a suspected kidnapping and a chase that ended with him smashing up a very expensive sports car.
Business & Tech Alaska and American Airlines Announce Bay Area Layoffs Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Serpentine Shutters In Dogpatch; Straw Closes On Octavia; 4505 Burgers & BBQ Closes Its Oakland Spot There's a trio of permanent restaurant closures to report as we roll into the month of August and approach the sixth month of this pandemic. First up, marking the end of an era for a Dogpatch mainstay, Serpentine is closing its doors for good.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Teen Shot In Visitacion Valley A San Francisco judge denied a legal challenge by landlords to the city's COVID eviction-protection law, a trackside fire caused major delays on BART's Berryessa line today, and a Vallejo couple of 35 years both died of COVID within 11 days of each other.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lots of Californians Have Been Arming Themselves Four blocks of Jones Street in the Tenderloin are getting made into pedestrian-friendly space, a lot of UC Berkeley students are withdrawing for the semester, and the Apple Fire in SoCal has grown to 41 square miles.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Provisions Temporarily Closes Due to COVID Exposure; Team Cancels Plans For Lower Haight Vegetarian Spot With existing restaurants already in major existential and financial struggles, the thought of planning a new restaurant right now feels a bit decadent and scary.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations, New Cases Show Signs Of Decline Statewide In the enormous state of California — which as Governor Gavin Newsom has said before is equivalent in scale to about 20 states the size of Nebraska or Idaho — the latest surge in coronavirus cases is showing signs of abating, though that should probably only inspire some cautious optimism.
SF News DNA Evidence Leads To Woman's Arrest In 1988 East Bay Baby Murder A 52-year-old woman living in the Central Valley was arrested in recent weeks in connection with a 32-year-old cold-case homicide of an infant boy, known only as Baby John Doe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Spot Baia Opens In Jardiniere Space, Roma's Opens On Third Street While most of the restaurant news of the last four months has been about closings and pivots to takeout, there have been a few new restaurant projects proceeding hopefully through this pandemic storm, cautiously optimistic that they will emerge out the other side of it. And all of them are Italian.
SF News Active COVID-19 Cases At San Quentin Fall to 145, With 21 Deaths After nearly 2,200 inmates at San Quentin State Prison contracted the coronavirus beginning in early June, the number of active cases in custody on Monday fell to 145, while two more deaths have been recorded.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Modoc County Confirms Its First COVID Cases A big-rig crash clogs up I-580 eastbound near Livermore, San Mateo County hair and nail salon owners lament having to close again, and the PGA Championship lands in SF on Thursday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Records First Teen Death From COVID-19 A Larkspur man says he was assaulted for telling a jogger to wear a mask, a San Jose police officer is accused of laundering $18 million, and employees across California are being asked to sign COVID liability waivers.
SF News Richmond Doctor On Non-Mask Wearers: 'Our Rights Are Going to Kill Us' At a news conference with the Contra Costa County Department of Public Health on Friday, a Richmond doctor minced no words in condemning people who won't wear masks in public spaces, and in saying he was "embarrassed" by fellow doctors who had not stepped up to treat COVID patients.
Arts & Entertainment Better Falcon News: Nesting Pair Has Two Chicks on Alcatraz, Famed Berkeley Pair Has Three Fledglings Out of the Nest Hopes were dashed for the falcon nest atop the PG&E building in downtown San Francisco, but other Bay Area falcon pairs are faring better.
Business & Tech Feds Announce Charges Against Three People In Twitter Hack, Including Florida Man and Juvenile The major hacking and data breach at Twitter two weeks ago has already produced three alleged culprits, and federal authorities on Friday announced charges against the three, as well as the online moniker of a hacker still at large who is believed to have been the mastermind.
Business & Tech While National Economy Tanked Last Quarter, Apple, Alphabet, and Facebook Made Bank Despite a historic economic downturn in which the American economy contracted more than it ever has in one quarter, four big tech companies — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook — saw huge profits and extremely healthy second quarters.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Person and Dog Rescued In Fire Near Wharf Berkeley police are investigating an officer-involved shooting at a CVS, CA's prison population just dipped below 100,000 for the first time in 30 years, and will Kamala Harris be Joe Biden's VP pick?
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Officer Stabbed In Face While Making Arrest COVID-19 clusters have been reported at four South Bay Costcos, a Berkeley church was the target of an attempted arson after putting up a BLM banner, and Vinyl is moving from Divisadero to the Haight.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Chez Panisse, The Cliff House Is Suing Its Insurance Company Insurers are trying to deny claims being made by restaurants on their business-interruption policies — claims they are making because the coronavirus pandemic has clearly interrupted their business.
SF News Vallejo Police Chief Investigating Claim That Officers Bent Badges To Celebrate Fatal Shootings Once again we get a shockingly disgusting report about the Vallejo PD, and once again there will be an "investigation" into whether the department's officers are just awful human beings.
SF News SF To Open New Non-COVID Hospital Site In Presidio As Surge In Hospitalizations Looms Saying that a "huge surge" in COVID-19 hospitalizations is around the corner, SF Director of Public Health Dr. Grant Colfax announced Thursday that the city is opening up a new in-patient hospital facility in the Presidio in order to accommodate COVID-negative patients in need of acute care.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Storied Castro Nightclub Badlands Closes Permanently After 45 Years Badlands, a nightclub whose dancefloor was a last stop for many partiers in the Castro going back four decades, is closing for good according to a Facebook post published Thursday morning.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: U.S. Economy Shrank 33 Percent Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is back in the hospital, a boy who was fatally struck by an Amazon truck in Lafayette has been identified, and Mayor London Breed pushes back on pay raises for city employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Outpaces Nation, Adds 1260 New Cases The laptops Jack Dorsey paid for are heading for 25,000 Oakland students, San Mateo County has landed on the state's watch list, and Contra Costa County just added 410 new COVID cases in one day.
