SF News Bay Area Has Its Worst Week Yet With 170 New COVID Hospitalizations, 54 Deaths, Over 5,600 New Cases With most of the data in for the nine counties in the Bay Area, this has officially been the worst week to date in this pandemic for COVID hospitalizations in the region, and likely the deadliest.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Employees of Hot Cookie in the Castro Call For Boycott Over Alleged Racism, Sexual Misconduct The owners of popular Castro cookie shop Hot Cookie are now the subject of some accusations of racist commentary and sexual assault by a group of employees, who have spearheaded a boycott campaign and an effort to drive down the shop's Yelp rating.
SF News Muni Driver Attacked With Bat After Telling Three Passengers To Put on Masks Three young men who boarded a Muni bus near San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood are suspected of assaulting the driver with a bat after repeatedly being asked to put on face masks.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Unidentified Remains Found In Bag In San Bruno An Alameda County Sheriff's deputy has died of COVID-19, some unidentified remains were found in a construction bag in San Bruno, and the Giants lost their opening game with the Dodgers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: When Will SF Get Off the State's Watch List? A man stabbed in SoMa on Wednesday suffered life-threatening injuries, Berkeley residents are working on a "Reparations Now" street mural, and the Ferry Building is back open.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Art Institute Saved, Maybe, For Another School Year The San Francisco Art Institute announced on Wednesday that it will be reopening its degree programs this fall, four months after announcing that it was shutting down permanently due to serious financial woes.
SF News California AG Arrests Two, Charges Three In Ponzi Scheme That Allegedly Netted $10 Million Three men, including one in the East Bay, were charged today by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in a fraudulent investment scheme that allegedly bilked 70 victims out of $10 million.
Bay Area Sports As Baseball Begins Its Weirdest Season Ever, Fox Is Testing Out Fake Crowd Sounds, CGI Fans In Stands Rather than let Major League teams play ball in front of empty stadiums on television, Fox says it will add virtual crowds, noise, and even a CGI "wave" to remind us just what a surreal year this year.
SF News 58-Year-Old Man Dies In Bayview Shooting; Man Injured In Tenderloin Shooting One man is dead and another was injured in separate shootings overnight in San Francisco.
SF News As FBI Cracks Down On Chinese Spies In Academia, One Researcher Is Reportedly Hiding Out at Consulate In SF The case appears to be part of a broad program in which visiting Chinese scientists are being recalled by the Chinese military, several of whom have been detained at U.S. airports in recent weeks.
SF News San Francisco Hairstylists Not Psyched To Be Cutting Hair On Sidewalk With Wind, Fog, Homeless While it's fine and well for more temperate, inland parts of the state where parking lots are the norm, it's not going to be feasible for a lot of salons to do business outside in SF's less quiet neighborhoods.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Steve Wozniak Is Suing YouTube Oakland cannabis businesses want more police protection following shooting, American and Southwest Airlines are no longer accepting claims of medical exceptions for mask-wearing, and a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant has died of COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ferry Building Closed Under Mall Closure Orders The SFPD released video from a July 11 Bayview shooting, a protest against Trump's use of federal troops against protesters is planned for Saturday in Oakland, and SF's Ferry Building — at least the interior part — is now closed.
SF News California Sees 12,800 New COVID Cases In One Day, 10 Percent Positivity Rate; 500 New Cases In East Bay Alone The state of California just overtook New York for the most cumulative coronavirus cases, and broke its one-day record for new cases with 12,807 in one 24-hour period. And over 500 new cases were just added in two East Bay counties.
SF News Muir Woods Might Want To Look For a New Name As The Sierra Club Reckons With Its Founder's Racism The sheer number of things named after famed environmentalist John Muir in California makes for widespread implications if and when it comes time to remove his name from places of honor.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Block Latest Effort To Create a Public Advocate Department, Approve Sheriff Oversight Commission A proposed ballot measure from Supervisor Gordon Mar to create a new Office of the Public Advocate was shot down by the Board on Tuesday in a 6-to-5 vote — the second time in five years that this proposed office has been shot down.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Gets $2B Vaccine Contract Twitter is booting all QAnon conspiracists off the platform, BART just gave out raises despite budget woes, and Pfizer just got a federal contract to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, pending approvals.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Wildfires Are Burning Around California A new CDC study suggests actual coronavirus cases are 10 to 20 times higher than reported, California cases are set to eclipse New York's within days, and the reopening of Souvla led to hours-long lines to pick up food.
SF News Car On Fire Causes Major Backup On Golden Gate Bridge Multiple lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge were entirely shut down Tuesday afternoon after a car burst into flames and fire crews responded to the blaze.
SF News UCSF Med School Chair Suggests Hope For San Francisco In Avoiding Explosive COVID Surge While surging cases in the Bay Area concern Dr. Bob Wachter somewhat, he strikes a hopeful note here in mid-July that San Francisco will escape the high mortality rate and overwhelmed healthcare system being seen elsewhere in the country.
SF News Destruction Of Evidence In Vallejo Police Killing Of Sean Monterrosa Prompts Calls for FBI, State AG To Investigate The Vallejo Police Department continues to prove that it is incapable of inspiring public trust or investigating the actions of its own officers, and a revelation came recently that a key piece of evidence in the shooting of Sean Monterrosa has already been destroyed.
SF News Home Sellers Slash Prices In San Francisco As Number of Houses For Sale Reaches Recession-Era Level It's beginning to be more of a buyer's market in San Francisco than it has been in over a decade as the number of homes for sale last week reached levels unseen since 2011. And this means that more and more sellers are having to cut their asking prices to garner interest and remain competitive.
Bay Area Sports Giants' Gabe Kapler Becomes First MLB Manager To Take a Knee For Anthem Before their first exhibition game of the abbreviated 2020 season against the Oakland A's Monday night, multiple San Francisco Giants players and manager Gabe Kapler took a knee during the national anthem in recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement.
SF News You Can Now Get a Massage, Manicure, or Haircut in California If It's Outdoors Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled some revised rules around barbershops, hair and nail salons, and massage parlors on Monday, allowing them to offer services outdoors.
