SF News Humpday Headlines: Probably No Rain This Week After All According to a new report there were 63 verbal altercations and nine assaults on Muni drivers over mask-wearing rules between April and August, and pulmonology experts say Trump is clearly struggling to breathe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Falls Short of State Equity Goals For COVID Spread Five Bay Area residents were arrested in a major retail theft scheme, video shows the the Glass Fire arriving on a property in Calistoga, and the House of Prime Rib may be reopening as soon as next week.
Business & Tech Facebook Actually Removes Trump Post Containing False COVID Claim; Twitter Temporarily Freezes Trump's Account Facebook manned up and actually took down a post that Trump put up on Tuesday in which he, egregiously and falsely, claimed that COVID is less lethal than the flu.
SF News Cal Fire Investigates Vigilante Backfire Activity In First Days of Glass Fire Last week in either Napa or Sonoma County, some private citizens not assigned to the firefight apparently took it upon themselves to start lighting backfires to prevent the spread of the Glass Fire — an activity the Cal Fire takes seriously for its potential danger.
SF News Insane Brawl Breaks Out in the Middle of Upper Haight; Neighbor Group Blames Encampments A brawl broke out Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Clayton and Haight streets, and a neighborhood group that lobbied against the city establishing a sanctioned tent encampment nearby posted video to Twitter and implies homeless campers are to blame.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glass Fire Being Called Worst In Napa History, With Hundreds of Homes and at Least 20 Wineries Damaged or Destroyed While fire activity in the Glass Fire continues to be calmer than it was just days ago, the fallout from the fire is still being assessed — and the economic impacts to both the wine industry and Napa and Sonoma counties at large may be far greater than the size of the fire may suggest.
SF News John McAfee Back in the News After Arrest In Spain Onetime Bay Area kook turned global kook/accused murderer and tax evader John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and will apparently be extradited to the U.S. soon to face tax evasion charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Reverses EPA Reversal On Redwood City Salt Ponds Containment on the Glass Fire has reached 50 percent, a UCSF infectious disease specialist balks at Trump's behavior after leaving Walter Reed, and a judge rules against the EPA regarding the Cargill salt ponds in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda County to Reopen Oscar Grant Shooting Investigation The Wednesday debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will feature a plexiglass shield, the remains of a missing 75-year-old Berkeley woman may have been found in Humboldt County, and the Alameda County DA's office is reopening the Oscar Grant case.
SF News Petaluma Man Believed To Have Killed Girlfriend Allegedly Kills Himself By Speeding the Wrong Way Onto 101 A Petaluma man who's believed to have killed his girlfriend on Friday died in a fiery motorcycle crash with another vehicle after he sped northbound onto the southbound lanes of Highway 101.
SF Politics Of Course Trump Is Using His COVID Infection to Tell the Country 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID.' You Can Bet He's Afraid. True to form, President Trump used Twitter and his recent, clearly very serious case of COVID-19 to once again politicize the pandemic and tell his followers "Don't be afraid of COVID."
Arts & Entertainment Karla the Fog Steps In as Unofficial Twitter Replacement After Karl Goes Quiet In a year of constant talk in the media about increasing the visibility and amplifying the voices of women and people of color, SF's famed weather mascot has been — at least for now — replaced by a woman.
SF News Union Square Homicide Has Link to Home Invasion Robbery In East Bay A 21-year-old man who was killed near Union Square last week was wanted in connection with a May home invasion robbery in Fremont — and police had been looking for him for months.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 30% Containment as Some Evacuation Orders Are Lifted Predicted high winds never materialized late last week or over the weekend, and firefighters were able to raise containment levels and tamp down the Glass Fire threat for much of Sonoma County. On the Napa side, Calistoga was able to breathe easy Sunday as the fire shifted east.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Of Oscar Grant Wants Second BART Officer Charged A UCSF doctor has called Trump's motorcade stunt outside the hospital on Sunday "massively irresponsible," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has now tested positive for COVID-19, and California just crossed the 4 million mark for acres burned this year.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
SF Politics SF Public Health Director to Trump: Your Flagrant Disregard For Science Has Caught Up With You SF's Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax minced no words in reacting to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, which was revealed late Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 17-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Dopo Closes; Owners Say Government Failed Them Beloved Piedmont Avenue Italian spot Dopo will serve its last lasagna on Saturday, and the owners say that not enough has been done by federal, state, and local governments to prevent a mass die-off of restaurants.
SF News Firefighters Still Bracing For High Winds After Calm Night Fighting Glass Fire; Containment Reaches 6 Percent Forecasted gusty winds failed to materialize with the new Red Flag Warning Thursday night, allowing fire crews in the North Bay to beef up containment lines on the Glass Fire and prevent any further structure damage.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pelosi Hopes For 'Saner' Approach to Pandemic After Trumps Get COVID Nancy Pelosi says the Trumps' COVID infections are "sad" but were perhaps inevitable, firefighters are facing an unpredictable day with the Glass Fire, and a young man was found dead on a BART train in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Ghirardelli Sign Returns After Restoration Facebook says it will now ban ads that undermine the election in any way, Cal Fire is warning of spot fires caused by winds tonight, and Napa County officials are apologizing for a fire warning text that went out to multiple counties.
SF News SF Air Quality to Worsen Thursday Night, Improve By Friday Afternoon According to the latest smoke forecast, while fires may get scarier to our north — and while the East Bay hills are under Red Flag Warnings too — the smoke situation in San Francisco will get worse before it gets better.
SF News Ignition Point Of Glass Fire Identified and It's *Possible* It Wasn't PG&E's Fault Cal Fire investigators appear to have found the general area where the Glass Fire first ignited around 3:30 a.m. on September 27. A PG&E transmission line runs through the area, but an initial investigation has not pointed immediately to PG&E as the likely culprit, for a change.
SF News San Francisco City College Once Again In Trouble Over Its Financial Status It's been six years since SF City College nearly lost its accreditation over a variety of financial and mismanagement issues, and now the California accreditation board has once again put the school on its "enhanced monitoring" list due to its ongoing financial woes.
SF News [Update] New Fire Near Yountville Quickly Contained What's being called the Campbell Fire has just broken out Thursday morning in the vicinity of Oakville Grade Road and Campbell Creek Road in Napa County, just outside of Yountville on the west side of Highway 29.
