SF News Humpday Headlines: Two Women Killed, Three Others Injured In Vallejo Birthday Party Shooting San Jose's police chief has pledged to stop the use of rubber bullets to disperse crowds, Newsom meets with Oakland residents about the police, and a shooting at a child's birthday party in Vallejo left two women in their 60s dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Rock's 'Black Lives Matter' Message Painted Over By Public Works A South Bay man has been charged with COVID-related stock manipulation, SF officials just announced a financial relief package for fishermen impacted by the Pier 45 fire, and artists are repainting 'Black Lives Matter' on Bernal Hill Rock for the sixth time after DPW effed up.
Arts & Entertainment Good News: Falcon Mom Atop PG&E Headquarters Is Expecting Hatchlings Any Day Now Nature! It's still happening around us despite the mess that humans have made of their world. And once again I'd like to point you to the meditative live peregrine falcon cam atop PG&E's Beale Street building, where exciting things may be about to happen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Tenderloin Dive Aunt Charlie's Saved By Crowdfunding A crowdfunding campaign that set out to raise $100,000 last week to save Aunt Charlie's Lounge succeeded in reaching its goal within just a week, and on Monday there was a socially distant drag show on the sidewalk outside to celebrate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As Outdoor Dining Resumes In SF Friday, Bars Ask City to OK July Reopenings Mayor London Breed gave the green light Tuesday for San Francisco restaurants to begin outdoor, sit-down dining on Friday, three days ahead of the previously announced date of June 15. And a petition by local bar owners is seeking an accelerated schedule for their reopening as well.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 10 New Bay Area Deaths, Study Finds Multiple Virus Entries In CA, and WHO Downplays Asymptomatic Spread In pandemic news Tuesday there is a mix of good and bad, and an interesting new study looking at the genetics of multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains that entered California at the beginning of the year. And new cases aren't exactly slowing down locally.
SF Politics Feds Charge Three More People Linked to Mohammed Nuru and City Hall Corruption Probe It's been four months and a pandemic later, but we are still talking about the rampant, some say "low level," corruption that has apparently existed at San Francisco City Hall for decades
SF News PG&E To Sell Its SF Headquarters, Move to Oakland The company that began as San Francisco Gas Company in 1852, incorporating at PG&E in 1905, is in the process of both trying to emerge from bankruptcy and reinventing itself as a more responsible corporation whose equipment doesn't spark deadly wildfires every fall.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Police Chief 'Open' to Defunding Department BART and Muni are pausing today to honor George Floyd as he's buried in Houston, two small earthquakes struck this morning in Berkeley, and California is reopening movie theaters at 25% capacity.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Cruz Sheriff Describes Dramatic Struggle With Shooting Suspect Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze in Oakland's Glenview neighborhood, BART has begun adding back some rush hour trains, and Santa Cruz Sheriff Jim Hart described the heroic act of a resident in detaining Saturday's shooting suspect.
SF News Healdsburg Mayor Apologizes for 'Blind Spots' About Racism As Petition Calls For Her Resignation Even the small, affluent, northern Sonoma County town of Healdsburg is not immune to the civil unrest and tough conversations about systemic racism happening around the country.
Arts & Entertainment Black Bird-Watcher Who Spoke Out About SF Racism a Decade Ago Celebrates Black Birders Week You may have missed it in the crush of news about protests across the country and the globe last week, but it was also #BlackBirdersWeek, in which black birders and naturalists took to social media to share the photographs of their hobby.
SF News Berkeley Study Suggests Social-Distancing Measures Prevented 530 Million COVID-19 Infections By April A new peer-reviewed study has found that public health orders to enforce social distancing have saved an untold number of lives and likely prevented around 530 million COVID-19 transmissions across six countries.
SF News Video: SF Couple Gets Engaged During Black Lives Matter Protest On Golden Gate Bridge A San Francisco couple took a dramatic — and windy — moment on the Golden Gate Bridge, during which protesters had halted traffic in both directions on Saturday afternoon, to get engaged in front of the assembled crowd.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Artists Follow D.C. In Painting 'Black Lives Matter' on City Street Three blocks of 15th Street in downtown Oakland are now painted in big, bold yellow letters "#BlackLivesMatter," much like a street near the White House in Washington, D.C. as of last week.
SF News Air Force Officer Named In Killing of Santa Cruz Sheriff's Deputy May Be Linked to Killing of Federal Officer in Oakland An ambush-style attack that took the life of a sheriff's deputy in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Saturday afternoon may be linked to a similar ambush attack on a pair of federal security guards in Oakland during protests on May 29.
SF News Couple Shot By CHP Officers In Oakland Were Driving Vehicle Allegedly Looted From San Leandro Dealership A man and a woman who were shot by CHP officers in Oakland Saturday night were reportedly driving a vehicle identified as one of the 70+ cars stolen off a dealer's lot during widespread looting in San Leandro a week ago Sunday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Quail Fire Now 50-Percent Contained House and Senate Democrats kneel for George Floyd, two men were hospitalized after their boat capsized near Half Moon Bay, and a homicide investigation has prompted road closures in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Black Lives Matter Protest to Cross Golden Gate Bridge A brush fire prompts evacuations in Potrero Hill, a woman was killed Thursday night near McLaren Park, a protest is scheduled Saturday on the Golden Gate Bridge, and Twitter bans a Trump campaign video about George Floyd.
SF News Friday Protests In Mission and Castro, and Critical Mass Ride Kicks Off on Embarcadero Not that most of you are likely to be trying to traverse the city by car this afternoon or evening, but maybe you've got work to get to or a socially distant birthday
Arts & Entertainment Black Woman on Horse At Oakland Protest Says She Knew The Image Would Be Powerful 25-year-old horse enthusiast and budding entrepreneur with a social justice bent Brianna Noble knew exactly what she was doing when she drove her horse trailer to downtown Oakland last week.
SF News SF Opens Pop-Up COVID Testing Site Specifically for Protesters San Francisco has opened a new free testing site as St. Mary's Cathedral (1111 Gough Street) specifically for people who have attended protests, no symptoms required.
SF News Passengers From Grand Princess Mexico Cruise Sue Company for Negligence In the second lawsuit to be filed by passengers aboard a Princess Cruise Lines cruise from San Francisco who were exposed to the coronavirus, passengers who sailed from SF to Mexico and back in mid-February are suing the company for negligence.
SF News Family of Man Killed By Vallejo Officer: 'They Executed Him' 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa, the San Francisco man who was fatally shot Monday night by a Vallejo police officer who believed he was carrying a handgun — which turned out to be a hammer — was the son of a longtime employee at Anchor Oyster Bar in the Castro. And his family is speaking out.
SF News 31-Year-Old Swimmer Dies After Being Rescued in Rough Surf at Ocean Beach A 31-year-old man died Thursday evening after getting caught in rough surf at Ocean Beach, just north of the San Francisco Zoo.
