Business & Tech Juul Targeted Kids With Web Ads On Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, Lawsuit Claims Juul's annus horribilis looks to be extending into 2020 as a lawsuit has just been filed in Massachusetts with potentially some of the strongest evidence to date that the company was targeting children and teens with its marketing.
SF News Palo Alto Mom and Daughter Return Home After Coronavirus Quarantine in SoCal A Bay Area woman and her daughter were among the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China two weeks ago and sent into quarantine at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside.
SF News Humpday Headlines: PG&E Lays Out Plans for This Year's Power Shutoffs BART has lost almost 10 million riders on nights and weekends, unlicensed contractors nabbed trying to bid on work in Paradise, and yes, PG&E does plan to keep shutting off the power when it's windy and dry this year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Andrew Yang Is Out Berkeley High School students walked out for a second day in a row protesting "rape culture" on campus, an Oakland man was robbed in his driveway Monday afternoon, and Janet Jackson just announced a San Jose stop on her summer tour.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out the Flight Path of the Helicopter During Sunday's 'Matrix 4' Shoot in Downtown SF Thanks to a Twitter bot that does nothing but tweet map details when aircraft are circling over parts of the Bay Area, we have a funny sketch of the flight path of a helicopter that was being used in the 'Matrix 4' shoot in San Francisco's Financial District on Sunday night.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stunt Skier Backflips Over Highway 50 In Tahoe Almost exactly one year ago, noted professional skier Josh Daiek completed a stunt he'd been eyeing for years at Echo Summit Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe — a ski jump over Highway 50. It was all a matter of waiting for the right snow.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's Lawyers Make End Run To Have Fraud Case Thrown Out An attorney for Holmes moved to have a federal judge throw out all 11 fraud charges against the two defendants claiming the government's case is too "broad" and "full of ambiguity and fudging language."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink West Portal Candy Shop Shaw's, Famed for PEZ Dispenser Display, Closes After 89 Years A candy shop that's been the delight of youngsters and the young at heart since 1931 has quietly closed its doors in West Portal.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole To Close In April and Relocate; Obispo Closed for Re-Concepting Local bar impresario Thad Vogler just announced that two of his four businesses will be undergoing changes in the coming months, including his design- and bar-award-winning Bar Agricole, which opened on 11th Street in 2011.
SF News Lovely Rainless Early Spring Weather Could Mean Fire Danger Later If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
SF News [Update] Accused BART Station Murderer John Lee Cowell Says Wilson Sisters Were Aliens 29-year-old John Lee Cowell took the witness stand in his own defense as scheduled on Tuesday, after the prosecution rested its case on Monday. And he unleashed some choice quotes that may bolster an insanity defense.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Woman Struck By Car in Portola A woman was struck by a car outside a Portola nightclub, the Chevron refinery in Richmond did more early morning flaring, and the first coronavirus case among American evacuees in quarantine has been confirmed in San Diego.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tartine Declines to Recognize Union Tartine is hoping employees reconsider the union effort, the Board of Supes is considering a 20-year lease for a Navigation Center for homeless youth in the Tenderloin, and Berkeley High students walked out to protest rape culture.
SF News New Flower Mart to Rise In Potrero Instead of 395 Units of Housing The six-year-old battle over the San Francisco Flower Mart appears close to a resolution today, however it looks like it's happening at the expense of a lot of housing, which is a damn shame.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Has Resigned From His Post at Public Works While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
SF News Local Hospitals Prepare for Coronavirus Patients; Richmond Lab Begins Testing While there has yet to be a case of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus in San Francisco, health officials are preparing for the possibility that a case will appear here.
SF News Chevron Refinery Conducts Flaring, Briefly Evacuates Employees Something went down Monday morning at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and it led to some flaring — the practice of safely burning excess hydrocarbon gases that comes with dramatic flames shooting out of smokestacks and the release of smoke.
SF News BART Adds Ambassadors, Switches Up Some Train Schedules Starting Today Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
SF News Crazy Wind Storm Knocks Down 15 Trees and 9 Power Lines On One Castro Valley Street An East Bay neighborhood was partially evacuated due to collapsing trees and downed power lines. And that 209-mph wind gust recorded at Kirkwood may have been the result of an equipment error.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Off-Duty FBI Agent Shoots Man In Haight-Asbury Fight Three people died in house fires in Oakland and Vacaville overnight, a hit-and-run driver was arrested in Richmond, and a new SFPD "foot beat office" has opened in mid-Market.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It's Going to Be Windy Expect traffic around downtown SF for the Chinese New Year Parade Saturday, Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy has resigned amid a texting scandal, Trump's Justice Department has dropped its fuel efficiency probe, and morale at Juul Labs is bad.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 10 SF Beer Week Events You Should Check Out Starting Saturday, there are nine more days of events all over the Bay Area — dinners, tap takeovers, special releases, category-specific fests, and more.
Business & Tech Apple Fined $27M In France For Purposely Slowing Down Older iPhones Apple has agreed to pay a 25 million euro fine (about $27 million) in a case brought by French regulators concerning the now widely known — and widely derided — practice of using software updates to slow down older iPhones and push people to buy newer models.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Is Growing Too Many Grapes, Causing Prices to Fall Two Years In a Row A combination of factors including new technologies, higher plant yields, and too much optimism about the demand for wine has led to a glut of grapes in California.
