SF News Judge Blasts Federal Prison For Providing Poor Medical Care, Lets SF Scandal Figure Nick Bovis Out on Home Release Nick Bovis, one of the first people involved in the San Francisco City Hall bribery scandal to be arrested alongside Mohammed Nuru as the scandal unfolded five years ago, is getting out of prison a couple months early.
SF News Woman Grabbed Off Street In Apparent Kidnapping In East Oakland Oakland police put out an alert Thursday seeking the public's help with information about a brazen kidnapping seen on video that occurred on 98th Avenue in East Oakland.
SF News Castro Theatre Reopening Delayed Until Fall or Beyond; Longtime Coffeeshop Tenant Hints at Possible Eviction Due to a reported "holding pattern" with a PG&E power issue, the much anticipated reopening of the renovated Castro Theatre will not be happening in time for Pride Month as originally hoped.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: San Mateo Sheriff Refuses to Step Down San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus is (still) refusing to resign; a Trump order to try to dissolve the Department of Education appears on its way; and there's a Todd Haynes retrospective launching in Berkeley.
SF News Supreme Court Rules In Favor of San Francisco In EPA Lawsuit Over Sewer Discharge San Francisco won out and had some strange bedfellows supporting it in a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court last year about the Environmental Protection Agency's power to regulate ocean water standards.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SF Chronicle Is Reviving the Top 100 Restaurants List at Last After more than five years in which the San Francisco Chronicle has published a bevy of shorter food lists, the big grandaddy of them all, the Top 100, is making a comeback.
SF News Voters Overwhelmingly Endorse the Removal of San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus She was holding on to her job against strong odds, but it looks like San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus will be removed following a special election Tuesday that had a relatively low turnout.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Major Owner of SF Hotels Says City Has 'Turned' A 27-year-old man was arrested in Rohnert Park for firing a gun at a business; a man accused in an Amtrak stabbing has been deemed competent to stand trial; and a large owner of SF hotels is bullish about the city's turnaround.
SF News Man Fatally Shot In Alley Off Van Ness Avenue, Near Cathedral Hill A man was fatally shot Sunday morning in San Francisco's Western Addition, not far from where a major police raid occurred last week concerning drug activity.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fatal Crashes In Oakland and Millbrae There were fatal crashes Monday morning in East Oakland and Millbrae; Bay Area Ukrainians hold emergency rally in SF; and the special election is on for Tuesday to potentially recall the San Mateo County sheriff.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Tyler Florence Gives His Side of the Union Square Debacle We learn Tyler Florence's side of the situation of the Union Square cafes story, the high-end Japanese spot Bar Shoji is about to open, and Let's Eat BBQ is back in the Bayview, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Two Women Arrested For Kicking Dog Amidst Neighbor Dispute In Pittsburg A mother and daughter were arrested by Pittsburg police on Thursday following an incident captured on video in which one of them kicked a neighbor's small dog into a bush during an argument.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mass Layoffs Deal a Blow to NOAA Cooler weather and rain are on their way to the Bay Area this weekend; Microsoft is shutting down Skype after 14 years; and the Musk/Trump firings of hundreds of weather forecasters at NOAA is being called "reckless" by a respected climate scientist.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF News Jackknifed Big Rig, Spilled Fuel Closes Three Lanes of Southbound 101 Near SFO Southbound 101 was a mess Thursday morning for anyone trying to get to SFO, after a two-vehicle collision involving a jackknifed big rig spilled some fuel and left three lanes of the freeway blocked.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Hospitalized In Oakland Shootings Video suggests San Jose teen was targeted for wearing gang colors; two people were injured in separate Oakland shootings in the last 24 hours; and Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife were found dead in their New Mexico home.
SF News Boyfriend Allegedly Talked of AI Fears, Appeared to Have Mental Break In Days Before Kimberly Wong Murder More than a year after 30-year-old Scott Fisher was arraigned on charges of murdering the girlfriend he lived with in Presidio Heights, we are finally hearing many of the details of the investigation via a preliminary hearing.
Business & Tech Apple Shareholders Scoff at Think Tank Proposal to Scrap DEI Programs At least one more major US company isn't rushing to toss its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives just because Trump and his minions don't get racism.
SF News Zizians: Blog Suggests Ziz Ordered Follower to Kill Her Romantic Partner Another detail has emerged in the complicated, sordid, and violent saga of the Zizians, and it is the first to draw a direct link between Jack "Ziz" LaSota and an order compelling someone to murder.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF School Board Approves Layoff Notices The SF school board just approved sending preliminary layoff notices to 550 employees; CHP confirms that one person was shot on Highway 24 Tuesday; and an unvaccinated Texas child has died of measles.
Arts & Entertainment 'Uncle Vanya' at Berkeley Rep Is Pure Theater Magic at Work Sometimes a great cast and a great director coalesce around a particular play and make it sing in ways it only rarely can, and such is the case with the current production of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' playing at Berkeley Rep.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers Voice Avian Flu Fears After Falcon Annie and Mate Go Missing Annie, the peregrine falcon who has lived atop Berkeley's Campanile Tower for nine years, has been missing from her longtime roost for nearly two months, and falcon watchers fear the worst.
SF News Person Struck By BART Train at Civic Center Causes Major Delays A major medical emergency on the BART tracks at Civic Center Station Tuesday morning led to trains single-tracking through the station and significant systemwide delays.
SF Politics Guys Who Posed as DOGE at SF City Hall Are YouTube Trolls Who Also Harassed Kamala Harris HQ A couple of aggressive jokesters who wore MAGA hats and DOGE t-shirts and went around harassing workers in various Civic Center offices on February 14 were, indeed, just some YouTuber/podcasters trying to pump out some content.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Musk Says Federal Workers Have 'Another Chance' Elon Musk was forced to backtrack a bit on his federal worker ultimatum email; 40% of DOGE's canceled contracts to date add up to zero savings; and a suspected Santa Rosa fentanyl dealer makes a court appearance.
