SF News Woman Who Died During Conjugal Visit to Sacramento Area Prison Likely Strangled By Inmate Husband A coroner has ruled that a woman died by strangulation during an overnight visit to Mule Creek State Prison in November, and she was alone with her convicted murderer husband at the time.
SF News SF City Attorney Shuts Down Two 'Wildly Illegal' Nightclubs, Three Gambling Dens Two illegal nightclubs and three gambling dens have been successfully shut down in San Francisco in recent months thanks to enforcement actions by the SF City Attorney's Office.
SF News Five Muni Bus Lines Will Likely See Changes, Turn Around at Market Street, Starting In June The SFMTA has been threatening to make service cuts as they struggle to avoid a financial cliff, and those cuts are now likely being made real on five Muni bus lines, starting this summer.
SF News Police Arrest Employee at Castro Walgreens Who Allegedly Stabbed Shoplifter In the Eye It was a violent morning on Castro Street Wednesday when an employee at the Walgreens store there allegedly stabbed a shoplifter in the eye during a street altercation.
Arts & Entertainment New Artists' Facility Begins to Take Shape at Former SF Art Institute The historic San Francisco Art Institute is going to be undergoing a renovation in the coming year, and it's now looking like it will re-emerge in a few years' time as an arts organization and studio facility, the exact details of which are still to be revealed.
SF News SF Anti-Crime Crusader and Twitter Troll Ricci Wynne Now Indicted for Child Porn A loudmouth social media figure who made a name for himself with sensational videos of drug use and depravity in San Francisco's Tenderloin is now facing even more serious charges than he already had been, following an arrest late last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Suspect Killed In Santa Rita Jail A 37-year-old man suspected in a 2022 vehicular homicide on Highway 24 was killed at Santa Rita Jail; a state bill banning street vending has been reintroduced; and there are two possible measles cases in Tuolumne County.
SF News 'Dirty Dick' Smith, the Eighth Former FCI Dublin Prison Figure Charged With Sex Crimes, Begins His Trial The eighth man to be charged in connection with sex crimes at the now shuttered women's prison known as FCI Dublin, and the one charged with the most counts, had his first day of trial Monday at a courthouse in Oakland.
SF News Man Arrested In San Jose For Allegedly Keying a Tesla, as Seen In Viral Video A probably politically motivated act of vandalism has resulted in an arrest in San Jose, after a man seen in a viral video keying a Tesla in a Costco parking lot has been taken into custody.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Posts Awkward Video Reading 'Nice Muni Emails' Modeled on Jimmy Kimmel's "Mean Tweets" segments, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie has posted a video to social media in which he's reading nice emails the city has received about Muni drivers.
SF News Saks Could Be the Next Major Retailer to Exit Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue, which already switched to an appointment-only model at its Union Square store, may not be sticking around much longer in SF, real estate experts surmise.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Giants Sell Stake In Team to Private Equity Firm The Giants have sold a 10% stake in the team to private equity firm Sixth Street; two children killed in a DUI crash in Napa have been identified; and the Trump administration is ending the Emergency Housing Voucher program.
SF News 4.0M Earthquake Centered Near Dublin Felt Across the Bay An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2, later revised at 4.0, shook the East Bay Monday evening and was felt as a brief shake in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Service to SFO Likely Coming Soon Waymo has reached a deal to start mapping its routes to SFO; the SFMTA is thinking about putting pickleball courts on top of underutilized city-owned garages; and a midwife and her associate have been arrested in Texas for providing abortions.
SF News Scott Peterson Beaten Up By Fellow Inmate Amid Pickleball Misunderstanding Convicted murderer Scott Peterson's time at Mule Creek State Prison outside Sacramento just got a little worse, after he reportedly got beaten up last week, and now we're hearing from the inmate who did the beating.
Business & Tech All-Day Internet Outage Affecting Comcast Customers Across SF Xfinity/Comcast customers lost internet, phone, and TV service Monday morning around 10 am. And an initial promise of service restoration by 1 pm has now been updated to 8 pm.
SF News Several Big Corporate Sponsors Decline to Participate In SF Pride This Year, Because Trump Comcast, Anheuser-Busch, and booze conglomerate Diageo are among the corporations that are backing away from supporting San Francisco's LGBTQ Pride celebrations this year, marking some shameful fair-weather-friend behavior in a time of frightening fascist action.
SF News Man Found Dead In San Mateo County Jail Was Convicted In Street-Racing Death of Couple A man who was serving time for the vehicular manslaughter deaths of a Redwood City couple, stemming from a 2022 street-racing incident with a teenager, was found dead over the weekend in his cell.
SF Politics Mayor Daniel Lurie Promises 'New Era of Accountability' In New Homelessness Plan SF Mayor Daniel Lurie is signing a new executive order Monday and announcing an ambitious plan for tackling the combined crises of homelessness, drug addiction, and mental health, which includes holding nonprofits more accountable for outcomes.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Schumer Postpones Book Tour That Would Have Brought Him to SF VTA workers are entering their second week of a strike; BART Red Line service between SFO and Millbrae is suspended; and Chuck Schumer is postponing his book tour over "security concerns."
SF News RFK Jr. Apparently Coming After Poppers Manufacturers Because of a Long-Discredited AIDS Conspiracy Theory The circus continues out of Trump's Washington, where clown-car cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now apparently wielding the power of the FDA to go after manufacturers of amyl nitrate, or poppers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: All Hail Turtle Tower Daytrip returns as a counter-service operation, Turtle Tower returns in new downtown digs, and finally we have a replacement restaurant moving into the former Petit Crenn, all in This Week in Food.
SF News Man Charged In Brutal Throat-Slashing Murder at SoMa Hotel It's not clear why it took almost five months to file charges, but a suspect has now been formally charged in an October murder that took place inside a hotel on Seventh Street in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment Reality TV Sendup 'Nobody Loves You' at ACT Is Witty, Sharp, and Entirely Lovable The modern musical hasn't ever tackled the ubiquitous phenomenon that is reality television, maybe because the two worlds seem like they'd be incompatible. But Nobody Loves You, which just opened at ACT Wednesday, proves they can be a match made in Broadway heaven.
SF News SFUSD Avoids Teacher Layoffs Thanks to Early Retirements In a rare bit of good news for the San Francisco Unified School District and its ongoing budget woes, the jobs of at least 100 teachers have been saved thanks to other teachers taking early retirement incentive packages.
