SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Gets In Dig at Elon Musk After Momeni Verdict Before he became Trump's temporary lackey, Elon Musk was just your average bandwagon-jumping, San Francisco-hating tech CEO on Twitter, trying to tell the world that the city that birthed his company and many others had gone to hell overnight.
SF News Jury Finds Nima Momeni Guilty of Second-Degree Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee After seven days of deliberations, the verdict in the trial of Nima Momeni was read Tuesday morning, and the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, but guilty of second-degree murder.
SF News Tuesday Morning What's Up: Sheng Thao Serves Final Day as Oakland Mayor It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Wants CHP's Help Too Vallejo residents are calling on Newsom to send in the CHP to help their city's crime problem; a man escaped from a psych ward in San Leandro on Friday and is still missing and at-risk; and an Oakland smoke shop got busted for selling drugs.
SF News Verdict Reached In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Won't Be Read Until Tuesday Morning After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
Business & Tech San Francisco's Sky-High Office Vacancy Rate Declines Slightly, In Sign of Possible Turnaround The improvement was ever so slight, but a key indicator of the health of the office leasing market in San Francisco showed another glimmer of hope that the bottom has been reached and leases continue to tick up.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Helps Lead Charge to Thwart a Republican-Led Constitutional Convention Nightmare Among the many, many nightmare scenarios we face as Donald Trump and his band of anti-government zealots march back into the White House is the looming threat of a constitutional convention.
SF News Cafe Worker In SF's Mission District Springs Into Action to Stop Petty Thief A cafe worker in the Mission District is being hailed as a hero for jumping out from behind the counter to pummel a would-be backpack thief Friday morning and hold him until police arrived.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Storm Cleanup Continues A six-year-old boy was killed after running onto I-280 in San Jose; cleanup continues across the city after Saturday's storm; and the 49ers have suspended De'Vondre Campbell for conduct detrimental to the team.
SF News Was That Tornado Warning Really Necessary In San Francisco? San Franciscans with cellphones were abruptly awakened at 5:50 am Saturday by a blaring tornado warning, barely a week after we received a similar blaring warning about a tsunami that never arrived.
Business & Tech OpenAI Whistleblower Found Dead In His SF Apartment Three months after publicly accusing his former employer, OpenAI, of infringing on copyrights when training its AI chatbot, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Magnolia Brewing Makes a Comeback Magnolia Brewing has reopened under its new ownership in the Haight, Turtle Tower might be making a comeback downtown, and the owner of The Kon-Tiki in Oakland has some choice words for haters and city leaders as the bar closes.
Bay Area Sports De'Vondre Campbell Gets the Boot After Refusing to Play In 49ers-Rams Game The 49ers are firing De'Vondre Campbell, effective immediately, after the linebacker refused to take the field Thursday night when he called in, apparently over some ego thing.
SF News California DMV Lets Antisemitic Vanity License Plate Slip, and It Was For a Cybertruck Just imagine the douche who bought a Tesla Cybertruck and then decided to put a license plate on it trivializing violence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nancy Pelosi Hospitalized In Luxembourg After Taking 'Hard Fall' Nancy Pelosi was injured in a 'hard fall' down some stairs while at an event in Luxembourg; the current storm system will get more intense in the Bay Area tonight; and jurors in the Momeni trial apparently look stressed.
SF News Tour Group Set to Take Visitors to Jonestown Site In January; Jackie Speier and Others Outraged An adventure tour group is planning to begin taking visitors on morbid tours of the site of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, and Bay Area family members of victims, and one of the near-victims herself, former Congresswoman Jackie Speier, are saying "hell no."
SF News SF District Attorney Charges Two In Connection With Union Square Dior Store Burglary Two suspects were charged and entered not-guilty pleas in connection with an October smash-and-grab burglary at the Union Square Christian Dior store, a heist that involved at least 10 individuals, and that resulted in the theft of nearly $300K in handbags.
SF News Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been? San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
SF News Two Killed In Single-Car Crash In Fremont Two people were killed in an apparent high-speed crash in Fremont Wednesday night in which a car collided with a tree, which then fell on a house, and debris from the car damaged the house as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden Commutes Sentences For 1,500 Some rain arrived ahead of schedule Wednesday night in SF; crews are responding to the scene of a school bus crash on the Peninsula; and Biden just commuted the sentences of 1,500 inmates, most of whom were in home confinement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Symphony Chorus Gets Contract Deal Cruise employees say they were blindsided by news that GM is ending the autonomous taxi business; HGTV's Chip and Joanna Gaines are now part owners of a Tahoe hockey team; and sunsets in SF will start getting later next week.
SF News FBI Produces Age-Progression Image of SF Toddler Who Went Missing Eight Years Ago Arianna Fitts would be 11 years old today, and if she is still alive she may be living under another name with no memory of being called Arianna.
SF News Car Plows Into Front of Walgreens In West Portal, Store Temporarily Closed A car drove into the front of a Walgreens in West Portal Wednesday morning, causing some damage to the building, and minorly injuring two people.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Plans to Create Four Deputy Positions In Mayor's Office San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has plans to switch things up a bit in the mayor's office, reverting to a system that voters in the city did away with almost 30 years ago.
Business & Tech Yes, Instagram Is Down, and So Are Other Meta Apps The Luigi Mangione memes have officially broken the internet. Meta was experiencing some sort of major "disruptions" Wednesday morning, which were causing outages on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and Messenger.
