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.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close In Eight Weeks, Cites Shoplifting as Issue The beleaguered Safeway in the Fillmore, the planned closure of which was announced almost a year ago, now has a final closing date, and the company won't be negotiating this time.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Marin Child May Have Gotten Bird Flu From Raw Milk A child in Marin County with suspected bird flu may have gotten it from raw milk; a teacher in a Benecia school is facing trial for molesting children; and Kimberly Guilfoyle has been nominated as ambassador to Greece.
SF Politics Adam Schiff Sworn In to Senate, Says He Doesn't Need Pre-emptive Pardon From Biden Congressman Adam Schiff is now Senator Adam Schiff, as he was officially sworn in Monday to cover the balance of the late Dianne Feinstein's term. And he says he doesn't just want to be known as a thorn in Trump's side.
SF News Accused Serial Killer David Misch Tells Odd Tale of Selling Cocaine to Woman Found Dead In 1986 Accused murderer David Misch may or may not have done himself any favors in taking the stand in his own defense Tuesday, in a murder trial that has been ongoing for six weeks, stemming from the deaths of two young women in 1986.
SF News Healthcare CEO Shooting Suspect Was Reported Missing In San Francisco This Fall The suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was thought by his mother to be living in San Francisco earlier this year, though it's not at all clear that he ever did.
Bay Area Sports Another Pickleball Dispute Arises Between Downtown SF Condo Owners and Fitness Club The "noise pollution" created by outdoor pickleball courts has once again made the local news, as a condo association in downtown San Francisco has filed a lawsuit over pickleball noise.
Arts & Entertainment Reinstallation of 'The Bay Lights' Has Begun on the Bay Bridge, Full Display Back This Winter Work to reinstall a new set of even-more-weatherproof LEDs for the 'Bay Lights' art piece on the Bay Bridge — the third time that the work has been installed since its initial debut in March 2013 — is now underway.
SF News Pedestrian Crash on Highway 101 Near SFO Snarls Early Morning Traffic A crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on northbound 101 near San Francisco International Airport left the pedestrian dead and all northbound lanes shut down for several hours early Tuesday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Administrator Takes Over Alameda County DA's Office Royl Roberts, Pamela Price's administrative second-in-command, has temporarily taken over the Alameda Co. DA's office; that shattered BART entrance glass in downtown SF still isn't replaced; and gusty winds took down a large tree in Berkeley last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF GOP Chair Named By Trump to Civil Rights Post Former SF GOP Chair Harmeet Dhillon has landed herself a plum post in the Trump Justice Department; the Bay Area Syrian community is celebrating the fall of the Assad regime; and a 5.8M earthquake on the Nevada border could have been triggered by last week's quake off the coast.
Arts & Entertainment ACT's 'A Whynot Christmas Carol' Deconstructs a Dickens Classic, to Evocative Ends There is no definitive stage version of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol,' just as there is no one definitive film version. And though ACT had a faithful and well loved version of its own that it staged for over 40 years, the company decided it was time for a change.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pebble Beach Food & Wine Announces Lineup of Celeb Chefs, Ticket On-Sale Dates Rub elbows with Giada De Lauretiis, Maneet Chauhan, Jonathan Waxman and others at Pebble Beach Food & Wine in April 2025, with ticket pre-sales beginning today.
Arts & Entertainment Original Singer of 'Golden Girls' Theme Makes Surprise Appearance at 'Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes' In SF 'The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes,' an annual tradition from a quartet of SF drag queens going back 17 years, returns this holiday season in much fancier digs than where it began. And Friday's opening included a surprise guest.
SF News Man Arrested In Connection With Healthcare CEO Slaying Spent Time In Bay Area A man whom New York police are describing as a "strong person of interest" in last week's murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested in Pennsylvania and identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
SF News SF's Wild Parrots Suddenly Flocking to Transamerica Redwood Park We have a new development in the rovings of San Francisco's beloved but noisy wild parrots — at least one group of them anyway. They have been gathering regularly in recent months in the small redwood grove next to the iconic Transamerica Pyramid.
SF News Sideshow In Oakland Ends With BMW In Flames A roving sideshow early Sunday morning that moved from North Oakland closer to downtown, drawing hundreds of spectators, ended with one car fully engulfed in flames.
