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Day Around the Bay: First SF Flu Death of the Season Was Person Under Age 65

The SF health department announced the first flu death of the season, Mayor London Breed is being called out in testimony in case about clearing homeless encampments, and the downtown SF Container Store is closing.

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Police Commission Scales Back Limits on Traffic Stops After Public Pushback

The SF Police Commission is scaling back a plan to do away with most traffic stops in San Francisco, after public safety advocates and members of the public expressed concerns about the potential impacts on street safety.

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SamTrans Bus Crashes Into 16 Cars In Daly City Parking Lot, Causing At Least Four Injuries

At least four people are injured, one of them critically, following an incident at the Serramonte Mall in Daly City involving a SamTrans bus that may have been out of control and crashed into over a dozen cars in a parking lot.

Business & Tech

Uber and Lyft Drivers Are Being Carjacked and Thieves Are Then Robbing Passengers They Pick Up

Another thing to fear in your late-night ride! Uber and Lyft are cooperating with an investigation that's happening in Baltimore into a series of carjackings of rideshare drivers that subsequently turn into robberies of rideshare riders.

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New Census Data Finds Over One Million Same-Sex Couple Households In U.S.

The latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, puts the number of same-sex couple households over one million for the first time. But since the census still doesn't ask the sexual-orientation question, so we still don't have hard numbers on LGBTQ people who aren't coupled.

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Friday Morning Constitutional: Musk Bans Kanye From Twitter For Good This Time

Some of the highest peaks in Tahoe just saw four feet of snow, Kanye's latest antisemitic craziness has gotten him booted off Twitter for good (hopefully?), and an Oakland businessman faces sentencing in a scheme involving EB-5 visas.

Arts & Entertainment

Ingenious Adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights' Glows With Passion and Humor at Berkeley Rep

British theater director Emma Rice, whose work has delighted Bay Area audiences for over a decade, has brought her latest work to Berkeley Repertory Theater, and its as visually stunning, emotionally rich, and intricately staged as everything Rice has done previously.

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San Francisco Now the Only Major Metro Area In the U.S. Where Rents Are Still Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

Yeah, wow. Even though the city is far from the ghost town it was in the summer/fall of 2020, San Francisco is now the only one of 52 metro areas in the country with 1 million+ people where rents remain below March 2020 levels.

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Two Alleged Mac Block Gang Members Get Life In Prison For 2019 Fillmore Shooting Outside Funeral Reception

Two men, reportedly members of the Mac Block gang in the Fillmore District, have been sentenced in the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old East Bay man who engaged them in a shootout outside a funeral reception in March 2019.

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Mayor Breed, Supervisors Express Their Alarm Over Baby Exposed to Fentanyl, Possibly at Playground

One father's post on Nextdoor on Tuesday night set off a cascade of media coverage Wednesday about a highly sensational — and scary — incident involving a baby accidentally ingesting fentanyl, possibly at a city playground.

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People Being Warned Not to Drive to Tahoe Today/Tonight

Anyone looking to get a jump on ski season and this first big snowfall up around Lake Tahoe should probably have left yesterday, as snowy roadways are already causing problems for drivers in the area.

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Prosecutors: French Bulldog Theft In South San Francisco Was Arranged By Ex-Girlfriend With Help From Gang Members

A case from the summer of 2021 — one of a spate of high-profile robberies involving French bulldogs in the Bay Area — is finally hitting a courtroom in San Mateo County, and it was not a random theft.

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Thursday Morning What's Up: Morning Rain Will Be Followed By a Serious Chill

Get ready for a very chilly night to kick off December, police in Antioch have made an arrest in Saturday's gas station killing, and a big Silicon Valley law firm just laid off 150 employees.

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Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Expands Service to Renters Who Want to Host Travelers

Airbnb is partnering with corporate landlords to allow renters to sublet units to travelers for short stays, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have mended fences, and Steph Curry sold that mansion in Atherton so where's he living?

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Mistrial Declared In Antioch Murder Case After Defendant, Representing Himself, Shouts Profanities at Prosecutor and Judge

A 27-year-old man from Oakland, representing himself in a case involving the murder of his ex-girlfriend, has spent a fair bit of time shouting profanities and slurs at the prosecutor and judge, and generally interrupting the proceedings. Now the judge has declared a mistrial.

Business & Tech

Musk Drops Twitter's COVID Misinformation Policy, Because Of Course He Did

In another stellar move celebrating unfettered free speech in the Twitterverse, Elon Musk has jettisoned another redeeming guardrail that was keeping the rabid anti-vaxxers in check.

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Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years

Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.

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Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisor Has Twitter Account Hacked

The Twitter account of SF Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton has been hacked, David DePape is due in federal court today, and police are seeking a bank robbery suspect in South San Francisco.

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Muni Bus Hijacker Identified; SFPD Officer Stopped Bus Before It Hit Oncoming Traffic

We have a suspect ID and some further details about a wild Friday-after-Thanksgiving incident in the Mission District, in which a guy allegedly assaulted a Muni bus driver and bus-jacked the bus.

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Before New Guide and Star Announcements, Michelin Adds Three Bib Gourmands From Bay Area

We're now a week out from the release of the 2022 Michelin Guide to California — which should probably be called the 2023 guide at this point but now that it's all app-based I guess it doesn't matter.

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In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets

It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.

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Man Shot Near Bus In West Oakland Is City's 112th Homicide of the Year

A man was fatally shot Monday night in West Oakland, and an AC Transit bus may have been struck by the gunfire.

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Tuesday Morning Topline: Major BART Delays Due to Problem at Millbrae

There were major BART delays this morning due to an equipment problem at Millbrae, a UCSF specialist is telling everyone to get their flu shots now, and there's a big game for the US in the World Cup against Iran.

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Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Suit Over Misleading Pixel Phone Campaign

Google/Alphabet and iHeartMedia are settling a lawsuit over a misleading Pixel 4 ad campaign, the air quality management district wants to buy your old (pre-1999) car, and the UC worker strike is in its third week.

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As SF DA's Office Prepares For Preliminary Hearing of David DePape, Judge Recuses Herself Over Pelosi Link

A preliminary hearing date has been set for the accused attacker of Paul Pelosi, David DePape, in the state case against him — and the initial judge on the case has decided to recuse herself.

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