SF News Theobald Lengyel Convicted In December Murder of Girlfriend Alyx Herrmann, Which Was Captured on Tape The jury returned with a guilty verdict Thursday in the trial of 56-year-old Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel, the former Mr. Bungle bandmember who admitted to the killing of 61-year-old girlfriend Alice "Alyx" Herrmann in her Capitola home.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Clouds Could Limit Blue Angels' Show A low cloud ceiling could impact the Blue Angels air show on Saturday and/or Sunday; London Breed is courting support as a No. 2 ranked-choice pick for progressives; and downtown SF restaurants are offering Friday deals.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jury Selection Complete In Bob Lee Murder Trial The jury has been empaneled and the trial of Nima Momeni begins Monday; a trio of young suspects has been indicted for a bank robbery spree around the Bay Area; and an Oakland man has disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Che Fico Pizzeria Opens at Chase Center's Thrive City, With Big Outdoor Patio It's time to enjoy some Che Fico pizzas over at the Chase Center — and while Miller and Lux may have some draw for the upscale steakhouse thing, the opening of Che Fico Pizzeria might mark the first standalone reason for people to go Thrive City when they aren't going to a concert or a game.
SF News SFPD Arrests High-Volume Drug Dealer In Tenderloin Following Four-Month Investigation San Francisco police announced the Tuesday arrest of a "high-volume" dealer of fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and prescription pills, and they say they uncovered much evidence of his drug dealing at his Oakland home.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water Pizza Shop Added to Roster of New Restaurants at Mission Rock Development Among the food options at the new complex of buildings at Mission Rock will be the first standalone, quick-service pizza shop from Flour + Water, outside of its recently opened flagship location in North Beach.
SF News 54-Year-Old San Francisco Man Charged With Robbing, Assaulting Sex Workers and Robbing Their Johns In Oakland A San Francisco man was arrested and charged with two September armed robberies that turned into assaults involving sex workers and johns in Oakland's unofficial red-light district.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Blue Angels Practice Flights Today JD Vance was in Woodside for a fundraiser last night; UCSF has responded to complaints about no air conditioning at the Parnassus campus; and the Blue Angels will be doing their practice flights today.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Aaron Peskin Scales Back SF Rent Control Expansion That Would Move Forward If Prop 33 Passes An ambitious proposal to expand San Francisco's rent control ordinance to units built through 2024 has been scaled back, but Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin says that voters should know what the board's plans are in the event that Prop 33 passes next month.
SF News BART Touts Double-Digit Drop In Crime The BART system has seen a significant drop in crime so far this year compared to the same period last year, and BART wants everyone to know about it.
SF News Parents at SF Schools Slated for Closure Lament the Potential Loss for Kids The first of many pieces likely to appear in the coming days and weeks in the local media have appeared, quoting upset parents, following Tuesday's anouncement of 11 proposed school closures in the SF Unified School District.
SF News West Portal Intersection That Was Scene of Deadly Crash Sees New Design Changes Changes have now been implemented at the West Portal intersection where a family of four was killed by an apparently out-of-control, speeding driver in March, but some in the neighborhood doubt these changes will make them safer.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Historic Mission Taqueria Robbed of $20K 63-year-old Mission taqueria El Faro was robbed twice over the weekend; there was a rollover crash in St. Francis Wood; and Tim Walz wants the Electoral College to go away.
SF News SFUSD Proposed School Closure List Is Out: 11 Elementary, K-8 and High Schools May Close or Merge A couple hours ahead of a planned announcement by the San Francisco Unified School District, the school closure shortlist has come out, and though it does not represent a finalized list, it will give parents and teachers an idea of what's to come.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Planned Offshoot Restaurant Project, Both Dead For Good, Owner Says Bar Agricole, which reopened this spring in a new location, as a companion bar to Osito, quietly closed its doors in July and won't be reopening, apparently ever, anywhere.
SF News 20-Year-Old Sonoma County Man Charged With Murder Following High-Speed Rohnert Park Crash The man arrested over the weekend after a series of crashes in Sonoma County that authorities attributed to road rage, one of them fatal, has now been charged with murder and hit-and-run, the district attorney confirms.
SF News Muni Experiences Major Meltdown With Downed Overhead Line In Tunnel Near Civic Center It's not clear how many hours we may be looking at here, but Muni was melting down Tuesday morning, with no light-rail trains able to pass through the Market Street subway tunnel in the downtown direction.
SF News Charges Against Two Alameda Cops In Mario Gonzalez Case Dropped; Third Officer Still Faces Charges An Alameda County judge sided with defense attorneys Monday and dismissed manslaughter charges against two of the three Alameda police officers involved in the April 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF School Closure Shortlist Drops Today SF Unified will reveal its school closure "eligibility" list today, but not a final list; a new poll finds Bay Area residents broadly support Prop 36; and a protest against encampment sweeps outside Berkeley's old City Hall continues to grow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bob Lee Murder Trial Begins Next Week The trial of Nima Momeni for the 2023 murder of Bob Lee starts next Monday; the Livermore PD calls out Pamela Price over one particular case; and mail-in voting starts today in San Francisco.
SF News This Past Week Was a Reminder of Why You Can't Trust Weather Apps for SF Heatwaves Weather apps like the iPhone's, and even the National Weather Service, under-predicted this past week's heatwave in San Francisco — and said it was only going to be a three-day warming spell, which clearly it was not. Why did this happen?
Arts & Entertainment It Was Very, Very Hot For the 50th Anniversary of the Castro Street Fair Sunday People came out in droves but most were trying to huddle in the shadier parts of the Castro neighborhood for the 50th anniversary of the Castro Street Fair on Sunday.
SF News Beware Phony QR Code Scam Popping Up on SF Parking Meters Some fairly sophisticated scam artists have been slapping QR-code "Pay by Phone" stickers on SF parking meters, and the SFMTA just caught on last week.
SF Politics Former Mayors Willie Brown, Art Agnos, and Frank Jordan Call For Criminal Investigation of Mark Farrell Campaign It's not exactly an October surprise, but it is an escalation of the ongoing parade of negative attention on Mark Farrell, who by some polls has been the frontrunner in the San Francisco mayoral race.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Fleet Week! Fleet Week kicks off Monday in SF; the heatwave has peaked but it's still not quite over; and Mark Zuckerberg just overtook Jeff Bezos to become the second richest person in the world, thanks to Meta's stock price.
