SF News Christmas Eve Links: Food Truck Workers Injured In Stove Accident at Union Square Two boys ages 12 and 13 were killed Saturday in a hit-and-run in Antioch; three food truck workers were injured in their truck near Union Square in a stove accident; and the SFPD made 18 retail-theft arrests last week.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protester Climbs Union Square Christmas Tree In SF A protest in SF's Union Square Saturday seeking to disrupt the holiday shopping rush and call attention to the war in Gaza led to one protester climbing the Union Square Christmas tree.
Business & Tech Elon Musk's Hyperloop One Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, Laying Off Everyone Elon Musk's dreams of building a high-speed steel-tube transit network that would theoretically make train and short-haul airline travel obsolete appear to be dead. Hyperloop One, founded in 2014, is shutting down.
SF News Jury Convicts SF Man of Public Nuisance After He Displayed 'Free Fentanyl' Sign Outside Public School On Friday morning, a jury convicted a homeless man of "willfully and unlawfully creating a public nuisance" after he piled belongings on a sidewalk and displayed signs near a school advertising "Free Fentanyl 4 New Users."
SF News Suspect In Pacifica Homicide, a Colma Firefighter, Found Dead of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound In Ukiah The suspect in Thursday's double stabbing in Pacifica, which was described as an incident of domestic violence and in which one male victim died, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Ukiah.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lines Out the Door at Oakland Airport A dog had to be rescued after a fall at Fort Mason Thursday night; a Daly City man is in critical condition following a shooting; and lines were already reportedly snaking out the door early Friday morning at Oakland Airport.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco 2023 Despite the dominant narrative about San Francisco being "over" this past year, you wouldn't know it from the vibrant, resurgent restaurant scene. Here are our picks for the dozen new restaurants everyone who loves food should try.
SF News Two Stabbed, One Fatally In Pacifica; Suspect Search Prompts Lockdown An investigation was underway after an alleged domestic violence-related double stabbing in the Vallemar neighborhood of Pacifica Thursday morning, and both a male and female victim were stabbed by a "known suspect."
SF News SF Got Three Inches of Rain This Week; Mount Tam and Santa Cruz Mountains Got Double That The raw data is in on the Bay Area's rainfall totals this week, and we now see that San Francisco got an unusually high share of the rain with this recent parade of atmospheric river storms.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Martinez Residents Protest Refinery Flaring Martinez residents showed up at the city council meeting last night to protest recent flaring and emissions at the refinery there; an Oakley man was fatally shot outside his home; and BART was having some track trouble Thursday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Rejects 'Lenient' Plea Deals for Fentanyl Dealers A federal judge has rejected two recent plea deals for Tenderloin drug dealers; another federal judge has put a halt on California's concealed-carry gun law; and a Berkeley man is among those in a prisoner swap with Venezuela.
Business & Tech In Contrast to Cruise, Waymo Is Touting Its Vehicles' Safety In New Report We started the year with two main competitors in the robotaxi space, but we are ending the year with just one. And that company, Waymo, has a new peer-reviewed study to share that shows how safe its autonomous cars are compared to cars driven by humans.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Shooting In SF's Oceanview Last Week A 46-year-old suspect is in police custody following a December 13 shooting that killed a 48-year-old man in San Francisco's Oceanview neighborhood.
SF News Vallejo Officer Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Won't Be Charged; California DOJ Says There's Not Enough Evidence The 2020 killing of San Francisco native Sean Monterrosa by a Vallejo police officer remains a painful memory for Bay Area residents and a tragedy for Monterrosa's family. And now, after a review by the state attorney general, the criminal case against the officer is not moving forward.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Activists May Have Quashed Santa Rita Jail Expansion Plan Community opposition seems to have stalled or killed a plan to build a new mental-health facility at Santa Rita Jail; the first victim has been identified in a deadly I-680 crash; and a court says Donald Trump can't be on the primary ballot in Colorado.
SF News Man Robbed, Stabbed Near SF's Mid-Market A 21-year-old man was gravely wounded in an armed robbery near the intersection of Mission and Seventh streets Monday night.
SF News SFPD Says It Has Made Over 900 Arrests for Narcotics Sales Since May The mayor's office and the SFPD put out new numbers this week documenting the success, they say, of efforts to crack down on open-air drug sales in and around the Tenderloin and SoMa.
SF News SF's Anti-Gay Archbishop Not Likely to Be Giving Blessings to Same-Sex Couples Anytime Soon After Pope Francis issued a new declaration Monday that same-sex couples could receive blessings from Catholic priests and bishops, San Francisco's notoriously conservative archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued his own terse response.
Business & Tech Google Agrees to Pay $700M to Settle States' Antitrust Case, Will Let Developers Take Direct Payments In Play Store We are now learning the details of a settlement reached in September between Google and 50 state attorneys general over antitrust claims about its Play Store, and they are mostly time-limited and minor for Google/Alphabet.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Three Nabbed For Alleged Sunglass Robbery In Vacaville The heaviest rains of the week arrive today and tomorrow; the CEO of California Forever just gave his final opening sales pitch in Solano County; and three suspects were arrested after a significant organized retail theft at the Vacaville Premium Outlets.
SF News Bid to Rename SFO's International Terminal After Dianne Feinstein Gets First Hearing Next Month An effort to put late Senator Dianne Feinstein's name on one of the terminals at San Francisco International Airport will be having its first hearing next month at the Airport Commission.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liguria Bakery Reopens Tuesday Just In Time for Xmas Focaccia Purchases The century-old Liguria Bakery in North Beach, which suffered an oven fire in early August, is finally getting back open this week in time for the holidays.
SF News At Least 200 Gather at SF Hall of Justice to Protest DA's Decision to Charge Bay Bridge Gaza Protesters Pro-Palestinian protesters are, unsurprisingly, not happy about the SF district attorney's decision to charge 78 protesters with multiple misdemeanors for their participation in a disruptive demonstration last month on the Bay Bridge.
SF News Like SF Was Last Year, Berkeley Slapped With Restraining Order Stopping Encampment Sweep It's a repeat of what happened in San Francisco last December, and presages what could be a contentious legal fight at the Supreme Court next year: A federal judge has issued a restraining order against the City of Berkeley over a planned sweep of a homeless encampment.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Former Bay Area Band Member Sought In Girlfriend's Disappearance A former member of the rock band Mr. Bungle is being sought as a person of interest in the disappearance of a Capitola woman; a crash shut down the Richmond Bridge Sunday night; and a flood advisory has been issued for parts of the Bay Area this morning.
