SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Declines to Block Microsoft-Activision Deal A federal judge in SF has declined to block Microsoft's $69 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard; Elizabeth Holmes has already seen her sentence reduced by two years, and a man was shot and injured in West Oakland Tuesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Summer Warmth Is Coming to SF, Finally Writers have filed a new class-action suit against OpenAI and Meta over use of their work in language models; late snow-melt is causing a mosquito boom in the Sierra; and a heatwave is headed to the Bay which we'll even feel in SF.
SF Politics RV Lot Sheltering Dozens of Formerly Unsheltered Homeless People In SF to Remain Open Under Tentative Agreement An RV shelter park that opened early in the pandemic on a lot near the Bayview is now set to remain temporarily open as a shelter for the homeless, despite moves by the Port of SF to reclaim the property.
SF News Madonna's October Shows at Chase Center Officially Postponed Following Health Scare Madonna's "Celebration Tour" appears to be on hold, with the North American leg likely pushing into next year at this point, as she recovers from a major health issue that landed her in intensive care last month. That also means her appearances at the Chase Center have been postponed.
SF News BART Plagued By Multiple Problems Monday, Including Fire at Civic Center Station The BART system, which was already dealing with delays from an equipment issue in the East Bay Monday morning, was hit with multiple problems this morning including a disabled train, and police and fire activity at Civic Center.
SF News Report: Many Tenderloin Drug Dealers Hail From the Same Area In Honduras, Which Is Dotted With SF Swag Drug money made in the open-air markets of the Tenderloin and South of Market has fueled a "housing boom" in one impoverished area of Honduras. The Chronicle traveled there and conducted an 18-month investigation into this source of one of the dominant groups running SF's drug trade.
SF News Woman Shot and Injured Near Oakland's Lake Merritt Early Monday A 22-year-old woman was reportedly shot in the early morning hours of Monday near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Her injuries are not life-threatening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Protesters Gather at SFPD's Mission Station Over Hill Bomb Arrests BART was having major issues on its Green Line Monday morning; dozens of protesters marched on SFPD's Mission Station over the police response to Saturday's Dolores Hill Bomb skateboarding event; and the Ruby Princess finally set sail for Alaska with 600 fewer passengers.
Bay Area Sports The Homeless World Cup, a Soccer Tournament for Formerly Homeless Players, Comes to Sacramento On Saturday, the Homeless World Cup kicks off in Sacramento, with formerly homeless players from dozens of countries competing in a small-scale soccer tournament over a week.
SF News San Francisco Was Declared Dead, and Full of AIDS and Drugs and Homeless People, Multiple Times In the Last 50 Years The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.
SF News Ninth Circuit, With Trump Appointees In Dissent, Upholds Homeless People's Right to Exist On the Street The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling this week that upholds an earlier precedent that precludes city governments from punishing homeless people for sleeping on streets if they lack alternative shelter to offer them.
SF News SFPD Releases Image of Suspect In Assault on Elderly Man in UN Plaza The San Francisco Police Department is seeking the public's help in identifying a suspect who was seen on surveillance video violently pushing an 83-year-old man to the ground on Tuesday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Cruise Ship Still Docked at Pier 27 After Collision The Ruby Princess, which crashed into the dock at Pier 27 on Thursday, remains in port with new passengers onboard; a hiker found dead on a peak in Modoc County has been ID'd as an Oakland man; and police are warning people about robberies at ATMs in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment 2022 Tony Winner For Best New Musical, 'A Strange Loop,' Comes to SF Next Season at A.C.T. The acclaimed musical by Michael R. Jackson that took Broadway by storm last year, 'A Strange Loop,' will be coming to San Francisco next season directly from engagements on Broadway and London's West End.
SF News San Francisco's Chief Economist Says 'Doom Loop' Talk Overblown, Consumer Spending Nearing Pre-Pandemic Levels Continuing their mea culpa over all that "doom loop" coverage they've done for several months, the San Francisco Chronicle has a piece today where they — finally! — get SF's own Chief Economist Ted Egan to weigh in with his sober opinion on the matter.
SF News US Marshals Help Oakland Police Make Arrest In Chicago In Shooting of Flower Delivery Man Oakland police announced Thursday that an arrest has been made in the June 21 fatal shooting of Brazilian flower delivery man Matheus Gaidos in Oakland's Koreatown.
SF News Notorious Ruby Princess Cruise Ship, Which Carried Early COVID Cases, Just Crashed Into Pier 27 The Princess Cruises ship called the Ruby Princess, which already has some poor PR history from the pandemic, just had a bit of a snafu while trying to dock Thursday morning at Pier 27.
SF News 25-Year-Old and 24-Year-Old From Bay Area Meet With Misadventures at Waterfalls Over Holiday Weekend A 25-year-old woman from San Francisco was killed Tuesday falling down a waterfall in South Lake Tahoe, and a 24-year-old man from Petaluma is missing and still not found after meeting with a similar misadventure Sunday in Yosemite.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two More Conferences Cancel at Moscone for 2024 SFPD is searching for a female suspect in Monday's Bayview shoving homicide; a toddler was killed in Vallejo by a car backing out of a driveway; and two moderate-sized conferences have canceled at the Moscone Center for next year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 63-Year-Old SF Woman Dies After Being Pushed to Ground A 63-year-old woman died from her injuries after being pushed to the ground in the Bayview; a 23-year-old woman was injured in a drive-by Tuesday in Visitacion Valley; and Meta has launched Threads a bit ahead of schedule.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Ends His UCSF 'Grand Rounds' YouTube Forum Stressing COVID Is Not Fully Behind Us Three years and three months after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency, Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF Dr. Bob Wachter has done his last "Grand Rounds" forum on YouTube, but he stresses that the novel coronavirus and its variants will remain very much a part of our lives.
SF News Sacramento Man Arrested For Levi's Stadium Stabbing at Soccer Match A suspect has been arrested for attempted murder after being seen on surveillance video allegedly stabbing a fellow soccer fan at Levi's Stadium over the holiday weekend.
SF News NXIVM Cult Figure Allison Mack Released From Federal Prison In Dublin One Year Early A year ahead of schedule, former 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack walked out of the Dublin Federal Correctional Institute — also known as FCI Dublin — on Monday, after serving two years of a three-year sentence.
SF News Fatal July 4 Shooting In Bayview Being Investigated as a Homicide A man was found on a Bayview District street Tuesday night with gunshot wounds that proved to be fatal, and the case is being treated as a homicide.
Business & Tech Meta's 'Twitter Killer,' Called Threads, Launches Thursday It looks like Mark Zuckerberg and his crew at Meta wanted to fast-track their Twitter competitor just as other products like BlueSky are drawing away disgruntled Twitter users. And now the new app, called Threads, hits the App Store Thursday.
