SF News Investigators Say Gambling Debt Was Motive In Friday Shooting at VTA Yard Authorities said Monday that a shooting on Friday, allegedly committed by one Valley Transportation Authority employee against another, did not have to do with workplace tensions.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Near Collision On United Flight Injures Two A near-miss collision event on a United Airlines flight into SF last week left two passengers injured; Oakland fans are not reacting well to A's owner John Fisher's goodbye note; and this heatwave will subside tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Janet Jackson Called Out For Repeating Misinformation About Kamala Harris's Race Janet Jackson is facing backlash for saying she'd "heard" that Kamala Harris isn't really Black; two brothers from Hayward are facing murder charges stemming from a botched robbery; and SF Travel has a new, permanent CEO.
SF News More Details Emerge About Officer-Involved Shooting at Powell Street BART Station We're now learning a bit more about what led to the police shooting of an allegedly armed man at Powell Street Station two Fridays ago, and it was actually some proactive policing.
SF Politics It's a Boomer vs. Boomer Battle Over Political Speech In One Small East Bay Retirement Community Out in eastern Contra Costa County, there have been political battles being waged in the pages of the community newspaper and in small demonstrations, and tensions this election year even boiled into a physical fight on a pickleball court.
SF Politics Kimberly Guilfoyle Is No Fan of Kamala Harris, and Their History In SF Politics Is Personal The New York Times is dredging up some old dirt about a longstanding beef between presidential hopeful Kamala Harris and Trump's almost-daughter-in-law Kimberly Guilfoyle, which dates back to when Harris was an assistant DA.
SF News VTA Employee Arrested For Friday Slaying of Coworker In San Jose A Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee was arrested Sunday in San Jose in connection with a fatal shooting of a coworker Friday in a VTA parking lot.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Mateo County Sheriff Files Complaint San Mateo Co. Sheriff Christina Corpus has filed a complaint against a male colleague; port workers in Oakland and elsewhere could be headed for a strike; and a night market on the Great Highway was a success.
Arts & Entertainment 'Mexodus' at Berkeley Rep Takes a Riveting Musical Journey Into a Little-Known Piece of History Berkeley Rep kicked off its new season this week with a new musical piece by a pair of talented performers and musicians that delves into a mostly untold piece of pre-Civil War history.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Le Colonial Calls It Quits Le Colonial says "au revoir" after 26 years, a tiny Thai-Lao restaurant debuts in Parkside, and Four Kings gets a new national accolade, all in This Week in Food.
Business & Tech Cruise Comes Crawling Back, Re-Launching Driverless Cars, With Drivers, On Peninsula Autonomous taxi company Cruise is slowly trying to reintroduce its robocars in the Bay Area, one year after the company went into freefall following a brutal collision in which one of the cars dragged an injured pedestrian.
SF News SF Jury Convicts Two for 2017 Murder of Photographer on Twin Peaks A brutal 2017 murder case that stemmed from a robbery of a photographer who was shooting pictures of the under-construction Salesforce Tower has finally come to a close, with the two suspects convicted more than seven years later.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mother Killed While Crossing Burlingame Street The mother of a special needs child was killed while crossing a street in Burlingame last week; shots rang out in Brentwood Thursday night and one man was injured; and homicides are at their lowest level in 60 years in SF.
SF News Michelle Obama Makes Surprise Appearance at Livermore Costco, Hawking Soda Did you know Michelle Obama had a healthy soda line? Neither did I!
Arts & Entertainment 'Private Lives' at ACT Transposes Noel Coward's Classic Comedy to Argentina The 2024-25 season at ACT kicked off Wednesday night with the opening of 'Private Lives,' Noel Coward's beloved 1930 comedy about the impossibilities and intransigencies of romantic love.
SF News City of Berkeley Approves Deal With BART for New Housing Development at Ashby Station Berkeley's city council this week voted to approve a long-delayed deal to authorize BART to move forward with building hundreds of new housing units on the parking lot property at Ashby Station.
SF News Lawyers For Alameda Cops Accused In Mario Gonzalez's Death Seek Dismissal Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price acted in haste and missed a procedural deadline when she refiled charges in April against three City of Alameda police officers, their lawyers say.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four Arrested After Vehicle-Smash Store Burglary In Richmond District A 57-y-o Oakland man who was a suspect in a Berkeley murder died in police custody Tuesday; four people were arrested after a pickup truck smashed into a Richmond District store and it was burglarized; and Prop 36 is enjoying plenty of voter support.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Firefighters Put Out Apartment Fire In East Oakland Oakland firefighters put out a significant fire at a vacant apartment building Wednesday morning; the SF Symphony Chorus is threatening to strike; and a flash flood warning comes to the Park Fire burn scar area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Pizza Pop-up Jules, From a Tartine and Roberta's Alum, Lands Permanent Spot In Lower Haight It's official: Buzzy pop-up Jules has secured a brick-and-mortar location, in the Lower Haight, and by mid-winter you should be seeing crowds gathering near Haight and Fillmore for their excellent New York-meets-California pies.
SF Politics President Biden to Host Global AI Safety Summit In San Francisco In November In late November, when, god willing, we will have a new president-elect whose name is not Trump, President Joe Biden will be gathering AI experts together in San Francisco for a global AI safety summit.
SF News Bombshell Testimony Comes Three Weeks Into Murder Trial of Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theobald "Mylo" Lengyel has been on trial since September 4 for the December 2023 murder of his girlfriend, Alice “Alyx” Kamakaokalani Herrmann, in Capitola. And this week, a witness took the stand who only reached out to prosecutors after reading about testimony in the trial so far.
SF News In Murder Trial of Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni, Defense to Claim Lee Had 'Flash of Aggression' The much anticipated trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee is getting ready to begin, and the defense team has laid out more of their argument for why they say their client is innocent.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Stabbed In SoMa A man was left with life-threatening injuries after a Tuesday night stabbing on Natoma Street in SF; a Pleasanton woman has been charged with her boyfriend's murder over a year after it occurred; and a landmark clock on Market Street is in need of serious repair.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Korean Steakhouse From Globally Prolific Chef Coming to Union Square A Korean steakhouse with a location in Los Angeles, ABSteak, from acclaimed chef and Iron Chef America competitor Akira Back, is opening in Union Square's Hotel Fusion next month.
