SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Injured In Bayview RV Fire One person was injured in the Bayview when an oven caught fire inside an RV; BART may have had one of its best ridership weeks in years; and Larry Elder is running for president.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Shots Fired In Haight During 4/20 Event Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Was Cited For Domestic Battery Last Year Reporters around the Bay are trying to dig up whatever they can to continue reporting on the murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and the latest tidbits came from Emeryville police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Historic SF Oceanfront Restaurants, The Cliff House and Louis' Diner, Set to Come Alive Again... Sometime We still can't say what they will become or what they will serve, but the wheels of the federal government and National Park Service are turning ever so slowly to get new restaurant tenants into The Cliff House and Louis' Diner spaces, both closed since 2020.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes's Ex-Partner In Business and the Bedroom, Begins 13-Year Prison Sentence Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
SF News Oakland Police Are Warning Drivers About a Wave of Carjackings and Robberies That Start With Intentional Collisions The Oakland Police Department (OPD) says that they are getting an increased number of reports about armed robberies and carjackings that follow a similar pattern, and they were urging drivers to be "vigilant" and take steps to reduce their risk of being a crime victim.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 20,000 Stoners Expected to Crowd Hippie Hill For 4/20 20,000 people are expected to descend on Hippie Hill for 4/20; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe says he fears for his safety amid a police scandal; and this morning's SpaceX Starship launch was a failure, but not an abject failure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Needs a New $5M Elevator at 16th & Mission Newsom made a surprise visit to the Tenderloin today; an on-duty BART employee has been arrested in a fatal hit-and-run; and BART's new elevator at 16th & Mission somehow is costing $5 million.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Announced SF Theater Seasons Include 'Company,' Pre-Broadway Preview of 'The Wiz' and World Premiere of 'Galileo' The announcements are in for the 2023-24 theater seasons in San Francisco and Berkeley, and after some sputtering through the last couple years of a pandemic, the show schedule finally looks very full once more.
SF News One Person In Critical Condition After Two-Alarm Fire In Russian Hill A two-alarm fire broke out in a four-story residential building on Leavenworth Street in Russian Hill Wednesday afternoon, and one person has been seriously injured.
Arts & Entertainment The End of an Era: Netflix Announces End of DVDs by Mail The business that got Netflix off the ground — and put Blockbuster in the ground — sending DVDs through the mail in red envelopes, is going to be no more as of this September.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area-Set Jennifer Garner Show 'The Last Thing He Told Me' Is Oddly Obsessed With Local Food Jennifer Garner's new show premiered Friday on Apple TV+, and it's based on the 2021 mystery-thriller novel by Laura Dave, 'The Last Thing He Told Me,' and set in Sausalito, San Francisco, and Texas.
SF News Random Loose Horse Spotted Near Oakland Coliseum We have another incident in the annals of roving farm animals in Bay Area cities, this time in Oakland, and nowhere near any farms.
SF News DA Price: Three Gang Members Shot Up Wrong Vehicle When Five-Year-Old Was Killed Sounding tougher on crime this week after the dustup involving the Jasper Wu case, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price gave a press conference with the CHP and Fremont police on Tuesday about the killing of five-year-old Eliyanah Crisostomo.
SF News With Over 200 Overdose Deaths In SF So Far This Year, 2023 May Be the Worst Year Yet For the Fentanyl Crisis The number of accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, most of them caused by fentanyl, has risen sharply in the first quarter of 2023 — with 200 deaths so far this year, up from 142 in the same period last year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Thursday Could Be a Real Cluster In SF, Traffic-Wise Thursday afternoon could bring a bunch of car traffic to two ends of San Francisco; Oakland's City Council has voted to end the eviction moratorium; and the NBA has suspended Draymond Green for Game 3.
SF News Attorney for 'Techie' Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Tries to Cast Doubt on First-Degree Murder Charge — But There's Video The crazy insane murder case of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, the details of the prosecution's evidence for which were all laid bare on Friday, will no doubt make for some gripping courtroom drama, whenever the trial does take place.
SF Politics Republicans Rebuff Dianne Feinstein's Attempt to Get Temporary Replacement on Judiciary In a move that is bound to raise the pressure on Dianne Feinstein to do the proverbial thing or get off the pot, Senate Republicans on Monday scoffed at the idea that they would allow a temporary Democratic replacement to assume Dianne Feinstein's seat on a key committee.
SF News Dude Seen Harassing Pier 39 Sea Lions In Viral Video Being Investigated A video showing a guy shotgunning a beer, taking a backward dive into the Bay near Pier 39, and then jumping up on the sea lion platforms to scare them off has led to a federal investigation.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Goes on Tucker Carlson to Talk About the Need for AI That Isn't Politically Correct In recent days we've learned that Elon Musk wants in on the AI game, and now we learn why: He's worried that ChatGPT and other chatbots are being trained to be too politically correct, and this will lead to dystopia, he says, and so he wants to create his own "TruthGPT."
SF News San Francisco Marks the 117th Anniversary of the Great Earthquake and Fire Tuesday morning at 5 a.m. it was time once again to gather and place a wreath at Lotta's Fountain — at the intersection of Kearny, Geary, and Market streets — for the annual ritual to commemorate the moment the 1906 earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m., 117 years ago.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Might End Up Pleading Guilty Los Gatos 'party mom' Shannon O'Connor has asked a judge what her sentence might be if she pleads guilty; Fruitvale residents in Oakland want more policing; and Southwest Airlines had another technological meltdown today.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Zoo Welcomes Litter of Nine Prairie Dog Pups, Who Have Just Come Above Ground The population of black-tailed prairie dogs at the San Francisco Zoo just grew by nearly 50 percent, as one prairie dog mom just birthed nine pups, who have just emerged into the daylight.
