SF News SF Braces For More Rain, Floods; Public Works Giving Out Sandbags Again "Now is the time to prepare!" says the National Weather Service, as pretty much all of Northern California is under a Flood Watch starting Thursday, with another incoming atmospheric river that promises to drench much of the state.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Berkeley Attorney Confirmed For Federal Office A man who lit himself on fire on the Berkeley campus last week has died from his injuries; two dozen cars got flat tires on the San Mateo Bridge; and Berkeley-based white-collar attorney Ismail Ramsey has been confirmed to be U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of CA.
SF Politics AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.
SF News Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Shannon O'Connor Allegedly Beaten Up By Cellmates The Los Gatos "party mom"/"cool mom" who is still awaiting trial for allegedly corrupting high schoolers and encouraging sexual assault has not been having the best time in jail, and was apparently injured in a beating by cellmates.
Business & Tech High-Profile Tech Layoffs Continue With Thousands More Expected at Meta This Week Facebook parent entity Meta is reportedly planning to lay off thousands more employees in a second round of cuts, possibly happening as soon as this week.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Now Looking to Get Out of Possible $878 Million Restitution Bill Yeah, so, Elizabeth Holmes doesn't really think she should have to pay back the bilked investors who lost money because of Theranos's collapse, and her lawyers' latest gambit is to try to get out of her having to pay any restitution at all.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands 15th Anniversary Lineup Includes Kendrick Lamar, Odesza, Lana Del Rey, and Janelle Monae Outside Lands is celebrating 15 years in Golden Gate Park this summer, and after selling out those Eager Beaver tickets in an hour last week, the regular on-sale begins tomorrow, March 8.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Atmospheric River Rain Looks Likely By Thursday Night A dog was rescued from a house on fire near Ocean Beach this a.m.; Oakland business owners complain that the cops "don't do anything" about burglaries; and the likelihood has increased that an atmospheric river will hit with 2+ inches of rain in places on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire In Polk Street Building Caused By Scooter Battery SF's Dept. of Public Works says it's repairing triple the number of potholes due to all the rain; a woman killed by a fallen tree in a San Jose park has been identified, and a fire Saturday in the Polk Gulch neighborhood was caused by a scooter battery.
SF Politics Gov. Gavin Newsom Says California Is 'Done' With Walgreens Over Abortion Pill Decision Gavin Newsom took to Twitter early Monday to declare that pharmacy chain Walgreens is now on the list of entities the state won't being doing future business with, due to its decision not to ship medical-abortion drugs to women in 20 states.
SF News Alleged Bay Area Serial Killer David Misch May Face One or Two Trials For Killings of Two Women and a Nine-Year-Old Girl A court is set to decide if 61-year-old David Misch, accused in two separate Alameda County murder cases from the mid-1980s, will stand trial for both cases simultaneously, or if they will be severed.
SF News Brace for Another Rainy Week, and Possible Atmospheric River By the Weekend It's the winter that keeps on giving, wetness-wise. And if you've grown weary with all the rain, we've got some bad news for you with regards to the next week.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Boy Scout Den Mother Killed By Falling Tree A den mother was killed while hiking with a Boy Scout troop on Sunday; one person was injured in a shooting on Treasure Island; and Steph Curry returned to play with the Warriors following an injury.
Arts & Entertainment Comic Political Thriller 'Tea Party' Opens at the Strand Theater, a Swan Song Directing Project From a Director With ALS A Bay Area theater director who was diagnosed with ALS last year, and who has already lost the ability to speak, is at the helm of what she calls her "dream project," which came together quickly through the help of theater friends and opened last night at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF News Hackers In Ransomware Attack Plan to Release City of Oakland Employee Info, and More The City of Oakland, it looks like, opted not to pay any ransom to a hacker group that succeeded in hobbling multiple city systems, and that group is now planning to make good on its threat to release an unknown amount of sensitive data.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found on Daly City Beach The body of an unidentified elderly man was found on a beach in Daly City; Berkeley police say a TikTok challenge is driving car thefts; and a fourth inmate in six weeks has died in custody at Santa Rita Jail.
Arts & Entertainment 'Cambodian Rock Band' at Berkeley Rep Tells of Khmer Rouge Abuses Through the Lens of Musicians It's no small thing to get an audience standing and dancing, lost in the psychedelic/surf groove of a Cambodian-style rock band from the 1970s, in the wake of a story largely about torture and genocide.
SF News Today, SFist Is Retiring Its COVID Data Update Page This has been a long time coming. And yes, COVID is still with us, but the daily and weekly case counts we've been tracking for nearly three years are no longer that useful, so it's time to move on.
SF News More Than Half of California Is Now Officially Drought-Free You'd think after the rains of this winter that the drought might be completely behind us, but it is not — and, counterintuitively, much of the Bay Area is still officially "abnormally dry" by federal Drought Monitor standards.
SF News Snow Is Literally Crushing Buildings In Tahoe Area The weight of massive snow accumulation on rooftops has led to at least two destroyed buildings in the Tahoe area and Sierra foothills, with more perhaps to come.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Teen Killed In Fight at Santa Rosa High School A 16-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by another boy in a classroom fight at a Santa Rosa high school; a man set himself on fire in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley; and the wife of Wild 94.9's JV says he "will not be coming back."
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley Falcon Named For Real-Life Partner Of Falcon Annie's Namesake A Mission housing nonprofit is being sued for allegedly "abandoning" veterans, the Chronicle has responded to billionaire Michael Moritz's NYT op-ed dragging them, and the hunky new Berkeley falcon-cam male got a new name with a heartwarming backstory.
SF News Two 17-Year-Old Girls Arrested In Attack Near Dolores Park A pair of juveniles, both female, have been arrested in connection with an unprovoked attack on Super Bowl Sunday in SF's Mission District that left one woman with eye injuries.
