SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fatal Collision On Westbound Bay Bridge Causes Early Morning Backup Two people were killed in a crash on the Bay Bridge and separately there were other crises leading to much traffic; around 68K are still without power in Bay Area; and arrests have been made in a Pittsburg hit-and-run.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Middle School Locked Down Over Gun Denman Middle School in SF's Outer Mission was locked down after a student brought a gun to school; a Stanford employee who said she was raped on campus twice last year was allegedly lying; and someone tried to steal a helicopter from Sacramento Airport.
SF News [Updated] Young Bay Area Men Convicted of Killing Italian Cop Granted Retrial By High Court The two Bay Area men convicted of killing an Italian police officer in Rome in a weird drug deal gone bad four years ago faced Italy's highest court this week, and the court is now deliberating in what is their final chance to appeal their convictions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-N-Out Has Launched a Burger Truck Serving Mini Double-Doubles There's now an official In-N-Out food truck, and while it's likely to mostly stick around Southern California and only caters kids' events, it's sure to be in high demand.
SF News Rains Cause Sinkhole On 101 In Humboldt County, Major Repair Underway A whole section of freeway in Northern California basically started sliding down a hill, and travelers on 101 in remote Humboldt County will be held up by a single-lane situation.
SF News Fillmore District Drive-By Leads to Bay Bridge Police Incident, Possible Arrests Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday just after 6 p.m. on the 12oo block of Buchanan Street, near the end of the Buchanan Mall near Turk Street, in SF's Fillmore District, and this led to a police pursuit on the Bay Bridge.
SF News The Bay Area Is Littered With Toppled Trees, Downed Power Lines, Following Latest Storm Intense winds on Tuesday caused all kinds of mayhem, leading to widespread power outages, flight delays, trees damaging buildings, glass flying off high-rises, one toppled big rig, and at least one escaped suitcase at SFO.
SF News Humpday Headlines: We Could See More Atmospheric River Rain Next Week Another atmospheric river is headed toward California early next week; a 17-year-old Pittsburg girl was killed in a hit-and-run; and now Credit Suisse is in trouble.
SF News Glass Being Blown Off Downtown SF Tower 555 California Street, Shelter-In-Place Order Issued A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
SF News [Updated] Storm, High Winds Leave 275,000 Bay Area Residents Without Power Around 2,000 PG&E customers in San Francisco lost power on Tuesday, and around 273,000 others across the region are also in the dark as the Bay Area gets lashed with winds at the back side of this latest atmospheric river storm.
SF Politics San Francisco Supervisors Discuss Reparations Proposals and That $5M Lump Sum Idea Today's SF Board of Supervisors meeting was making national headlines before it had even begun, and that is because SF is poised to become the first major city to grapple with the idea of paying reparations for historical wrongs to Black residents.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Bed at Oakland Long-Term Care Facility A man was killed early Saturday morning, possibly while sleeping, in a gang-style hit at a long-term care facility in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood, and two gunmen are being sought by police.
SF News Stabbing on Muni Bus Near Union Square Allegedly Stems From Teen Fight A teenage boy was stabbed and seriously injured Monday afternoon in a fight onboard a Muni bus near Union Square, and several young suspects were detained.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Inbound and Outbound SFO Flights Delayed By Wind Shares of First Republic Bank bounced back today; SFO is experiencing 80-minute delays due to this windy storm; and Palisades Tahoe says its snowfall for the season now totals 648 inches.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local Asian Communities Celebrate Big Wins at Academy Awards Some local startups were able to access their frozen accounts at Silicon Valley Bank today; a race is on to plug the breached levee in Monterey County; and local Asian communities celebrated Oscar wins for Michelle Yeoh and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
SF News Fender-Bender On Mission District Alley Leads to Man Being Shot Two cars collided Sunday evening in SF's Mission District, and in an apparent act of road rage, one driver shot the other driver before fleeing the scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Yountville Restaurant Ciccio to Be Reborn Under Ownership of Meadowood Chef Chef Christopher Kostow was sad to see his favorite, go-to Napa Valley restaurant go under last year, and while he thought about reviving the space as a new concept, he's decided instead to let it live on, much the way it was.
SF News Homeless Man Who Died In Golden Gate Park, a Notorious Hater and Attacker of Dogs, Gets ID'd Via DNA A homeless man in his 40s who was found dead in his sleeping bag near Metson Lake in Golden Gate Park in 2021 has been positively ID'd through DNA and forensic genealogy.
SF News With Floods Threatening Closure On Multiple Roads, Monterey Peninsula Could Become an 'Island' This Week Flooding on the Salinas River was expected to crest Monday ahead of another round of rain, and ways of ingress and egress to the Monterey Peninsula were potentially all going to be cut off.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Lights Came Back On Sunday Due to 'Glitch' The Bay Lights were back on Sunday night due to a "glitch"; there were two fatal shootings in Oakland over the weekend; and President Biden gave a brief televised statement urging everyone to stop panicking about banks.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Reverberates Through Bay Area Wine Industry, Tech Startups In addition to the many local tech companies large and small that are likely to be impacted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), we're learning that they were a major lender and banking partner for the wine industry, accounting for about 2% of the bank's total business.
SF News Paul Flores Gets 25 Years to Life For Kristin Smart Murder Paul Flores, who was convicted last fall in the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, was sentenced Friday and received 25 years to life.
SF News The Armory Building In the Mission Set to Return as Concert Venue With Additional Smaller Jazz Club Inside The former Kink.com Armory, which Kink moved out of and sold five years ago, is set to return to being a concert and event venue — which it was briefly before the pandemic — but the new owners have also submitted plans to add a jazz club inside.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down By Regulators In Biggest Bank Failure In 15 Years In what may be a harbinger of more hard days ahead for the tech world in the Bay Area, a prominent lender to startups and one of the 20 largest banks in the country, SVB Financial Group or Silicon Valley Bank, has failed.
SF News Roof Collapse Kills One, Injures Another at Coffee Warehouse In Oakland A section of roof collapsed early Friday at a coffee distribution warehouse in East Oakland used by Peet's and Philz, killing one many who man who apparently worked there.
