SF News Meteorite Strike May Have Been the Cause of a House Fire In Nevada County A rare meteorite strike may be to blame for a fire that destroyed one couple's home and two vehicles parked outside in Nevada County on Friday.
SF News Sideshows Sprang Up Saturday In Multiple East Bay Cities and Vallejo Saturday was a big night for sideshows in multiple places in the Bay Area, as police chased down gatherings of hundreds of cars in Vallejo, Richmond, Rodeo, and Hayward in a span of hours.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Teen Party Shakes Up Quiet Mill Valley An unruly party of 100 to 200 teenagers caused a ruckus in a shopping center parking lot in Marin, parents of seven-year-old twins were killed in a Redwood City crash, and Kathy Griffin had her Twitter account suspended.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stoa, a New Cocktail Bar From the Nopalito Team, Is Coming to the Lower Haight The Lower Haight has continued to be a pretty bustling neighborhood during the pandemic, and while a couple of key vacancies remain, one corner spot is set to have a new business by early next year.
Business & Tech Twitter Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Lawrence Calls Off Long-Anticipated Elizabeth Holmes Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence, who has been on something of an acting hiatus, quietly decided to shelve a planned Elizabeth Holmes biopic and dramatization of the meltdown of Theranos, saying the story's already been told.
Business & Tech Twitter Building Shuttered Until Monday as Employees Get Emailed Pink Slips; Lawsuit Filed Over Layoff Notification Twitter employees in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere got their emails Thursday night and into Friday morning informing them whether or not they still had jobs with the company.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Charges Filed In Fatal Beating at 7-11 David DePape will have a preliminary hearing date set today, security is high at the Pelosi home now that Paul is back recovering, and the man accused in a fatal beating at a Visitacion Valley 7-11 has been charged with murder.
SF News Paul Pelosi Is Out of the Hospital, Resting at Home Following Last Friday's Attack A little under a week after being admitted to intensive care following surgery for a skull fracture and other injuries, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband is now recovering at home.
SF Politics Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith Convicted On All Counts In Corruption Trial A civil grand jury has found her guilty on all six counts she was charged with, including corruption and willful misconduct.
SF News Newsom Temporarily Cuts Off Homeless Funding to SF and Other Cities Pending Better Local Plans The Governor's Office on Thursday announced that it was putting a pause on releasing a third round of grants totaling $1 billion from a key funding program that sends money to address homelessness to cities and counties across the state.
Business & Tech Lyft and Stripe Both Lay Off Hundreds of Employees, Citing Economy A day ahead of expected layoffs at Twitter that will thoroughly gut the company as we know it, San Francisco-based Lyft announced the laying off of 13% of its workforce, and South San Francisco-based Stripe is cutting 14% of its workforce.
SF News Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Was In the US Illegally, Still Managed to Become Obsessed With MAGA Crap It's funny how even a non-U.S. citizen who can't vote can be caught up in the thrall of right-wing rhetoric, imaginary conspiracy plots and election lies, and obsessed with saving the country from "tyranny."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: More Charges Pile Up For SF Serial Stalker The SF DA's Office filed more charges against serial stalker/groper Bill Hobbs, an SF supervisor is vowing more security at the Excelsior Safeway where a shooting occurred, and half of California's 10 biggest cities are electing new mayors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Condor Club In North Beach Seeks Legacy Status The judge in Santa Clara Co. Sheriff Laurie Smith's corruption trial won't dismiss the charges even though she resigned, a Capitol Corridor train collided with a Tesla, and the notorious Condor Club wants Legacy Business status.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero to Close In SoMa After 12 Years of Wood-Fired Pizza Glory The pandemic and the extra-slow recovery of downtown have taken out another well-loved, established restaurant.
SF News Feds Make 21 Arrests In Nationwide Catalytic Converter Theft Ring, Including 3 In Sacramento Who Sold $38M Worth One family in Sacramento is allegedly responsible for selling $38 million worth of stolen catalytic converters, and along with 18 other associates in a nationwide theft ring, they were arrested Wednesday in one of a series of raids.
SF News Snowy, Slippery Roads Near Tahoe Led to Six-Truck Pile-Up Wednesday Morning The passing weather system that brought SF some rain brought snow and ice to the Sierra, and I-80 saw a multi-vehicle crash near Truckee Wednesday morning.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Had a Zoom Meeting Last Night With Nonprofits About Hate Speech Chief Twit Elon Musk apparently had a hastily planned meeting with seven nonprofits via Zoom on Tuesday night, and it left them feeling some type of way about how hate speech and elections will be handled, going forward, at Twitter.
SF News Six Teens — Including Three 13-Year-Olds — Arrested In Connection With Stabbing Outside Marin School Five teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and one 19-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and critically wounded outside an elementary school in Novato last week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Appears to Be Making More Stops and Arrests Under New DA A study of the first three months since Brooke Jenkins was appointed DA finds that SFPD officers are making more stops and arrests, Washington High teachers are staging a sickout, and the break-in at the Pelosis' was caught on camera but no one was watching.
SF News Imposter Student Caught Living In Stanford Dorm, Had Been Living On Campus at Least a Year A pretty odd story that has the makings of a streaming series just unfolded on the Stanford University campus, where a pretend student from Alabama had convinced pretty much everyone around him that he was enrolled at the school and lived in one of the dorms.
Business & Tech Musk Said to Be Demanding 12-Hour Shifts In First Week at Twitter; Has Set Up 'War Room' of Cronies to Lead Transition It can't be very fun to be inside Twitter HQ this week — and dad jokes aside, new Chief Twit Elon Musk is apparently presenting himself as a taskmaster seeking to test employees' devotion to the company, their skills, and their work ethic right out of the gate.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Iron Chef Morimoto Is Opening a Mostly Chinese Restaurant Near His Napa Flagship Japanese celebrity chef Masaharu Morimoto is getting set to open a second restaurant in downtown Napa called Morimoto Asia, which will focus primarily on Chinese cuisine.
SF News DePape Spoke of 'Fighting Tyranny' As He Held Paul Pelosi Hostage, and More Details From FBI Investigation A clearer picture has emerged of what transpired inside the Pelosi home in Pacific Heights Friday morning, and according to what David DePape himself told investigators, he sure sounds like one of the right-wing rioters at the Capitol on January 6th.
