SF News Another Hayes Valley Retailer Is Closing Up Shop Over Rampant Thefts Another retail store owner has closed their doors in San Francisco and gone public with their complaints about "rampant organized theft," with generalized complaints about the city having descended into "chaos."
SF News Brief Fall Heatwave to Bring Temps In the 80s to SF Today, Wednesday, is going to be even warmer than Tuesday, and records may be broken across the Bay in high-pressure-system heatwave.
SF News Unidentified Woman Killed on Antioch Trail After Being Set on Fire Police in Antioch are seeking the public's help to identify a woman who was found dead on a walking trail early Monday after apparently being set on fire by another individual or multiple individuals.
SF News Humpday Headlines: New Public Toilet In Noe Valley to Cost $1.7 Million There was a power outage Tuesday night in the Western Addition, the accused double-murdering Alameda Co. deputy is being arraigned today, and a new public toilet in Noe Valley is coming with a $1.7 million price tag.
SF News Bullet From 'Big Gun' In Sunday Night Shooting Crashes Through Home of Former Mayor's Family Well, this is crazy! The son and daughter-in-law of former SF Mayor Frank Jordan heard the sound of glass shattering in their bedroom Sunday night as they were putting their kids to bed. And it was apparently a stray bullet that had traveled a half-mile from a shooting near Jefferson Square Park.
SF News Paul Flores Found Guilty In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart A 26-year-old mystery out of San Luis Obispo came to a conclusion Tuesday, as Paul Flores was found guilty in the murder of 19-year-old Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty by a separate jury of being an accessory after the fact.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF News Homicide Under Investigation at Turk & Taylor Streets A person was apparently shot Monday evening near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
SF News Probation Records Offer Glimpse Into Troubled Youth of Stockton Suspect The tendency with serial-killer and mass-shooter cases alike is always to want to immediately try to psychoanalyze the suspect and get to the bottom of their motives. The answers are rarely satisfying, but with the Stockton serial killer suspect, Wesley Brownlee, this has already begun.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Would-be Napa Terrorist Ordered to Get Psych Evaluation The Napa Trumper who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb "Democrat buildings" is being ordered to get a psych evaluation, two new Omicron subvariants are likely to drive some sort of winter surge, and Jane Fonda has endorsed Honey Mahogany for D6 supervisor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One of Two Juries In Kristin Smart Murder Trial Returns With Verdict Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID state of emergency will officially end in late February, a high-speed chase ends tragically in Oakland, and the jury deciding on the guilt or innocence of Ruben Flores in the Kristin Smart murder trial has returned.
Arts & Entertainment The Legendary Kiki & Herb Return to San Francisco to Do a Holiday Show at the Curran For the first time in 15 years, Kiki & Herb are on tour, and they are bringing the latest iteration of their holiday spectacular, "Do You Hear What We Hear?" to the Curran Theater for one night only, December 9.
Business & Tech OMG Elizabeth Holmes Showed Up In Court Looking Pregnant, Again As Elizabeth Holmes stares down a prison term of an indeterminate amount of years, she remained smiling as she showed up in court Monday for an evidentiary hearing that's a last-bid attempt by her attorneys to get her a new trial. And, she seems to be possibly pregnant yet again.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Did Not Stray Far From His and Relatives' Homes to Find Victims We've learned a bit more information about suspected serial killer Wesley Brownlee since his arrest on Saturday, and it appears that several of his victims were killed within feet of either his home or the homes of relatives in Stockton.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Police Arrest Sexual Assault Suspect BART police have arrested a suspect in an Oct. 6 sexual assault in Walnut Creek, two Sonoma County deputies shot a man near downtown Sonoma who they say fired on them, and flu season may have already arrived in California with an outbreak in San Diego.
SF News [Update] Two People Shot In San Francisco's Fillmore District A shooting Sunday night left at least two people injured on a street near Jefferson Square Park, after a barrage of gunfire was heard throughout the Fillmore neighborhood.
SF News Police: Serial Killer Suspect Arrested In Stockton While Out 'Hunting' For New Victim Law enforcement said last week that the modus operandi of an apparent serial killer made him very likely to be caught, and on Saturday, Stockton police announced an arrest.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jagged Little Pill' Wears Its Pain On Its Sleeve, and It's an Exhilarating and Clever New Rock Musical A jukebox musical featuring the angsty but sometimes poetic music of Alanis Morissette, directed by Tony winner Diane Paulus, and featuring a book by Oscar winner Diablo Cody, may sound cringe-y, but it is more than the sum of its parts.
SF News Three Arrested Following Standoff, Including 15-Year-Old, In Armed Robbery Outside Mission Bar The SFPD apprehended three suspects believed to be responsible for an armed robbery outside of a Mission District bar earlier this week, following a Wednesday standoff in SoMa.
SF Politics Retired Judge Files State Bar Complaint Against SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Citing Dishonest Conduct Ahead of the November election in which mayoral appointee to the SF DA's office Brooke Jenkins is hoping to be elected by the people, there appears to be at least one October surprise.
SF News Could the Stockton Serial Killer Be Chicago's 'Duck Walk Killer' Who Randomly Murdered Two Men In 2018? Investigators are trying to determine if a suspect who shot two men, execution-style, four years ago in Chicago could be the same suspect responsible for six murders in the last year and a half in Stockton and Oakland.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Fire Damages Oakland Senior Apartments A fire broke out early Friday morning at a senior apartment complex near Lake Merritt in Oakland, the death of Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled accidental, and San Jose saw two hit-and-run collisions on Thursday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacos El Último Baile, Born as a Stand Outside an Oakland Bar, Opens Its First Brick and Mortar on Saturday A taco success story in Oakland begins a new chapter this weekend as taco chef Dominic Prado opens a brick-and-mortar version of Tacos El Último Baile in the Fruitvale District, in the space formerly occupied by Nyum Bai.
SF Politics This Winter and Spring Could Be a Chaotic Free-for-All For Developers If SF Can't Get Its Housing Element Approved A local housing activist just called San Francisco out on a rather alarming error — city officials and planners thought they had until May 31 to get the all-important revision to the general plan's Housing Element approved by the state, but the deadline is actually January 31.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Sentencing Set For Nov. 18; Prosecution Witness Who Expressed Remorse Angered By New Subpoena A prosecution witness who showed up at Elizabeth Holmes's doorstep in August seeming to express remorse over his testimony in her trial has lashed back at her attorneys over a new subpoena of his phone and email records.
