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.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed In Castro Safeway Parking Lot A fatal stabbing occurred Tuesday evening in the notoriously sketchy parking lot of the Castro Safeway shopping plaza.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sports-Betting Prop Backers Admit Defeat The backers of two competing sports-betting ballot measures know the props are toast, BBQ chef Matt Horn faces public complaints about bounced checks, and our unusually (for October) damp and foggy weather continues.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Unified Is Spending $2.8 Million on a Consultant to Fix Another Consultant's Error SF Unified School District is spending $2.8 million on a no-bid contract with a firm trying to solve a major payroll snafu, the man who fell into a woodchipper on the Peninsula has been ID'd, and a new game space opens in Berkeley.
SF News Six Bay Area High Schools Get Swatted With Fake Active Shooter Reports A wave of "swatting" swept through the Bay Area on Wednesday, a day after similar incidents in Florida, with classes disrupted and lockdowns ordered following a half dozen fabricated reports of active shooters at six different high schools.
SF News Oakland-Based Health Justice Lawyer Awarded MacArthur 'Genius' Grant Oakland-based attorney Priti Krishtel was announced today as one of 25 grantees of the MacArthur Foundation's esteemed annual 'genius' fellowships, for her work in the health justice space.
Business & Tech Meta Announces That Metaverse Avatars Will Soon Gain Legs — Also, They'd Like to Sell You a $1,500 VR Headset "It's painful how hellbent Mark Zuckerberg is on convincing us that VR is a thing." That's a TechCrunch headline on an article about Meta's VR developer conference this week, at which the company unveiled a new $1,500 headset for use in the still very beta metaverse.
SF News Group of Men Robbed at Gunpoint In Mission District, One Shot One man was shot during the commission of a robbery on the street outside of a Mission District bar on Monday night, in an incident that involved three suspects which was one of two shootings that night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 'Golden Girls Kitchen' Pop-Up Headed to SF The Supreme Court will be weighing the constitutionality of California's animal cruelty law for food products, UC Berkeley parents are freaking out over last weekend's shooting, and a 'Golden Girls Kitchen' pop-up is coming to SF.
SF News Vandal — Who Lives There — Allegedly Makes Mess of 100 Van Ness Apartment Tower, Causing Major Flood A major flooding incident occurred on the 11th floor of the apartment tower at 100 Van Ness, and it's allegedly the work of a vandal who lived in the building, and who was found at the scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trio of New Restaurants Open Thursday at Cavallo Point, Including the Mediterranean-Inspired Sula Over on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the Before Times, Cavallo Point was known as a semi-secret spa, date, and special-occasion spot — with its restaurant Murray Circle enjoying a number of years of critical acclaim.
SF Politics Once Again We're Voting On a Dialysis-Clinic Prop — Here's the Deal At its heart, this is a unionization fight, but it's one that keeps coming up because there is so much money on the table — and because the arguments are compelling.
SF News Next Omicron Subvariant Arrives In Bay Area; Not Enough People Are Getting Updated Boosters It is high time for people to get their bivalent COVID booster shots, with widespread availability and a looming potential winter surge of a new Omicron subvariant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Strange Weather Pattern to Blame For Fog and Cold Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall on Monday in solidarity to protest Russia's new attacks in Ukraine, a gig-worker union is going to be announced outside Uber HQ, and a strange weather pattern has been keeping SF's early October colder than usual.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Newsom to Testify Against Harvey Weinstein In L.A. A 39-year-old man was shot near Fisherman's Wharf on Sunday night, Jennifer Siebel Newsom is set to testify in the L.A. trial of Harvey Weinstein, and a star witness just testified in the corruption trial of the Santa Clara County sheriff.
SF News Suspect In Merced Murder of Four Family Members Is Formally Charged, Arraigned One of two suspects in a quadruple homicide last week in Merced was arraigned Monday morning in Merced County court, four days after he was arrested for their kidnapping.
SF News Shooting Outside UC Berkeley Dorms Leaves One Dead, Four Injured There was a shooting early Saturday, following a busy Friday night of frat parties and activity on and off the UC Berkeley campus, that left four people injured and one dead — none of whom were students or affiliated with the school.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Metaverse Sounds Tedious The Blue Angels' air show was canceled Sunday due to fog, 74% of respondents to a Chronicle Twitter poll agree with Soleil Ho that the French Laundry isn't worth a splurge, and a Times reporter spent 24 hours in Facebook's metaverse, such as it is.
SF News Humboldt Surfer Attacked By Shark, Survives After Kicking the Fish In the Head A surfer off the coast of Humboldt County miraculously survived a pretty serious shark bite on Sunday, and his tale provides at least one best practice for getting out of the grip of an attacking shark.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
SF News City Accountants Are Trying to Clean Up Their Books So Now San Francisco Is Sending People 30-Year-Old Tax Bills In an effort to resolve tens of thousands of outstanding tax bills, some dating back to 1993, the city of San Francisco has recently sent out a round of notices to people who owe some long-overdue taxes — and some of these bills may seem ridiculous.
SF Politics Newsom Joined By Other West Coast Governors In Signing Symbolic Climate Pledge Taking an opportunity to say "Eat your heart out, Fox News," Governor Gavin Newsom was joined by the governors of Oregon and Washington and the premier of British Columbia in signing a joint climate pledge in the Presidio on Thursday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: State Auditing Bay Area Police Forces The state is now auditing multiple police forces in the Bay Area following revelations about "unsuitable" psych evaluations in Alameda County, an infamous wine arsonist is getting out of jail, and there was a vigil for the slain family in Merced.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liliana May Be SF's Best New Date Spot For the Cocktail-Inclined San Francisco is stupid with great cocktail bars — though sadly we have fewer than when a pandemic decided to kill some off. But how many actually double as great date spots where you can sit down, hear each other, and get a complete meal?
SF News Female Lyft Driver Describes Harrowing Encounter With Passenger, Fleeing Onto Freeway A Lyft driver in San Jose says she was forcibly grabbed from behind by an aggressive passenger, which led to her swerving dangerously while going 70 miles per hour and pulling off a busy freeway.
