SF News Four People OD'd at the 24th & Mission BART Plaza Monday; Supervisor Says Health Department Should Do More SFFD paramedics responded to the 24th and Mission BART plaza Monday around 5:30 p.m. after four individuals simultaneously suffered from fentanyl overdoses.
SF News Inmate Work Crew Saves Woman From Stabbing In Vacaville An inmate work crew and a California Department of Corrections guard intervened in a stabbing along a Solano County bike trail on Tuesday, possibly saving a woman's life.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Now Know Why the Chronicle Doesn't Think The French Laundry Is Worth the Splurge Anymore Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22,500 We now have an estimate for how much the state's homeless population grew during the pandemic, the clearing of the Wood Street encampment has entered a final phase, and a federal appeals court has declared DACA illegal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hastings Family Sues Over UC Law School Name Change, Seeking Payout The descendants of Serranus Hastings want his money back if the state wants to strip his name from the law school he funded, DNA identifies a cold case victim in Sacramento, and Delfina is reopening at last.
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
Arts & Entertainment Bands, Ship Tours, and Air Shows: The What, When and Where of Fleet Week 2022 The Blue Angels are going to begin buzzing the city any minute now, and SF's annual Fleet Week is already underway with band performances and more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes For Good (Again) After Nine Years In the Tenderloin Popular SF brewpub Mikkeller Bar, one of two U.S. outposts of cult-famous Danish brewery Mikkeller, is shutting its doors at 34 Mason Street in the next week after nine years at the edge of the Tenderloin — two years after it appeared to close the first time.
SF News Residents of Stockton — Especially the Homeless — Are on Edge Over Possible Serial Killer on the Loose A potential serial killer who may be targeting the homeless in Stockton, and who also may have killed a homeless man in Oakland, has rattled nerves and set the unhoused population, especially, on edge.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Member Lashes Out Over Encampment Clearing Tensions flared last night at the Oakland City Council over the clearing of the Wood Street encampment, classes have restarted at the Oakland campus where a shooting took place last week, and all local grocery stores are going to be transitioning to compostable plastic.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
SF News Water Main Break In Richmond District Causes Sinkhole, Fulton Street Blocked Avoid Fulton Street in the Outer Richmond and expect some possible disruption with the 5-Fulton bus as there is a sinkhole and burst water main being dealt with on 29th Avenue that's causing flooding all the way down to 31st Avenue.
SF Politics First Lady Jill Biden Coming to SF Thursday and Friday You may see a motorcade roaming about later this week, and that is because First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will in San Francisco for a couple of events.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Now Says He'll Buy Twitter At His Original Price, But He May Still Be Negotiating Ugh, the stupid saga drags on, and late Monday, Elon Musk did an about-face and said 'No, no, JK! Forget about the last four months, I actually do want to buy Twitter.'
SF News Oakland Shooting From April 2021 Being Linked to Stockton Serial Killer Investigation Another murder, this one last year in the Bay Area, may be linked to a string of unsolved killings in Stockton from the last three months, as a new serial killer investigation is rattling nerves in the Central Valley.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Janitors Striking at Meta Janitors are striking in protest of layoffs at Meta/Facebook, there was another major BART delay due to a problem in the Transbay Tube, and a longtime Bay Area physicist has just won the Nobel Prize.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Rock Appears on '60 Minutes' Bernal Rock made a cameo during 60 Minutes' interview with the first lady of Ukraine, Oakland police say that the two teen brothers killed on Saturday were targeted because of some school conflict, and Oakland had yet another fatal shooting today which is the 100th of the year.
SF News In Kristin Smart Murder Trial Closing Argument, Prosecutors Tell Jurors They Don't Need a Body to Convict There has been a wealth of circumstantial evidence, and some compelling physical evidence in the trial of Paul Flores and his father Ruben Flores. And the Monterey County jury was listening to closing arguments on Monday.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Succeeds In Getting Her Sentencing Delayed The latest gambit from attorneys representing Elizabeth Holmes appears to have had its intended effect, and the judge in her case has offered to have a brief hearing with a prosecution witness who sounded like he wanted to recant testimony, but then didn't.
SF News A Serial Killer May Have Recently Murdered Five Men In Stockton Five deaths of men walking alone on roads in Stockton at night or in the pre-dawn hours in the last several months appear to be linked, and Stockton police now say they are on the hunt for a serial killer.
SF News Two Teen Brothers Killed In House Party Shooting at Oakland Vacation Rental Two teenage brothers, both Berkeley High School students, were killed in a shooting Saturday night at a birthday party in Oakland that turned violent.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows On Both Sides of the Bay Lead to Injuries Sideshows in both Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday night ended with injuries, Ayesha Curry's Oakland store was broken into, and hackers released stolen data from the L.A. Unified School District when before their ransom deadline.
SF News It Is 2022 and BART Has Just Added Credit Payment Capability to Add Fare Machines The Add Fare machines in BART stations have forever been cash-only affairs where you have to subtract from $10 the amount you want to add to get out of a damn station. But, no more!
Arts & Entertainment Check Out Some New Public Art — and Doggie Diner Heads — In Golden Gate Park This Weekend The Golden Mile Project, the latest project from Illuminate — the nonprofit that put up the Bay Lights and did that rainbow laser installation up Market Street during Pride — has brought a series of public art pieces to JFK Drive.
SF Politics SF Street Sweepers Are Rallying Today In Opposition of Prop B — the Supes' Effort to Nix a New Sanitation Department Proposition B, if it passes in November, will negate part of the voter-approved Proposition B that passed two years ago creating a new city department responsible only for cleaning streets and sidewalks.
