SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gas Fire Burns Outside Daly City Home A natural gas fire broke out due to a ruptured line outside a home in Daly City; 70 miles of I-80 near Tahoe were closed in both directions due to whiteout conditions; and Burlingame is moving to ban outdoor smoking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Explosion Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Heavy gunfire rang out at Ninth and Howard in SoMa today in a driveby; Sunset District explosion suspect Darron Price entered not guilty pleas today; and someone wearing a 'Scream' mask freaked out people in Sonoma Plaza.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area's Latest Pizza Pop-Up, From a Chez Panisse Alum, Makes Appearances at Berkeley Wineries The newest wood-fired pizzas to be had in the East Bay are being cooked in an oven mounted on the bed of a pickup truck, and they can only be found on select dates outside of a couple of Berkeley wineries.
SF News Violent Weekend In Oakland Leaves Five Dead, Police Address the Public Three people were fatally shot in Oakland in separate incidents in the same three-hour period on Friday, and that burst of violence was followed by multiple other incidents throughout the weekend that left two more people dead and five others wounded.
SF News Man Fatally Shot on SF's Pier 5 A homicide came to San Francisco's piers early Monday, as police say that a man was fatally shot in the early morning hours on Pier 5 along the Embarcadero.
SF News 26 Arrested In Central Valley Gang Sweep Linked to January Massacre of Family Authorities arrested 26 individuals and seized guns and drugs during a major gang crackdown operation involving 17 law enforcement agencies, following the allegedly gang-related killing of six people, mostly family members, in a home in Goshen.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Driver In Fatal Hit-and-Run Sought In East Palo Alto This latest storm system will be keeping the Bay Area wet and cold for a couple of days; police are seeking a hit-and-run driver in East Palo Alto; and there are still no leads in the disappearance of Wild 94.9's JV, who is considered "at risk."
SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
SF News The LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate Comes to the Bay Area Suburbs Lest you think the Bay Area is immune to the sort of fights that are raging in school districts across the country, we are not, and a school board meeting in the East Bay was just this week filled with vitriol over books for LGBTQ kids.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Had Her Second Baby and Her Lawyers Are Still Trying to Get Prison Entry Delayed New court documents reveal that convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes now has two young children, and also, maybe she and Billy Evans aren't legally married after all?
SF News San Francisco Has Set Cold-Weather Records For Three Days In a Row Ugh! Late February should feel like spring around here and instead we're having a blizzard? Eff this.
SF News Snowfall Shuts Down Roads, Delights Kids Around the Bay; Lightning Hits SF This storm system has been no joke, and while much of the Bay Area saw significant rainfall in the last 24 hours, many spots that don't usually see snow accumulation saw plenty between Thursday and Friday, leading to some surprises on local roads.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SoCal Man Claims Powerball Jackpot Ticket Stolen Highway 17 was closed in both directions Friday in the Santa Cruz Mountains due to heavy snow and downed trees; last night's storm knocked out power in most of Calistoga; and a man in Altadena is claiming that the man who claimed the $2B Powerball jackpot stole the ticket from him.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Zoo Lioness Sukari Dies at Age 20 The San Francisco Zoo community is mourning the loss of Sukari, the zoo's 20-year-old African lioness who had given birth to multiple cubs in captivity as part of a conservation program.
SF News Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years for Sexual Assault In L.A. In a Los Angeles trial in which Governor Gavin Newsom's wife was a star witness, convicted super-predator Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years for rape and sexual assault charges.
SF News 71-Year-Old Woman Who Went Missing While Mushroom-Hunting In NorCal Forest Found Dead A 71-year-old woman who was out foraging for mushrooms in a Northern California forest earlier this month and got separated from her husband and daughter was found dead last week after being missing for two weeks.
SF News Notorious 'Evil Elmo' Guy Appears to Be Back at It Harassing People On the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Now As Cookie Monster Hide your kids if you see Cookie Monster coming at you near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk — he is not the cute and kindly Sesame Street character he appears to be.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF City Attorney to Use Red Flag Law on Synagogue Terrorizer A death in an Oakland homeless camp has been deemed a homicide; the suspect in the synagogue blanks-shooting incident earlier this month may have his guns taken from him permanently; and the high temperature in SF broke a record for coldness on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk and Newsom Have Odd Exchange at Tesla Facility Opening Elon Musk and Gov. Gavin Newsom shared some awkward words at an event celebrating a new Tesla facility in Palo Alto; a man was shot and injured in McLaren Park; and Rep. Barbara Lee has made her Senate candidacy official.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Seafood Spot Ancora, In Former Locanda Space, Closes After Just Eight Months In a sign that the market for new restaurants in San Francisco may not be as ravenous as it was a few years back, a high-end seafood restaurant that opened last summer on Valencia Street is already calling it quits.
SF News Man Arrested In Weekend Incident In Dolores Park Will Face Hate-Crime Charges A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.
SF News 100-Year-Old Man Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Identified, Mini Cooper Driver Still at Large The elderly man killed in a Sunday morning hit-and-run while out for his daily walk near Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified, and his daughter says he was very health conscious and loved his walks.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Humpday Headlines: After the Wind, Bay Area to See Rain and Snow A one-year-old boy is in critical condition after a tree fell on his family's house in the Santa Cruz Mountains; one person died after a collision at the MacArthur Maze; and snow is likely to fall in multiple spots over the next two days including Santa Rosa.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Fire Damages Historic Black Church In Oakland A three-alarm fire Monday caused heavy damage to the oldest Black church in Oakland; two street vendors have been assaulted in San Jose in the last week; and snow could fall in parts of the Bay Area later this week.
