SF News Elizabeth Holmes Booked One-Way Ticket to Mexico After Conviction, Prosecutors Say As federal prosecutors push to get Elizabeth Holmes more quickly into prison, they have revealed in a new court filing that she booked a one-way ticket to Mexico last year not long after her conviction on four counts of fraud.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Google Lays Off 12,000 Workers Google/Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, a 3.6M earthquake struck Thursday evening in Sonoma County, and the state wants you to please withdraw your Middle Class Tax Refund ASAP.
SF News The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.
Business & Tech Meta Looking to Offload All Of Its Office Space at 181 Fremont Adding to the already historic level of office vacancy in San Francisco, Meta is looking to dump 435,000 square feet of offices that it leased for Instagram employees five years ago in 181 Fremont.
SF News SF Reparations Committee Recommends $5 Million Lump-Sum Payments to Eligible Black Residents In one of the most sweeping and expensive proposals for reparations to Black Americans, a committee tasked with making recommendations for providing reparations to Black residents of San Francisco is suggesting $5 million lump-sum payments to residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.
SF News Suspected Stolen Car Plunges Off Cliff on Twin Peaks During Chase, Lands On Another Car A vehicle suspected of being stolen that was being chased by SFPD officers Wednesday night on Twin Peaks went off a cliff and landed on its side atop a parked vehicle on a roadway below.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden to Visit Capitola Pier and Santa Cruz President Biden is visiting the storm-damaged Santa Cruz area, an employee at Trick Dog is being hailed as a hero for saving two elderly people in last week's fire across the street from the bar, and two SF socialites gave money to George Santos.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Palace of Fine Arts Swan Dies at Age 28 Blanche, the 28-year-old Palace of Fine Arts swan, has died; a Nob Hill pot dispensary was robbed to the tune of $100K; and CB2 is closing near Union Square a year after Crate & Barrel also closed.
SF News DA Brooke Jenkins Issues Arrest Warrant for SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman District Attorney Brooke Jenkins may be sensing an opportunity to prove she can be tough not just on drug dealers and car burglars, but also on those who attack the city's
Bay Area Sports Biden Took a Knee For Photo With Warriors; Curry Expresses Thanks for Britney Griner's Return As noted yesterday, the Golden State Warriors took a trip to D.C. to meet and get a photo op with President Joe Biden on Tuesday, to celebrate their 2022 NBA Championship win — something they did not opt to do for their 2017 and 2018 championship wins while Trump was in office.
Business & Tech There Are Currently 15 Salesforce Towers Worth of Empty Offices In San Francisco You've been hearing for over a year from the businesses downtown that used to host busy lunch crowds and happy hour hordes that the area is a ghost town most days. But it's not just because the companies that are still there are letting everyone work from home.
Business & Tech Trump Now Wants Facebook to Make Good On Its Promise to Reinstate His Account After a Two-Year Ban The Trump campaign has formally petitioned Meta to reinstate the Donald's former Facebook account, now that his two-year timeout has expired, and given that his dormant account still has seven times more followers than he has on Truth Social.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Landslide Halts Another Train In Niles Canyon A second landslide hit and halted a second ACE train in Niles Canyon early today; we are in for a "last" bout of rain this evening; and the nine-person jury is seated in Elon Musk's federal trial over his 2018 Tesla tweets.
SF News Fire at Martinez Home Injures One Person, Displaces 70 Dogs and Cats In Apparent Pet-Hoarding Situation A fire at a suburban residence in Martinez on Tuesday revealed an apparent pet hoard that included around 70 dogs and cats, all of which suddenly need new homes.
SF News Commuter Train Hit By Landslide In East Bay's Niles Canyon, Passengers Evacuated An Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) train traveling through Niles Canyon outside of Fremont on Tuesday was hit by a 100-foot landslide, sending trees and debris onto the train tracks and hitting the side of the train.
Arts & Entertainment Madonna to Bring Greatest Hits Tour to Chase Center In October The great and mighty Madge a.k.a. Madonna, who has stubbornly refused to ever do a fully retrospective, greatest-hits tour, apparently has seen the light and decided her fans would like to see a greatest-hits tour. So it's happening, and Bob the Drag Queen is touring with her.
SF News SFFD Ambulance Stolen In Outer Sunset As Patient Was Being Brought to It, Taken on Joyride to Oakland A San Francisco Fire Department ambulance was stolen out from under some EMTs on Monday evening, and multiple law enforcement agencies got involved in its pursuit until it was ultimately found abandoned on the other side of the Bay.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Auction Kicks Off There were shots fired on Geary Blvd. near Laurel Heights early this morning; a stabbing in the Mission left a man with serious injuries; and bidding has kicked off in the Twitter surplus office-furniture auction.
SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: Two Dozen Cars Get Flat Tires From Pothole on 101 Caltrain's NorCalMLK Celebration train ran for the first time in three years today, the CHP is seeking help identifying a suspect in a Jan. 1 hit-and-run in Concord, and at least 25 cars got flat tires from the same pothole on Highway 101 in Redwood City.
SF News Big WWII-Era Bunker Thing Falls Off Cliff, Lands On Beach at Fort Funston Stuff is falling off cliffs all down the NorCal coast after drenching rains have saturated the already unstable sand and rock embankments that have at tendency to break apart this time of year. So be careful out there!
SF News Large Boulder and Rockslide Crash Onto Highway 1 Near Devil's Slide A great big rock and a bunch of other rocks are currently blocking the southbound lane of Highway 1 just north of the Tom Lantos Tunnels/Devil's Slide Bridge, and Caltrans says that motorists should "expect delays" in the area as they attempt to remove the rocks.
Business & Tech Musk Heading to Trial Over 2018 Tweets About Taking Tesla Private — Which He Was Already Fined For By the SEC Elon Musk failed in an attempt to get a trial moved out of the Bay Area, and now he will face a lawsuit here brought by Tesla investors who are still sore about tweets he published four years ago claiming he was about to take the car company private.
SF News Mudslide Prompts Evacuation Warnings In Berkeley Hills, Edge of UC Campus A mudslide Monday morning prompted a warning to avoid an area near the Clark Kerr Campus at UC Berkeley, and an evacuation warning was issued for residents near a second mudslide near Tilden Park.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: We Are In For a (Mostly) Dry Week, Everybody Don't place any big bets on it but we are forecast to have a pretty dry week except for a stormy Wednesday night; the body of a fisherman missing since Christmas was found in San Pablo Bay; and new SF Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin broke his phone.
SF News Big Rig Overturns In High Wind On Golden Gate Bridge Saturday Not long after the National Weather Service had issued a warning about high winds near the Golden Gate on Saturday, a gust toppled a semi truck on the bridge, leading to a traffic headache that lasted hours.
