SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics Joel Engardio Becomes New SF Supervisor for District 4 as Gordon Mar Concedes Close Race With only 479 more votes as of Wednesday's tabulation, District 4 supervisor candidate Joel Engardio has defeated incumbent Gordon Mar in an upset— signaling a potential shift in the balance of power on the SF Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Announces She Will Not Seek Reelection to House Leadership, Will Remain a Rank-and File Member In relatively brief remarks, but with some fanfare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday to announce her retirement from leadership — but not from the House.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Early Morning Crash Near Pittsburg Claims Five Lives A wrong-way crash on Highway 4 in Pittsburg killed all five people involved, the Berkeley police union president is now on leave over a text scandal, and Nancy Pelosi is announcing "future plans" today in the House.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seven Injured When Two Muni Metro Trains Collide On Embarcadero Seven people were injured when two Muni Metro trains collided in South Beach Wednesday, Matt Mahan is officially the new mayor of San Jose, and Kara Swisher says Elon Musk is... complicated.
SF News Mayor Breed Launches Guaranteed-Income Program for Low-Income Trans People On Tuesday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed officially launched a first-of-its-kind program offering guaranteed monthly income to low-income trans residents of the city.
SF News Weinstein Lawyer Asked Jennifer Siebel Newsom to Fake an Orgasm On Witness Stand You've got to be a special sort of cynic to want to represent Harvey Weinstein in court, and one shining gem of an attorney asked the wife of California's governor to fake an orgasm on the stand on Tuesday.
SF News Vallejo Squatters Whom Neighbors Referred to as 'The Cult' Implicated In Crazy Sword Incident and Shooting An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk Gives Twitter Employees New Ultimatum Elon Musk has given all Twitter employees until 5 p.m. tomorrow to commit to being "hardcore" or leave, a beloved community activist and urban farmer was brutally beaten in the Tenderloin, and Matt Mahan's lead grew in the San Jose mayor's race.
SF News Five Hells Angels Members Charged In Murder That Happened During Chris Stapleton Concert at Shoreline An assault that turned deadly at a Shoreline Amphitheater concert in June has led today to arrests and charges facing five alleged members of the notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club — including FBI raids on homes in SF.
SF Politics Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Enters Plea In Federal Court; LA Times Tries to Explain His Radicalization The 42-year-old Canadian citizen and longtime resident of the Bay Area accused of a brutal attack on Paul Pelosi three weeks ago, David DePape, made his scheduled appearance in federal court on Tuesday where he faces separate charges from those filed in state court.
SF News San Francisco Sees Homicides In Civic Center, Western Addition The SFPD has just released a few details in a pair of weekend homicides that left two men dead, one near the San Francisco Public Library main branch, and the other at Fulton and Webster streets.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sideshow Law Helped San Jose Police Make Huge Bust The UC academic worker strike moves into its second day, an equipment problem on BART led to smoke and delays in SF, and San Jose police deployed a new tactic and the city's newish sideshow law to issue over 700 citations over the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Takes Stand In Weinstein Trial Jennifer Siebel Newsom gave some emotional testimony in the Harvey Weinstein trial, the Oakland mayor's race remains tight, and Twitter could be in trouble with EU regulators soon.
Arts & Entertainment NorCal Represent! Oakland's Amy Schneider Leads All-NorCal Tournament of Champions Finale Of the major-streak winners in the last season of Jeopardy!, only Amy Schneider emerged victorious after the initial rounds of the latest Tournament of Champions. And on Monday night, she competes against San Francisco's own Andrew He, and Professors Tournament winner Sam Buttrey of Pacific Grove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Fall Tasting Menu at Nisei Chef David Yoshimura's thoughtful, soulful spins on Japanese home cooking, elevated as a series of finely composed and richly flavored dishes at his one-year-old Russian Hill restaurant Nisei, make for a memorable dining experience.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Appears In Court, Will Remain Jailed Without Bail 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee, the suspect in a string of killings in Stockton this past summer as well as another last year in Oakland, made another court appearance Monday morning but did not enter a plea.
Business & Tech In Dueling Sentencing Memos, Prosecutors Push For Elizabeth Holmes to Get 15 Years, While Defense Brings Up Recently Deceased Dog After a federal judge last week denied Elizabeth Holmes a new trial, quashing a last-ditch — and highly aggressive — effort by her defense team to keep her out of prison longer, it all comes down to her sentence.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Jose Mayor's Race Still Too Close to Call The race between Cindy Chavez and Matt Mahan for San Jose mayor is still close with Mahan in the lead, some contractors at Twitter were let go over the weekend, and the US Postal Service is investigating some ballots found by the side of a road in the South Bay.
SF News Families of VTA Workers Killed In Mass Shooting Settle Wrongful Death Case For Just $8 Million Apparently the hands of attorneys representing families of eight of the victims in the May 2021 mass shooting at a VTA rail facility in San Jose were somewhat tied by the legal system, and the families are now settling their wrongful death suit with the VTA for $8 million.
SF News Experts Cautiously Optimistic About Weak Winter COVID Wave As Hospitalizations Begin to Tick Up It may be too soon to tell what the holiday season has in store when it comes to the tail end of this three-year pandemic. But there is reason to hope that we won't have a very severe winter surge of new COVID infections, especially if more people get their updated boosters.
Business & Tech Twitter Has Already Paused Those $8 Checkmark Subscriptions Amid Fakes Once again proving that Musk et al have not thought any of this through, they've paused the $8 Twitter Blue subscription thing two days after launching it, because, yes, there are a lot of nitwits and bad actors out there who want to pose as celebrities.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Now Asking for 18 Months of Home Confinement A two-vehicle crash in Visitacion Valley caused injuries and damage to homes, Elizabeth Holmes's attorneys are now making a plea for leniency in her sentencing, and Lauren Boebert has gained a small lead in her congressional race.
