SF News Bomb Scare Prompts Evacuation at Oakland Courthouse There was a bomb scare Monday morning at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland after a man came in off the street carrying a small, homemade explosive device that he said had been planted on his car.
SF News Police Seek Multiple Shooters In Sacramento Massacre as Victims Begin Being Identified A mass shooting in downtown Sacramento on Sunday morning that claimed at least six lives and injured a dozen other people appears to have been the result of a shootout between multiple gunmen, possibly stemming from a large fight that broke out as nightclubs were emptying out.
SF News Shooting In SF's Crocker-Amazon Neighborhood Kills Two, Injures Two A Sunday afternoon shooting near a playground in San Francisco's Crocker-Amazon neighborhood has left two victims dead, and two others injured, and the gunman remains at large.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Tech Money Behind the Boudin Recall Ron Conway is among the tech investors supporting the recall of Chesa Boudin, a homeless man is suing the city of San Rafael over its sanctioned encampment, and there's a heatwave arriving midweek that will drive temps up all over the Bay.
SF News Feds Bust Oakland Man For Fentanyl and Meth Sales In SF's Tenderloin Federal prosecutors are highlighting a case of an arrest of a Tenderloin drug dealer who allegedly sold significant quantities of fentanyl, as well as a smattering of meth, to undercover agents in the last several months.
Arts & Entertainment Look Up Who Was Living In Your Apartment In 1950 Via Newly Released Census Records Ever been curious who lived in your house or apartment 72 years ago? Want to know how your grandparents or great-grandparents responded to census-taker questions when they came around in 1949 or 1950, or who their neighbors were at the time? Well, you're in luck.
Arts & Entertainment Three Owls Rescued From Inside Church of 8 Wheels on Fillmore Have you seen owls out and about in San Francisco? Well we have them. And three barn owls recently found their way into the Church of 8 Wheels roller disco on Fillmore Street — formerly known as Sacred Heart Parish.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: It's Van Ness BRT Ribbon-Cutting Day! The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit lanes opened for service this morning, the Tenderloin remains a nightmare at night, and a shooting outside a San Jose high school on Thursday caused some trauma for students.
SF News Male In Famous Berkeley Falcon Pair Found Dead, Bringing Tragic End to Five-Year Romance Ugh! It's just been one thing after another the past few months for the stable and enduring pair of peregrine falcons who claimed the much-watched nest atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower. And now Grinnell, the male, was found dead in downtown Berkeley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Souvla Is Taking Over Magnolia Brewery Space In Dogpatch, Will Open Largest Restaurant Yet In June Souvla, the popular Mediterranean-inspired salad and wrap operation, is opening a fifth SF location in Dogpatch — with a sixth in Marin not far behind — and it will be their largest restaurant to date.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland's Own 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider Invited to White House for Transgender Day of Visibility Amy Schneider, the openly trans Oakland resident who made history earlier this year with her 40-game winning streak on Jeopardy!, made an appearance Thursday in the White House Press Briefing Room to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility.
SF News 1993 Cold Case Killing of San Carlos Store Owner Likely Solved After Oklahoma Cops Find Confession In Suspect's Journal A San Mateo County cold case from 1993 may finally be reaching the justice phase after what appears to have been a happenstance discovery of a confession by investigators probing a separate case in Oklahoma.
SF News Kristin Smart Murder Trial to Be Moved Out of San Luis Obispo A San Luis Obispo County judge on Wednesday granted a change of venue for the trial of the accused killer of onetime Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, and his accused accomplice father, Ruben Flores.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Cesar Chavez Day Cities and labor groups are celebrating Cesar Chavez Day today, there's a long line to get mochi at Japantown's Benkyodo on its last day in business, and a Belmont flag shop can't keep Ukrainian flags in stock.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Police Face Civil Rights Lawsuit After Taqueria Shooting San Jose police are being accused of negligently shooting a Black man who had actually taken a weapon away from a potential shooter, SF's Laguna Honda hospital is in trouble with the feds, and CHP is seeking a Bay Bridge carjacking suspect.
SF News Pair of Oakland Teens, Ages 14 and 16, Arrested for SF Carjackings Targeting Asian Victims San Francisco police chased and then arrested a pair of juveniles who were allegedly part of a quartet of carjackers who targeted two Asian male victims in San Francisco on Monday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Presidio Tunnel Tops to Finally Open In Mid-July; New Battery Bluff Area Opens April 23 The new park spaces atop and around the Presidio Parkway tunnels, which have been under construction for over two years, will finally open to the public starting April 23, with the main Presidio Tunnel Tops opening on Sunday, July 17.
SF News Three Arrested For Burglary of Castro Theatre Three men were arrested on suspicion of breaking into and burglarizing the historic Castro Theatre early Tuesday morning.
SF News Murder and Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Oakland Gas Station Shooting Charges have now been filed and more details are emerging in a March 19 shooting at an East Oakland gas station, caught on video, in which a 64-year-old Army veteran was killed and a 21-year-old woman was paralyzed.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Chris Rock Coming to Paramount Theater A coroner's report confirms that the Morro Bay boogie-boarder who died from a shark attack on Dec. 24 died within minutes, Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has been denied parole once again, and Chris Rock is coming to the Paramount Theater in July.
Arts & Entertainment Betty White's Carmel Vacation Home Hits Market For $8M A Monterey County vacation home with sweeping ocean views that the late Betty White built with her husband Allen Ludden in the late 1970s has just hit the market for the first time, listed for $7.9 million.
SF News Third Man Convicted In Infamous NorCal Kidnapping of 26 Schoolchildren Gets Parole A 70-year-old man who's been imprisoned for 45 years for an infamous 1976 kidnapping inspired by the movie 'Dirty Harry' has just been granted parole after 18 tries.
Business & Tech Tim Cook's Stalker From Virginia Agrees to 3-Year Stay-Away Order The story of a possibly armed and disturbed stalker who had driven across the country to be close to Apple CEO Tim Cook, and who claimed that Cook was the father of her children, has led to a day in court in San Jose.
SF News Video: Nude Man at Bloomingdale's Violently Assaulted By Vigilante A video that just surfaced, filmed at Bloomingdale's at SF's Westfield Mall, depicts a horrifying scene that brings up issues about SF's problem of untreated mental illness, and inexcusable violence committed in a misguided vigilante mindset.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom Stalker Still Mentally Incompetent, Court Says A 69-year-old San Jose man who attends a lot of public meetings is facing a hearing over shooting threats he made at a VTA meeting, rattlesnakes are out early in the East Bay, and a man who entered Gavin Newsom's home in 2018 is not fit to stand trial according to an appeals court.
