SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Woman Confesses to Killing Her Mother A 27-year-old woman called San Jose police on Sunday and said she killed her mother, the family of missing Antioch woman Alexis Gabe continues to search for her, and a well loved Mission mural is getting a touchup in honor of its 10th anniversary.
Arts & Entertainment No Need for Vaxx Cards at Chase Center Starting Next Month, But You Still Need Your Mask If You're Unvaxxed The lifting of mandates has come at a very fast pace in California in recent weeks, and now we officially have word from the Chase Center that they will stop checking vaccination status as of April 1.
SF News Yet Another Encampment Fire, This Time at Oakland Tiny-House Complex An ostensibly safer and more regulated encampment for the homeless in Oakland experienced a fire Monday morning much like the many that have broken out in the last year in unsanctioned encampments.
SF News California DMV Now Letting You Take Written Renewal Exams Online In a gesture toward joining the 21st Century and reducing the amount of time you have to spend at a physical DMV office, the California DMV is now going to let you take written exams online.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: HIV Activists Rally at SF's City Hall Steelworkers are going on strike at Richmond's Chevron refinery today, one person is dead following a high-speed chase in Healdsburg on Sunday, and HIV/AIDS activists are rallying at SF's City Hall to call for renewed attention on treatment and detection of the disease after the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Chef Christopher Kostow Opens 'Jew-ish' Deli and Bagel Shop In Napa Originally set to open Friday and pushed into next week, Loveski Deli is the newest project from Michelin-star chef Christopher Kostow and his wife Martina, inside Napa's Oxbow Public Market.
SF News Bay Area Men Recount Meeting Accused Murderer In Honolulu A pair of friends from San Francisco and Oakland befriended a man in Hawaii who was arrested earlier this month for a murder there, and they say he "seemed very nice."
SF News Light Storm With Possible Thunder and Lightning Arrives Saturday Morning Some more welcome rain is coming to the Bay Area on Saturday, though rainfall totals will be pretty modest. And you may see some lightning.
SF News Matthew Muller, Culprit In Denise Huskins' 2015 Kidnapping and Rape, Set to Be Sentenced to 31 More Years Muller's trial in a state rape and robbery case had been delayed in part by his mental health treatment, but on Friday he was set to plead no contest to the charges and receive a sentence on top of his previous federal sentence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: USF Dons Knocked Out In First Round Santa Clara County marked the two-year anniversary of the shelter-in-place order, a teacher's strike in Sonoma County has ended, and the USF Dons unfortunately got knocked out in the first round of March Madness on Thursday night.
SF News Enormous New NorCal Reservoir Project Moves Forward With Federal Loan The state of California is getting set to forge ahead with constructing a huge new reservoir in Colusa County that would be capable of storing enough water to supply three million households, and it just got the green light from the feds.
SF News Italian Appeals Court Reduces Sentences for Bay Area Men Convicted In Cop Killing An appeals court in Rome has reduced the sentences of two young men from the Bay Area who were convicted last year in the July 2019 killing of a Roman Carabinieri (policeman), but both will still serve over 20 years in prison.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Coi, Daniel Patterson's Flagship, Shutters After 16 Years In North Beach Chef Daniel Patterson, one of the Bay Area food world's most celebrated innovators, has seen his restaurant footprint shrink considerably in recent years. And now, sadly, his longtime fine-dining flagship, Coi, has permanently closed.
SF Politics Two Pandemic Years Later, Gay Bathhouse Zoning Back on the Docket In SF Way back in February 2020, SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the city had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
Bay Area Sports Thursday Morning What's Up: Steph Curry Out 'Indefinitely' With Foot Injury A woman in Millbrae was assaulted and robbed by a man who threatened to traffic her, Richmond police are searching for a runaway teen mom, and no sooner were the Warriors 'whole' again but Curry's now out with an injury.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed In Murder of Security Guard Kevin Nishita Three so-far unnamed suspects have been charged in Kevin Nishita's November murder, the new A's stadium has been dealt another blow, and The Sentinel is giving away free corned-beef sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn BBQ, Brandon Jew, House of Prime Rib All Among 2022 James Beard Award Finalists The finalists for this year's James Beard Awards — the first with a full slate of nominees and actual awards given since 2019 — are now out, and the Bay Area is well represented both in the California and national categories.
SF News Fatal Shooting In Fremont Sounds Like Yet Another Failure for Mental Health System A fatal shooting in a residential neighborhood in Fremont, which is being characterized as an act of self-defense, sounds like a tragic end to a psychotic episode that was left untreated.
SF Politics New Poll By Recall Boudin Campaign Suggests Dems In Favor; Pro-Boudin Camp Fires Back With More Police Data There were a couple more salvos in both directions this week from the campaign to recall San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and those who support him, with each side trying to use arguably shaky numbers to bolster their cases.
SF News Humpday Headlines: No Tsunami Threat From Japan Earthquake BART service this morning between Dublin and Pleasanton was disrupted by a death on the tracks, those Uber/Lyft gas surcharges kick in, and a powerful earthquake near Fukushima in Japan is prompting tsuami warnings — but not for us.
SF News Child's Remains Found In Merced Home Confirmed as Missing Hayward Girl; Mother's Boyfriend Still at Large Merced authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the remains of a girl found at a residence in the city last week are those of eight-year-old Sophia Mason, who was reported missing by family members in the East Bay.
SF News Woman Who Swiped $4K Bottle of Cognac From San Jose Restaurant ID'd as Mother of 6, Owner Not Pressing Charges The suspect has been identified in that brazen and ill-conceived theft of an expensive bottle of Remy Martin Louis XIII Cognac from a steakhouse on Mt. Hamilton last week, and she's very, very sorry.
SF News Bay Area Slightly Decreased Water Usage During the Drought to Date, While Palm Springs' Usage Went Up 19% The majority of residents and businesses in the state of California appear to have ignored calls for voluntary reductions in water usage during the current drought emergency. The Bay Area is the only exception, but even we only decreased usage by less than 2%.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom and Legislature Give UC Enrollment Reprieve The legislature passed — and Newsom signed — a quick fix to CEQA to let UC Berkeley keep its enrollment number, lawmakers are pushing to suspend California's gas tax, and the jury has been seated in the Sunny Balwani fraud trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kate Steinle Shooter Pleads Guilty In Federal Gun Case Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate has pleaded guilty to federal gun charges in connection with the 2015 shooting of Kate Steinle, BART lost about 2% of its workforce last year to early retirement and the vaccine mandate, and three SF employees are suing over the city's vaccine mandate.
