SF News New Study: COVID Can Infect Men's Genitals, Cause Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction It's been some months since Nicki Minaj and others amplified the falsehood that COVID vaccines made men's testicles swell up. And now some researchers have found that the COVID-19 virus gets into the penis, prostate, and testicles.
SF News Theranos Exec Sunny Balwani's Fraud Trial Kicks Off Just In Time for Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes Series 'The Dropout' Hulu's new series about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos disaster, The Dropout, premieres Thursday. And then next week, Holmes's former lover and business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, heads to trial.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF School Board Approves 300 Layoffs The SF school board voted to lay off 300 district staffers to close a budget gap, a homicide suspect was arrested in Sonoma County following a tense day in Monte Rio, and SF Mayor London Breed is pressing the school district to lift its mask mandate along with the state.
SF Politics Key Takeaways From Chesa Boudin's New York Times Interview Embattled SF District Attorney, who would like not to be embattled much longer, once again defended himself in the national press, more or less stoically, in a new interview with the New York Times.
SF News Jury Enters Deliberations In SFPD Brutality Trial; Prosecution Argues Officers Didn't See Victim 'As Human' Deliberations began Tuesday in the historic trial of SFPD Officer Terrance Stangel, who is charged with excessive use of force in a 2019 beating of a domestic violence suspect who was subsequently not charged with any crime.
SF News 13.5-Mile Tunnel Drives Up Cost Estimate For Bay Area High-Speed Rail Link The price tag for California's beleaguered high-speed rail project just went up again, and with inflation and construction costs rising we can expect it to just continue rising until the construction is actually all underway.
Business & Tech State Grants First Permits to Waymo and Cruise For Paid Self-Driving Taxi Service The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has granted its first, semi-full permits to Alphabet-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise to provide autonomous-vehicle taxi service to paid passengers.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Deadline For Baseball Talks Extended Sen. Alex Padilla announced he tested positive for COVID-19, UC Berkeley lost its patent case over CRISPR technology, and the deadline for bargaining between Major League Baseball and its players' association has been extended until 5 p.m. today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Unified Says the Masks Stay On A top official in SF's teachers' union has caused a Twitter outcry after he amplified comments blaming the US for the Ukraine invasion, that Scott Peterson juror admitted to writing to Peterson in prison, and SF Unified wants kids to keep their masks on despite the state's changes.
Arts & Entertainment Female in Berkeley Falcon Pair Goes Missing, Is Likely Injured or Dead Ugh! The drama seemed to have passed and all was back to normal for the bonded pair of peregrine falcons who have been mating and residing atop the UC Berkeley Campanile. But no!
SF News Smattering of Rain to Arrive Later This Week, Followed By Another Balmy Weekend It's hard to complain too hard about lovely early spring weather in February. But We need more rain in the forecast and only a smidge more is on its way, for now.
Business & Tech Facebook and Twitter Attempt to Stifle Russian Propaganda Campaign; Russia Turns to Chinese-Owned TikTok Social media is again being used as a battleground by Russia as it continues to try to "sell" its invasion of Ukraine to the Russian people, and to sympathizers abroad.
SF News California to Lift School Mask Mandate In Two Weeks; Unvaccinated People Can Go Maskless Indoors This Week The long-awaited lifting of the state's mask mandate for schoolchildren arrives in two weeks — though individual school districts may still decide to keep it in place longer.
SF News Four People Injured In Shooting at Dave & Busters In Concord At least four individuals were involved in a fight that broke out late Sunday at an East Bay Dave & Busters — the corporate sports bar-meets-adult-arcade concept — and they all ended up shot.
SF News Toddler Found Safe, Woman Arrested Following Bay Area-Wide Amber Alert You may have seen the Amber Alert that went out Sunday for a missing toddler in an SUV. And the little boy was found safe Sunday evening in the same vehicle, still in his car seat, a few miles from where he was abducted.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: California to Update Mask Rules for Schoolkids Newsom should be announcing a new unmasking timetable for schoolkids today, a malfunctioning door in a BART tunnel was causing major delays, and the SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 85-year-old man.
SF News Air Quality District Says Benicia Refinery Has Been Emitting Hazardous Chemicals for 15 Years A recent investigation by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) found that the Valero Benicia refinery in southern Solano County has been emitting hazardous levels of toxic chemicals for years.
Arts & Entertainment New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise A new PlayStation game by Sony-owned Guerrilla Games depicts San Francisco and some other parts of the state as they might appear without so many humans, in a distant future well populated by threatening robotic dinosaurs.
SF News Oakland Woman Who Spent PPP Loans On Louis Vuitton Bags and Private Jets Gets Three Years In Federal Prison A 32-year-old Oakland woman who was arrested and charged last year in a scheme to defraud the federal government out of $4.5 million in pandemic relief funds has just been sentenced to three years in prison and will have to pay over $1 million in restitution.
SF News Santa Clara County Will Follow Rest of Region and Lift Mask Order Next Week Two weeks behind San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area, Santa Clara County will be lifting its indoor public mask mandate next week — though, like the rest of the region, unvaccinated people are still on the honor system and supposed to be masking up.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Dead In Fillmore District Apartment Fire A fire broke out in a row of apartments on Buchanan Street Friday morning, that spate of anti-Semitic flyers has hit two communities in Marin County, and there was a small protest in solidarity with Ukraine in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Schlok's Bagels Set to Open Next Week Off Divisadero Schlok's, a much-awaited new brick-and-mortar bagel shop for a popular pandemic pop-up, is finally opening next week after a number of delays.
SF News Sean Penn Is In Ukraine Covering the Russian Invasion With VICE Sometime Bay Area resident Sean Penn is reportedly in Ukraine helping to film a documentary about the Russian invasion for VICE Studios.
SF News Even SF's Own City Departments Can't Agree On Neighborhood Boundaries It should come as a shock to no one that there exists no single, official, definitive map that delineates where the Inner Sunset begins and ends, or where the line is drawn between The Mission and Potrero Hill — though many of us have our own ideas.
SF News Thieves Use SUV to Ram Metal Door of Oakland Dispensary, Clean the Place Out of Product A group of pot burglars targeted a dispensary inside the old Parkway Theater space in Oakland, and the way they got inside involved using a Lexus SUV to slam a roll-up door.
