SF News Berkeley Teenager Arrested for Alleged Widespread Revenge Porn and Blackmail Scheme Involving Snapchat A 19-year-old former Berkeley High School student was arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged hacking and blackmail scheme involving nude photos of underage girls, some of whom he went to school with.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
SF Politics Kabul Attack Prompts VP Kamala Harris to Back Out of Anti-Recall Rally In Bay Area Vice President Kamala Harris backed out at the last minute from her planned attendance at a rally at the Cow Palace in Daly City in support of Governor Gavin Newsom, dealing a blow to the "No" campaign in the upcoming recall election.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Smoke Plume Arrives Over Bay Area Wildfire smoke is making for hazy skies in the Bay Area, Scott Wiener has pulled his decriminalize-psychedelics bill, and President Biden is vowing retribution for the ISIS attack on Kabul's airport that now has a death toll of over 180.
SF News Fire Evacuation Warning Hits Tahoe Basin For First Time in 14 Years An evacuation warning has come to part of the Tahoe Basin, in the first time since 2007 that a wildfire has threatened the area — though firefighters continue to say that they will try to prevent any flames from entering the basin.
SF News First Major Heatwave of the Summer Arrives Today What the National Weather Service is calling the "first major heat event" of the summer is coming to the Bay starting Thursday, and some inland areas are expecting 105-degree afternoons.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Boy Killed In East Bay Train Collision Two new NorCal wildfires prompted evacuations on Wednesday, Caitlyn Jenner toured the Tenderloin with news cameras, and VTA light-rail service is expected to return this weekend for the first time since the late-May shooting in San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Last Concert of Stern Grove Season Canceled After Water Main Break A water main break at Stern Grove has closed the area "until further notice," and the ensuing water damage has led to the cancellation of the final Sunday concert of the Stern Grove season this weekend. Tower of Power fans, we feel you.
Bay Area Sports Accusations of Affairs Arise In Messy Divorce of Steph Curry's Parents Sonya and Dell Curry, the NBA parent power couple who raised Steph, Seth, and Sydel Curry, announced Monday that they are divorcing after 33 years. But accusations of extramarital affairs on both sides are making this all sound less than amicable.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Dogpatch Has Permanently Closed The Dogpatch offshoot of Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Kin Khao, which opened last summer in the middle of the pandemic as a replacement for the still temporarily shuttered original Kin Khao in Union Square's Parc 55 hotel, is closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harry Denton, Beloved SF Bar Impresario, Dies at 77 Harry Denton, who lent his name to multiple bars in San Francisco and became a central figure in the city's nightlife scene over three decades, has died at the age of 77.
SF News Millennium Tower's Accelerated Sinking Halts $100 Million Effort to Stop It The ongoing project to shore up the foundation of the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown SF is temporarily on hold as engineers examine some newly accelerated sinking and tilting of the building.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Convention Schedule Stymied By Delta Variant A fugitive aboard a California Zephyr train was fatally shot by Amtrak police in Chicago, Tahoe area residents are fleeing to the Bay Area to breathe, and the convention schedule at the Moscone Center is in limbo due to the Delta variant.
Business & Tech If You Would Like to Hail a Robo-car in San Francisco You Can Do That Now With Waymo Google's self-driving car spinoff Waymo has just launched its autonomous vehicle ride-hailing service Waymo One in San Francisco, with a view toward getting rid of the "safety driver" altogether and letting the robo-cars do all the work.
SF News GPS Data From Philip Kreycik's Smart Watch Indicates He Likely Succumbed Quickly to Heat Investigators with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office have revealed what they've found in the GPS data from Kreycik's smart watch, which yields some clues about what may have befallen him.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin's Dad Granted Clemency By Outgoing NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo After nearly 40 years behind bars serving time for a botched armored truck robbery in which a security guard and two police officers were killed, 76-year-old David Gilbert has been granted clemency by former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: No Arrests Made In Sunday Sideshows In SF The fast-moving Caldor Fire is "knocking on the door" of the Tahoe basin, the SFPD made no arrests after two sideshows in San Francisco on Sunday, and the governor of Hawaii is telling tourists to stay away as COVID cases surge.
SF News Coroners Confirm That at Least Six Americans Died From COVID Prior to San Jose Woman In February 2020 57-year-old Patricia Dowd, whose early February 2020 was later determined to have been caused by an undiagnosed COVID-19 infection, becoming the first recorded American death in the pandemic, was actually not the first COVID death in the U.S. after all.
SF News Suspicious Device Incident Briefly Closes Down Area Next to Dolores Park A suspicious device was reported Monday morning in the area of Dolores Street and Cumberland Street, causing a citywide alert to be issued and part of the street to be shut down.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Caldor Fire Grows to 104,000 Acres An air quality advisory has been issued for the Bay Area Monday though smoke may stay aloft, the Caldor Fire continues growing near South Lake Tahoe, and the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.
SF News Everyone Has to Show Proof of Vaccination To Go Inside Bars and Restaurants In SF Starting Today San Francisco's new rule requiring proof of full vaccination to enter bars, nightclubs, theaters, gyms, and restaurants takes effect today, and some restaurants are expecting some awkward situations to arise.
SF Politics Carla Short, New Interim SF Public Works Chief, To Assume Duties Monday With one interim director of SF's Department of Public Works on his way out, Mayor London Breed and City Administrator Carmen Chu have appointed a replacement, and it's someone with 17 years experience in the department.
SF News New Muni Metro Extensions to Richmond District, Fisherman's Wharf Proposed by Staff Staff at the SFMTA presented proposals this week to construct a new Muni Metro line that would connect downtown with the Richmond District along Geary Boulevard, as well as extending the still-under-construction Central Subway to Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Truck Catches Fire, Explodes on Upper Deck of Bay Bridge A truck fire in the westbound lanes of the Bay Bridge sent smoke into the sky and will likely create traffic coming from the East Bay.
SF News Cache Fire Destroys 60 Homes in Clearlake; Firefighters Say They've Stopped the Fire's Progress The Cache Fire that began on Wednesday in Lake County very quickly spread to 60 and then 80 acres, and destroyed at least 60 homes in the town of Clearlake.
