SF News Humpday Headlines: Heatwave Once Again Will Mostly Hit Far Inland A large homeless encampment under the 101 freeway in San Rafael was cleared, a San Francisco armed robbery suspect was arrested after being shot in a separate incident, and there seems to be significant support for the recall of three SF School Board members.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Launches COVID Testing Pilot For Arriving International Passengers A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Chef Brandon Jew Looks to Bring His Casual Mamahuhu Restaurant to Marin Chef Brandon Jew is in expansion mode, and it looks like he's planning to open up a second outpost of his Outer Richmond fast-casual Chinese concept Mamahuhu in Mill Valley.
SF News SF's Much Loved/Hated Federal Building Getting Fenced-In Plaza Makeover The Federal Building at 7th and Mission, which is now 14 years old, is undergoing a major redo of its beleaguered, often litter- and needle-filled plaza.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg, American Hero on a Dork's Surfboard? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a strange but totally on-brand Instagram video on July 4th of himself holding a big American flag riding an electric foil surfboard on a lake, set to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
SF News Smash-and-Dash Handbag Heist Gang Hits SF's Union Square Once More A group of young thieves walked into the Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco's Union Square on Monday evening and swiped a bunch of expensive handbags in a coordinated heist that's very similar to a string of others on the Peninsula.
SF News Oakland Sees Night of Chaos With Massive Sideshow, 'Celebratory' Gunfire and Other Violence Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave a special press briefing Monday to lament the "12 hours of non-stop chaos" that he says officers were dealing with on Sunday night.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Illegal Fireworks Spark Blazes Across the Bay A 30-year-old man living in a Santa Cruz RV just confessed to murdering a woman, illegal firework activity sparked blazes in multiple Bay Area towns and cities, and police in Pittsburg seized an "ice cream truck" that was selling M-1000s.
Arts & Entertainment SF Chinatown Has a Long and Lawless History In the Illegal Fireworks Trade We are deep in fireworks season right now all over the Bay Area, as every owner of a skittish dog is well aware. But did you know that for decades, people flocked to SF's Chinatown to buy caches of illegal fireworks and law enforcement mostly turned a blind eye?
SF News Supreme Court Provides Late-Term Victory for LGBTQ Civil Rights In Flower Shop Case The Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would let stand a lower court's ruling in favor of a gay couple in Washington State who were refused service by their local flower shop when they sought arrangements for their wedding.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Rise 10% In Bay Area; Sonoma County Seeing About 60 New Cases Per Day Among Unvaccinated The pandemic picture in the Bay Area hasn't entirely cleared up and turned sunny, and there continue to be pockets of new infection in multiple local counties, as well as an unsettling uptick in new COVID hospitalizations.
SF News SFPD Seeks Public's Help In Finding Second Suspect In Killing of Six-Year-Old One Year Ago San Francisco police named a second suspect in the July 4, 2020 killing of six-year-old Jace Young, saying that the suspect is at large, armed, and dangerous and may still be in the city.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Target Stores Closing Early Due to Crime The six Target stores in SF are now closing at 6 p.m. due to a spike in crime, the Oakland A's are blasting BART for not running later trains after their fireworks show tonight, and gas prices in the Bay Area are the highest in seven years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kanye West Dined at Nari, Assistant Lied to Get Him Table The Trump Organization and its CFO have been indicted in a 15-year tax scheme, Kanye West's people apparently told the restaurant Nari that they were from Noma in Copenhagen to get a last-minute table, and that Goop store in Pac Heights is gone for good.
SF Politics California's Pointless Recall Election Will Happen on September 14 The special election to recall Gavin Newsom has been scheduled for September 14, and until then the state will continue to waste taxpayer dollars on a pointless exercise that amounts to a few Republicans jacking themselves off and whining about Newsom's French Laundry dinner.
SF News Data Finds 'Breakthrough' COVID Cases Exceedingly Rare Among Vaccinated Californians Despite the ongoing presence of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, and an average of 950 new daily cases around the state in the last several weeks, so-called "breakthrough" cases of the disease in vaccinated Californians continue to be very rare.
SF News You Can Now Go to Jail for Tweeting About Sideshows in San Jose The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve an ordinance that will levy fines and threaten jail time for promoters of illegal sideshows on social media.
SF News Oakland Homicide Rate Is Up 30% Over Last Year After Three Weekend Shootings As we mark the halfway point in the year, Oakland has just marked its 66th homicide of 2021, with someone killed on average every three days in the city so far since January.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant Cries Foul After PG&E Forces Removal of Parklet An Outer Sunset restaurant is complaining that the SF Department of Public Works and PG&E showed little sympathy for their small business in demanding the removal of a parklet they spent thousands of dollars to construct.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Guts Final Part of Voting Rights Act The 17-year-old fatally shot in the Tenderloin has been identified, the Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of Arizona Republicans to further gut the Voting Rights Act, and the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge just went up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Freeway Slingshot Bandit Sentenced to 15 Years A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo County man has been sentenced in the bizarre string of slingshot-marble attacks on Monterey County roads, candidates for governor are being forced to show tax returns, and over 120 deaths are being attributed to the Northwest heatwave.
SF Politics SF Mayor, Board of Supervisors Reach Deal On Budget One Day Before Fiscal Year Begins SF Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors announced Wednesday that they had reached a deal on a $13 billion budget for the new fiscal year which begins Thursday, July 1 — and it includes another $32 million for the city's rent-relief program.
Business & Tech San Francisco Attorney Intends to File 400 Separate Sexual Assault and Harassment Cases Against Uber A personal injury firm in San Francisco has filed 85 separate lawsuits on behalf of women who say they were sexually assaulted, falsely imprisoned, kidnapped, harassed, and/or stalked by Uber drivers, and they say they have over 300 more to go.
SF News Donald Rumsfeld Is Dead Unapologetic war hawk Donald Rumsfeld went to his grave this week believing that the Iraq War was justified and that he was on the right side of history. We'll see about that.
SF News San Jose Woman Allegedly Confessed to Strangling 7-Year-Old Son Because She Was Frustrated With Him The 35-year-old San Jose woman arrested in Denver on June 8 following the discovery a week earlier of her 7-year-old son's body near a hiking trail in Las Vegas has reportedly confessed to killing the boy in frustration.
