SF News FDA and CDC Recommend Pausing J&J Vaccinations Following Blood Clot Cases Six women came down with a rare blood-clotting disorder within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine, prompting federal authorities to recommend Tuesday that states pause in distributing the vaccine just as broad vaccine eligibility begins.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Police Get Funding Back For Sideshow Unit The Oakland City Council voted unanimously to re-fund the police department on Monday following cuts last year, another drop-in vaccination site opens Thursday in the Mission, and Steph Curry just surpassed Wilt Chamberlain's career point record with the Warriors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Capacity Limits for Places of Worship Are Lifted A San Francisco man has been charged in a possible DUI vehicular homicide in the North Bay on Sunday, Windsor residents are moving to recall Mayor Dominic Foppoli, and California just lifted all capacity limits on places of worship.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Site Extended For One Month, Without FEMA Help Last week, Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the Oakland Coliseum — technically now RingCentral Coliseum — mass vaccination site will continue operating for four more weeks past its scheduled sunset date, which was on April 11.
SF News Four More Alleged 'Boogaloo' Associates of Suspect In Oakland and Santa Cruz Murders Indicted for Obstruction Four men who were part of a local group with some affiliation with the 'Boogaloo' movement were indicted Friday in federal court for allegedly destroying evidence connected to indicted murder suspect Steven Carrillo and his May and June 2020 shootings of law enforcement officers.
SF News Bay Area Traffic Is Fully Back, and On One East Bay Bridge It's Worse Than Pre-COVID People have been saying it for a couple months now: Traffic around the Bay Area is pretty much back to pre-pandemic levels. But what transportation planners warned of last year appears to be coming to pass — it's going to be worse than before until BART use ramps back up.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch the Four Peregrine Falcon Hatchlings Get Fed In Downtown SF Nest Of the four eggs laid by mom Val this season, all four have now hatched and appear to be lively little white puffballs. And the dad, Canyon, hasn't killed any of them yet!
SF News SFMTA and Health Department Use Street Artist Fnnch's Honey Bear for New Vaccination Campaign Local street artist fnnch's masked honey bear mascot of the pandemic is being put to use in an official capacity in a new ad campaign from the SF Department of Public Health (DPH), encouraging the vaccine-hesitant to go get their shots.
SF News One Adult, Two Preteen Boys Rescued From Rip Current at Ocean Beach Three people had to be rescued from a rip current on Sunday afternoon at Ocean Beach, and all three survived without serious injury.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: 30 Schools Reopen Across San Francisco Salesforce has announced a plan to bring some employees back to the office on a volunteer basis next month, 30 public schools are back open in SF today, and a new model predicts 14,000 American lives could be lost with mask wearing through August.
SF News 6,000 Show Up For Drop-In Vaccines at SF General After Zip Code Expansion With vaccine appointments nearly impossible to find a few days ahead of the statewide expansion of eligibility to everyone age 16 and up, the possibility of a quick and easy drop-in vaccine brought out thousands of people on Saturday, most of whom went home disappointed.
SF News San Francisco Expands Eligibility for Drop-In Vaccines to More Zip Codes, All Ages If you're 16 or over and live in one of eight SF zip codes that the city considers "high-impact neighborhoods" in the pandemic, you can go line up for a same-day vaccine at two different drop-in vaccination clinics.
SF Politics Biden Tasks Special Commission With 'Studying' Potential Expansion of Supreme Court President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to "study" different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices.
SF News San Francisco Won't Enter 'Yellow' Tier Due to Case Numbers, But a Few More Restrictions Get Lifted Next Week Though San Francisco expected to be the first county in the Bay Area to enter the "Yellow" tier for reopening next week — returning where it was for a brief period last fall in terms of falling COVID case numbers and hospitalizations — that won't be happening yet.
SF News Large Rockslide Cuts Off US-50 Route Into South Lake Tahoe A massive rockslide is blocking Highway 50 just outside of South Lake Tahoe, preventing traffic from moving in either direction on Friday morning.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: BART May Resume Normal-ish Hours In September The Sonoma County Sheriff is now investigating sexual assault accusations against the mayor of Windsor, Facebook is making its Menlo Park headquarters available as a vaccine site, and BART may resume more regular hours starting in September.
SF News Day Around the Bay: West Oakland's Only Grocery Store In Danger of Closing West Oakland's only grocery store says it may not be able to stay open without financial help, the SFPD has released an updated sketch of a toddler who went missing when her mother was killed in 2016, and Uber and Lyft are both spending big on incentives to bring drivers back.
SF News [Update] Four Whales Turn Up Dead In Bay Area In a Week, One Killed By Ship Strike Another gray whale has died in the Bay Area, the fourth in just eight days, and it washed ashore on Muir Beach in Marin County on Thursday morning. This spate of gray whale deaths is reminding biologists of 2019.
SF News CDC: You Can Stop With the 'Deep Cleaning' and Hygiene Theater The Centers for Disease Control confirmed today what epidemiologists have been saying for at least eight months, which is you don't need to keep disinfecting surfaces and decontaminating your groceries because the coronavirus doesn't spread by surface contact.
Arts & Entertainment The Legion of Honor Readies for May 7 Reopening San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum is set to reopen next month, on May 7, with two new exhibits — one of which celebrates the culture of food and drink in Pompeii, which the museum's director says was “kind of the Sonoma Valley of ancient Rome.”
SF Politics Mayor Breed Taps New Director of Department of Homelessness As Crisis Continues Spiraling Breed announced Thursday that she had appointed Shireen McSpadden, the current executive director of the Department of Disability and Aging Services, to be the next head of the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.
Bay Area Sports Former 49er Phillip Adams Kills 5, Then Himself, In South Carolina Onetime cornerback for the 49ers, Phillip Adams, is the sole suspect in a mass shooting on Wednesday in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Adams is believed to have shot six people, killing five of them, and then turning the gun on himself.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: North Beach Standoff With Barricaded Suspect Ends Peacefully A carjacking victim is critically injured near Union Square, a domestic incident near Fisherman's Wharf turned into a six-hour standoff, and Alameda County is expanding vaccine eligibility in 12 zip codes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: KPIX Reporter Nearly Robbed Of Camera for Second Time In SF KPIX reporter Don Ford was robbed *again* in San Francisco — but the thief dropped the news camera while fleeing from his security guard; the SFMTA has approved four more Slow Streets; and a shooting in South Lake Tahoe leaves one dead.
SF News New Vaccination Clinic Opens In SF's Excelsior District, Serving Neighborhood Residents A new vaccination clinic with phone appointments and some drop-in availability has opened to serve the hard-hit Excelsior District, much like neighborhood clinics that have opened in the Mission, Tenderloin, and Bayview.
