SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF Politics Sacramento Braces for Pro-Trump, Anti-Government Mobs At the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, security is being beefed up this week as it is at capitols around the nation as governors and law enforcement brace for a possible replay of what happened last week in Washington.
SF Politics As Possible Outbreak Grows, Bay Area House Reps Call Out Republicans Who Refused to Wear Masks During Capitol Siege The gathering in close quarters of members of Congress on January 6 — in an undisclosed safe room while a pro-Trump mob invaded the Capitol Building — could potentially have been a super-spreader event.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Oakland Standoff Ends Peacefully A 30-year-old SF man was found fatally shot in a car in Contra Costa County, someone projected #TrumpPenceOutNow on the Twitter building last night, and Facebook is finally (!) cracking down on all 'Stop the Steal' content.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local ICU Capacity Dips to 0.7% Members of Congress may have been exposed to COVID-19 while in tight quarters last week, South Lake Tahoe is dealing with a surge, and Dungeness crab is finally coming to local stores.
SF News Alameda County DA Won't Be Charging BART Cop in Oscar Grant Shooting Three months after Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced that her office was reopening an investigation into former BART police officer Anthony Pirone and his role in the shooting of Oscar Grant, O'Malley announced there would be no new charges.
Arts & Entertainment Fort Mason Drive-In to Become Satellite Screening Venue for Sundance Film Festival Later This Month In-person screenings, including world premieres, are coming to San Francisco starting January 28 thanks to a partnership between Sundance and the Roxie — and the city's good graces allowing the drive-in to be used.
SF News San Francisco Settles Lawsuit Over Dementia Patient at SF General Found Dead In Stairwell In a case all too similar to one five years earlier, the city and Zuckerberg SF General Hospital have agreed to settle with the family that brought a lawsuit over the death of a woman who got accidentally locked in a stairwell on the hospital grounds and was later found dead.
SF News Video Captures Moment That Helicopter Drops Enormous A/C Unit On Downtown Oakland Street A construction crew had a bit of a bad morning on Saturday when in the process of lifting a cooling unit the approximate size of a box truck, a helicopter accidentally dropped the thing about 40 feet onto a downtown Oakland Street.
Bay Area Sports NBA Considers Pausing Season as COVID Cases Rise Among Players Yet another sport may see yet another inconvenient but prudent safety measure get in the way of gameplay, as we're hearing a report that the NBA is considering a one- to two-week pause in the season due to COVID-19 infections.
Business & Tech Pro-Trump Protest at Twitter HQ Fails to Materialize There was much ado about nothing Monday morning outside Twitter headquarters, where police and journalists waited for a deluge of pro-Trump protest chaos that never came.
SF News Suspect Crashes Stolen Car at Van Ness and Market, Gets Arrested One person was arrested Monday morning after a dramatic hit-and-run crash on mid-Market in San Francisco in which, apparently, no one was hurt.
SF Politics Pelosi Restates the Case On '60 Minutes' That Republicans Need to Push Trump to Resign "I remember when Republicans in the Senate went to see Richard Nixon and said, 'It's over,'" Pelosi said. "That's what has to happen now."
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two People Missing In High Surf Incidents A San Jose man and a San Mateo County woman are both missing in separate incidents in which high surf caught them on coastal rocks, the House is moving forward with an article of impeachment, and Stanford is telling all freshman and sophomores to remain at home.
SF Politics Arnold Schwarzenegger Makes Viral Video Denouncing Attack on the Capitol, Implicitly Compares Trump to Hitler Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a frequent critic of President Trump since prior to the 2016 election, gave a speech on a video posted to Twitter Sunday that has quickly gone viral.
SF News Bay Area Adds 100,000 New COVID Cases In 25 Days It took over six months for the Bay Area to reach its first 100,000 COVID cases, and almost three months to reach 200,000 cases. But the cumulative case total is expected to reach 300,000 on Saturday, 25 days after hitting 200,000 on December 15.
SF Politics Shamann Walton Elected President of the SF Board of Supervisors Supervisor Shamann Walton was elected president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Friday, as the Board met to swear in its newest members and choose the person who will be second in line to the mayor's office.
SF News San Francisco's First Homicide of 2021 Is Man Shot In Tenderloin The San Francisco Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred Thursday night in the Tenderloin, in which a 37-year-old man was shot.
SF Politics Pelosi Invokes Nixon, Presses Republicans to Secure Trump's Resignation To avoid a historically unprecedented second impeachment, less than two weeks before he's Constitutionally scheduled to depart the White House, Trump needs to resign immediately, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
SF Politics Menlo Park Candy Shop Owner Faces Local Wrath After She's Photographed at Trump Rally/Riot Suzi Tinsley, the owner of Sugar Shack in Menlo Park, is the latest to receive the wrath of local liberals and anyone who understands that President Trump is racist and insane, after she was photographed at Wednesday's rally in D.C.
SF News Arrest Made In July 4th Shooting That Killed Six-Year-Old San Francisco Boy Months after the case appeared to have gone cold, San Francisco police say they believe they've found the person responsible for the shooting that left a six-year-old boy dead in the Bayview last July 4th.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Protesters In SF Call For Trump's Removal Trump has reportedly been rage-filled and still delusional in isolation in the White House, a Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained while engaging with rioters, and funeral homes in Daly CIty and Colma say they are getting inundated with COVID deaths.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Destroys Cherry Blossom Trees In Japantown Elon Musk became richer than Jeff Bezos today, Bay Area ICU bed availability fell to 3.5%, and a 19-year-old woman was shot in SF's Silver Terrace neighborhood.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor Malia Cohen Becomes President of Police Commission Malia Cohen, who served on SF's Board of Supervisors from 2011 to 2019 and who joined the city's Police Commission last August, has just been elected its new president.
SF News Bay Area Records 135 COVID Deaths In 48 Hours Much as was predicted in early December as new COVID-19 cases began to surge in Bay Area counties, a subsequent surge in deaths appears to be happening in the region now, five to six weeks on.
