Business & Tech Facebook Locks Trump's Account Indefinitely; Will Twitter Be Next? Following temporary locks on Donald Trump's Twitter and Facebook accounts that began Wednesday night, Facebook has escalated its crackdown on the president's lies and decided to suspend his access to the platform indefinitely.
SF Politics Woman Shot At Capitol Identified As San Diego QAnon Zealot; Shirtless Man In Horned Costume Also a QAnon Nut The woman who was fatally shot while allegedly trying to break into the House chamber in the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday has been identified as a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego.
SF Politics Video Shows Bay Area Trump Supporters Chanting 'U.S.A.' On Plane to D.C. A video has emerged from a United flight on Tuesday from SFO to Washington D.C. that appears packed with MAGA-hat wearers who were heeding the call from the president to come protest the election that he lost fairly and clearly to the eyes of most Americans.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Supporters and Counter-Protesters Scuffle in Sacramento Trump supporters also rallied in Sacramento and other state capitols Wednesday, Peninsula Congresswoman Jackie Speier talks about what the Capitol siege looked like from the inside, and a small earthquake rumbled under the South Bay Thursday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Merrick Garland Nominated to Be Attorney General Congress has reconvened to accept the Electoral College results, the woman who was shot inside the Capitol has died, and calls rise for Trump's resignation or his forced removal from office two weeks early.
Business & Tech Twitter Locks Trump's Account, Facebook and YouTube Remove Video After His Continuing Lies Fail to Discourage Rioters Twitter has stepped in to lock President Trump's account for 12 hours and blocked access to several tweets from Wednesday citing risks of violence, and along with Facebook and YouTube they have removed a video Trump posted from the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
SF Politics Bay Area Leaders Call Capitol Breach 'Terrorism' and 'An Attempted Coup' As the United States Capitol Building remains in a state of chaos as the sun sets on the East Coast, Bay Area leaders are reacting with disgust at what President Trump has wrought in his final days as president.
SF Politics Updates: Trump Supporters Storm Capitol in Washington After President Incites Riot, One Person Dies President Trump implored ardent supporters at a rally Wednesday behind the White House to walk to the Capitol Building and "show strength" and "fight." Many of them have, and they breached the building and forced a stop to the electoral vote count in Congress.
SF News San Francisco Woman Assaulted at Gunpoint in Russian Hill As Thieves Steal Her French Bulldog Puppy A 30-year-old San Francisco woman says this may be the last straw for her giving up on the city after she was assaulted at gunpoint Tuesday evening and had her five-month-old puppy taken from her.
SF News Suspect In Lemur-napping At SF Zoo Released From Jail, Told to Stay Away From Zoo 31-year-old lemur-theft suspect Cory McGilloway made his first appearance in San Francisco court after being put on probation late last year for auto theft and other crimes in Marin County.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Have the Dems Really Won the Senate?! The SF Board of Supervisors approved two new SFMTA board members, a judge has ordered the NYE hit-and-run suspect to remain in jail, and the Danville restaurant that's been defying lockdown orders has finally stopped doing that.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser San Jose Workers Infected Despite Wearing Masks, Getting Vaccines Marin County restaurant owners are appealing to supervisors to reopen outdoor dining, a fire near the BART tracks briefly interrupted service near Richmond, and a local advocacy group is blasting the SFUSD for its project to rename multiple schools.
Arts & Entertainment Marin Theatre Company to Digitally Premiere 'The Catastrophist,' a New Play About Pandemics Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it's set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.
SF News Bay Area ICU Bed Availability Falls to 5.9%, While San Francisco's Stands at 35% SF Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax cautioned that it will be at least another week or two before we get a better picture of the impact of gatherings and holiday travel over Christmas and New Year's.
SF News San Francisco and Other Cities Seek to Cancel Homeless Census Due to Pandemic Surge The biennial "Point in Time Count" of the homeless, typically conducted in January of odd-numbered years in San Francisco, is likely to be canceled or postponed this year due to concerns about putting front-line census-takers and other at risk of contracted COVID-19.
Business & Tech Small Businesses in CA Now Have Until January 13 to Apply For COVID Relief Grants The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
SF News After Freezer Fails, One NorCal Town Rushes to Give Out 830 Vaccine Doses Before They Go Bad Up in Mendocino County, there was a close call on Monday after an ultra-cold freezer storing hundreds of vaccine doses failed, and doctors went into emergency-distribution mode.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Almost No One Is Getting the Flu Two rare Northern California tornadoes touched down on Monday, a pair of South Bay doctors pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud in a case involving a faux COVID test, and Napa County wants to turn its fairgrounds into a mass vaccination site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Down 27% in San Francisco A half-million-dollar donation to the Recall Newsom effort is the subject of a lawsuit, UCSF is planning to build over 1,200 units of housing in Parnassus Heights, and rents in SF ended the year down 27% from the year prior.
SF News DA Files Manslaughter and DUI Charges In Fatal New Year's Eve Hit-and-Run District Attorney Chesa Boudin formally filed multiple felony charges on Monday against the 45-year-old man accused in a hit-and-run collision last week in SoMa that killed two women.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Uproar Over Grubhub's Kin Khao Debacle Leads to New Law Prohibiting 'Non-Consensual' Restaurant Listings A new law just took effect in California on January 1 that prohibits food delivery apps from listing restaurants among their offerings without expressly contracting with those restaurants first.
SF News SF Nurse Who Barely Survived COVID Sparks Online Anger for Allegedly Attending New Year's Circuit Party A nurse who posted photos of himself last May as a warning to others about how COVID-19 had ravaged his body over the course of six weeks in the hospital has attracted negative attention after apparently posting online about attending a gay circuit event in Mexico over the New Year's Eve holiday.
SF News Parolee Accused in Fatal Hit-and-Run Allegedly Stole Car In Daly City From Woman He Was on a Date With The suspect in the New Year's Eve hit-and-run collision in SF's SoMa neighborhood that left two women dead had allegedly stolen the car used in the incident two days earlier from a woman he met on a dating app.
SF News Father Drowned Trying to Save His Two Children From Rip Current on Sonoma Coast A father drowned and his two children, ages four and seven, remain missing following a riptide incident on a Sonoma County beach on Sunday.
SF News Holiday Hangover Headlines: San Jose ER Worker Dies Amid Outbreak Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected to be Speaker of the House, friends and family are in mourning for Hana Abe after her death in a hit-and-run collision in SoMa, and one of the emergency room workers has died amid a 44-person COVID outbreak at Kaiser San Jose.
