SF News Day Around the Bay: Pittsburg Settles Chokehold Case For $7.3M Bay Area election officials are seeing unprecedented levels of early voting, a Sonoma County councilman has been arrested on child molestation charges, and the city of Pittsburg is settling a suit from the family of a man killed by a police officer in 2016.
Business & Tech Twitter Is Talking About Jack Dorsey's Goat Beard, As Seen During Today's Congressional Hearing No one should be surprised that he showed up for a bit of Republican political theater today with a truly guru-esque goat beard, and a nose ring.
SF News Alameda County Says Middle and High Schools Can Reopen After November 9 Two weeks after it advanced to the state's "Orange" tier, Alameda County announced that middle schools and high schools may reopen on or after November 9, with restrictions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cecilia Chiang, SF Restaurant Legend Who Introduced America to Good Chinese Food, Dies at 100 She had hung on through her 90s as a cheerful bon vivant who liked a glass or Champagne at local food events, but at age 100 she is gone.
Arts & Entertainment Mondrian House at Ocean Beach Repainted By People With No Style A landmark home in San Francisco — made so solely because of a creative paint job inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian — has become just another drab house in a row of similar houses, because its new owners clearly didn't appreciate what they had and prefer a life of conformist banality.
SF News Small Fire Breaks Out In Sonoma County Just After Power Is Restored, Downed Power Lines Found Nearby Another possible near-miss for PG&E was recorded Tuesday night in northern Sonoma County when a vegetation fire broke out just minutes after power was restored in one area — and apparently there were two downed power lines in the vicinity that were missed in the utility's inspections.
SF News Humpday Headlines: COVID Outbreak Infects At Least Five at UCSF Hospital Two patients and at least three healthcare workers in one unit at UCSF Parnassus have tested for COVID-19, Fairfield police are seeking a suspect in a hit-and-run that killed an 81-year-old, and PG&E issues the "all clear" for those who lost power.
Business & Tech Former Santa Clara Police Captain Pleads Guilty In Bizarre eBay Cyberstalking Case 55-year-old former Santa Clara police captain Philip Cooke entered a guilty plea in federal court in Boston Tuesday, joining six other former eBay employees implicated in a wackadoo intimidation scheme aimed at a couple of Boston-based bloggers.
Arts & Entertainment Diane di Prima, Noted Female Voice in the Beat Generation Boys' Club, Dies at 86 Onetime San Francisco Poet Laureate and one of the only feminist voices to keep company with the Beat Generation, Diane di Prima, has died.
SF News Bay Area Sees Slight Uptick In COVID Case Counts, Hospitalizations as Three More Counties Enter 'Orange' Tier The Bay Area isn't seeing anything close to what some other states and regions are seeing, and hopefully we will not as flu season arrives. However there are at least small signs of a slight uptick in cases outside of San Francisco in the past week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lefty O'Doul's Files For Bankruptcy Amid Owner's Legal Troubles Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur named in a federal indictment earlier this year stemming from an FBI probe of corruption in SF City Hall, has now filed for bankruptcy for one of this businesses, longtime hofbrau Lefty O'Doul's.
SF News Fire Breaks Out in Oakland Hills, Destroys Two Homes In Vicinity of 1991 Fire A fire broke out Tuesday morning in the Oakland hills, on the final day of an extended Red Flag Warning amid record-dry conditions, and it engulfed two homes and spread to nearby vegetation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E Says Shutoffs Prevented Some Potential Fires A 300-acre fire in Suisun City on Monday was likely caused by a cigarette butt, Oakland police are investigating a shooting death of a driver who crashed their car, and PG&E is in the process of restoring power for 180,000 customers today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supreme Court Nightmare Ensues With Barrett Confirmation Stocks slumped on news of surging virus cases, Jared Kushner got racist on "Fox & Friends," and a UCSF doc says that if the entire country had followed SF's lead there would be 175,000 fewer dead in the pandemic.
SF News Sacramento Sex Worker Who Kidnapped Teen In San Francisco and Trafficked Her Gets Almost Seven Years A Sacramento woman who had herself been forced into prostitution at a young age was formally sentenced on Thursday for her role in recruiting and grooming a 15-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution three years ago.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Gay Activist and Creator Tom Taylor, of Tom & Jerry Christmas House Fame, Dies at 77 Tom Taylor, the creator of the Tom & Jerry House Christmas display with its enormous tree at 21st and Church Street passed away last week. The cause was reportedly prostate cancer.
SF News Why?? Iconic Coca-Cola Billboard Being Removed From SF After 83 Years Details are few at the moment, but for reasons not entirely clear, the Coca-Cola Company has decided to pull down the iconic neon sign that has stood beside I-80 in SoMa since 1937.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Is Urging People to Narc on Their Neighbors' Halloween Parties The cops would like everyone in SF to know that they will be on the hunt for public-health rule-breakers on Saturday, and you will get in trouble if you get caught throwing an actual Halloween party.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crazy Night of Wind But No Major Fires There was a peak wind gust of 89 mph on Mount St. Helena last night, a brush fire in Castro Valley came within 50 feet of a home, and the Pope Fire in Napa County was 100-percent contained before the winds whipped up.
SF News Pleasanton Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying The April 1984 murder of 14-year-old Tina Faelz shocked the small, still mostly rural community of Pleasanton to its core. Now the killer has finally confessed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Festival Eat Drink SF Morphs Into Something More Like Restaurant Week For This Year Local restaurant lobby group the Golden Gate Restaurant Association (GGRA) still wanted to bring some attention to the hobbled local food scene during the time of year when they would normally be hosting their Eat Drink SF festival.
SF News Muni Rider Details Comedy of Errors As Bus Driver Attempts to Keep From Picking Up More Than 30 Passengers In normal times, it can be hard for a Muni bus driver to skip stops when they have an over-full load of passengers while also letting people off where there need to get off. But add a pandemic to that and it's even more impossible.
SF News Aggressive Turkey Named Gerald Removed From Oakland Rose Garden, Exiled to Orinda The saga of Gerald, the wild turkey who had taken to attacking humans in Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden but seemed to have a specific hatred of older women, has seemingly come to an end.
SF News Pregnant 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot In Berkeley Drive-By A 19-year-old mother of a 10-month-old baby, who was carrying her second child, was fatally shot in a brazen drive-by shooting Wednesday while her entire family was in the same car with her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Debate Drive-In Viewing Party Draws Crowd An encampment fire in Oakland damaged at least two buildings, convicted murderer Scott Peterson is having a virtual hearing today from San Quentin, and Uber drivers are suing the company over Yes on 22 pop-ups.
