SF News Day Around the Bay: Barricaded Gunman With Hostage Surrenders After Tense Day in East Oakland A raccoon got into SF City Hall, nurses are suing the city for overtime pay, Dr. Fauci is headed to the Bay Area, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been sentenced in a 2015 rape case.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Restaurant Tadich Grill and Noted Hofbrau Tommy's Joynt Plan Reopenings The oldest restaurant in San Francisco, Tadich Grill, which dates its establishment to 1849, is re-emerging from a pandemic closure next month, cioppino, steaks and all. And Tommy's is reopening before Halloween.
SF News Extreme Wind Event Arrives Early Next Week With Even Greater Potential Fire Danger, More PSPS Likely The relentlessness of 2020 with its anxieties and miseries lumbers on with yet another fire weather forecast that no one wants to hear. But a coming wind event that begins Sunday brings the most danger so far, according to one meteorologist.
Arts & Entertainment Salesforce Tower Crown Will Run Red With a 'Blood Red River' on Halloween LED installation artist Jim Campbell has something new up his sleeve for the top of Salesforce next weekend.
SF News Potential Mass Shooter Gunned Down at Idaho Campsite After Screaming About 'All You F***in' Californians' An angry 73-year-old man was fatally shot in an Idaho campground incident in which he allegedly fired on a group of campers after being heard yelling at them for being in what he claimed was his campsite, and accusing them of coming from California.
Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel Opens In Golden Gate Park and the Views Are Pretty Sweet Book your rides on the 150-foot-tall Ferris wheel in Golden Gate Park while the weather's still nice and clear! The new attraction celebrating the park's 150th birthday opened to the public on Wednesday.
SF News Driver of Stolen U-Haul Dies Following Pursuit in SF, Jump Into Bay The driver of a stolen U-Haul truck died early Thursday morning after trying to evade police and jumping into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Shutoff Primarily Impacts Napa Residents Senate Democrats boycotted a vote to advance Amy Coney Barrett's nomination, San Mateo County opens dedicated COVID testing line for families, and a new park opened on the eastern end of the Bay Bridge.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Russian Operatives Posing as Proud Boys Are Sending Intimidating Emails to Voters in Key States Human bones were found on San Bruno Mountain, a Marin County high school is shutting down in-person classes after an illegal student party, and Quibi is dunzo.
SF News One Red Flag Warning Ends and Another Begins As North and East Bay Residents Brace for More Wind Predicted Diablo winds between Monday night and Wednesday morning failed to materialize in most parts of the Bay, however a second wind event is forecast to begin Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
SF Politics Editorial: Senate Shouldn't Confirm Any Supreme Court Justice Whose Beliefs Include Righteous Discrimination Judge Amy Coney Barrett served on the board of a school group that systematically discriminated against LGBTQ+ teachers and parents. How can the Senate let this nomination slide through knowing she supported this?
SF News SF Taxpayers On the Hook For $30 Million to Shore Up the Sinking Millennium Tower Alas, a new detail has emerged in the as-yet-not-fully-disclosed settlement of multiple lawsuits related to the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, and it's the fact that SF taxpayers will be footing a piece of the overall bill.
SF News Daughter and Son-in-Law Who Killed and Dismembered Elderly Outer Mission Man Get Light Sentences In Plea Deal Defense attorneys successfully argued that there was no evidence of malice before the killing, and prosecutors reportedly had difficulty establishing who did what to whom first, with the defense claiming self-defense.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Court Orders San Quentin to Reduce Its Population By Half A court has ordered San Quentin to release or transfer 50% of its inmates due to COVID, SF firefighters performed a surf and cliff rescue near Marshall's Beach, and Pope Francis is endorsing the idea of same-sex civil unions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Van Ness 24-Hour Fitness a Reported Haven of Anti-Maskers Two SF supervisors want more "Safe Sleeping Villages" for the homeless, supervisors approved the CAREN Act banning racially motivated 911 calls, and a 24-Hour Fitness location in SF apparently allows members to go maskless if they fill out an exemption form.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 100% Containment as North Bay Braces For More Power Shutoffs The Glass Fire is officially, fully contained as of Tuesday, right on schedule per earlier announcements by Cal Fire. As with other wildfires, it has taken many days than might seem intuitively necessary to get from 97-percent to 100-percent, and here we are.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco to Allow 50% Capacity In Restaurants, Outdoor Bars Without Food As It Becomes First Bay Area County to Enter 'Yellow' Tier On Tuesday, Mayor London Breed announced that the city and county of San Francisco had moved into the least restrictive "yellow" tier in the state's reopening framework, and if numbers stay low more businesses will get to reopen in two weeks.
SF News Angry White Lady In Saratoga Kicks Door, Throws Fit When Neighbor's House Is Used For Gender-Reveal Party Another 'Karen' moment was caught on camera over the weekend in the South Bay, only this time the Karen in question was not an anti-masker or BLM mural objector, but a righteous neighbor claiming that a party in her midst was "illegal."
Business & Tech Justice Department Files Landmark Antitrust Suit Against Google; Google Calls Suit 'Deeply Flawed' An expected federal antitrust suit against Google dropped today which has many parallels with an antitrust case filed against Microsoft two decades ago, and while it may seem like part of a Republican vendetta against the tech industry, it has plenty of support from congressional Democrats.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Encampment Fire Spreads to Commercial Building A Gallup poll says 51-percent of Americans think Amy Coney Barrett should be seated on the Supreme Court, AB5 could endanger small theater companies, and California plans to do its own vaccine review.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Watsonville Man Arrested For Assault of Rally Organizer Cash is pouring into some competitive CA House races for Democrats, two victims in a pair of SF shootings on Friday have been ID'd, and an arrest was made in the assault on "free speech rally" organizer Philip Anderson.
Business & Tech Local Experts Question WHO Study That Called Into Question the Effectiveness Of Remdesivir for COVID Patients The results of a study released Friday prior to being peer-reviewed are alarming some Bay Area infectious disease specialists because they may mislead other doctors or the public.
SF News SF Car Theft Suspects Found With Assault Weapons After Getting Flat Tire During East Bay Pursuit Two suspects in an Audi that was reported stolen in San Francisco led police on a chase after an attempted traffic stop in Contra Costa County Friday night, and the chase concluded quickly after they got a flat tire.
SF News Alt-Right Figures Distance Themselves From SF Rally Organizer, With One Proud Boy Vowing a 'Better Planned' Event in SF After yet another right-wing Twitter figure was embarrassed by poor turnout and overwhelmed by counter-protester turnout in San Francisco on Saturday, self-styled alt-right pundits have spent the last 48 hours ridiculing him and distancing themselves from the embarrassment.
SF News PG&E Warns Of More Power-Shutoffs Later This Week For North & East Bay A Red Flag Warning goes into effect Monday night that's currently scheduled to expire Wednesday morning. But starting Wednesday evening, PG&E's forecasters are saying there is an elevated risk of another Diablo wind event that could lead to a two- or three-day PSPS.
