SF News As FBI Cracks Down On Chinese Spies In Academia, One Researcher Is Reportedly Hiding Out at Consulate In SF The case appears to be part of a broad program in which visiting Chinese scientists are being recalled by the Chinese military, several of whom have been detained at U.S. airports in recent weeks.
SF News San Francisco Hairstylists Not Psyched To Be Cutting Hair On Sidewalk With Wind, Fog, Homeless While it's fine and well for more temperate, inland parts of the state where parking lots are the norm, it's not going to be feasible for a lot of salons to do business outside in SF's less quiet neighborhoods.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Steve Wozniak Is Suing YouTube Oakland cannabis businesses want more police protection following shooting, American and Southwest Airlines are no longer accepting claims of medical exceptions for mask-wearing, and a Hawaiian Airlines flight attendant has died of COVID-19.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ferry Building Closed Under Mall Closure Orders The SFPD released video from a July 11 Bayview shooting, a protest against Trump's use of federal troops against protesters is planned for Saturday in Oakland, and SF's Ferry Building — at least the interior part — is now closed.
SF News California Sees 12,800 New COVID Cases In One Day, 10 Percent Positivity Rate; 500 New Cases In East Bay Alone The state of California just overtook New York for the most cumulative coronavirus cases, and broke its one-day record for new cases with 12,807 in one 24-hour period. And over 500 new cases were just added in two East Bay counties.
SF News Muir Woods Might Want To Look For a New Name As The Sierra Club Reckons With Its Founder's Racism The sheer number of things named after famed environmentalist John Muir in California makes for widespread implications if and when it comes time to remove his name from places of honor.
SF News UC Berkeley Reverts To Online-Only Classes After Frat Party Outbreak and a Local COVID-19 Spike "After weeks of developing a very elaborate plan for a hybrid model in the fall, we decided after we had a serious fraternity outbreak, that it was just too risky to teach face to face," said UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ in a letter to students on Tuesday.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Block Latest Effort To Create a Public Advocate Department, Approve Sheriff Oversight Commission A proposed ballot measure from Supervisor Gordon Mar to create a new Office of the Public Advocate was shot down by the Board on Tuesday in a 6-to-5 vote — the second time in five years that this proposed office has been shot down.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Gets $2B Vaccine Contract Twitter is booting all QAnon conspiracists off the platform, BART just gave out raises despite budget woes, and Pfizer just got a federal contract to produce 100 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, pending approvals.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Wildfires Are Burning Around California A new CDC study suggests actual coronavirus cases are 10 to 20 times higher than reported, California cases are set to eclipse New York's within days, and the reopening of Souvla led to hours-long lines to pick up food.
SF News Car On Fire Causes Major Backup On Golden Gate Bridge Multiple lanes of the Golden Gate Bridge were entirely shut down Tuesday afternoon after a car burst into flames and fire crews responded to the blaze.
SF News UCSF Med School Chair Suggests Hope For San Francisco In Avoiding Explosive COVID Surge While surging cases in the Bay Area concern Dr. Bob Wachter somewhat, he strikes a hopeful note here in mid-July that San Francisco will escape the high mortality rate and overwhelmed healthcare system being seen elsewhere in the country.
SF News Destruction Of Evidence In Vallejo Police Killing Of Sean Monterrosa Prompts Calls for FBI, State AG To Investigate The Vallejo Police Department continues to prove that it is incapable of inspiring public trust or investigating the actions of its own officers, and a revelation came recently that a key piece of evidence in the shooting of Sean Monterrosa has already been destroyed.
SF News Home Sellers Slash Prices In San Francisco As Number of Houses For Sale Reaches Recession-Era Level It's beginning to be more of a buyer's market in San Francisco than it has been in over a decade as the number of homes for sale last week reached levels unseen since 2011. And this means that more and more sellers are having to cut their asking prices to garner interest and remain competitive.
Bay Area Sports Giants' Gabe Kapler Becomes First MLB Manager To Take a Knee For Anthem Before their first exhibition game of the abbreviated 2020 season against the Oakland A's Monday night, multiple San Francisco Giants players and manager Gabe Kapler took a knee during the national anthem in recognition of the Black Lives Matter movement.
SF News You Can Now Get a Massage, Manicure, or Haircut in California If It's Outdoors Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled some revised rules around barbershops, hair and nail salons, and massage parlors on Monday, allowing them to offer services outdoors.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin County Considers Fines For Non-Mask-Wearers A man had to be rescued from a burning boat on Lake Tahoe last night, the Holland Fire in east Contra Costa county has grown to 75 acres, and that crazed St. Louis couple with the guns has been charged with unlawful use of a gun.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Adds Over 1,100 New COVID-19 Cases United Airlines says it may lay off half its staff at its SFO hub, a 21-year-old SF man has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run on Sunday, and the Bay Area saw over 1,100 new COVID cases added today.
Arts & Entertainment Watch AIDS Walk San Francisco's Live-At Home Edition Video Featuring Bette Midler, Gloria Estefan, and Lots of Drag Queens AIDS Walk San Francisco succeeded in raising nearly $1 million on Sunday, despite being a virtual event this year like everything else.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Pivots To Outdoor Dining Pop-up In SoMa In lieu of putting some tables out on the sidewalk, the Tosca 3.0 team has opted to do an al fresco family-style pop-up in the parking lot of the former St. Joseph's Church, now the St. Joseph's Art Society, at 10th and Howard.
Bay Area Sports In Ongoing Defense of Junipero Serra, Archibishop Cordileone Suggests 49ers Should Change Their Name The logic may not seem to follow, but Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is calling out the San Francisco 49ers as a candidate for a team name change in order to make a point about why the legacy of Father Junipero Serra is not worthy of "canceling."
SF News Local TV Journalist Suggests Media Should Not Publish Every 'Karen' Video Without Adequate Context "My world has become consumed with 'Karens' and their male equivalents," says KGO-TV/ABC7 anchor-reporter Dion Lim in a new opinion piece, but she questions whether every video needs to become news just because social media amplifies it.
SF News Daughter Allegedly Stabs Mother and Brother In Vallejo, Mother Dies A New Orleans woman and her mother, visiting family in Vallejo, were involved in an altercation Sunday morning that landed the woman's brother in the hospital, and left the mother dead.
SF News City Installs Raised Dots On Dolores Street Following 'Hill Bomb' Death Instead of one there were three Dolores Street Hill Bomb events over the past week and a half, and during the third one on Friday, a cyclist collided with skateboarder sending both of them to the hospital — and the cyclist died from his injuries on Sunday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink First Louis', Now the Cliff House Is Closing, at Least Temporarily The iconic, 157-year-old Cliff House restaurant, overlooking San Francisco's Ocean Beach, just announced that it is suspending takeout services and hoping to conserve resources to reopen more fully at a later date.
