SF News San Francisco Sees Post-Holiday Spike With 171 New COVID Cases In One Day Once Thursday's numbers were in, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) reported a jump in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city of 171 — a 4-percent uptick and two and a half times higher than the average daily new case count of the last two weeks.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Berkeley Bowl Employees Test Positive Multiple Berkeley Bowl employees have tested positive for COVID-19, Sonoma County (as predicted) has landed on the state's watch list, and a car crash sparked a brush fire on the Altamont Pass that shut down I-580 overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Closures Hit Nizario's In Castro, The House In North Beach, Velvet Cantina in the Mission A 35-year-old pedestrian was struck and gravely wounded by a Muni bus in SoMa, fire evacuations will try to be COVID-safe, Newsom says, and several more beloved SF restaurants are closing for good.
SF News Virtual COVID-19 Conference, Attached To SF-Hosted AIDS Conference, To Feature 140 Studies On Friday On Friday, July 10, a day-long virtual conference on COVID-19 and research underway into how to treat the disease kicks off at 7:30 a.m., tacked on to the end of the annual International AIDS Conference which was supposed to be taking place — physically — in San Francisco.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisor Walton Both Test Negative For COVID-19, Will Get Tested Again After both potentially being exposed to the coronavirus this week, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton have tested negative — though Breed says she will be tested again next week as a precaution.
SF News San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars Likely To Stay Off the Streets Well Into 2021 Chalk it up to another — albeit temporary — casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. SF's beloved cable cars are going to remain offline indefinitely, likely until a vaccine puts a final end to the spread of the virus, and both operators and riders can be assured of safety.
SF News San Francisco Takes Steps To Find Long-Term Housing For Some Homeless Now In Hotels At least 200 of the homeless people currently residing in hotels due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be placed in long-term housing, subsidized by philanthropic funds for 18 months.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sierra County Killing Of Danville Doctor Was Wanted On Two Felony Warrants Authorities have made public the name and arrest record of the suspect believed to have fatally shot a Bay Area doctor and father of three, in addition to randomly shooting two other people in Sierra County last Friday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: COVID Cases Surge In South Lake Tahoe SCOTUS deals a blow to Trump and his fight to hide his financial records, homelessness is growing on the Peninsula, and parents and teachers protest school reopening plans in Oakland.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Tested After Possible COVID Exposure San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday evening that she and Supervisor Shamann Walton had attended an event recently where they may have been exposed to the coronavirus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley COVID Cases Blamed On Frat Parties A UCSF researcher believes male hormones help the coronavirus invade cells, the SF Unified School District is hosting town hall meetings, and Biden and Sanders are cooperating on some policy proposals.
SF News Body Cam Footage Shows Vallejo Officer Shoot Sean Monterrosa Through Windshield, Then Ask If He Was Armed The body-worn camera footage has been released by the Vallejo PD in the June 2 shooting. And it shows an officer in the backseat of a police vehicle aim a high-powered rifle and fire five rounds through the front windshield before the vehicle had even come to a stop.
SF News Sonoma County Prepares To Potentially Land On State Watch List It's been just a week since we heard about the fairly lackadaisical attitude being exhibited by Sonoma County bar patrons amid the pandemic, and now indoor bars and restaurants in the county may have to close again as COVID hospitalizations rise — as they have been doing around the state.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After SF Restaurant Complains, DoorDash Apologizes For 'Error' In Which It Was Violating 15% Fee Cap DoorDash, which like other delivery apps must abide by a 15-percent delivery commission cap in San Francisco that was imposed back in April, was charging at least 10 local restaurants an outrageous 30-percent fee on delivery and pickup orders as recently as this week.
SF News Pandemic Updates: East Bay Counties Rack Up Hundreds Of New Cases Cases continue to surge in Alameda and Contra Costa counties; the CDC is cowing to President Trump's anger over guidelines around the reopening of schools; and a new study out of the UK points to serious, lasting brain disorders in recovered COVID-19 patients.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Announces Elimination of 11 Varsity Sports Programs, Citing Pandemic Calling the news "heartbreaking," and citing that it will impact some 240 student-athletes and 22 coaches, Stanford announced the upcoming end of almost a dozen varsity teams including men's volleyball, men's and women's fencing, and field hockey.
Business & Tech Facebook Gets More Bad News Via Final, Scathing Report From Yearslong Civil Rights Audit Facebook has repeatedly failed the civil rights community and had a "deeply troubling" response to the ongoing problem of President Trump's posts, according to a final report from a two-year-long civil rights audit.
Business & Tech United Airlines Sends Furlough Notices To Almost Half Its U.S. Employees In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Castro Bagpiper Hangs Up His Pipes A Santa Clara County correctional officer has been arrested for smuggling drugs to inmates, a new report reveals more SFPD shadiness around the Bryan Carmody affair, and the Crews Fire near Gilroy is now 60% contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Father Of Slain Six-Year-Old Speaks Out A man has been charged with shooting at police officers during looting activity in San Leandro on May 31, Chez Panisse is suing its insurance company, and the UC system has its first Black president.
SF News Martinez Couple Seen Painting Over BLM Mural Charged With Hate Crime The East Bay pair that were videotaped Saturday painting over a Black Lives Matter street mural outside the county courthouse in Martinez have now been publicly identified, and the district attorney is charging them with a hate crime.
Business & Tech Ellen Pao Says Ghislaine Maxwell Was Invited To Silicon Valley VC Party In 2011 Despite Sex Trafficking Claims The Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking fallout appears to have officially reached Silicon Valley, and now Ellen Pao is accusing Kleiner Perkins personnel of inviting Ghislaine Maxwell to a major event despite accusations against her.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg and Sandberg Blasted For Delivering 'Same Old Talking Points' In Meeting With Ad Boycott Organizers Facebook's CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, "expect[ed] an A for attendance" just for agreeing to meet directly with civil rights groups that have spurred a massive boycott by major advertisers, according to one meeting attendee.
SF News East Bay Doctor Fatally Shot While Off-Roading With Teenage Son In Northern California Woods In a bizarre and scary incident, a doctor and father of three was shot and killed Friday in the woods east of Oroville, near Downieville, in Sierra County over the holiday weekend while he was off-roading with his 15-year-old son.
SF News Mayor Breed On Reopening Pause: 'We Need These Numbers to Go Down' San Francisco recorded just 28 new COVID-19 cases between Monday and Tuesday this week, however the city's new case metrics are still well above the public health department's goal, and thus outdoor bars and indoor dining have to remain on an indefinite pause.
