SF News Illegal Church Service In Butte County Exposes 180 People to Coronavirus A resident of Butte County tested positive for COVID-19 on the Monday after they attended a Mother's Day church service with around 180 others, causing alarm bells for rural California counties that are reopening ahead of more urban ones.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Carmel Restaurant Owner Defies Health Orders, Calls Them 'Politics' Two suspects have been arrested for an Outer Mission shootout last month, a Chinese study suggests that outdoor transmissions of the coronavirus are very rare, and a Carmel restaurant owner refuses to keep his business closed and now faces criminal charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mikkeller Bar Closes Permanently in the Tenderloin; Inventory for Sale There's another addition to what will likely, sadly be an extensive list of bar and restaurant casualties from the pandemic: seven-year-old Mikkeller Bar.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Prepares to Fine Tourists If They Show Up for Memorial Day Weekend While second homeowners may be allowed to stop through if not entirely welcome in the Tahoe area, tourists are not, and anyone trying to quietly Airbnb their house might face fines as well.
SF Politics Trump Is Already Trying to Lie About the COVID-19 Death Count; Kamala Harris Hopes to Stop Him We've watched as Trump has treated a global pandemic with the same casual dishonesty as he would his own poll numbers, so it should shock no one that the White House is already maneuvering to deflate the American death toll from the coronavirus in order to protect the president's reelection chances.
SF News Muni To Increase Bus Frequency On Eight Lines Starting This Weekend The SFMTA just announced that it will be boosting the frequency of buses on eight of the "core" transit lines currently in operation, in order to increase the ability of passengers to socially distance themselves from each other.
Business & Tech Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Give Laptops to Oakland Schoolkids As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nevada Earthquake Felt In Bay Area Oakland is banning weekend parking around Lake Merritt, Sonoma County is reopening more businesses today, and locals in Fort Bragg are divided about wanting tourists wandering through.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Calls Testing 'Overrated' PG&E is appealing some strict probation conditions from a judge, the Stern Grove Festival has been canceled, and Trump has INFURIATINGLY just said in a speech that COVID-19 testing is "overrated" because it makes the U.S.'s numbers go up.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plastic Partitions, Rubber Gloves and the Hyper-Clinical Near Future of Bars and Restaurant You know how eating in a hospital cafeteria is almost universally an unappetizing and unsettling experience? Well, get ready for the hopefully temporary future of bars and restaurants in California.
Business & Tech Former Google Engineer Fired Over Sexist Memo Drops Lawsuit James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Coach Steve Kerr Almost Unrecognizable With Beard Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr has emerged from his isolation to give a shoutout to essential workers in the Bay Area — and he's sporting a daddy beard that might shock you.
SF Politics In Three Short Months, California Goes From $6 Billion Surplus To Asking State Workers to Take 10% Pay Cut Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday laid out some grim financial realities for the state as it faces far less revenue and far higher expenses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News Berkeley Florist Remains Bitter That It Can't Do Curbside Sales While Whole Foods Sells Flowers Next Door The sense of unfairness among small retail business owners around the Bay Area has been growing as the initial virus panic fades, and after eight weeks in which big-box retail stores and grocers like Walmart and Whole Foods have been allowed to remain open, often selling "non-essential" goods.
SF Politics Lefty O'Doul's Owner Named In City Hall Corruption Probe Enters Plea Deal With Feds Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur who was arrested alongside the former director of Public Works in a federal corruption investigation in January, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges and is cooperating with investigators.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: High-Speed Crash Kills Four In San Jose SF bar owners remain in limbo waiting for "Phase 3," CVS is getting ready to open 1,000 coronavirus testing sites this month, and Marin County will be joining SF and San Mateo County in reopening most retail for curbside sales on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goats Run Amok Through San Jose Neighborhood The FBI says Chinese hackers are trying to steal coronavirus research from the U.S., Uber is requiring face masks for everyone starting Monday, and a herd of 200 goats got loose last night and ran around a San Jose subdivision.
Business & Tech Facebook Agrees to Pay $52 Million to Settle Class-Action Suit Brought By Moderators With PTSD Facebook is settling a lawsuit brought by third-party content moderators who say they were traumatized after being exposed to graphic imagery of violence, child sex, and more working for Facebook.
SF News UCSF Study Suggests Smokers (and Ex-Smokers) Have More Severe and Fatal Cases of COVID-19 Whether you currently smoke or you previously did and quit, you appear to be likelier to have a bad case of COVID-19 according to a new study by UCSF researchers.
SF News Mayor Breed Gives Green Light For Most SF Retail to Open For Curbside Sales and Delivery on Monday In her daily press briefing, Mayor London Breed said Wednesday that SF's retail businesses could go ahead and reopen on May 18 for curbside sales. But prior to issuing a similar order for San Mateo County, the outspoken health officer there has some grim words of caution.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Portola Murder Was Previously Charged In 2009 Muni Assault and Robbery of Actor A 26-year-old man who was just arrested in connection with a homicide that occurred in the Portola neighborhood last week was previously arrested and charged as a juvenile in a Muni robbery that made headlines a decade ago.
Arts & Entertainment Military Planes From California Air National Guard Do Flyover Honoring Healthcare Workers Healthcare workers never really asked to be honored with wasted jet fuel and loud, gratuitous shows of military aeronautical might. But that's what's happening this morning care of the California Air National Guard.
Business & Tech Alameda County Backs Down, Lets Tesla Plant Reopen Fully Next Week Following a couple of contentious days in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk was loudly complaining on social media and asking to be arrested, Alameda County authorities have relented and said they will allow Tesla's Fremont plant to reopen for production under a new safety plan.
SF News Two Freeway Shootings On Opposite Sides of the Bay Injure Two Within Two Hours Hopefully it's not a sign of more to come, but there were two, unrelated freeway shootings within two hours of each other on Tuesday afternoon, one in Santa Clara County and one in Oakland, each of which left a person injured.
SF News Humpday Headlines: State Considers Ten-Year Payback For Tenants' Back Rent The Santa Clara County health officer warns that the county isn't near Stage 2 of reopening, a fourth inmate at SF County Jail tested positive upon booking, and Paul Manafort just got an early release from prison.
