Bay Area Sports Local Hot Dog Vendor and Baseball Park Fixture Jimmy Graff Dies at 49 He started slinging sodas at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium at the age of 10. 39 years later he was well known to local baseball fans at A's games for selling old-fashioned hot dogs out of a steamer box he carried around the stadium.
Business & Tech Bumble Deleted Sharon Stone's Profile Because They Thought It Was Fake Bumble, the dating app that lets women make the first move in hetero pairings, just made a gaffe when it deleted sometime Bay Area resident Sharon Stone's dating profile, believe it was a fake. It was not!
Arts & Entertainment Beloved San Mateo Toy Store, Talbot's Toyland, Is Closing After 66 Years Kids who grew up in the Bay Area are lamenting the loss of a seven-decade-old toy retailer in San Mateo that was a mecca in a legion of local childhoods. Citing the "retail apocalypse," the iconic Talbot's Toyland with its huge T-Rex in the entry is calling it quits.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Land NFC West Division Title For the First Time In 22 Years With their nail-biter win against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, the Niners are headed to the playoffs as the Number One seed in the NFC West — the first time that's been the case since 1997.
SF News Woman Catches Guy Breaking Into Her Car In Hayes Valley, SFPD Makes Arrest It's a rare story when somebody actually catches a car burglar in the act, but that's what happened Saturday night near Civic Center.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Dry Weather But Big Waves Headed Our Way Hundreds gathered for a vigil Sunday at Dublin High School for three boys killed in a Christmas crash, a plane had to make an emergency landing at San Jose airport, and a high-surf advisory has been issued for NorCal beaches.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elizabeth Warren Talks Child Care in San Jose Over 100 birders spread out across San Francisco to take a bird census today, Oakland firefighters put out a homeless encampment fire, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren spent time at child care facilities in San Jose today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kennedy's Irish Pub Remains Open After Announcing Closure Nearly two months after it supposedly was closing for good after over 20 years in business, Kennedy's Irish Pub and Curry House mysteriously soldiers on in North Beach.
SF News Dublin High School Mourns Loss Of Three Teens Killed In Christmas Crash A pair of teenage twins and their friend were killed in a collision Christmas night near Castelwood Country Club in Pleasanton, and now the Dublin High School community and the boys' families are in mourning.
SF News East Bay Newspaper Founded in 1858 Rolls Out Its Final Print Edition Sunday The Martinez News-Gazette, in print for 161 years, is stopping the presses on its print edition for good this weekend, ending what may be the longest run for a newspaper anywhere in California. Its last edition will be on December 29.
SF News Everything You Need to Know About Discarding Your Christmas Tree in SF The 33rd annual "Chipping of the Trees" is happening outside City Hall Friday to remind everyone to put their trees on the curb with their trash bins before January 15.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: North Oakland Warehouse Fire Injures One A homeless woman was arrested for attacking a man on Sansome Street in the Financial District, the SFPD arrested four suspects in a string of car burglaries, and a vintage clothing store is being held up from opening in the Haight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Chill Sets In Moms 4 Housing got a four-day reprieve in their Oakland squat, a Bernal Heights family got their stolen dog back, and it's going to get cold tonight around the Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best New Restaurants In San Francisco, 2019 It's been a relatively quiet year for restaurant openings in San Francisco — and is it any wonder? Still, there are 11 brand new spots that are delightful and delicious additions to our local culinary scene.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Announces Plan For 30 New Childcare Centers Across SF Saying that "access to quality early care and education is an important part of our efforts to make San Francisco more equitable," Breed announced a plan Thursday to open 30 new childcare centers across the city.
Business & Tech Hyatt Regency Converts Hallways Overlooking Embarcadero Into Tiny Rooms The grandly Brutalist and angular Hyatt Regency at the foot of Market Street has 15 new guest rooms thanks to some underutilized, oversized hallways that had some excellent Bay views.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Killed By Falling Tree In Muir Woods Three teens were killed in a Christmas night car crash in Pleasanton, four were injured in a shooting at a house party in East Oakland, and two porch pirates were nabbed in Butte County.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two-Alarm Fire Injures One in the Inner Richmond Sonoma officials have approved an emergency plan to deal with a sprawling homeless encampment, Alameda County has voted to sell the Coliseum to the A's, and the SF City Attorney just shut down an underground nightclub in the Bayview.
SF News Suspect In 2018 BART Stabbing Is 'Malingering' About Mental Illness, Judge Says An Alameda County judge who is set to preside over the trial of a transient man suspected of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Nia Wilson at the MacArthur BART station last year is still unconvinced about the man's attorney's push to have his mental competence re-examined.
SF News Another DoorDash Driver Is Caught Stealing a Package A second DoorDash driver, this time in Santa Clara, was caught on surveillance video being a porch pirate just moments after handing off a bag of food to a customer.
SF News East Bay Convenience Store Robbery, Pistol-Whipping Caught On Video An armed robbery Sunday night at a convenience store in Bay Point ended with one of the alleged thieves fatally shot, and the initial unfolding of the robbery — which left a cashier injured — was caught on surveillance video.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Blind Woman Robbed In BART Station Two men dragged a woman across a Walmart parking lot in Fremont trying to steal her purse, flaring at a Benecia refinery released tons of sulfur dioxide, and a blind woman was robbed of her cellphone at BART's 12th Street Station.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Tenderloin Homicide Homelessness nationwide has gone up nearly 3 percent, fog and weather caused some big travel-day delays, and Steph Curry denies that a leaked semi-nude locker room photo is him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Goes Union For the First Time in 123 Years Employees at San Francisco's oldest brewery, and what many consider to be the oldest craft beer brand in the country, just voted to approve a three-year contract with parent company Sapporo Holdings.
Business & Tech Twitter and Facebook Remove Falun Gong, Saudi Disinformation Campaigns Both Twitter and Facebook announced Friday that they were removing hundreds of inauthentic accounts with links to the Falun Gong spiritual movement — of Shen Yun fame. And Twitter also admitted it just had to remove 88,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi Arabia.
