SF News Nursing Student Tells Harrowing Hero Story Of Trying To Save BART Stabbing Victim A 22-year-old nursing student who uses a wheelchair and is legally deaf was a witness to the entire conflict on the BART train on Tuesday that ended with the stabbing death of Oliver T. Williams.
SF News Two More Arrests Made In Orinda Shooting, Feds Offer $20K Reward Agents with the San Francisco field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) announced late Thursday that they had made two arrests in connection with the Halloween shooting in Orinda, and said they seized a weapon linked to the crime.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Obama Tells Donors to 'Chill Out About the Candidates' A standoff at a house in San Jose going on overnight has ended, a death in Santa Rosa is being investigated as suspicious, and today is the busiest travel day of the year at SFO.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UC Berkeley ID's Protesters Arrested During Ann Coulter Event Barack Obama tied up traffic by showing up to Dreamforce today, most PG&E customers have gotten their power back, and only two female protesters were actually taken to jail in Berkeley last night.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 7 Cool Things To Do This Weekend Before the rains begin and the holidays take hold, you've got one weekend left in which to pretend that the year isn't just about over and there's nothing left to do but eat carbs and go shopping. Make the most of it.
SF News BART Has Major Systemwide Delays Ahead of Thursday Rush Hour As of 2:40 p.m. Thursday, BART reported major delays across the system due to an "obstruction" on the track in the Transbay Tube.
SF News SFO Will Allow More Ubers To Do Curbside Pick-ups — If You Pay Extra After relegating most rideshares to the upper deck of the short-term parking garage back in June, the airport is starting a pilot program with Uber ahead of the holiday travel season to allow riders to pay extra to get picked up at the curb.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission's Gashead Tavern to Become New-School Irish Bar Called Casement's Five-year-old English-styled gastropub Gashead Tavern (2351 Mission Street) is being taken over by a trio of local bar vets and transformed into the kind of modern Irish bar that exists in Ireland — craft cocktails and all.
SF News BART Murder Victim Remembered By Family and Friends As Happy, Generous Soul The 49-year-old Oakland man who was fatally stabbed aboard a BART train on Tuesday is being remembered by his loved ones as a kind and helpful person who was always quick to defend others against bullies.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dungeness Crab Season Delayed Until December 15 To Protect Whales No crab for Thanksgiving! Commercial Dungeness crab season is getting delayed for a second time, this time until mid-December, out of concern for the safety of migrating whales who are lingering along the Northern California coast.
SF News Hundreds Show Up To Protest Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley, Seven Arrested As expected, there was a good deal of anger and protest Wednesday night about white nationalist sympathizer Ann Coulter showing up on the Berkeley campus to promote her four-year-old book about why immigration is bad.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Issues All Clear A woman was robbed outside South Hayward BART a day after a murder happened there, a bomb was found at a high school in San Jose, and SF may someday be able to purify it wastewater for drinking.
SF Politics Day Around the Bay: Recall Effort Begins For Sup. Sandra Fewer The victim in Tuesday's BART stabbing has been identified, the Page Street shortcut to Octavia is getting shut down, and Oakland City Councilman Larry Reid is retiring after 23 years.
SF News Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan-Friendly Middle Eastern Restaurant Saha Reopens In the Tenderloin After Three-Year Stint In Berkeley A well-loved, semi-secret spot for Middle Eastern tapas, lamb curry, and plenty of vegan options, Saha Restaurant, has returned to San Francisco to the same spot in the Hotel Carlton where it had been for 12 years before closing in 2016.
Arts & Entertainment How to Watch the Rare 'Unicorn' Meteor Storm Thursday Night A meteor shower happening on Thursday, November 21 could turn into a meteor storm with hundreds of meteors per hour streaking across the sky. The rare meteor burst known as the alpha Monocerotids is set to potentially give a flashier than usual show like one that was seen 24 years ago.
SF News 50 Alleged Norteño Gang Members Arrested In Stockton, Drugs and Guns Seized Following a spike in violence and a three-month joint investigation by multiple state and local law enforcement agencies, 50 people were arrested this week in Stockton who are believed to be part of the notorious Norteño street gang.
SF News Rain and Hail Possible Around Thanksgiving In the Bay Area Our very first winter storm may be arriving in the middle of next week, just in time to mess up Thanksgiving travel, and it may feature thunder, hail, and even some snow.
SF News AIDS Memorial Quilt To Return To San Francisco Next Month The 32-year-old AIDS Memorial Quilt, all 50,000+ panels of it, will be returning home to San Francisco in December, apparently for good.
SF News Shoeless Sacramento Man Suspected of Murder On BART Train In Hayward A grisly murder occurred Tuesday afternoon in front of multiple witnesses on a Warm Springs-bound BART train, and it allegedly stemmed from an attempted theft of a sleeping man's shoes.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 90,000 Lose Power In North Bay A house fire in the Outer Sunset, Orinda's city council votes to abolish un-hosted Airbnbs, and Fodor's tells tourists to stop coming to Big Sur.
Business & Tech Twitter Gets Pushback On Its 'Minefield' Of a Political Ad Policy Twitter fleshed out its rather convoluted new policy for political ads on Friday, and it was met with immediate criticism, skepticism, and outright bafflement from both sides of the political spectrum.
SF News Despite No Weather Changes, PG&E Changes Its Mind Again About Alameda County, Lamorinda Shutoffs The messaging game remains fraught with flip-flopping over at PG&E as the company announced Tuesday afternoon that conditions are "changing" and some 12,000 power customers in Alameda County who were told Monday they'd be losing power Wednesday are now not expected to do so.
SF News Four People In Guy Fawkes Masks Arrested After Scaring Families At West Sonoma Self-Help Retreat Four freaky souls with an apparent vendetta against the Berkeley-based Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) donned Guy Fawkes masks and hooded robes as they blockaded the entrance to a Sonoma retreat venue the group was using for an alumni weekend on Friday.
SF News San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz Counties Added to PG&E Shutoff List Three more counties were added early Tuesday to the list of those with residents and businesses who will be potentially impacted by a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) set to begin early Wednesday.
