SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: FBI Agent's Gun Stolen In Oakland Hundreds protest pending ICE raids in downtown SF, a 38-year-old man arrested for a skateboard assault in Palo Alto, and Trump officially drops effort to put citizenship question on the Census.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rally Outside ICE Headquarters On Sansome A rally is set for 5 p.m. outside ICE's SF headquarters downtown, a 51-year-old man has been found guilty of purposely running down a Tenderloin bicycle cop in 2017, and we now know the tax value of Apple Park.
SF Politics California Lawmakers Demand Trump Tax Returns, Or He Won't Be On Primary Ballot Setting the stage for another California vs. Trump showdown, state lawmakers have passed a bill that would require all candidates for president to disclose five years worth of tax returns in order to be eligible for inclusion in a state primary.
SF News North Bay Man Accused Of Child Sex Abuse Lays Down On Train Tracks, Takes His Own Life A 68-year-old Rohnert Park man who had recently been facing charges of long-term sexual abuse of the mentally and physically disabled children in his care killed himself Tuesday night by lying down across the SMART train tracks.
SF News Everyone Hates The New Double-Stacked BART Fare Gates (And They Don't Thwart Fare Evaders) BART has only installed the "double-clamp" fare gates in one station — Richmond — but the news stories and public grumbling about them continue.
SF News Postponed ICE Raids Happening In SF On Sunday Raids on undocumented immigrant families in 10 cities that were originally scheduled for last month are now reportedly happening this weekend.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up?: FCC Strikes Down SF's Broadband Law Two suspects arrested after high-speed chase through San Jose Airport, a state bill that would make gig workers employees moves ahead, and Trump is convening a "summit" today of his most ardent right-wing Twitter fans.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Juul's Pro-Vaping Measure Qualifies For November Ballot The SFMTA has named a new interim director, the angry NIMBYs of the Embarcadero have filed their lawsuit over the Navigation Center, and Juul's measure to overturn SF's vape-sales ban has qualified for the ballot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Namu Gaji Is Moving To SoMa, Dolores Spot To Become Namu Stonepot There's an update on Namu Gaji, which closed for seismic retrofitting in its building in March — along with neighbor Bi-Rite Creamery, which has now reopened. It's not actually going to reopen as the same restaurant.
SF News SF Homicide Rate On Track For Historic Low In 2019 While it's too soon to say for sure, at the mid-year mark, San Francisco is poised to see an even lower homicide count this year than it did last year — with a murder rate lower than it's been in the city since the early 1960s.
SF News Ghost Ship Fire Defendant Derick Almena Turns Combative Under Cross-Examination Court watchers have been anticipating some drama from putting Ghost Ship fire defendant Derick Almena on the witness stand, and that drama began on Wednesday almost as soon as cross examination by prosecutors began.
SF News After Three Decades In SF, Woman Says Finding Burglars' Hypodermic Needle In Her Dining Room Is The Last Straw A woman who's lived in San Francisco nearly 30 years says she may finally be done with San Francisco after her historic home on 18th Street was broken into — and the burglars left heroin works, including a used hypodermic needle, on her dining room table.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Boot & Shoe Service Changes Name To Sister The second of two restaurants sold off amidst the #MeToo reckoning of Charlie Hallowell last year, Boot & Shoe Service in Oakland's Grand Lake district, is rebranding itself in a final step toward divorcing itself from Hallowell's history.
Business & Tech Jay-Z Signs On As Brand Strategist For Bay Area Marijuana Company A San Jose-based weed concern called Caliva has just "partnered" with rapper and Beyonce baby daddy Jay-Z, naming him Chief Brand Strategist.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Scientist Found Dead In Greece One man was killed and another was injured in a Bayview shooting, a San Francisco sheriff's deputy was injured by two inmates, and Emeryville debates its minimum wage hike.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Can't Block Anyone On Twitter Anymore, Says Judge Muni bus service resumes Saturday at the Transit Center, DNA from the "Rideshare Rapist" was obtained illegally, and a manhunt is on in Livermore after a shooting Monday night.
SF News San Francisco Man Calls Cops On Black Man Waiting In Apartment Vestibule For His Friend Setting aside for a second the inherent bias and officiousness of these actions, has this guy not paid any attention to the internet or TV in the last several years?
SF News SF Homeless Number Nearly 1,800 People Higher If Same Criteria Used As 2017 Following the quiet Friday release of the new point-in-time homeless census for San Francisco, it's come to light that the count is actually not an apples-to-apples comparison of the 2017 number. And this means that the city's homeless population has increased 30%, not 17% as previously reported.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Izakaya Sushi Ran Closes, Promises Something New 'Brewing' Izakaya Sushi Ran, the second-try restaurant from the Sushi Ran team in the 2223 Market Street space in the Castro which just launched in December, has shuttered for good after just seven months.
SF News SF Man Gored By Bull In Pamplona Was Trying To Shoot A Selfie Video 46-year-old Jaime Alvarez says he thought the danger had passed when he stepped back into the bullfighting arena from his safety perch atop a fence to shoot a quick video to prove he was there.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Tom Steyer Enters Presidential Race Israeli airline El Al is asking for stepped up SFPD patrols at SFO to protect against terrorism, former Tesla workers claim unfair treatment, and it's supposed to get warmer this week.
SF News Day Around The Bay: San Mateo County Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Another Ghost Ship trial witness corroborates the arson theory, a Merced County man was fatally shot in SoMa Sunday, and the suspect in two fatal stabbings on a remote road in San Mateo County wants to represent himself.
Arts & Entertainment 'The Good Person of Szechwan' Brings Updated Brecht to Cal Shakes Once again, CalShakes delivers a refreshing new look at an old play, with the help of a contemporary adaptation by the great Tony Kushner.
Arts & Entertainment World's Biggest Bounce House Arrives In The Bay Area This Week The self-described "world's biggest bounce house" is on tour, apparently, and it's bringing bouncy summertime magic to several Bay Area locations beginning next week. And yes, there are adults only sessions.
SF News Large New 'Co-Living' Dorm Going Up On Minna Street, With 270 Beds A 16-story, 270-bedroom tower catering to both market-rate and below-market tenants is starting construction at 457 Minna Street after developer Starcity has secured funding for the ambitious project.
