SF News Newly Released BART Police Documents Shine Newly Damning Light On Officers In Oscar Grant Case The BART Police officers involved in the beating and ultimate fatal shooting of Oscar Grant just over 10 years ago engaged in escalation and excessive force, according to BART's own internal investigation.
Arts & Entertainment The 'Error' Message You'll Be Seeing Atop Salesforce Tower Is Actually An Art Piece A video art piece, one of four by students at California College for the Arts (CCA), shows the cheeky message "The Video Can Not Play ... Not" scrolling across the top of Salesforce Tower, and some San Franciscans thought this was a an actual A/V snafu.
SF News Defense Presents Arson Theory Involving Seven Mystery Men In Ghost Ship Case In the absence of a definitive conclusion about the cause of the Dec. 2, 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, defense attorneys for Derick Almena and Max Harris are presenting a theory backed up by three witnesses that the real cause was arson.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Disabled BART Train Made For Bad Wednesday Commute A shooting at 22nd and Bartlett left a man seriously injured, a 3.4 earthquake in Calistoga, and a high-speed rail project report.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chinese Couple Paid $6.5 Million For Daughter's Stanford Admission A pedestrian suffered life-threatening injuries in a crash at Divisadero and Sutter on Wednesday, an un-indicted Chinese couple may be connected to the college admissions scandal, and a water main break caused flooded streets in St. Francis Wood.
SF News A Brief History Of Poop On The Streets Of San Francisco Local media, along with the general public, have made a fair amount of repeated fuss in recent years over the presence of human waste on our city's streets, which despite some not insignificant cleanup efforts by the city continues to be a mess not easily wiped away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Counter-Service/Delivery Spinoff Mamahuhu Heads For Inner Richmond A fast-casual spinoff of Michelin-starred Mister Jiu's is in the works and headed possibly by year-end to a former Asian market location at 517 Clement Street.
SF News Motorcyclist Killed In Bay Bridge Crash ID'd As SF Resident A motorcyclist who led a CHP officer on a chase across the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning that ended with him crashing into a box truck has been identified as 36-year-old SF resident Jose Vargas.
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
Arts & Entertainment Google Doodle Honors Bay Area Artist Ruth Asawa As Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month kicks off today, Google is honoring the late Bay Area-based Japanese-American artist Ruth Asawa.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Concrete Chunks Fall Off I-80 Overpass In SF May Day protests are happening, Harriett Street in SoMa was closed late Tuesday after concrete chunks apparently fell from the overpass above it, and a rare seal pup was killed by an off-leash dog at Point Reyes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Baby Sea Lion Rescued From Highway 101 A 36-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries after a late-night assault in West Portal, and an 81-year-old motorcyclist was injured after going off a cliff in Bodega Bay.
SF News Bird Scooters Return To SF Streets Via Monthly Rental Loophole Though the company was not selected to be part of San Francisco's pilot program for scooter shares, Bird has figured out a way to get back into SF.
SF News Central Subway Likely Won't Open Until February 2020 The scheduled opening of the Central Subway, which was supposed to be in December, has been pushed back once again to February of next year, according to the latest progress report.
SF News Tuesday Morning Updates: Crash Snarls Traffic On Bay Bridge Newsom announces $15 million grant to protect houses of worship, UC Berkeley frat shuts down amid sexuall assault investigation, and car break-ins are slightly down in SF.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sexual Assault Reported At UC Berkeley Frat Two armed teens broke into a home in the Outer Mission, and a 72-year-old woman killed by a suspected DUI driver in San Anselmo has been identified.
Arts & Entertainment Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' Blamed For Spike In Teen Suicides In 2017 A new study suggests that there was a statistically anomalous spike in suicides among teen boys in the month after the show's premiere, April 2017.
SF News Jury Selection Complete, Opening Statements To Begin In Ghost Ship Trial A jury of nine women and three men was finalized Monday in the trial of accused Ghost Ship fire suspects Derick Almena and Max Harris, and opening statements from the prosecution and defense are set to take place Tuesday and Wednesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ravenswood Tasting Room To Shutter After Three Decades In Sonoma It's the end of an era for a stalwart Zinfandel producer in central Sonoma as the Ravenswood Winery will be shut down in mid-May. The announcement comes via the longtime owner of the winery and tasting room, the beverage conglomerate Constellation Brands.
SF News Muni Chief Ed Reiskin To Step Down Following Friday System Meltdown Bowing to pressure from the mayor and others, the SFMTA's transit chief of eight years, Ed Reiskin, announced Monday that he would be stepping down in August.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Arson Hits Uber Building In Daly City A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly torching an Uber building, a shooting in an Emeryville hotel, and Sonoma restaurant are hurting for staff following wildfires.
SF News Sunday Links: Beto O'Rourke Lands In SF Beto was in the Parkside this morning, Kevin Durant helped the Warriors win Game 1 against the Rockets, and pics from DogFest in Duboce Park.
Arts & Entertainment 'Vanity Fair' At ACT Is a Study In Delightful, Scrappy Storytelling Actor and playwright Kate Hamill clearly has a love for the women of 19th Century English literature, specifically the independent-minded, put-upon women of Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray's beloved novel, 'Vanity Fair.'
SF News Suspect In Friday Homicides In Bayview and Oakland Arrested In Nevada The 43-year-old man sought in connection with two, if not three Friday murders in the Bay Area led authorities on a high-speed chase from South Lake Tahoe down into Douglas County, Nevada Friday night where he allegedly shot an officer in the hand.
SF News Saturday Headlines: Borderlands Cafe Closing In the Mission There were reportedly a lot of herpes outbreaks at Coachella this year, a small earthquake rattled the East Bay this morning, and the fight over People's Park in Berkeley continues after 50 years.
