SF News Sonoma County Man Gets Three Life Sentences For 2004 Jenner Beach Murders, Fratricide Confessed killer Shaun Michael Gallon, 40, was sentenced Monday to three consecutive life terms for the 2004 killing of a young couple on a camping trip, and the 2017 murder of his brother.
SF News Lot Next To Balboa Park BART Proposed As SF's First 'Triage' Center For Homeless Living In Cars and RVs A 1.8-acre parking lot that sits at the intersection of Geneva and San Jose Avenues, next to I-280 and across the street from the Balboa Park BART station, has been proposed by the city to be used temporarily as a vehicle "triage" lot for the homeless.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eureka Restaurant Closes In the Castro After 12 Years Longtime Castro comfort-food staple Eureka Restaurant & Lounge has just announced that it's closed, marking the fourth significant restaurant closure in the neighborhood in as many months.
Arts & Entertainment Adam Lambert Spotted In San Francisco Before Sunday Queen Show In San Jose Adam Lambert is currently on tour again with Queen, standing in for deceased frontman Freddie Mercury, and while passing through the Bay Area on Saturday and Sunday he posted a photo of himself in front of a Castro home where his mother lived in the 1970s.
SF News So What Happened To Those ICE Raids? There was no reported ICE activity in the Bay Area Sunday, though raids may be getting staggered throughout the week to increase the element of surprise. A few arrests were reported in other cities.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: McLaren Park Brush Fire Burns Four Acres A deadly crash snarled eastbound 80 this morning, Rep. Jackie Speier went down to the border, a House bill would ban Facebook from getting into crypto, and Rep. Eric Swalwell was the butt of a joke on Twitter by Conan O'Brien.
SF News Great White Shark Drags Fishing Boat Around SF Bay For Over An Hour It looks like the recent great white shark migration into the Bay Area is very real, and at least one came into San Francisco Bay on Saturday where it got hooked on a fisherman's line and proceeded to tow the fishing boat around for about two miles.
SF News Sunday Links: Man Swept Away After Saving Child In Yuba River A 36-year-old man was fatally shot after breaking into two campers' tent in Stanislaus National Forest, a man was hospitalized after being pulled from the water at Ocean Beach, and the Mission is on edge ahead of planned ICE raids.
SF News Lake Tahoe Has Risen Eight Feet In Three Years, Beaches Shrink After Snowmelt Lake Tahoe is getting very high after spring and summer snowmelt continues to fill it, and soon officials will begin releasing water into the Truckee River.
SF News Saturday Links: A Standoff Ends Peacefully In Pittsburg Laurel Village retail is struggling after the CPMC hospital moved, hundreds gathered in Oakland to protest the impending ICE raids, and BART doesn't want you trying to retrieve your own Airpods off the train tracks.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Facebook Fined $5 Billion By The FTC Mayor Breed says she'll be "monitoring the situation" with the pending ICE raids, a Muni train collided with a car and injured some passengers, and a homicide investigation shuts down a neighborhood in San Jose.
Arts & Entertainment 'Last Black Man In San Francisco' House Has Colorful History, Same Owner Since 1960s It turns out that one of the writers for Mission Local is a resident at 959 South Van Ness Avenue, the house that was used for exterior shots and a few interiors in the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment 'Big Little Lies' Fans Flocking To Monterey From All Over The World The Bixby Bridge and a particular restaurant on Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf have been magnets for international tourists who want to see locations from HBO's 'Big Little Lies' up close.
SF News Another ICE Protest Planned Downtown Following Thursday evening's protest outside ICE headquarters on Sansome Street, another prayer vigil and rally is scheduled Friday at 11:30 a.m. to protest planned Sunday deportation raids of immigrants' homes.
SF News Multiple Great White Sharks Spotted Near Half Moon Bay Surfers and ocean swimmers are being cautioned that there have been several sightings of great white sharks near the San Francisco Peninsula — and this is the typical time of year that sharks show up in the area from their migration to the deep ocean.
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.
