SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 'Grumpy' Looking Cat Found on Road In Hayward CHP is seeking the owner of a 'grumpy' looking Persian cat found on the loose on a busy road; Walgreens is closing three East Bay stores; and JetBlue is ending service in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Children Injured In Shooting at Oroville School A shooting at a parochial school in Oroville injured two students; a Bay Area mountain guide appears to be missing in New Zealand; and Day One of deliberations in the Nima Momeni trial ended without a verdict.
SF Politics With Final House Seat Decided In California, Republicans Set to Have a One-Vote Majority Until Vacancies Are Filled California's 13th Congressional District has flipped from Republican to Democrat, and with that race settled, we now know that the Republicans yet again hold the slimmest of majorities in the House — 220 seats to Democrats' 215.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Prime Rib Sued For the Second Time In Two Years Over Alleged Labor Violations One of San Francisco's most popular and beloved restaurants, The House of Prime Rib, is being sued by a former employee in a class action suit — the second such suit in 18 months — for alleged labor violations including denying rest breaks.
SF News Woman Killed by Boyfriend In Murder-Suicide Identified as Sonoma County Park Ranger A 38-year-old woman who was killed last week in Sonoma County has been identified as a local park ranger who was living in ranger housing outside Santa Rosa.
SF News Will Jury In Bob Lee Murder Case Be Swayed By Defense's 'Bombshell' Cocaine Video? It has seemed from the beginning like a very open-and-shut case for the prosecution, but Nima Momeni's defense team made a big show in their closing argument of rolling out some surveillance footage of victim Bob Lee doing cocaine off what they say was the murder weapon (but likely wasn't).
SF News Humpday Headlines: Westside Residents Move to Recall Joel Engardio Residents upset about Prop K are moving to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio over his support of the measure; video game maker Ubisoft is shutting down its SF studio; and a major trans rights case is before the Supreme Court.
SF News Feud Between Sonoma County Tribes Continues With Lawsuit Filed Over Proposed Casino Resort A yearslong feud between two Native American tribes in the North Bay over a proposed casino outside Santa Rosa has escalated with a lawsuit.
SF News Still Facing Major Budget Deficit, BART Raises Fares 5.5% Starting In January BART announced a fare hike starting January 1 which will raise the average train fare about 25 cents, in order to partly address looming budget deficits in the coming fiscal years.
SF News As Defense Begins Closing Argument, Juror Gets Replaced In Nima Momeni Trial A female juror who fell ill had to be replaced with an alternate Tuesday morning, as potentially the final day began in the murder trial of Nima Momeni.
SF News SF Homeless Woman Known for Menacing Mothers and Small Children Has Agreed to Conservatorship We learned last week that Kim Andrews, a woman who became notorious for harassing and threatening women and their children on San Francisco streets and in parks over the course of five years, had been charged and detained.
Business & Tech Viral 84-Hour Workweek Guy Calls Himself 'San Franciscan,' Has Lived Here a Year and a Half You may have seen a story about a San Francisco AI startup founder who posted to X — where else? — about how he tells prospective hires that his company expects "no work-life-balance" and 84-hour workweeks, in order to weed out the less motivated.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marina Residents Mad About Plan to End Free Curb Parking A 12-year-old Contra Costa County girl went missing Monday; residents of the Marina and Cow Hollow made noise at a public meeting about a parking plan; and Kendrick Lamar is coming to Oracle Park.
SF News Prosecutor Uses Momeni's Temperament on Stand Against Him In Closing Argument Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the April 2023 killing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and prosecutors laid out their case one last time and shot down the defense's theory of the case as "workshopped" and "fabricated."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Missing After Likely Going Overboard From SF-Bound Cruise Ship A 72-year-old man appears to have gone overboard from an SF-bound cruise ship this morning; SF Supervisor Catherine Stefani has officially resigned; and the SF Standard's paywall goes up Thursday.
SF News First Transgender Attorney to Argue Before Supreme Court Will Argue Trans Healthcare Case Wednesday ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, a trans man, will become the first trans attorney to argue a case before the Supreme Court this week as he takes the legal stage for oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti.
SF News Dry, Sunny Weather Likely Continuing In Bay Area For a Few Weeks The very sunny, mild weather you see out your window today — or hopefully get to go outside and be in — is set to continue for a while in the Bay Area thanks to a strong high-pressure system that has taken hold.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yellow Moto Pizzeria Calls It Quits on Valencia Street When even a once-popular pizzeria can't make a go of it on Valencia Street, you know things must be slumping on the once-buzzy corridor, as we hear of yet another end-of-year closure.
SF News San Francisco Sees Two Homicides In a Single Day, Including Mission District Stabbing There were two separate homicides in San Francisco on the day after Thanksgiving, including a fatal stabbing in the heart of the Mission District.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Federal Building Gets Formal Dedication to Pelosi Closing arguments begin in the Nima Momeni trial; Oakland leaders consider putting a citywide sales tax on the ballot; and the SF Federal Building is being formally dedicated to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Post Thanksgiving Edition A new Palestinian restaurant is coming soon to Noe Valley, Thomas Keller is closing his Yountville Mexican spot after this weekend, and downtown Oakland has a new cocktail bar — with pickles! — all in This Week In Food.
SF News Two People Found Dead In Apparent Murder-Suicide In Sonoma County A Sonoma County sheriff's deputy made a gruesome discovery Wednesday when performing a welfare check at a home east of Santa Rosa.
SF News Post-Thanksgiving Constitutional: Amazon Workers Set to Strike One person was killed in a crash on 280 in Daly City Thursday night; the three people killed in the Cybertruck crash in Piedmont have been identified; and an SF family received help from the fire department after their oven caught on fire during their Thanksgiving prep.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Shooting of Pregnant Woman A person required rescue after falling into the Bay from Pier 45; a 30-year-old man has been booked on attempted murder charges in connection with the Bayview shooting of a pregnant woman; and Mayor London Breed has named a new SFO director.
Arts & Entertainment Ha! AI Image-Generators Love to Stick the Golden Gate Bridge Just Any Old Place The Chronicle has a funny look today at the variously, hilariously wrong images of San Francisco that are being spit out of AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E and xAI's Grok.
