SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Hill Rock Stands in Solidarity With Ukraine Opening Day is officially canceled as the MLB lockout morass continues, KTVU’s Rob Roth signs off tonight after a remarkable 38-year career, and the Bernal Hill Rock gets a new Ukrainian paint job that tells a Russian ship what it can go do.
SF Politics Chinatown Plastic Bat Attack Victim Drops Lawsuit Against Chesa Boudin After explosive allegations against DA Chesa Boudin’s office wilted under scrutiny, a 69-year-old Vietnamese American man has dropped his lawsuit claiming that Boudin violated his rights, and both sides are taking conciliatory tones.
SF Politics Haney Forces State to Change Campos’ Ballot Description, as the Two Campaigns Try to Manufacture Differences Haney just won a legal ruling to change David Campos’ ballot description from ‘civil rights attorney’ to ‘criminal justice administrator,’ as the two progressive rivals look to gin up differences between them for next month’s runoff election.
SF News Large Early Morning Encampment Fire Hits West Oakland, Several Propane Tanks Ignite There were fortunately no injuries and everyone made it out safely, but a number of propane tanks exploded in an Oakland encampment fire early this morning, and I-880 had to be shut down between 4 and 5 a.m. as the fire grew quite large.
Bay Area Sports Giants Opening Day Looks Likely to Be Delayed, as MLB Lockout Hits Its ‘Doomsday’ Date In negotiations described as ‘millionaires versus billionaires,’ Major League Baseball says they’ll start canceling regular season games if there’s no deal by February 28. It is now February 28, and there is no deal.
SF News PG&E Cited for Endangering Public With ‘Heli-Saw’ — A Helicopter Flying With Eight Spinning Blades Beneath It In the latest PG&E scandal, the utility says it “mistakenly” flew into a San Mateo County park with a heli-saw, a helicopter with a gigantic set of spinning blades dangling beneath.
SF News SF’s Only Crate & Barrel, in Union Square, Will Close Permanently March 23 There will be another retail vacancy in Union Square in late March, as the Crate & Barrel at Stockton and O’Farrell Streets will furnish its last home furnishings and close in the next few weeks.
SF News Dianne Feinstein Announces Her Husband Has Died From Cancer Financier Richard Blum married Feinstein in 1980 while she was still mayor of San Francisco, and the SF native brought a few of those bison to Golden Gate Park. He passed away Sunday night after a bout with lung cancer.
SF News Juror No. 7 From 2004 Scott Peterson Trial Takes Stand In Pivotal Hearing, as Peterson Hopes to Overturn Conviction Peterson’s lawyers say he should get a whole new trial because a certain juror allegedly lied about having previously been a victim of domestic violence, and they grilled her on the stand all day Friday.
Business & Tech Silicon Valley Chipmaking Giant Nvidia Hit With Cyberattack, Russia Theories Already Flying While there is no credible evidence that Russia has anything to do with a cyberattack on Santa Clara-based Nvidia, the company is being tight-lipped about an attack that “completely compromised” their internal systems.
Business & Tech The Trump vs. Twitter Lawsuit is Happening in San Francisco, And It’s Not Going Well for Trump In a lawsuit literally named Trump v. Twitter, the former president is suing Twitter to allow him back on the platform, but his arguments are going fruitlessly in a San Francisco district court.
SF News It Ain’t Just Hank the Tank — DNA Shows At Least Four Different Bears Plundering Tahoe Homes A 500-pound bear blamed for ransacking nearly 30 South Lake Tahoe homes for food, who has become a massive internet celebrity in the process, is partially exonerated as DNA evidence shows this has been the work of at least four different bears.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Lucky 13 Sign Gets a New Home at Bender’s 10,000 Bay Area Ukrainians fear for their loved ones back home, the SFUSD school board is back in session contemplating how many layoffs they’ll have to administer, and the iconic old Lucky 13 sign has a new home at Bender’s.
SF News SF Finally Conducts Delayed Homeless Census, Rest of Bay Area to Finish Theirs Tonight How much has homelessness increased during the pandemic? We’ll have hard numbers soon, as Bay Area cities conduct their first official “homeless census” in three years.
SF News SFPD Officer Takes Stand in First Excessive-Force Trial: ‘Every Single Baton Strike at the Time Was Necessary’ Officer Terrance Stangel is on trial for felony assault and battery in the case of a 2019 Fisherman’s Wharf beating, and on Wednesday he became the first SFPD officer to have to testify in his own defense in a trial for an on-duty assault.
Arts & Entertainment Crypto Enthusiasts Promote ‘Bored Ape’ NFTs In Mission District Murals We have entered the phase where Bored Ape NFT promotions sit among the Mission Street murals, at a moment when the NFT collective behind these virtual apes is angling for a $5 billion valuation.
SF News Graphic Video: Brentwood Police Dog Rips Off Woman's Scalp in Yet Another K-9 Attack While the suspect was indeed guilty of shoplifting, a brutal and bloody K-9 attack from a Brentwood police dog seems little much for a suspect who's not violent, in another East Bay case that’s raising questions about use of K-9 force.
SF News SFPD Backtracks, Will No Longer Use Rape Kit DNA to Prosecute Rape Victims for Unrelated Crimes After a week-long public relations disaster over misuse of DNA evidence from rape kits, the SFPD announced Tuesday that it will end the practice, but it makes you wonder how many police departments nationwide are doing this.
SF News Late-Night Glen Park Encampment Fire Leaves One Dead, Three Critically Injured Four people were trapped inside a confined space within the I-280 overpass near Bosworth Street when an encampment fire broke out early Wednesday morning, and one of them perished as SF Fire crews were able to save the other three.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 16-Year-Old SoMa Overdose Victim ID’ed as Missing Stanislaus County Teen A San Jose police sweep nabbed 35 sex assualt suspects, Rep. Adam Schiff is dragging the FBI into the SF rape kit controversy, and the 16-year-old victim of a Friday South of Market overdose has been identified as a Stanislaus County girl who’d been reported missing three previous times.
SF Politics More Stories Surface of Alleged SFPD Inaction on Crimes, Chief Claims ‘Serious Morale Issues’ After a Chronicle report about police inaction toward a suspect trashing a parklet, crime victims are coming out of the woodwork saying they were blown off too, but Chief Scott blames “serious morale issues.”
SF Politics Kamala's Senate Replacement Alex Padilla Files Papers to Run Again, Will Likely Sleepwalk to Victory Appointed last year to fill Kamala Harris's Senate seat, new California Senator Alex Padilla will have to run twice in 2022 to keep the seat, yet both races will likely be among the least compelling in the country.
SF News Bay Area Got a Smattering of Actual Rain Monday Night, Ending a 44-Day Dry Spell The first rainfall since January 8 sprinkled the Bay Area last night! Don’t expect much more until maybe the weekend, but do expect chilly temperatures for the next few days.
SF News Point Bonita Lighthouse Reopens After Two-Year COVID Closure What had been the last manned lighthouse in California is once again allowing people inside, as Marin Headlands attraction Point Bonita Lighthouse resumed tours this weekend.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Booed Rather Roundly, Followed By Handful of Hecklers at Lunar New Year Parade Combine a controversial district attorney with a parade being held in a neighborhood where he is not terribly popular, and you get Chesa Boudin getting booed along Saturday's Lunar New Year Parade route.