SF News Study: Marijuana-Related Senior Citizen Emergency Room Visits Have Skyrocketed Over The Last 18 Years A just-published UC San Diego study says that senior citizen visits to the emergency room for cannabis-related reasons in California have increased by more than 1800% since 2003.
SF News We Now Have Video of the Eight-Car Pileup Allegedly Caused By Self-Driving Tesla A reporter’s public records request has produced video of the Thanksgiving Day multi-car crash that the driver claims was caused by his Tesla in “full self-driving” mode, and hmmm, the reporter who obtained the video is suddenly shadowbanned on Elon Musk’s Twitter.
SF News BART Police Files Reportedly Leaked By Hackers, Now On Dark Web Numerous news organizations are reporting that BART police files have been hacked and posted onto the dark web, including allegations of child abuse against officers, and perhaps your information if you’ve ever been cited by BART Police for a crime.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Storms Have Claimed At Least 17 Lives An SF gallery owner is going viral for spraying an unhoused woman with a hose, the Giants are now looking vindicated in the Carlos Correa mess, and the death toll stands at 17 in these two weeks of California storms.
Arts & Entertainment Punk Bands Rocked Out an Impromptu Live Show On a Moving BART Train Friday Night Punk’s not dead, it just slithered onto an eastbound BART train Friday night for a live show called “Sh*tshow On BART” that more than lived up to its name before BART Police shut the shenanigans down.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Cold-Case Shooting In Marina That Killed Visitor 32-year-old Samuel St. Pierre was visiting SF from Placer County when he was shot and killed on June 19, and police are now offering $50,000 for information that could help lead to an arrest.
Business & Tech Laid-Off Twitter Employees Finally Get Severance Offers, Which Are Unsurprisingly Less Than Promised That three-months severance for laid-off Twitter employees is more like a one-month severance, does not include owed bonus and stock money, and comes with a lifelong commitment to testifying on Twitter’s behalf in lawsuits.
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Center Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Will Be Hopping All Week This year marks a double-anniversary: the 40th of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and this week’s 10th anniversary of the SFJAZZ Center, and the stars will be out including Laurie Anderson, Bill Frisell, and Marcus Shelby.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Can Prosecute Resentencing the Murder Case Against Mayor Breed’s Brother, Court Rules A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied a motion Monday morning that asked to take the murder resentencing of Mayor Breed’s brother out of the hands of DA Brooke Jenkins’s office, a motion that was made by Breed’s brother’s attorneys.
SF Politics Board of Supervisors Palace Intrigue: Peskin Takes Presidency as Board Ousts Walton From Top Spot If you thought last week’s Kevin McCarthy drama was nuts, wait 'til you hear about Supervisor Aaron Peskin winning the SF Board of Supervisors presidency after 17 votes, in what was either a masterful move of three-dimensional chess, or a sign of just utter dysfunction.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Drops Its 2023 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and More The tenth anniversary BottleRock lineup and dates were just announced, with tickets going on sale Tuesday for a jam-packed roster of artists that includes Lil Nas X, Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, and the Wu-Tang Clan.
SF News Four People Shot, One Killed In the Mission District Friday Morning, Within a Block of SFPD Mission Station Just before 2 a.m. Friday morning, four people were shot on Valencia Street within a stone’s throw of the SFPD's Mission Station. And SFPD has just announced that one 28-year-old male victim has died.
SF News Another Major Rockslide Closes Highway 1 South of Big Sur For Several Weeks, Maybe Longer You will not be able to drive Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon for quite some time, and with good reason, because this rockslide has rendered that road pretty much unnavigable.
SF News Health Officials Urge Contra Costa DA To Investigate Martinez Refinery’s Unreported Hazardous Chemical Release Contra Costa Health Services is demanding the investigation of a release of hazardous metals into the air from a Thanksgiving weekend flare-up at the Martinez Refining Company, which left neighborhoods covered in “mysterious white ash.”
SF News Family of Sonoma County Toddler Killed By Fallen Redwood Tree Speaks Out We now have a statement from the grandmother of two-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was crushed by a fallen redwood tree in Wednesday’s storms. The family has not only lost a son, but their home is also physically destroyed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News Fatal Hit-And-Run After Breakfast of Champions Party Leaves One Woman Dead, Another Man Injured The tail-end of the New Year’s Day block party It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions was marred by terrible tragedy, as two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver who’s still at large, and one of those victims died at the hospital.
SF News Coastal Piers Getting Destroyed By 35-Foot Waves In Santa Cruz, Capitola The atmospheric river is rough on ocean areas, as the Capitola Wharf has been crashed in half by waves as large as 35 feet as this storm pummels coastal areas of Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Teens For Fatal Shooting of Japantown Security Guard A 15-year-old and a 14-year-old are in custody for the Wednesday night shooting of a security guard at the Japantown mall, who was declared dead at the scene shortly after SFPD arrived.
SF News Man Who Killed Nia Wilson Loses Appeal of Murder Conviction In 2018 BART Stabbing John Lee Cowell appealed his first-degree murder conviction in the fatal 2018 stabbing of Nia Wilson at an Oakland BART station, but the First Appellate District of California did not buy his attorneys’ claims of an insanity defense.
SF News City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
Business & Tech Twitter Now Trying To Auction Off Extra Office Stuff As New Lawsuit Is Filed Over Rent Elon Musk’s Twitter has unpaid bills and lawsuits piling up, and now the company is trying to auction off its furniture, office supplies, kitchen supplies, and neon signs from their lobbies.
Business & Tech Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brian Sabean Leaves the Giants For the NY Yankees That terrifying Tesla crash at Devil’s Slide is now considered to be intentional, feds have charged the man who was busted in the Tenderloin with nearly eight pounds of fentanyl, and architect of the Giants’ dynasty Brian Sabean is leaving the team’s front office to join the New York Yankees.
SF News Mission District and Bernal Heights Restaurants Gear Up For More Floods, As Another Gigantic Storm Looms Barely 72 hours after being battered by floods, several Bay Area restaurants are gearing up for another “bomb cyclone/atmospheric river,” and many have not even reopened after Saturday’s weather-related mayhem.
