SF Politics Pelosi Steps Down as Speaker, and Kevin McCarthy Fails Spectacularly In Bid For the Job Bakersfield representative Kevin McCarthy has just lost three consecutive votes in a row Tuesday in his bid to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, as Nancy Pelosi chortles and wipes McCarthy’s dignity off the bottom of her heels.
SF News Tesla Flies 250 Feet Off Cliff At Devil’s Slide, All Four Passengers Miraculously Survive It was a Monday morning disaster on the perilous Devil’s Slide section of Highway 1 near Pacifica as a vehicle flew off the road and fell more than 250 feet, yet multiple helicopters and dozens of rescue workers managed to get the two children and two adult passengers out alive.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Bar Star at Bar Iris In Russian Hill Falls From Roof To His Death A promising career ended tragically Friday when 33-year-old bar manager Ilya Romanov fell from the rooftop garden of the Russian Hill establishments Nisei and Bar Iris, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
SF News SF Still Digging Out From Saturday’s Mudslides, Downed Trees, Floods, and Chaos That New Year’s Eve storm was an all-timer, and its aftermath continues with numerous homes still red-tagged, residents displaced, and businesses dealing with the worst flooding wreckage they’ve ever seen.
SF News SF Spearheads Launch Of A New ‘Morning After Pill’ For Sexually Transmitted Infections Move over PrEP, now there’s doxy-PEP, a sort of morning after pill that instead of preventing pregnancy, prevents you from getting an STI after unprotected sex.
SF News Concord Woman Suffering From Rare Disease Wins Bid to Stay in U.S Permanently, Thanks to New Law Guatemalan immigrant Isabel Bueso came to the U.S. for life-saving treatment for Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome, and after dodging a Trump-era effort to deport her, she will now be allowed to permanently remain in the U.S.
SF News Turmoil in Berkeley, As Interim Police Chief Has Old Sexual Misconduct Allegations Surface A five-year-old sexual misconduct allegation has roiled the appointment of interim Police Chief Jennifer Louis into the position permanently, and city council has plenty of questions on why this information never surfaced.
SF News On Eve of Dungeness Crab Season, Two Local Fishermen Have Invention To Stop Delaying Dungeness Crab Season As Dungeness crab season has been delayed again for the seemingly umpteenth year in a row, two Bay Area fishermen say they have a new crab trap design that ensures the safety of whales, and could make Thanksgiving Dungeness crab a thing again.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newark Firefighters Attempt Rescue of Man Who Fell Into a Bin of Gypsum Powder The team behind Bistro Don Giovanni is opening a new Italian seafood place in Napa, the Castro’s Rooster & Rice location has closed, and firefighters in Newark pulled out a man who fell into a four-story bin of hazardous gypsum powder and he did not survive.
SF News Last Big Defendant Left In ‘Varsity Blues’ College Admissions Scandal to Be Sentenced Next Week The saga of million-dollar bribes, fake charities, and Photoshopped athletic photos known as the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal will soon come to a close, as the scheme’s mastermind faces a Wednesday sentencing in federal court.
SF News SF Emergency Room Physician Opens Up About Leaving Twitter Over Rampant COVID Misinformation A local doctor dedicated to debunking COVID-19 conspiracy theories is giving up that fight, on Twitter at least, claiming that misinformation is running wild on that platform. And the data backs up that claim.
SF News Disgraced Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Stuck At Parents’ Place on House Arrest, But Mulling Book, Movie Deals The downfallen crypto founder is stuck under house arrest in his parents’ house in Palo Alto, now a “heavily guarded fortress” with a $10,000-a-week security detail, but one person who’s been able to get into the house is 'Moneyball' author Michael Lewis.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Publishes Stemwinder Op-Ed Blasting ‘Nearly Unlivable’ Conditions In the Fillmore Third Baptist Church pastor and SF NAACP president Amos Brown continues his campaign of calling attention to the state of the Fillmore District, in a new op-ed saying the neighborhood is experiencing “an explosion of homeless tent encampments, open drug use, and violence.”
SF News South SF Teen Allegedly Steals Car, Rams Into Multiple Other Cars On Two-Hour Joyride Before Police Catch Him A wild car chase tore through South San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, with the alleged car thief crashing into several cars and a police cruiser, yet this alleged car thief is a mere 15 years old.
SF News SF Woman Charged With Murder In Incident That Killed Two Children In Bayview Details are scarce, but a one-year-old and five-year-old were found dead in a Bayview home Friday morning, and the DA’s office just announced murder charges against a 34-year-old San Francisco woman in connection with the two children’s deaths.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Storms Bring Enormous Waves, Flood-Related Traffic Jams To Bay Area What's shaping up to be the wettest last week of December in 17 years has brought three-mile-long traffic jams to the South Bay, 20-foot waves in the North Bay, and skiers getting turned away on the Tahoe slopes.
SF News BART Extends New Year’s Eve Service Until 2 A.M., Caltrain Will Be Free That Night The New Year's Eve announcements are pouring in from Bay Area transit agencies, and Caltrain will be free from 8 p.m. onward Saturday night, while BART will run extra trains going well after 2 a.m.
Business & Tech TikTok Parent Company Admits It Spied On Two U.S. Journalists Who Exposed the App‘s Surveillance TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance admits it spied on two Buzzfeed journalists, though the journalists say at least four people were spied on and tracked after breaking stories about the seemingly innocuous app’s surveillance of U.S. users.
SF News Video: Abandoned Mountain Lion Cub Recovering Nicely At Oakland Zoo, Where Animals Also Got Christmas Presents New videos from the Oakland Zoo show that the mountain cub hobbled by hypothermia that they took in last week is eating again and pulling a lovely recovery, while the zoo’s animals got Christmas presents to rip open, or faux gingerbread houses to play with.
SF News Federal Judge Temporarily Halts All SF Homeless Sweeps Amid Major Lawsuit Against City The ACLU and Coalition on Homelessness’s lawsuit against the city of San Francisco has brought an emergency order to temporarily halt all encampment sweeps in the city, and Mayor Breed and her allies are furious with the decision.
SF News Brutal Beatdown At Westfield Mall Goes Viral In Reddit Video, But No Charges Filed A very ferocious two-on-one pummeling in front of the Foot Locker at the Westfield Centre has gone viral in a Reddit video, and while Westfield management confirms the incident happened, the victim is declining to file any charges.
Bay Area Sports Giants Nab Two Former All-Stars While Picking Through The Seeds And Stems Of Free Agency It’s probably not the jolt in morale the Giants clubhouse could use after the Carlos Correa debacle, but they added an outfielder who was an All-Star four years ago, and the twin brother of reliever Tyler Rogers, an All-Star in 2021.
Business & Tech Twitter Deletes Donald Trump Jr.’s Fake Image of Naked Hunter Biden With Zelensky Eldest unemployable Trump kid Donald Trump Jr. ran afoul of Twitter’s content policy, with a tweet that Twitter took down photoshopping a nude Hunter Biden next to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nick’s Crispy Tacos Is Closing Tuesday After 20 Years, But Vows To Reopen Elsewhere Russian Hill mainstay Nick’s Crispy Tacos just abruptly announced its closure with less than a week’s notice, but they say “We are in the process of finding a new home.”
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Wood Fires For Christmas, As It’s Spare The Air Through Sunday A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
