SF News SF’s Once-Biggest Landlord Veritas Defaulting on Another $652 Million in Loans, 66 Buildings May Be Up for Grabs A total of 66 apartment buildings with nearly 1,600 units belonging to the mega-landlord Veritas could be on the selling block come December, as Veritas is defaulting on yet another giant loan to the tune of $652 million.
SF News Monterey’s KION-TV Shuts Down Its Newsroom, Will Apparently Just Play KPIX News Monterey County CBS affiliate KION appears to be the victim of some local TV downsizing, abruptly killing its news department Wednesday morning, and their news will now be called “KPIX News on KION,” which sounds like just KPIX News.
SF News Unusually Aggressive Squirrel Has Attacked and Sent Two People to the Hospital In Marin County There’s a woodland creature you don’t want to mess with in the Marin County community of Lucas Valley, as what is believed to be the same squirrel attacked two different women in a two-day span, and both women were sent to the hospital.
SF News The Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Complex on Top of New Asia Restaurant Finally Happening, With New State Grant The old-style banquet hall is coming back to Chinatown’s New Asia restaurant that is now a grocery store, along with 175 units of affordable housing on top, thanks to a $33.5 million state grant that Mayor Lurie says just came through.
SF News Oakland Reopens Those Three Fire Stations They Had to Shut Down Because of Their Budget Deficit A $130 million City of Oakland deficit forced the closure of three fire stations, which had residents rightfully scared. But the City Council found the money, and now all three are officially reopened.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 1 in Big Sur Gets a Reopening Date A Richmond UPS worker was crushed and killed by falling packages; Trump told the United Nations that their countries were all “going to hell;” and Highway 1 in Big Sur has a reopening date — which is still six months from now.
SF News UC Wins This Round Against Trump, Judge Reinstates $500 Million in Research Grants That Trump Yanked What started as some Trump claim that University of California colleges were antisemitic turned into a billion-dollar shakedown, but UC just won this fight (for now) as a judge ordered that $500 million in research grants be reinstated.
SF News Tesla Driver In Deadly January SoMa Crash Charged on Six Counts, But Judge Releases Him From Jail A 67-year-old man has been charged with felony vehicular manslaughter for a January crash that killed a man and a dog plus injured seven people, but a judge just released him from jail, and his Tesla may have been at fault.
SF News Seemingly Bogus Mission District Immigration Attorney Fined $600,000 for Unlicensed Work The Mission District storefront that claims to house a “Law Group” does not, in fact, have any attorneys, and a court just ruled they have to pay $600,000 for conning payments from immigrants seeking legal services for years.
SF News Fired SFPD Nonprofit Leader, Under Investigation for Embezzling $100K, Sues for Her Final Paychecks A new Hall of Fame entry in the annals of chutzpah, as the former director of an SFPD-affiliated nonprofit who’s under indictment for embezzling $100 grand has sued the nonprofit for $26,000 in back pay she claims they still owe her.
SF News Mayor Lurie and SFPD Tout Dirt Bike ‘Crackdown’ That Yielded a Measly Four Arrests Daniel Lurie and the SFPD held a press conference Monday to toot their horns over “a crackdown on dangerous stunt driving” of dirt bikes, but the four arrests seems like a drop in the bucket given the huge groups we typically see doing this.
SF Politics Manny Yekutiel of Manny’s Fame Declares He’s Running for District 8 Supervisor While the election is nearly 14 months away, Manny’s owner Manny Yekiutiel announced he’s running for Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s current seat as District 8 supervisor, though he’s already got opponents lining up against him.
SF News SF Rec and Parks Chief Phil Ginsburg Stepping Down After 16 Years The head of the SF Rec and Park Department Phil Ginsburg announced his departure Monday, amid controversies over the car-free Great Highway and the finances of the SF Park Alliance, though it appears he just got a better-paying job.
SF News Muni Breaks Out 78-Year-Old ‘Super Bus’ That Was Supposed to Replace the Cable Cars for Muni Heritage Weekend Built in 1947, the Fegeol Twin Coach Model 44-D buses were supposed to replace the cable cars. They failed, and only lasted six years, but Muni has restored one of them, and it rode again for Muni Heritage Weekend.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Beat Cardinals 16-15 at the Last Second to Stay Undefeated, And Maybe We Finally Have a Kicker We Like A dreadful game turned into a fantastic finish as the 49ers won their home opener in a 16-15 comeback thriller, with new kicker Eddy Piñeiro the last-second hero after the Niners nearly lost this game in the stupidest way possible.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s Ex-Wife and Don Jr.'s Ex-Girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle Is Now the US Ambassador to Greece One-time Gavin Newsom wife turned TV personality Kimberly Guilfoyle lost her engagement to Donald Trump, Jr. when Don Jr. found someone younger and blonder, but she’s being rewarded for her silence by being named US Ambassador to Greece.
SF News Teen Accused of Shooting 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall Won’t Be Tried as an Adult, and Pearsall Forgives Kid Anyway The teen who shot 49ers wide receiver Ricky Pearsall will be tried as a juvenile and not as an adult, a court has decided, but Pearsall said he would like to meet his shooter again, and perhaps strike up a friendship.
SF News The Lucky Supermarket in Bayview Is Closing November 1, Just Three Years After Its Grand Opening Nearly three years to the day after its highly touted grand opening, the Bayview Lucky Supermarket is closing permanently on November 1, and leaving a big grocery-store size hole in the food desert neighborhood.
SF News Double Homicide Shocks Walnut Creek, Two Women Found Dead Inside Home Two women who were apparently related to one another were found dead inside a Walnut Creek home late Thursday night, and police are investigating the matter as a double homicide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muni Busting Out Those Vintage Buses Again for Muni Heritage Weekend Those rain and lightning storms seem like they will miss the Bay Area; Jon Stewart is back on ‘The Daily Show’ tonight apparently to avenge Jimmy Kimmel; and the old-time buses and street cars are back for Muni Heritage Weekend.
Arts & Entertainment The New, Reborn Club Deluxe Gets City Hall Approval for Live Music Until 2AM, Seven Nights a Week The Upper Haight's old Club Deluxe had live music until 1 am on weekends, but the new forthcoming reborn Club Deluxe just won approval for bands to jam til 2 am, seven nights a week, though they probably won’t go that late.
SF News Apparent Murder Weapon Found in Burning Man Homicide, But Still No Suspects Identified The Pershing County, Nevada’s Sheriff’s Office says they’ve recovered a large knife they suspect is the murder weapon used to kill a 37-year-old Russian national at Burning Man, and that it was used to stab him in the neck.
SF News Tahoe Community Torn as State Plans to Euthanize Mama Bear That Keeps Breaking Into Homes A bear nicknamed “Hope” is slated for euthanization after a reported dozen incursions into people’s homes in just the last three months, but Tahoe bear activists are fighting back, while concerned about what will happen with Hope’s young cub.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Eliminated In Last-Minute, Nail-Biting One-Point Playoff Loss The Golden State Valkyries squandered a 17-point lead and ended up being eliminated in a one-point playoff loss Wednesday night — but the bigger embarrassment might belong to ESPN, whose announcers’ microphones died out through much of the fourth quarter.
SF News Three People Shot at Concord Parking Garage, Multiple Suspects Arrested An unexplained shooting in a Concord parking garage Tuesday night has left three people hospitalized, though Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputies quickly identified and detained multiple suspects.
