SF News Lawyers Frantically Try to Halt Chaotic Inmate Transfer at FCI Dublin Women’s Prison We don’t know how many women have been transferred out of the scandal-ravaged and soon-to-be-shuttered FCI Dublin women’s prison, but attorneys for the inmates have filed an emergency restraining order to halt the clearly haphazard and rushed transfer process.
SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
SF News One Dead After Car Goes Off Cliff Along Highway 1 in Coastal San Mateo County Traffic was disrupted in both directions of Highway 1 north of Half Moon Bay Thursday afternoon, as a car went over a cliff shortly before 1 pm, and the driver of that car has been pronounced dead.
SF News 71-Year-Old Driver Skates With Lenient Probation Sentence In Crash That Killed Four-Year-Old Girl There’s a mini-storm of social media outrage after DA Brooke Jenkins brokered a settlement where the driver who killed a four-year-old girl near the Caltrain station last August will get just two years probation, community service, and a safety class.
SF News Confused Waymo Cars Block 101 On-Ramp In Potrero Hill, Then Go Down Closed Road It’s SF driving 101 that you should not follow a confused self-driving Waymo vehicle down a closed road, but that’s what happened Tuesday night near Highway 101 in Potrero Hill, after a stalled Waymo traffic jam led to the robotaxis veering into a closed lane.
Business & Tech Google Fires All 28 Workers Who Pulled an In-Company Protest Against Israeli Defense Contract In a not-at-all surprising development, Google has fired the 28 workers who staged a sit-in protest Tuesday in a top executive’s office, all in protest of a billion-dollar contract Google has with the Israeli government during the Gaza conflict.
SF News SF Police Vow DUI Patrols Will Be Out in Force for 4/20 The “DUI Saturation Patrols” we normally associate with Saint Patrick’s Day and Super Bowl Sunday will be rolling out for this Saturday’s 4/20 observances, as SFPD hopes to discourage people from driving while stoned.
Arts & Entertainment Castro Theatre Now Selling Off the Seats They’re Ripping Out for Another Planet’s Renovation You can now buy the seats that Another Planet Entertainment has removed from the Castro Theatre at $349 a pop (or two for $499), though critics say the theater has “committed a massacre and are now selling the body parts for profit.”
Bay Area Sports Klay Thompson’s Disastrous 0-10 Night Ends Warriors’ Season, and Possibly His Warriors Career Your Golden State Warriors will miss the playoffs after getting blown out in their Play-In Tournament game against the Sacramento Kings Tuesday night, and Klay Thompson going 0-10 on shooting and completely scoreless does not bode well for his Warriors future.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Protesters Released From Jail, But Still Might Face Felony Charges SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
SF News Tenderloin Residents and Businesses Pushing Back Against Proposed Turk Street Homeless Shelter A proposal to turn three vacant storefronts at Turk and Hyde streets into a homeless services center has some Tenderloin residents and businesses fuming, and saying that the Tenderloin is bearing the burden of too many of these facilities.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Political Activist Faces Fresh Sexual Assault Allegations, Promptly Resigns A new giant discount store has opened on Mission Street; Tadich Grill was curiously left off the Chronicle’s “Top Classic SF Restaurants” list; and a well-known progressive community organizer has resigned amidst a report detailing sexual assault accusations from three more women.
SF News Mystery Buyer Who’s Bought Nearly a Block of Fillmore Street — Including the Defunct Clay Theatre — May Be Identified The Chronicle may have solved the riddle of the mystery buyer who bought the old Clay Theatre and five other buildings on the same block, and unsurprisingly, the person appears to be a wealthy venture capitalist.
SF News Los Gatos-Based HGTV House-Flipper Sentenced to Four Years In Jail for Real Estate Fraud Who’d have thought that a house-flipping character calling himself “Mr. Flip It” on an HGTV reality show would be neck-deep in real estate fraud? South Bay man Charles "Todd" Hill was just sentenced to four years for a $10 million scheme.
SF Politics Sports Gambling Won’t Make 2024 California Ballot, as Tribes and Betting Apps Are Still at Each Other’s Throats We will not be barraged with sports gambling campaign ads for the November election, as two ballot measures to legalize sports betting in California have been shelved. But we will still be barraged with ads for gambling apps that Californians cannot use.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Mission District’s Beauty Bar Has Closed Permanently, Was Reportedly Sold They’ve polished their last nail and served their last shot at the Mission and 19th street kitsch nightclub Beauty Bar, which apparently closed and laid off all staff over the weekend following a reported sale.
Bay Area Sports 49ers-Branded CA License Plates Are Coming, and You Might Be Able to Get One for Free A drive to get the California DMV to produce a 49ers logo-license plate looks likely to be successful, and you might even be able to get yours free, but you’ll have to act fast.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Tiny Home Homeless Housing Facility Opens at 16th Street BART, Behind Big, Black Gates The on-again, off-again effort to open 60 tiny homes for the homeless is complete, though a large fence surrounds the entrance of the new facility called “Mission Cabins” in apparent hopes that passersby won’t notice it.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New IKEA Food Hall Has Complaint From Illustrator Who Says Their Logo ‘Blatantly Copied’ His Work A mere one day after opening, SF’s IKEA-adjacent food court Saluhall has drawn the ire of an SF illustrator who says their ‘eyes-ears-nose-mouth’ logo is a rip-off of his own illustration published in The New Yorker.
SF News SFPD Boasts 42 Arrests Made in Wednesday’s One-Day Tenderloin Sweep A one-day operation targeting Tenderloin drug dealers resulted in 42 arrests on Wednesday, and 30 of those suspects had outstanding warrants.
SF Politics Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie Raising Eye-Popping Sums of Money From VCs and His Family Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is walloping the competition in the mayoral money race, with about four times as much cash raised as Mayor Breed, most of it coming from tech founders, venture capitalists, and his mom.
SF News [Update] Body of Boy Swept Away In Russian River Has Been Found A teenager who has been missing since Thursday afternoon after being swept up by the rushing Russian River in Sonoma County has been found dead.