SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Round of Lowell High Admissions Drama is Brewing The guy who put up the “Free fentanyl” sign outside a school has been sent to jail, the downtown Target had to be evacuated because of a pepper spray incident, and SFUSD is contemplating another round of sure-to-be contentious changes to Lowell High School admissions policies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty on Seven Counts of Fraud Japantown’s Geary Street pedestrian overpass has been gussied up, the Capp Street bar Uptown is closing permanently, and disgraced FTX crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all counts in his fraud trial.
SF News Update: de Young Museum Under Fire for Allegedly Refusing to Lend Defibrillator as Man Died, Museum Disputes This A 70-year-old man suffered a cardiac episode Sunday next to the de Young Museum, and while the museum is facing tough questions after staff allegedly refused to lend their defibrillator as he died, the museum says an ambulance was already there.
Arts & Entertainment SF Gears Up for Dia de Los Muertos Festivities Thursday Night, Which Will Be Livestreamed SF Day of the Dead celebrations in the Mission District and beyond have already started, with the annual procession at 7 p.m., and Thursday night’s Festival of the Altars scheduled to be livestreamed.
SF News Tenderloin Check Cashing Employee Arrested for Laundering Money for Drug Dealer A now-fired teller at a Tenderloin check cashing joint has been charged by the feds for laundering money under the table to Mexico for at least one known drug dealer.
SF News Kids In Alameda Given Fast-Food Sauce Packets as Trick-or-Treating Treats Some jokers in Alameda were just handing out fast-food condiment packages as trick-or-treat candy, according to one puzzled father’s Facebook post.
SF News Muslim Ex-SFPD Officer Gets $455,000 In Discrimination Settlement An Afghan-born former SF police officer who allegedly endured more than a year of racial slurs, and says he was fired for speaking up about it, has been awarded a $455,000 settlement from the city.
SF News Capitol Police Admit They Pretty Much Botched Security the Night of the Paul Pelosi Attack A new report says Capitol Police security “lapsed for months” on Nancy Pelosi’s Pac Heights home before last year’s hammer attack on her husband Paul Pelosi, though there may also be some blame to assign for SFPD’s bureaucratic foot-dragging.
Business & Tech FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.
SF News At Least One Dead in Bay Point Halloween Night Shooting That Involved ‘30 to 40 Gunshots’ Halloween night went tragically wrong in the Contra Costa County community of Bay Point Tuesday night, with at least one person dead after an incident where neighbors reported hearing “30 to 40 gunshots.”
SF News SF Actor Set to Make His Stage Debut Struck and Killed by Driver On Way to Rehearsal 65-year-old Richard May had overcome tremendous adversity to making his stage debut with the African-American Shakespeare Company, but he was killed by a driver Saturday morning while walking to a rehearsal for his first performance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Swing Blockbuster Trade for Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman A one-alarm electrical fire caused some trouble in the Castro, SFPD is seeking the public’s help in the case of a missing 11-year-old, and the 49ers have traded for 2020 Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chase Young.
SF News Human Body Found Crammed in Suitcase Floating in Lake Merritt A grisly discovery occurred Tuesday morning at Lake Merritt when a clean-up volunteer found a suitcase floating in the lake with the human remains of someone’s dead body inside.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Dorsey and Safai In Twitter Spat Over Funding Dorsey’s Police Staffing Plan Supervisor Matt Dorsey is dumping his own plan to bolster SFPD staffing after Supervisor Ahsha Safai inserted a so-called “poison pill” to the measure, so the two supes duked it out on Twitter and at a supervisors’ committee meeting that got personal.
SF News Biden Will Indeed Meet In SF With Chinese President Xi Jinping at APEC, According to White House The biggest lingering international question about San Francisco’s upcoming, high-profile APEC summit was whether President Biden would meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the White House just announced Tuesday that “It’s happening.”
SF News Kids Given Cannabis-Infused Candy at Alameda Elementary School Trick-or-Treating Event Cannabis-laced fruit chews that resemble Starburst candies somehow got into the mix at an Alameda elementary school Halloween event, and one child got sick, while at least three other children received the illicit candies in their bags.
Arts & Entertainment Visitacion Valley Gets a ‘Church of Clown,’ a New Venue for Clown Performances and Classes Something funny's going on in Visitacion Valley, where a new venue called Church of Clown is right on the nose with clown troupe performances, and clown classes for both youth and adults.
Arts & Entertainment PHOTOS: Saturday’s SF Sandcastle Classic Saw Spooky Sand Sculptures Stand Out With the 41st annual Sandcastle Classic falling on Halloween weekend, you’d better believe that monsters, jack-o-lanterns, and skeletons got their heads out of the sand for Northern California’s largest sandcastle competition.
SF News Report Alleges Oakland PD Officers Lied About No-Headlights, 100-MPH Car Chase That Killed Bystander An Oakland Police Commission report seems to confirm the allegation that two officers lied about a June 2022 high-speed chase of a suspected sideshow participant they conducted with no headlights or sirens on, a chase that killed an innocent bystander.
SF News The Prisoner Who Attacked Kristin Smart’s Killer Also Killed the I-5 Strangler in Prison An interesting twist in the August prison attack on Kristin Smart’s convicted killer Paul Flores: It turns out his attacker is the same prisoner who strangled and killed his cellmate in 2021, a cellmate who was the notorious “I-5 Strangler.”
SF News Man Fatally Shot After Leaving Nightclub In Oakland's Uptown District An as-yet-unidentified 34-year-old man was shot and killed just after 3 a.m. Sunday morning near 19th Street and Broadway, marking Oakland’s 106th homicide of the year.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF News Another Valencia Bike Lane Accident, as Illegal U-Turn Injures Scooter Rider Valencia Street’s new center bike lanes are likely to remain the center of controversy after yet another accident, this time a driver making a U-turn and colliding with someone riding a scooter in that center lane.
SF News United Airlines Flight Attendants Allege Racism on L.A. Dodgers Charter Flights Two veteran flight attendants, both women of color, are suing United Airlines, saying they were demoted off of working L.A. Dodgers team charter flights because the airline prefers “white, young, thin women” for that assignment.
SF News Woman Shot in Oakland Just for Honking at Driver Who Cut Her Off A 35-year-old woman is in stable condition after being shot multiple times, merely for honking at a driver who cut her off. But a 10-year-old girl who was in the car with her is thankfully unharmed.