SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein’s Funeral Service Attracted Exactly One Protester Fleet Week will start rattling your windows just before 1 p.m. Friday, an Oakland LGBTQ bar was vandalized in what may have been a hate crime, and Dianne Feinstein’s funeral service brought out all of one protester with a cardboard sign.
SF News Webs Full of Baby Spiders Falling From Bay Area Skies, Becoming Social Media Stars Just in time for Halloween, webs full of baby spiders are falling from the sky across the Bay Area. Biologists insist they are harmless, but this sounds like an awesome set-up for a horror movie.
Arts & Entertainment Winchester Mystery House Celebrates 100th Anniversary With Whimsically Spooky ‘Unhinged: Housewarming’ As the Winchester Mystery House turns 100 years old, it brings a proper Halloween haunted house experience to the Bay Area’s favorite supposedly haunted house with Unhinged: Housewarming, a two-hour parade of installations and sight gags that are an absolute scream.
SF News Arrest Made In Late August Fatal Beating of Richmond Market Convenience Store Clerk Six weeks after Outer Richmond convenience store clerk Yowhannes “John” Tewelde was fatally beaten trying to stop a shoplifter, the SFPD has arrested 21-year-old Hollister resident Santos De La Rosa for the crime.
SF News Latest Busload of Migrants Shipped Out of Texas Lands in San Jose, Migrants Graciously Accepted A dozen undocumented immigrants arrived in San Jose on a bus from Texas this past weekend, and San Jose is making no apologies for rolling out the welcome mat with food, clothing, and medical care.
Bay Area Sports It’s Official: San Francisco Is Getting a WNBA Team, Starting In 2025 The increasingly popular WNBA announced at a Thursday morning press conference that they’re bringing a new expansion team to play at the Chase Center, as there will be a Golden State WNBA team starting in 2025.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Badlands in the Castro Just Officially Reopened Wednesday The Blue Angels start flying Thursday as the heat wave intensifies, Dianne Feinstein’s memorial announced it will not be open to the public, and the long-shuttered Castro bar Badlands just reopened under new management.
SF News Bayview RV Triage Center Extension Approved, But Critics Howling Over Its Very High Cost Headlines are blaring that the SF Board of Supervisors just approved the “most expensive homeless response” ever with $140,000-a-year RV parking spots at a Bayview RV triage center, but PG&E and Urban Alchemy are a big chunk of those costs.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Sued by One of Her Former Investigators, Who Claims She Lied in Dismissing Police Shooting Case Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
SF News Oakland Police Claim Early Success In Car Break-In Crackdown, Tout Seven Arrests in One Day With smash-and-grab auto burglaries up a stunning 40% over the last year in Oakland, police claim their new crackdown is getting results, with seven car break-in suspects arrested in three separate incidents last Thursday.
SF Politics New Senator Laphonza Butler Defends Her Work for Uber, Plus the Whole Living In Maryland Thing It was seen as perhaps a stumble out of the gate when newly appointed California senator Laphonza Butler was revealed to have been living in Maryland the last two years, so she did a little clean-up on that in her first-day-on-the-job interview with the Chronicle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DPW Employee May Be in Hot Water for Knocking Over Hot Dog Vendor’s Cart A big new heat wave arrives Wednesday, a 72-year-old woman was killed in an Oakland hit-and-run and her body wasn’t found until the next day, and social media is up in arms over a DPW worker’s treatment of a Fisherman’s Wharf hot dog vendor.
SF News Four More Racehorses Just Died In a Two-Week Span at Soon-To-Close Golden Gate Fields Berkeley’s Golden Gate Fields is still running races despite the July announcement of its permanent closure, but there are bound to be questions over how well they’re phasing out operations, as four horses have died there in the last two weeks.
Business & Tech Starbucks Is Closing Seven Downtown San Francisco Locations on October 22 The 59 Starbucks locations in San Francisco will be trimmed down later this month, with Starbucks telling managers that they are permanently closing seven SF stores on October 22, adding to the city's vacancy woes.
SF News Four SF Men Charged With Murder in Lower Haight June Homicide An early June shooting on the Lower Haight’s Rose Street took the life of 25-year-old Yeurra Blaylock III, but four San Francisco men have been arrested, charged, and are in custody for the killing.
SF News Report: Trans People Seven Times More Likely Than Cisgender People to Experience Violence In California An annual report detailing how many Californias were the victims of violence over the past year finds a slight dip in reported violence among most populations, but a sharp increase in reported violence against transgender people.
SF Politics Disgraced Former SF DBI Inspector Bernie Curran Gets Sentenced to Two More Years In Prison The feds already sentenced ex-DBI inspector Bernie Curran to a year and a day in prison back in July for taking bribes to grant permits, and now DA Brooke Jenkins has won another guilty plea on him, and got two more years added to his prison term.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SoMa Building That Houses Marlowe Might Get Torn Down to Build a Five-Story Building, Complicating Life for Marlowe Plans surfaced last week to tear down the 500 Brannan Street building that’s home to the decade-old bistro Marlowe, creating some uncertainty for Marlowe, which may have to become a pop-up or even move.
SF News Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court Program Starts Today, Can Force Severely Mentally Ill People Into Treatment San Francisco is one of seven California counties that begins Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court program today, a new system that can force mentally ill people into conservatorship and involuntary treatment.
SF News Possible Shark Attack In Point Reyes Leaves One Person Missing Eyewitnesses say a person was attacked by a shark and pulled under the water Sunday morning at Point Reyes’s Wildcat Beach, and despite an expansive search effort, the victim has still not been located.
SF Politics Now Elon Musk Says SF Supervisor Dean Preston ‘Should Go To Prison’ Twitter/X owner Elon Musk continues his obsession with District 5 supervisor Dean Preston, on Friday tweeting that “Dean Preston should go to prison,” prompting the tech PAC in line for Musk’s promised $100k donation to defeat Preston to say they’ll refuse the money.
SF News Oakland PD Announces Arrests of Ten Alleged Gang Members, All Tied to Carjackings and Armed Robberies As Oakland gets more restless over the city's current crime spike, Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland police held a Thursday press conference making a big to-do over the arrest of ten alleged gang members they say were running a significant carjacking and robbery ring.
SF News Millennium Tower Residents Stuck With Unanticipated $6.8 Million Tab For Repair Cost Overruns The good news is that the infamously leaning and sinking Millennium Tower seems on the way to being fixed. The bad news for homeowners at the tower is they just got hit with an unexpected $6.8 million bill for the repairs, with a due date of October 1.
SF Politics Oakland Police Chief Search Halted as Police Commissioners Boycott Their Own Meeting Some next-level dysfunction in the search for a new Oakland police chief, as the members of the Oakland Police Commission boycotted their own meeting Thursday, denying the commission quorum or the ability to make a vote.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Government Shutdown Could Indeed Cancel Blue Angels’ Fleet Week Air Show A man was found dead at the 16th Street BART Plaza, the first snow of the season is expected Saturday in the Sierras, and we now learn that a government shutdown could indeed cancel the Blue Angels air show component of Fleet Week.