SF News SF DA Charges Five SF Food Markets With Ringing Up $4 Million in Fraudulent Food Stamps Charges Three food markets in Chinatown, one in the Tenderloin, and another the Richmond District are accused of handing people cash for allowing the stores to ring up bogus EBT purchases to the tune of $4 million.
SF News Vallejo Is Whack: Guns and 11,000 Fentanyl Pills Seized at Daycare Center A series of raids across Solano County coordinated by the feds and the Vallejo Police Department seized dozens of illegal guns and a huge haul of drugs, and one of the sites raided was an in-home daycare center where feds found 11,000 fentanyl pills.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Today Was San Francisco’s Warmest Day So Far In 2025 Meta accidentally showed people a bunch of graphic videos and porn on Instagram Reels; a new video game makes Renel Brooks-Moon the Giants' PA announcer again; and SF temperatures went above 70 degrees today for the first time in 2025.
SF News SF Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk and Trump’s Mass Firing of Federal Employees A federal judge just took a chainsaw to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s attempt to mass-fire thousands of government employees, saying the DOGE team “does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe” to fire these workers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Union Square’s 52-Year-Old Extremely French Restaurant Jeanne D’Arc Has Permanently Closed The filet mignon, escargot, and live violin music are no longer a fixture at the Jeanne D’Arc restaurant beneath Union Square’s Cornell Hotel de France, as the restaurant has permanently shuttered, and will serve exclusively as an event space.
SF News After 33 Years, Bill Martin Delivers His Final KTVU Weather Forecast Tonight KTVU meteorologist Bill Martin started as a weekend weatherman at KTVU in 1992, also did the weather for KRON4 and KPIX, and delivers his final SF TV news weather forecast on KTVU Thursday night as he surfs off into retirement.
SF News Chico Couple Brags of Illegal Hunting to Plainclothes Officers, Promptly Gets Prosecuted A young couple from Chico bragged of having an endangered turtle’s skull and several illegally hunted animals to state wildlife agents, even though they knew these were state wildlife agents. Those agents raided that couple’s home the next day.
SF News Transit Nut Rides From SF to LA Only on Public Transportation, It Costs Him Just $61 (But Takes Two Whole Days) An ambitious transit enthusiast just rode all the way from San Francisco (actually Oakland) to Los Angeles, a trek that cost a mere $61, but took two full days to pull off, and required an overnight hotel stay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland’s Famed Everett & Jones BBQ Taking Over Vacant Lou’s Fish Shack Space in Fisherman’s Wharf Nearly five years since the closure of Fisherman’s Wharf seafood spot Lou’s Fish Shack, the space is finally getting new life, with a lease just awarded to 51-year-old Oakland barbecue institution Everett & Jones BBQ.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Now Facing Eighth (!) Futile Recall Attempt, But This Time Mel Gibson Is Involved Get ready for the eighth attempt to recall Governor Gavin Newsom in his six years in office, a recall attempt that just kicked off today, but maybe having the washed-up Mel Gibson on board will help this one make the ballot and lose by 25 percentage points again.
SF News Beware: Those ‘Unpaid Parking Invoice’ Tickets Texts Are a Complete Scam, Everybody An untold number of San Franciscans have received a text message claiming they owe money for unpaid parking tickets, but this is a pretty poorly executed scam that appears to have its origins outside the US.
SF News New Investigation Into Teen Found Dead In SF Driveway Paints Damning Picture of For-Profit Mental Health System Before Jázmin Pellegrini was found dead in an Oceanview driveway last year, she’d been through the ringer of dozens of hospitalizations, discharges, and drug regimens at for-profit health facilities that made a litany of highly questionable decisions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Remember, the Central Subway Is Closing for a Few Weeks, Starting Wednesday Mayor Lurie is ordering all City Hall workers back to the office; there was a stabbing at a Santa Rosa high school Tuesday; and the Central Subway is about to close for 17 days, starting tomorrow.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Oust Vice President of SF Police Commission, Basically Because Mayor Lurie Told Them To SF Police Commission VP Max Carter-Oberstone was just removed from the commission Tuesday afternoon during a very rowdy hearing, after Carter-Oberstone crossed Mayor Breed who appointed him, and new Mayor Lurie settled the old political score for her.
SF News Highway 24 In Oakland Reopened After Freeway Shooting Investigation All lanes of eastbound Highway 24 in Oakland near Broadway were closed from about 1 pm to 3 pm Tuesday afternoon, as it appears that there was a shooting, and the victim apparently abandoned their vehicle but survived.
SF News Ex-DA Pamela Price Rebuked, As Judge Throws Out Sentence Enhancements She Allegedly Filed as Retaliation Former Alameda County DA Pamela Price continues her losing streak even after her recall, as one of her rare sentencing enhancements was just tossed by a judge amidst evidence that she charged the enhancement merely as revenge against an attorney.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Korean Mega Mart Offshoot Jagalchi Announces Its Serramonte Mall Opening Date The former JCPenney at the Serramonte Center will be reborn as the 75,000 square-foot Korean market, restaurant, and bazaar Jagalchi, a high-end offshoot of the Korean grocer Mega Mart, opening on Friday, March 28.
SF News One Motorcycle Rider Killed, Another Injured In San Leandro, After 100 Bikers Disabled Train Arm For some reason, a group of an estimated 100 motorcyclists lifted the no-crossing arm at a train crossing when an incoming train was coming down the tracks in San Leandro Sunday, and a predictable accident and fatality followed.
Arts & Entertainment Ill-Fated Mission Street Bar Location Gets Yet Another New Incarnation: A Billiards Hall The Mission and 21st street bar location that’s been 12 Galaxies, the Blue Macaw, Balançoire, and seemingly countless other venues since has a new tenant lined up, a high-end pool hall called Hall Bar & Billiards.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Famed Crème Brûlée Cart Guy Curtis Kimball Has Died From a Heart Condition One of SF’s famed street food pioneers Curtis Kimball, first known as the Crème Brûlée Cart Guy and later as the Pancake Party Guy, died last week from an aortic aneurysm.
Arts & Entertainment Regency Ballroom Has Completed Multi-Million-Dollar Renovation, Including Gold Sink Faucets The Regency Ballroom has for years been operated by the Coachella promoter Goldenvoice, who have just made the ballroom’s bathroom sink faucets golden, and redone the sound system in a multi-million-dollar renovation completed last month.
SF News Four High School Students In Santa Rosa Overdosed This Weekend, Two of Them Fatally, Suspected Dealer Arrested Tragic news broke from Santa Rosa Sunday night, as two separate overdose incidents took the lives of two high school students and hospitalized two others, and a suspected fentanyl dealer has been arrested.
SF News CHP Pulls Over Speeding Driver on I-580, Finds 270 Pounds of Marijuana in Car Pro tip: If you have 270 pounds of illegal marijuana in your car, do not drive at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour, as you are likely to attract Highway Patrol attention. One driver learned that the hard way Wednesday night in Dublin.
Arts & Entertainment 45-Foot Statue of Nude Woman Not Coming to Union Square After All, But Might End at Embarcadero Plaza A giant statue of a nude woman that debuted at Burning Man 2015 will not be installed in Union Square as planned, as it is apparently a risk for the plaza’s tiles, though there is a Plan B afoot to bring it to the Embarcadero Plaza.
SF Politics SFPD Union Very Bluntly Uninvites Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff From Upcoming Event The SF Police Officers Association’s event celebrating 50 years of women on the force is the day after the vote to oust San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus from office, and the SF officers’ union sent Corpus a pointed letter saying she is not welcome.
