SF Politics Kim Guilfoyle Surprisingly Praises Her ‘Very Good Relationship’ With Gavin Newsom, Stays Mum on Donald Trump Jr Gavin Newsom’s ex-wife Kim Guilfoyle was unexpectedly complimentary towards Gavin in her first TV interview as the sitting US ambassador to Greece, but she oddly had nothing nice to say about her more recent fiancé Donald Trump Jr.
SF News Football Coach John Beam Has Died After Being Shot Thursday at Laney College Legendary local football coach and Laney College athletic director John Beam died from his gunshot wounds Friday morning, after being shot Thursday at Laney College, tragically ending his 43 years as an Oakland sports father figure.
SF Politics Trump Administration Unleashes Mortgage Fraud Investigation on Eric Swalwell, His East Bay Enemy in Congress Trump’s Department of Justice has opened a probe into East Bay Congressman and Trump enemy Eric Swalwell for mortgage fraud, though several members of Trump’s cabinet have engaged in the same mortgage practices as Swalwell.
SF Politics New SF Supervisor Beya Alcaraz Abruptly Resigns After New Revelations on Potential Tax Fraud at Pet Shop After reports broke late Thursday that new SF District 4 Supervisor Beya Alcaraz had paid employees under the table and misrepresented expenses on her taxes, Alcaraz resigned from her supervisor seat about four hours later.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Valencia Street’s Artists’ Television Access Threatened by Massive Back Rent Debt Trump’s Justice Department is suing California to block Prop 50; Whoopi Goldberg brought Berkeley’s famed Top Dog hot dogs onto ‘The View,’ and Valencia Street’s ATA is in dire straits with a $45,000 back rent bill.
SF News California Revokes 17,000 Immigrants’ Commercial Driver’s Licenses After Pressure From Trump Administration More than 17,000 California commercial driver’s licenses issued to immigrants have been revoked, as the state speeds up to comply with new federal rules that driver’s licenses can’t be valid for those no longer legally allowed to be in the US.
SF News Legendary Oakland Football Coach Celebrated in Netflix Series Shot at Laney College It’s Oakland’s second school shooting in two days, with Laney College on lockdown Thursday over an active shooter, and the man who was shot was the school's famed former football coach who was featured in a 2020 Netflix series.
Arts & Entertainment Epic New Santacon Documentary Traces the Event's Rise and Fall, and It’s Streaming This Weekend A new documentary details how Santacon evolved from a clever SF culture prank to a widely despised black-out-and-vomit nuisance event, and that feature documentary is streaming this weekend for $15.
SF Politics SF’s Trumper Archbishop Rebukes Trump For Once, Condemns Immigration Crackdown The new “woke pope” seems to be trickling his wokeness down to even the ultraconservative Archbishop of San Francisco, who just joined more than 200 other US bishops in condemning Trump’s immigration crackdown.
SF News BART Service Impacted by ‘Unstable Individual' Barricading Self at Train Yard In Hayward BART officials say that an “unstable individual” with a knife barricaded themselves in the Hayward BART maintenance complex for about four hours Thursday morning, though that person has been taken into custody and trains are largely back on schedule.
SF Politics San Leandro City Councilmember Dragged Into Sheng Thao Scandal May Be on Verge of the Feds Flipping Him A big fish in the Sheng Thao scandal may be ready to turn evidence against Thao and the people accused of bribing her, as San Leandro City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo might sing like a bird to avoid his own bribery charges.
SF News Someone Finally Bought the Beleaguered Former Westfield Mall, at Just 10% of Its Previous Value A conglomerate of big-name banks just finally bought the San Francisco Centre mall for a fraction of its previous value, though this tells us nothing about what will happen to the mall, as those banks are just going to sell the place again.
SF News Lurie’s Latest Fentanyl-Fighting Strategy Is to Arrest Drug Users and Put Them in a ‘Sobering Center’ A vacant city-owned warehouse is going to become the “drunk tank” for people on drugs, as arresting people and trying to sober them up is Mayor Lurie’s latest attempt to cut down on drug use on San Francisco streets.
SF News Castro Valley Road Rage Incident Takes Life of Father of Nine A Saturday night road Castro Valley car crash and subsequent brawl is being investigated as road rage, and the 49-year-old man killed in the incident was a father of nine taking his kids for ice cream.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Macy’s Holiday Tree Is Lit Back Up Again, Everybody The rain returns Wednesday in all likelihood; BART is jacking up its parking lot prices by as much as 30% on January 1; and the Macy's Union Square Holiday Tree was lit back up again Monday night with marginal fanfare.
SF News Utah Woman Has Been Missing From Santa Cruz For Five Days, Authorities Begin to Suspect Foul Play A 35-year-old Utah woman last seen at a beach bonfire the night of Thursday, November 6 at Rio Del Mar Beach has been missing for five days, and authorities are now finding reason to suspect her disappearance may have been foul play.
SF News Tahoe Black Bear Makes Self at Home on Holiday Ice Rink at Heavenly Ski Resort Before the ice rink at the Tahoe ski resort Heavenly had even opened to the public, a well-known local bear named Charlie decided to test the ice out for himself, and no one was going to tell him he had to leave.
SF Politics Lurie’s New Supervisor Appointee Faces Bizarre Scandal Over Filthy Conditions, Dead Animals at Pet Store As new SF supervisor Beya Alcaraz faces a fresh new scandal about a freezer full of dead animals and a mouse infestation, it seems Mayor Daniel Lurie may not have background-checked his new District 4 supervisor pick very thoroughly.
SF Politics Fistfight Kicks Off Charlie Kirk Tribute Event In Berkeley, Four People End Up Getting Arrested The Charlie Kirk traveling memorial show had its stop in Berkeley Monday night, and one guy hawking Jesus t-shirts got bloodied up in a lone fistfight, though it was otherwise a long night of garden-variety Berkeley rabble-rousing.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari Is More Expensive This Year, Thanks to Trump’s Tariffs Donald Trump’s tariffs are making it a zoo out there on Americans' finances, as the Oakland Zoo’s holiday spectacular Glowfari is more expensive this year because of Trump’s tariffs on illuminated display equipment from China.
SF News SFPD Raid Yielded 86 Arrests But Only One Drug-Dealing Charge, and That Person Was Just Found Not Guilty A very anticlimactic ending to that much-ballyhooed February SFPD raid of Jefferson Square Park where 86 people were arrested: Only one suspect actually faced felony drug charges, and he was just acquitted of those charges.
SF News Renowned SF Filmmaker Kevin Epps Went On Trial Today for 2016 Murder Charge ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ director Kevin Epps saw his life go sideways, from making movies with Spike Lee to being charged with a 2016 homicide. This odd tale continues as his murder trial began today.
SF News Watch: Memorial for the Late, Great Local Broadcaster Belva Davis All the big local news outlets were live-streaming today’s memorial service for the West Coast’s first Black female TV reporter, Belva Davis, after the trailblazing 92-year-old’s death in late September.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Get Boat-Raced by Rams 42-26, Giving Up Six Touchdowns In One Afternoon The 49ers lost some pretty significant ground in the playoff race with a 42-26 loss to the LA Rams on Sunday, and are now nearly two games behind those Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC West standings.
SF News SF’s China Beach Reopens Amid Government Shutdown, Because Someone Did a GoFundMe Here’s one way to take matters into your own hands when the federal government is shut down, as one frequent swimmer at SF’s China Beach saw the beach was closed for the shutdown, so he simply GoFundMe’d up the money to reopen it.
