SF Politics Irate Gavin Newsom Wants to Dox Judge Who Blocked Encampment Sweeps Well, this is Trump-y. Displeased with legal rulings blocking encampment sweeps, a testy Gavin Newsom declared he wanted to post “a big sign with the judge’s phone number saying, ‘Call the judge.’”
Business & Tech Marc Benioff Threatens to Move Dreamforce Conference Out of SF Over Homelessness, Drug Use The annual Dreamforce convention is still set to begin less than two weeks from now, but Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is threatening to move the whole shebang elsewhere if he thinks drug use and homelessness disrupt this year’s event.
SF News Richmond Market Store Clerk Has Died From Head Injuries After Assault by Alleged Shoplifter After the cashier at an Outer Richmond convenience store was struck with a bat in an alleged shoplifting incident last Thursday, that 60-year-old cashier Yowhannes “John” Tewelde died from his injuries Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Flower Piano Returns Next Week, and the Schedule Has Been Posted A beloved Outer Richmond corner store clerk has died from a beating allegedly by a shoplifter, permanent school closures may be discussed at tonight’s SFUSD board meeting, while Flower Piano returns to Golden Gate Park next weekend and the schedule has been posted.
SF News Feds Finally Manage to Arrest Sideshow Driver From Infamous Viral AK-47 Image A July 2021 sideshow produced a notorious image of a woman hanging out of the window of a Cadillac brandishing an AK-47. And now, after a two-year investigation, federal prosecutors have finally found and arrested the alleged driver.
SF News Oakland’s Chabot Elementary School Shut Down Tuesday Over Bomb Threat With ‘Racial Undertone’ A Rockridge elementary school was forced to close Tuesday after a bomb threat police described as having “a racial undertone,” the day after a prominent right-wing social media account made the inaccurate claim the school had an event that excluded white students.
SF News California Now Paying Meth, Cocaine Users to Stay Clean, SF Users Eligible for the Program People struggling with meth or cocaine addiction can earn up to $599 in gift cards to stay away from the stuff under a news state program, and San Francisco is one of the participating counties.
SF News [Update] Beloved Corner Store Clerk Reportedly Dead After Alleged Baseball-Bat Beating From Shoplifter The longtime cashier at the Outer Richmond corner store Richmond Market has reportedly died after an alleged baseball bat attack at the hands of a shoplifter who made off with a bottle of water and two beers, and is still at large.
SF News Fired Vallejo Cop Who Killed Sean Monterrosa Gets His Job Back — With Back Pay and Benefits, Too It took the Vallejo Police Department 15 months to fire the officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa. But now less than ten months after that firing, the officer is getting his job back, and with back pay to boot.
SF Politics [Update] SF ‘Doom Loop Tour’ Host Cancels at Last Minute, Unintentionally Outs Himself, Resigns From Commission The much-ballyhooed “Doom Loop Walking Tour” unsurprisingly got called off shortly before it was supposed to happen Saturday, but by canceling it, the anonymous City Hall commissioner who posted the tour accidentally made his identity public.
SF News ‘Pirates’ Pulling Increasingly Brazen Thefts at the Docks of Oakland’s Marinas A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
SF News Emeryville Mall Brawl Between Hundreds of Teens Leaves One Stabbed, One Arrested The Bay Street Emeryville mall was the scene of a large-scale teenage donnybrook starting late Sunday afternoon and lasting well into the evening, with a gunshot fired, and one juvenile stabbed and hospitalized.
SF News Uber and Lyft Drivers Detail Five Most Common Screw-Ups Made by Self-Driving Cars There’s no love lost between human rideshare drivers and the self-driving car companies that hope to replace them, but the rideshare drivers are quick to point out that the robotaxis are nowhere near up to the task yet.
SF News Oakland Woman Arrested for Dealing Drugs in Tenderloin Had Two-Year-Old With Her When Arrested A 21-year-old Oakland woman was arrested in a Tenderloin drug bust that turned up more than three pounds of illegal narcotics, and, more shockingly, she had her two-year-old child with her when arrested.
SF News Meet the First 17 Pop-Ups That the City Will Pay to Live Rent-Free Downtown In Revitalization Effort We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.
SF News Viral ‘Police Sit Back & Watch’ Alamo Square Video Was Edited, SFPD Did Pursue Suspect A viral video has racked up nearly a million views claiming “Police Sit Back & Watch” in an Alamo Square theft case, but the video edits out the part where police gave chase, and the stolen items were all recovered.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Supper Club Reducing Its Hours Because of Crime An early morning Bay Bridge toll plaza shooting left one woman injured, DA Jenkins won convictions on a man accused of attacking two women in SoMa, and the Black Cat jazz bar is scaling back its hours over crime concerns.
Arts & Entertainment Welp, Time to Add Carlos Santana to the Anti-Trans Celebrity List After Bizarre Onstage Rant Get ready for guitarist Carlos Santana to be the latest right-wing hero, as video just surfaced of him launching into a completely unprovoked transphobic rant at a late July Santana show in Atlantic City.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boom! Bissap Baobab Gets Their Liquor License After Year-Long Fight With NIMBY Neighbors The new Mission Street location of Bissap Baobab opened nearly a year ago, and the neighbors were battling its alcohol licenses before it even opened. But the state just granted Bissap Baobab a full liquor license.
SF News Today Marks the Nine-Year Anniversary of the 6.0 Napa Earthquake That Injured 208 People Wine country was rocked nine years ago today by the South Napa Earthquake, which caused at least $400 million worth of damage to the county, and caused one death and more than 200 injuries.
SF Politics Disgraced Ex-DBI Head Rodrigo Santos to Be Sentenced Friday for Corruption That Apparently Spanned Decades On the eve of former DBI commission president Rodrigo Santos’s federal sentencing Friday for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to the FBI, a new report delves into his corrupt exploits that allegedly date back to at least 2005.
SF News Mayor Breed Still Pushing This Curious Idea of Turning Westfield Mall Into a Soccer Stadium An off-the-cuff remark by Mayor Breed in June apparently has fresh legs, as she said Tuesday that the city has now retained an architecture firm for a preliminary design work on a possible soccer stadium to replace the beleaguered Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF Politics Raucous Rallies Outside Courthouse As Court Hears Appeal of SF Encampment Sweep Ban, But Gives No Decision Even Mayor London Breed was out shouting down the opposition at a Wednesday morning protest and counterprotest before an appeals hearing on the SF encampment sweep ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the protesters and rendered no decision today.
SF News Sausalito Apartment Complex Trying to Evict Tenants From All 39 Units, Including 93-Year-Old Woman The owner of a 39-unit apartment building in Sausalito is evicting literally everyone in order to renovate the place and jack up the rents, even giving a 93-year-old woman notice that she has to be out in two months.
SF News San Mateo County Beach Closed After ‘Aggressive Shark’ Incident A stretch of Bean Hollow State Beach near Pescadero was closed Wednesday morning, after a report of “aggressive shark behavior” that left one kayaker rattled but unharmed.