SF News Family of 18-Year-Old Missing Since Halloween Says Her Body Has Been Found by Police Divers 18-year-old Mai Sai Vue had not been seen since 11 pm on Halloween night, but according to her family, her body was recovered by police divers on Thanksgiving Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Daniel Lurie Will Take a $1 Salary When He Becomes Mayor A woman was struck in an allegedly intentional Mission District hit-and-run; Wells Fargo is selling off its Financial District headquarters; and Daniel Lurie will be paid $1 a year when he takes over as mayor next month.
Business & Tech Tesla Temporarily Halts Cybertruck Production, Amidst Rumors of Slumping Demand Assembly line workers at a Tesla production plant that makes Cybertrucks were told to take the next three days off, without explanation, and the Tesla rumor mill says it may be because of declining sales.
SF News 14-Year-Old Mystery of 4,000 Human Bones Found at Fort Mason May Be Finally Solved Work crews made the gruesome discovery of 4,000 human bones from the Civil War era at Fort Mason Back in 2010. Now researchers think they’ve found the culprit behind them, a famed 1870s doctor who specialized in amputations.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Opening Two New Movie Theaters In the South Bay Santa Clara and Mountain View will both be getting new Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters this summer, as the hip theater chain is taking over two abandoned shopping mall movie theaters with plans to revitalize them.
SF News DA Jenkins Won’t Charge Suspect in Last Month’s Market Street Stabbing A mid-November fatal stabbing on Market Street outside the Embarcadero BART station will not be charged as a murder, as DA Brooke Jenkins says her office cannot prove the suspect wasn’t acting in self-defense.
SF News Report: SFUSD School Closures Would Have Sent Kids to Lower-Performing Schools Some damning new documents have been unearthed that show the spectacular mess that is the SF Unified School District bureaucracy, and how the school closures would have sent many kids to even worse schools than they'd previously attended.
Bay Area Sports WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries Announce 2025 Schedule (and the Games When Caitlin Clark is Coming to Town) The full season schedule for our new women’s pro basketball team the Golden State Valkyries was just released, with their first game in May bringing Stanford star Cameron Brink back to the Bay, and Caitlin Clark coming to the Chase Center twice.
Arts & Entertainment Lights Out: LED Forest ‘Entwined’ Sadly Not Returning to Golden Gate Park for the Holidays This Year An LED letdown for fans of dazzling holiday lights, as the popular LED forest installation “Entwined” will not be returning to Golden Gate Park for the holiday season in 2024, though there’s still a big Holiday Tree Lighting in the park Thursday night.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver In Marin County Drives Ferrari Right Into Richardson Bay A man who was allegedly driving drunk in Mill Valley Friday managed to drive his luxury Ferrari off the road and deep into the muck of Richardson Bay, creating quite a challenge for a tow truck operator.
Arts & Entertainment Annual Alcatraz ‘Unthanksgiving’ Sunrise Ceremony Is On for Thursday Morning, Will be Streaming Online SF’s most untraditional Thanksgiving tradition continues early Thursday morning, as the Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island returns, and will be streamed online.
Arts & Entertainment No ‘Nutcracker’ This Year? SF Ballet Labor Dispute Threatens Beloved Annual Show San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
SF News SF Man to Be Sentenced In Brutal Domestic Violence Case Where He Hung Wife’s French Bulldog A 36-year-old San Francisco man not only beat his estranged wife for five hours, but also hung her French bulldog from a stairway banister, and today he’ll be sentenced to as many as ten years in prison.
SF News Three Dead, One Injured In Early Morning Fiery Cybertruck Crash In Piedmont A Tesla Cybertruck jumped a curb, hit a cement wall, and burst into flames just after 3 am Wednesday morning in Piedmont, and three of the four occupants in the car died at the scene.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giant Holiday Wine Barrel Tree Lighting Up in St. Helena Wednesday Former Rep. Katie Porter has filed for a restraining order against an ex-boyfriend; the long-vacant Lombardi Sports building in Russian Hill finally has a tenant; and the lighting of a 36-foot-tall wine barrel tree kicks off the holiday season Wednesday night in St. Helena.
SF News Woman Who’s Been Serially Menacing Children in SF Parks Has Been Charged and Detained 37-year-old Kim Andrews is well-known to parents and nannies as someone who frequently makes violent threats toward small children, but her four-year run of terrorizing kids may be over, as she’s been arrested and may be detained indefinitely.
SF News Suspected DUI Driver Kills Two, Injures Three Others In Ingleside Crash A tragic Monday morning car crash took the lives of two women while injuring three other people in the Ingleside District, and SFPD is charging a 21-year-old Santa Rosa man with driving under the influence.
SF News SF’s ‘Bus the Homeless Out of Town’ Strategy Now Catching On With Other California Cities A few other California cities are duplicating San Francisco’s tactic to merely hand the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town, not because it's proven to be a particularly effective strategy, but more because it's just cheap and easy.
SF Politics FBI Probe That Brought Raid of Sheng Thao’s Home Has Witnesses Giving Closed-Door Testimony The FBI appears to be making progress in whatever investigation resulted in the June raid of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s home, as witnesses are being subpoenaed, but we still don’t know why the raid happened or who the FBI’s suspects are.
Bay Area Sports Judge Won't Block San Jose State From Conference Volleyball Tournament Over Alleged Transgender Player The San Jose State Spartans women’s volleyball team will still compete in the Mountain West Tournament this week, after a judge just refused to rule the team out of the tournament following a lawsuit from nine players over a supposedly transgender player.
Arts & Entertainment Pictures: They’ve Got Baby Reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences for the Next Two Weeks for a Holiday Exhibit This is not the kind of baby reindeer you see on Netflix, but instead real, live baby reindeer at the Cal Academy of Sciences through December 5, and the museum is also bringing in baby camels and baby yaks for their ‘Tis the Season for Science’ exhibit.
SF News SF-Bashing Twitter Troll ‘Raw Ricci’ Arrested for Allegedly Pimping Women Out of His Luxury SoMa Apartment One of SF's most notorious Twitter provocateurs and “anti-crime” Fox News guests finds himself in SF County Jail today, after being arrested at SFO on pimping and pandering charges that allege he ran a sex work ring from his upscale apartment.
SF News BART Police Arrest Man for Fare Evasion, He Turns Out to Be an SF Murder Suspect A routine fare evasion arrest at the Bay Fair BART station turned up a suspect for a San Francisco murder, and 36-year-old Johnathon Calvin Wright was handed over to SFPD and is now in County Jail on that murder charge.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Lake Tahoe Is Getting An Electric ‘Hydrofoil’ To Speed You Across the Lake In 30 Minutes Time The first ever electric hydrofoil watercraft in the US is coming to Lake Tahoe, promising to be the fastest craft on the water with "hydrofoil wings” that appear to make it fly.
