SF News SoCal Defendant Takes Stand In Case of Teen Prank Gone Bad That Left Three Youngsters Dead A prank that went wrong and left three teenagers dead has brought a trial of the man who chased after them in his car, and it doesn’t look good for him that he admitted to driving 99 mph after drinking 12 beers.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Announces 2023 Lineup: Flaming Lips, Indigo Girls, Patti Smith, And More The 2023 Stern Grove Festival announced its 2023 summer lineup Tuesday morning, with the Flaming Lips, plus Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, the Indigo Girls, and plenty more.
SF News Arrest Warrant Issued for Oakland Police Officer On Suspicion of Perjury, Bribery It’s likely to cause more tension between the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County DA Pamela Price that Price has issued an arrest warrant for OPD officer Phong Tran on five felony counts of perjury and bribery.
SF News Supes Take Up New Legislation Over High-Rise Windows Breaking, Windows May Have Been From Same Manufacturer In the aftermath of this winter’s slew of storms breaking high-rise windows and blowing panels off buildings, the SF Board of Supervisors is learning that many of the broken windows may be from the same manufacturer.
SF News Preliminary Hearings Begin In Trial of Fatal Freeway Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu In a case that had already become quite controversial before the trial has even started, preliminary hearings started Monday morning for the suspected freeway gang shooting that took the life of two-year-old Jasper Wu.
SF News [Update] 81-Year-Old Woman Being Evicted From Upper Haight Condo Hits Back With Lawsuit In a sad tale that combines predatory lending with the seeming financial abuse of an elder, an 81-year-old woman’s Upper Haight condo was auctioned at a fraction of its value, and the new buyer gave her a three-day notice on Friday. But now she’s suing.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
SF News Goats Gone Wild Again, Dozens Escape to Rampage Near Fisherman’s Wharf Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
SF News Two Congressional Reps Call for DOJ Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch Police Department As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Plan For Infamous, Rejected 27-Story Residential Tower In SoMa That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 4/20 Blankets Hippie Hill With Pot Smoke, Erykah Badu Exhorts Crowd To Smoke Even More Erykah Badu hit high notes at the most entertaining 4:20 countdown yet at Hippie Hill, as what appeared to be 20,000 happy stoners blazed up a gargantuan cloud of marijuana smoke for a blissed-out 4/20 celebration.
SF News Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000 The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Move to Las Vegas Looks Like a Done Deal, Team Just Bought Stadium Site, But Who Knows A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
SF News SFMTA Board Member Admits to Illegally Lobbying City Hall Colleagues To Get Permits for Italian Restaurant Vice chair of the SFMTA Board of Directors Gwyneth Borden took an undisclosed $12,500 to help a Sunset District Italian restaurant, and worked the Planning Commission she used to be a member of to help the restaurant get permits for a roof deck.
SF Politics Four Candidates Already In Race For Ronen’s District 9 Seat, as She’s Termed Out Next Year Nearly 19 months before the November 2024 election, four candidates already say they’re running for the District 9 seat from which Hillary Ronen will be termed out, a real contrast from the other five 2024 SF supervisor races where no one has really declared.
SF News Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Shot and Killed When Confronting Shoplifter A 26-year old Home Depot employee was shot and killed on the job in Pleasanton Tuesday afternoon while trying to thwart a shoplifter, in a story that gets more heartbreaking when we learn that the shooter had a getaway car with a young child inside.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Announces Single-Day Lineups Fox News settled their Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit for nearly $800 million, the Petaluma “mommy influencer” headed to court today over her allegedly faked kidnapping story, and Outside Lands announced its single-day schedules.
SF News ‘$1.7 Million Toilet’ Controversy Toilet Comes Out OK In the End, Supes Approve Lower-Cost Project After the $1.7 million toilet project released a torrent of outrage, the SF Board of Supervisors plopped down the cost with donations and state grants, approving the Noe Valley bathroom and maybe even a Precita Park bathroom too.
Arts & Entertainment SF SPCA Celebrates 155th Anniversary Tuesday Night With ‘Late Night Wooftop Party’ The San Francisco SPCA is fur-nishing cocktails, bites, and DJ dancing at Thursday night’s Late Night Wooftop Party at Dandelion Chocolate Factory, with animal therapy pets on hand to greet you.
SF News Berkeley Gets Burned as Federal Appeals Court Overturns Berkeley’s Natural Gas Ban The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned Berkeley’s ban on natural gas in new construction, which could have national repercussions as other cities consider phasing out natural gas stoves, furnaces, and water heaters.
SF News City Hall Inches Forward to Landmark Castro Theatre Seats, Old Contract Comes Back To Haunt Another Planet An SF Board of Supervisors committee was in favor of saving the Castro Theatre seats at a Monday hearing, and while the vote is nowhere near final, they brought up a skeleton in Another Planet Entertainment’s closet regarding millions in unfinished renovations at Bill Graham Auditorium.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Falcon, Who Mated With Berkeley-Born Falcon, Has Died 85% of Bay Area cities still have not passed their Housing Element, the latest Omicron subvariant may be causing pinkeye, and a falcon who mated with the son of our beloved Berkeley falcons Annie and Grinnell has died from avian flu.
SF News Shady COVID Street Testing Sites, Offering $5 Cash Per Test, Appear Unlicensed A slew of very informal-looking COVID-19 testing sites, paying people $5 a pop to take tests, is drawing another round of scrutiny for their lack of licensed staff and apparent flouting of public health protocols.
SF News Victim In 1998 Santa Cruz Murder Case Finally Identified Though Forensic Technology The John Doe in a 24-year-old Santa Cruz murder case is no longer a John Doe, as he has been identified as Eric Cupo, though the suspects pleaded guilty back in 2000 and have been locked up since.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Investigating Last Week’s Fatal Police Shooting in Newark While it’s unclear whether Newark police, Fremont police, or an Alameda County officer fired the fatal shot in a suspected East Bay carjacking last week, the state attorney general took up an investigation of the police shooting the day after it happened.