SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Celeb Chef Tyler Florence Plans New Wayfare Tavern In FiDi’s Former Dar Fatma And GNC Store It’s unclear whether Wayfare Tavern is moving, or if they’re just opening a second space, but Food Network personality Tyler Florence is the latest to make a big new bet on downtown with reported plans for a new Wayfare Tavern location at Pine and Battery Streets.
SF News Capp Street Gets Bigger New Concrete Barricades, Firefighters Union Sounds Off Angrily On Twitter A new set of heavier and more immovable concrete barriers went up to deter the sex work trade on Capp Street this weekend, but the local firefighters union took to Twitter to decry what they see as a public safety risk.
SF News Alleged Synagogue Shooter Pleads Not Guilty, But Gets Denied Release From Jail 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin had his first court appearance Friday over firing a round of blanks inside a Richmond District synagogue, and while he pleaded not guilty to firearm and hate crime charges, the judge denied his release saying he may still pose a threat to the community.
SF News Sunset Home Explosion Suspect Granted Bail, Ordered Released, Neighboring Family Remains Homeless Darron Price, the man whose alleged hash oil operation is suspected of blowing up his home and killing his wife, has been ordered released to home detention. It’s unclear what home he has to go to, but a neighboring family is also very much without a home.
SF News SF Mom Accused of Killing Two Daughters Can Be Tried For Murder, Judge Rules An SF Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the Hunters Point mother accused of killing her two young daughters can be charged with felony murder, but prosecutors may hit a snag because the children’s cause of death is still not determined.
SF News SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman Won't Be Arraigned Until Next Month Foster Gwin Gallery owner Collier Gwin, who held the hose in last month’s ‘spray seen ‘round the world,’ was scheduled to appear for his arraignment in San Francisco Superior Court today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Is Ending The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency On February 28 The new street drug “tranq” has been found in the blood streams of SF overdose victims, Depeche Mode announced they’re playing the Chase Center in December, and SF’s COVID-19 public health emergency declaration will end on February 28.
SF Politics Supporters Rally To Get Fired Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong His Job Back Less than 24 hours after Oakland mayor Sheng Thao fired police chief LeRonne Armstrong over the alleged mishandling of an internal investigation, Armstrong’s supporters gave an earful at Oakland City Hall Thursday afternoon demanding Armstrong be reinstated.
SF News San Jose Police Seek Tenderloin Mother And Two-Year-Old She Allegedly Abducted Police in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland are all on the lookout for a mother they describe as a “heavy drug user,” and whom they believe abducted the two-year-old whom she lost custody of, now missing for 24 hours.
SF News Brawl Between Families Outside Sacramento Courthouse After Alleged DUI That Killed Five The first court appearance for an alleged DUI driver in an accident that killed five people was more notable for what happened outside the Sacramento courthouse, as a brawl broke out between families of the victims and the accused.
SF News New Castro Homeless Outreach Program Touts Early Results, Might Have a Working Blueprint A targeted, one-on-one homeless outreach in the program has gotten nearly half of the neighborhood’s “hard-core unhoused people” into shelter, and may be replicable elsewhere in the city, but requires significant staff and budget.
Business & Tech Report: Angry Elon Musk Alters Twitter Algorithm To Force More People To See His Tweets Furious that President Biden’s Super Bowl tweets got better engagement than his, Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter engineers to rejigger the algorithm so more people would see his tweets.
SF Politics Supervisor Hillary Ronen Introduces Legislation To Legalize Sex Work As the sex worker controversy roils Capp Street, the district’s supervisor Hillary Ronen has unveiled legislation hoping to legalize sex work, though it really just asks the state legislature to do it.
SF News Activists Rally for Reparations at Third Baptist Church Town Hall Meeting A Valentine’s Day town hall meeting at Third Baptist Church brought famed civil rights attorney John Burris and other supporters of the controversial $5 million per eligible person reparations plan, with Rev. Amos Brown calling reparations opponents the “personification of evil.”
SF Politics DA Jenkins and Supervisor Dorsey Both Seek Carve-Outs To SF Sanctuary City Policies San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy may become a hot potato again, this time in local politics, as DA Jenkins seeks an exception for two suspects abroad, and Sup. Dorsey wants an exception for fentanyl dealers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Pops In To SF Board of Supervisors Meeting A new lawsuit could double the cost of the Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention net, Bruce Springsteen is playing the Chase Center in December, and Nancy Pelosi was the guest of honor at today’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting.
Arts & Entertainment Meet Your 2023 'Hearts in San Francisco,' Now On Display at the Ferry Building SF’s annual display of giant Valentine’s hearts beats on for its 20th year, and here’s your Hearts of SF class of 2023, which will remain at the Ferry Building through February 28.
SF News All-Female UCSF Surgical Team Performs Heart Transplant Surgery, In Likely Historical First Some historic heart-related news on Valentine's Day, as UCSF has recorded the first heart transplant performed entirely by a team of women — a first for the school, and possibly the first in history.
SF News Ransomware Attack On City of Oakland Leaves City Hall Closed, Many Systems Still Paralyzed A ransomware attack on the City of Oakland is now dragging into its sixth day, and the city’s IT department “has taken affected systems offline” to try to minimize the damage.
SF News Rejoice, Outer Richmond: The 1X-California Express Bus Returns This Month, Though With Very Limited Service The 1-California’s express bus was halted by the pandemic, but returns February 21, though will only run a few times a day during weekday commute hours.
SF News Berkeley Man Gets Four Years Prison for Selling Fentanyl and Meth to Undercover Agent In Tenderloin 20-year-old David Ordonez of Berkeley pleaded guilty to selling 90 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of meth to an undercover agent, but the larger problem was probably his backpack crammed with 1,120 grams of fentanyl.
SF News Los Altos Hills Homeowner Is Giving the ‘Builder’s Remedy’ a Go, Submits Plans to Build 20-Unit Complex On His Property In what appears to be the first Bay Area attempt at the “builder’s remedy” for a town without an approved housing element, a Los Altos Hills property owner is trying to subdivide his home into 20 units. Though he admits that if the scheme works, he’s just going to sell the property and move.
SF News East Bay Bike Party Marred By Alleged Multiple Instances of Car-Dooring, Two Injured A half-dozen or more separate incidents of cars allegeldy dooring bicyclists took place in the lead-up to and the wake of Friday’s East Bay Bike party, and the bicyclists say 14 of them were targeted, and at least two suffered serious injuries.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Champagne Cabaret’ at the Great Star Theater Is a High-Flying, Lowbrow Valentine's Date Night Revue The uncorked variety show “Champagne Cabaret” bubbles up at Chinatown's Great Star Theater with a sparkling blend of graceful aerial acrobatics and gross-out gags.