SF News Oakland Woman Attacked by Violent Group in Downtown Oakland, Says Bystanders Refused to Help A woman who was the victim of an unprovoked attack five blocks from Lake Merritt in the wee hours Saturday morning says the attackers did not even take anything from her, though left her concussed and brutalized, and she adds that multiple bystanders simply ignored the incident.
SF Politics Sheng Thao Touts Drop In Oakland Crime and $2 Million Crime-Fighting Grant, as Recall Election Looms Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is trumpeting a 33% drop in crime and a new $2 million federal grant to the city's crime-fighting ceasefire strategy, but a couple major Bay Area newspapers just endorsed recalling her.
SF Politics Elon Musk Was In US as an Illegal Immigrant In 1995, According to Washington Post Report While born-again Trumper Elon Musk regularly rails against illegal immigrants, a new Washington Post analysis finds that Musk worked in the US illegally in 1995 when he overstayed on a student visa.
SF News Berkeley Voters on Edge as Mail-In Ballots Never Showed Up, May Have Been Stolen An election nightmare could be unfolding in Berkeley, as voters in one neighborhood say they never received their mail-in ballots, in the very area where a mail carrier was robbed earlier this month.
SF News Australian Man Gets Two Months in Jail for San Mateo County Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Two A September 2023 head-on crash that killed two elderly people in San Mateo County has been attributed to an Australian motorist driving on the wrong side of the road, which would have been the correct side in Australia, so that motorist got a plea deal for just two months in jail.
SF News Vehicle Rams Into Union Square Louis Vuitton In Attempted Smash-and-Grab, Thieves Fail to Steal Anything Just two blocks from where smash-and-grab burglars rammed a car into the Union Square Dior store two weeks ago, another set of would-be thieves smashed their car into the Louis Vuitton, but were foiled from actually stealing anything in their attempted heist.
SF News Inner Richmond Dispensary Robbed by Thieves Who Sledgehammered Their Way Through the Windows The Inner Richmond location of the California Street Cannabis Company was hit by burglars in the wee hours Thursday morning, who smashed through the front window with sledgehammers, and got away just as police were arriving.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Grateful Dead Bass Player Phil Lesh Has Died at 84 Grief will ripple through the Bay Area music community today, as the family of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh announced that he passed away peacefully early Friday morning.
SF News Feds Extradite Honduran Man Back to US to Face Tenderloin Fentanyl-Dealing Charges A 25-year-old Honduran national who moved to Oakland and allegedly dealt some pretty large volumes of fentanyl fled back to Honduras when a federal grand jury indicted him last year, but he was arrested and extradited back this week to face trial.
SF News Six Former BART Employees Win $7.8 Million Ruling After Getting Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A half-dozen holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, just won a $7.8 million in federal court on the claim that BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Victim Identified in Tuesday’s Fatal Parnassus Heights Dump Truck Crash The new Casa Guadalupe in a shuttered Mission Street Walgreens opens Saturday; Los Angeles DA George Gascón will indeed seek to resentence the Menendez brothers; and we now know the identity of the man hit by a dump truck Tuesday at Parnassus Avenue and Stanyan Street.
SF Politics With November’s Prop 36, California Voters Could Effectively Undo the Infamous Prop 47 Property Crime Law California's 2014 law known as Prop 47 is often blamed for unleashing crime, homelessness, and the fentanyl crisis, and voters will have a chance to toughen up its under-$950 misdemeanor theft threshold with the new state measure Prop 36.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Bayview Warehouse Owner for Allegedly Running Two Huge Illegal Marijuana Grows Two Bayview warehouses have been acting as illegal indoor cannabis grows for over a year, according to a new lawsuit from City Attorney David Chiu, after state agents raided and found nearly 6,000 plants at the two facilities.
SF News SF Superior Court Clerks On Strike Today, Bob Lee Murder Trial Brought to a Halt A one-day strike has brought massive chaos to SF Superior Court today, with more than 200 clerks striking outside 850 Bryant, and the Nima Momeni trial is delayed for the day because of the strike and will resume, possibly, Wednesday.
SF News Six Former BART Employees Sue in Federal Court Over Being Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A few holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, have taken their case to a federal court, claiming BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
Bay Area Sports NBA Season Preview: Warriors Come Out to Play, Without Klay, For First Time In 14 Years In a season where the All-Star Game will be played right here in San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors’ hopes to be contenders again probably depend on whether they actually have more than one all-star on this team.
SF News City Hall Unveils Latest Plans to Redevelop Candlestick Point, 11 Years After 49ers Left More than a decade after the 49ers left Candlestick Park, the city has unveiled new plans for Candlestick Point, with 7,200 new homes, but it seems questionable whether there will be much call for all of the office space in this plan.
Arts & Entertainment SF Getting Another Mosaic Tiled Stairway, This One In Anza Vista, as a Tribute to ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee SF’s next tiled mosaic stairway was just approved to be installed without fees, and it’s a powerful homage to late 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee, who was killed nearby in a brazen morning attack in 2021.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Will Be Rocking Another Light Show Tonight People are talking about a Geary Boulevard subway again; the former Westfield Mall is switching its name once more; and the Transamerica Pyramid will host another light show Tuesday night to ring in this week’s TED AI San Francisco conference.
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
SF News Aquarium of the Bay’s Ex-CEO Goes Nuclear With Lawsuit Full of Wild Allegations Over His Ouster The former CEO of Bay.org George Jacob resigned in May amidst reports of lavish spending, but he’s hitting back with a ferocious new lawsuit claiming staff tried to secretly sell shark blood to Disney, and wanted to release all the animals back into the ocean.
Arts & Entertainment SF’s Newest Park Just Opened Right Next to Chase Center, Featuring Steel Beams From the Old Bay Bridge SF’s newest park has some retro charm in the form of benches and beams from the disassembled old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, as the $32 million Bayfront Park just opened Tuesday right next to the Chase Center.
SF News NAACP Lobbies for Release of Man Who’s Already Supposed to Be Out of Santa Clara Jail Carlos Harris has already served a 20-year sentence for a crime he says he did not commit, and a judge ordered his release from Santa Clara County Jail last week. But thanks to bureaucratic red tape, the jail can not release him.
SF News New SFUSD Interim Superintendent Maria Su Makes First Public Remarks Since She Was Hired Friday After a whirlwind weekend that saw SFUSD Superintendent Matt Wayne resign Thursday and Dr. Maria Su installed as his interim replacement Friday, Su was introduced Monday and spoke publicly for the first time since her appointment.
SF News Car Crashes Into 48 Muni Bus In Noe Valley Causing Multiple-Vehicle Collision, Muni Driver Hospitalized There was a multiple-vehicle crash just before noon Monday in Noe Valley, as one car hit a 48-Quintara/24th Street Muni bus and several other cars, and the Muni driver has been hospitalized.
