SF News Car Lands On Its Roof In Castro Valley Accident, All Three Occupants Rescued This dramatic photo is the aftermath of a Castro Valley accident this weekend, where, thankfully, all three occupants of the vehicle were rescued.
SF News Boyfriend and Murder Suspect of Oakland Dentist Lili Xu Kills Himself in Jail An August fatal shooting shooting of beloved Oakland dentist Lili Xu initially spurred hate-crime speculation, but it turned out to be a suspected murder-for-hire by her boyfriend, and now that boyfriend has taken his own life in jail.
SF News Supervisor Ahsha Safai Has Home Broken Into, Thieves Steal Stove and Microwave Oven District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai’s house suffered a break-in Thursday night, and some appliances were stolen from the supervisor who’s one of the most outspoken about property crime.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Way Ahead of the Pack in School Board Race Donations, Despite (Or Because Of?) Racist Comment Scandal Despite a summer backlash and furor over SF school board member Ann Hsu’s comments that Black and brown students had “unstable family environments," Hsu has racked up nearly twice the campaign contributions of any other school board candidate in the November election.
SF News Pelosi Attacker Is COVID Denier, Anti-Vaxxer, My Pillow Guy Fan, Nudist, Pro-Insurrectionist As condolences pour in from around the spectrum over the Paul Pelosi hammer attack that has placed him in surgery, we learn that suspect David DePape was a QAnon anti-vaxxer and election denier with a conspiracy-tinged streak.
SF News Paul Pelosi Attacked With Hammer In Home Invasion, Suspect Was Reportedly Looking for Nancy The hammer-wielding suspect was reportedly shouting “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” when he broke into the House Speaker’s Pac Heights home early Friday morning, and spouse Paul Pelosi is hospitalized with blunt force trauma wounds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mark Zuckerberg Lost $11 Billion Today Berkeley is having another housing battle over ADUs in fire-risk zones, the Bayview just got itself a new Lucky supermarket, and Mark Zuckerberg lost $11 billion in net worth just today alone.
SF Politics Prop 30 Oddly Pits Lyft Against Silicon Valley VC Billionaires in Electric Car Battle There’s a rift between Lyft and the money men who power Silicon Valley over Prop. 30, the tax proposal to fund electric vehicles, as venture capital billionaires are dropping millions and enlisting Gavin Newsom to defeat the tax hike.
Arts & Entertainment HBO Drops Trailer for Willie Mays Documentary, Premiering November 8 San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays gets the HBO documentary treatment in the upcoming ‘Say Hey, Willie Mays,’ exploring the slugger’s astonishing 25 years playing pro baseball, and his legacy off the field afterward.
SF News Three Arrests Made in Early October Berkeley Dormitory Shooting That Killed Religion Student After an October 8 fatal shooting at a Berkeley dorm left 29-year-old Isamaeli Eli Mataafa dead and three of his relatives injured, Berkeley police have arrested and detained three suspects in the case.
SF Politics California Rejected 106,000 Mail Ballots In Last Election, But Alameda County Is Under Fire for Not Rejecting Enough Nearly 2% of California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected in the June primary, which is sad, but Alameda County’s lowest rejection level statewide has anti-tax groups up in arms demanding the county reject more people’s votes.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Shows Up at Twitter HQ With a Porcelain Sink, Which Is His Way Of Saying He’s Serious About Closing Deal Unfunny prankster Elon Musk is in town, making a show of symbolic moves that indicate that he really is going to acquire (and probably ruin) Twitter in the next few days.
SF Politics Antioch Mayor Punched Out at… Chamber of Commerce Luncheon? The mayor of Antioch Lamar Thorpe say he was punched and has eyewitnesses, at an incident that happened at, of all places, an Antioch Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
Bay Area Sports Klay Thompson Gets Ejected For The First Time In His Ten-Year Career, Warriors Get Routed Warriors guard Klay Thomspon got ejected from a game for the first time in his decade-long pro career Tuesday night as Golden State got routed 134-105 by the Phoenix Suns.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Mission’s Pop’s Bar Gets Legacy Business Status SF fell to No. 3 in Zumper’s latest most expensive apartments list, street-racing cars caused a multi-car pile-up in San Jose, and legendary 24th Street dive Pop’s Bar is now on the Legacy Business Registry.
SF News After Pedestrian Fatality In Sunset, Twitter-Famous Muni Driver Slams Supervisor Mar For Scaling Back Slow Streets When a Monday pedestrian death brought grievances from the district’s supervisor Gordon Mar, Mar himself took some grief from a local Twitter celebrity over shutting down Slow Streets in the Sunset.
SF Politics Mud Thrown at Jen Siebel Newsom in Weinstein Trial: ‘Just Another Bimbo Who Slept With Harvey’ The expected personal attacks on Jen Siebel Newsom are even more personal than expected in the Weinstein rape trial, with Weinstein’s attorney calling her “just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead" before a judge and a jury.
SF Politics New British PM Rishi Sunak Is a Stanford Guy, Got His Master’s and Met His (Billionaire) Wife There The new British prime minister has some Bay Area roots, getting an MBA at Stanford in 2006 where he met wife Akshata Murthy, whose massive family fortune has the U.K. press dubbing him “Rishi Rich."
Arts & Entertainment Sandcastle Classic Turns Ocean Beach Into a Sea of Glorious Large-Scale Sand Art The largest sandcastle contest in northern California returned to Ocean Beach on Saturday, as the 40th annual Leap Sandcastle Classic brought out fourth- and fifth-graders who went against the grain to build sand sculptures that were far more than just castles.
SF News 24th and Mission Plaza Completely Cleans Up Vending Scene Saturday, Sees It Back in Full Force One Day Later It was the best of weekends and the worst of weekends in the effort to curb illegal vending at the 24th and Mission Street Plaza, as Saturday’s efforts rendered the corner near-pristine, but all the vendors simply showed back up Sunday.
SF News Several Bay Area Cities Using Highly Improbable, Silly Proposals To Meet State Housing Goals on Paper As a state deadline for robust housing plans looms in January, some cities are submitting plans that just don’t pass the smell test, with implausible features like building on top of churches and grocery stores whom they did not even ask about this first.
SF News Sunday Afternoon House Fire In Outer Sunset Displaces Multiple Residents Just four blocks from Ocean Beach, a Sunday afternoon house fire spread to at least two households and was contained by 2:30 p.m., but appears to have displaced several residents.
SF News Oakland Police Warn of Surge In Thefts of Power Tools at Gunpoint There’s a new wrinkle in the rampant theft of power tools, as OPD says suspects in one specific Oakland area are striking while the owner is home, and taking the tools at gunpoint.
Business & Tech Instacart Calls Off Its Planned IPO, as Tech Stocks Are Tanking Across the Board A much-ballyhooed Instacart IPO has been put on the shelf, as tech companies that boomed during the pandemic are now suffering a cruel correction.
Business & Tech Now Elon Musk’s Proposed Twitter Takeover May Be Subject to a National Security Review Musk’s Twitter takeover is largely financed by Saudi and Qatari money, and given Musk’s curious pro-Putin turn, national security officials are wondering what these international oligarchs might be getting in return here.