Arts & Entertainment Fiancé of Shannon and the Clams’ Shannon Shaw, Joe Haener, Has Died Just three months before he was to wed Shannon and the Clams vocalist Shannon Shaw, locally well-known drummer Joe Haener was killed in an Oregon car accident last week.
SF News Fatal, Broad Daylight Shooting in Oakland‘s Little Saigon Sunday Draws Outrage A 60-year-old Asian woman was shot and killed in a 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon robbery near Laney College, and Oakland councilmembers are decrying a spike in violence in the Little Saigon neighborhood.
SF News Rescue Team Says They’ve Found the Body of Missing Truckee Teen Kiely Rodni An apparent breakthrough in the case of missing 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, though it confirms the worst fears, as an independent rescue team says they found her in her missing car at the bottom of a lake near Truckee.
SF News Fences at 24th and Mission Have Been Ripped Down, Seemingly by Protesters Those controversial fences at the 24th and Mission BART station were torn down, apparently Saturday morning, and a protest group is taking credit for holding down the “liberated space.”
Business & Tech Apple Urges iPhone, iPad Users to Update Devices Immediately, Hackers Could ‘Take Control’ of Device A newly discovered security exploit is already taking over iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices in the wild, and Apple people should drop everything and get the latest software update.
SF News Woman Allegedly Groped and Punched in Face on BART Near El Cerrito Del Norte Station, Suspect in Custody A 21-year-old San Francisco man is in custody at the Martinez Detention Facility after a Wednesday incident in which he’s accused of groping a woman on an East Bay BART train — and when she told him to stop, he allegedly punched her several times in the face.
SF News SFPD Catches Catalytic Converter Thief In the Act, Lets Him Go, Then Gives Him Directions Home In today’s SF installment of “Police Did Nothing,” police catch an alleged catalytic converter thief red-handed in the Richmond, learn he is on probation for property theft, then kindly dismiss him while giving him directions so he could get home.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Dead as Two Planes Collide in Watsonville Club Deluxe is applying for Legacy Business Status in hopes of avoiding closure, Apple is urging people to update their devices because of a security exploit, and a plane accident in Watsonville has left three people dead.
SF News Newsom Unveils $4.7 Billion ‘Master Plan’ to Treat Mental Health Among Young People With a statewide youth suicide rate that’s spiked by 20% during the pandemic, Newsom a announced a new plan Thursday to double the number of school counselors in the state, and add 40,000 more behavioral health professionals.
SF News Report: An Estimated 20,000 San Franciscans Will Experience Homelessness In 2022 A new addendum to this year’s Homeless Point-In-Time Count paints a much starker picture than we’d realized, as it estimates that an astonishing 20,000 people in San Francisco will experience homelessness at some point this year.
SF Politics D4 Supervisor Candidate Leanna Louie Defends Her Residency Record, But Now a Fourth Address Is In the Mix With voter fraud investigation referrals to both the District Attorney and City Attorney, District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie is at risk of being pulled off the ballot over residency issues, and it appears she has a fourth District 11 address to answer for as well.
Bay Area Sports Rams Fan Accused of Battery of Moraga 49ers Fan That Left Him In a Coma Was Arraigned Today, Pleaded Not Guilty The alleged January NFC Championship Game attack at SoFi Stadium saw its arraignment of defendant Bryan Cifuentes in an Inglewood courtroom Wednesday morning, and he pleaded not guilty to the one count of battery.
SF News Now Residents of Flooded 33 Tehama Report Contractors Are Stealing Items From Their Rooms Displaced tenants of the flooded 33 Tehama say that items are being stolen from their rooms — including, allegedly, $1,500 in stolen checks — as their saga drags on into its third month.
SF News Tennis Enthusiasts Serve a Lawsuit To Block Sale of SoMa Property That Had Promised Them Tennis Courts A real estate conglomerate is trying to unload an unfinished property where they’d agreed to rebuild a tennis club they’d previously razed. Now a local tennis group is saying, ‘We’ll see you in court.’
SF News Activists Win This Round, Development Halted at Berkeley’s People's Park Until October Tents are already popping back up at People’s Park in Berkeley, and UC Berkeley must submit a legal filing today to prove that other sites were inadequate for a 16-story student housing project that they now can’t start building until October at the earliest.
SF News In Oakland Shooting Where Cops Don’t Know Who Fired Fatal Shot, Judge Orders Both Suspects Be Tried for Murder A gunfire fight between two men left 19-year-old bystander Madalyn Sandoval dead in November 2020. It can’t be determined which man fired the fatal shot, so a judge has decided they should both stand trial for murder.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Celebrates 50th Anniversary With 50% Off Fares in September Residency problems are escalating for District 4 supervisor candidate Leanna Louie, Dean Preston and Matt Haney are having a Housing Twitter spat, and BART fare will be 50% off for their 50th anniversary in September (though only if you use Clipper Card).
SF News Castro Starbucks Votes to Unionize, May Become First Unionized Starbucks In San Francisco Hold onto your gift cards, as the chain-store unionization movement in SF just got a shot from the Starbucks at 18th and Castro Streets, which voted to unionize in results confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
SF News Hey, Whatever Happened to That Downtown SF Congestion Pricing Plan? ‘It’s Been Paused,’ SFMTA Says As the state of New York barrels ahead with congestion pricing to battle climate change, a similar plan for San Francisco has been shelved, likely to the relief of retailers and small business owners.
SF News Three Arrests Made Chinatown Attack of 70-Year-Old Woman, One Suspect Is Only 11 Years Old Four suspects have been identified and three were arrested in last month’s group attack on a 70-year-old woman in Chinatown, but it certainly complicates their prosecution that the suspects are ages 18, 14, 13, and... 11.
SF News Nancy Pelosi Hosting a Phone-In Town Hall on Monkeypox at 5 p.m. Tuesday Nearly 30% of all California monkeypox cases are right here in the City and County of San Francisco, and so our congressional rep and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doing a phone town hall with a who’s-who of local public health figures tonight.
SF News SFPD Hosts Town Hall on Last Weekend’s Police Shooting on Shotwell Street The police department is still not exactly saying who shot first in an August 6 shootout between officers and a suspected bike thief, but it turns out the suspect did not have a real gun.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Defends Secretive $100,000 Payment from Anti-Boudin Group, Which Turns Out Was Actually $153,000 In her first interview on the matter of a previously unreported $100,000 payment, which we now learn was a $153,000 payment, SF DA Brooke Jenkins continues to insist that her consulting for a group bankrolling the recall was unrelated to the recall.
SF News 12 People Need Rescue When Napa Fair Double-Ferris Wheel Breaks Down Mid-Ride Children as young as eight years old were stuck in the sky when a ride malfunctioned Saturday night at the Napa Town & Country Fair, requiring a fire department ladder truck to get them all down safely.
SF News SF Taiko Dojo Being Evicted at End of the Month, May Be Forced to Disband With their rent being tripled effective September 1, the popular long-running Bay Area Japanese drumming group and cultural collective San Francisco Taiko Dojo is looking at eviction, and may have already had their last performance.