SF News Oakland Man Allegedly Stabs His Own Attorney, Then Attacks His Prosecutor, In Courtroom Outburst It was a wild scene at a Contra Costa County courthouse Monday, as a man on trial for murder allegedly busted his restraints, stabbed his own attorney with a pen, and attacked his prosecutor for good measure too.
SF News Four Seasons Embarcadero Owner Reportedly Defaulting on Loan, Bank Might Foreclose You know it’s hard times in the luxury hospitality racket when even the owner of a Four Seasons hotel can’t pay their bills, as the Four Seasons Embarcadero owner reportedly hasn’t made their loan payments in three months.
SF Politics Ex-SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Sentenced to Four Years In Prison Over Mohammed Nuru Corruption Scandal Former SF Public Utilities Commission head Harlan Kelly was sentenced to four years in prison Monday for fraud charges, after he was found guilty of taking bribes and giving phony information on a bank loan application.
Bay Area Sports ‘Voice of the Giants' Renel Brooks-Moon is Leaving the Giants' Announcing Booth After a 24-season run as the Giants' PA announcer, legendary local radio personality Renel Brooks-Moon announced Monday she will no longer be the voice of the Giants at Oracle Park.
Arts & Entertainment Your 2024 St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Event Guide, Featuring the Reopening of FiDi Pub Harrington’s The 85-year-old Financial District Irish pub Harrington’s is reopening in time for St. Patrick’s Day weekend! That highlights three days of parades, parties, Irish food fare, and of course DUI checkpoints.
SF News In Landmark Ruling, Appeals Court Says SF Trans Woman Can Change Her Name to ‘Candi Bimbo Doll’ A huge win for self-identified bimbos everywhere, as the First District Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that yes, one can legally change their name to “Candi Bimbo Doll.”
SF News Crazy Berkeley Kids Appear to Have Set Guinness World Record for Fastest-Ever ‘BART Speedrun’ Seven UC Berkeley students completed what appears to be the all-time record by riding through all 50 BART stations in less than six hours, and they’re being verified to be awarded the Guinness World Record for the fastest BART speedrun ever.
SF Politics DA Pamela Price Accused of Retaliating Against Employees Who Supported Her Opponents While the recall campaign against her just hit a signature snag, Alameda County DA Pamela Price is also getting some bad publicity today over some wrongful termination claims from former employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Return Two-Acre Plot of Land to Ohlone People A stretch of I-680 in Pleasanton will be closed for repairs this weekend; Girl Scout Cookie season is being extended for another week; and Berkeley is returning a sacred plot of land to the Ohlone people.
SF News Lyft Driver Loses Job, Charged With Federal Hate Crime for Punching SFO Rider Who He Thought Was Jewish A 39-year-old Daly City man is no longer a Lyft driver after he allegedly punched a rider who he perceived to be Jewish at SF International Airport, and now he’s facing a possible 10-year prison sentence on federal hate crime charges.
Arts & Entertainment ‘The Far Country’ at Berkeley Rep Is a Glorious Historical Epic About a Terrible Chapter In SF History 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist ‘The Far Country’ makes its way to the Bay Area stage, with a brutal depiction of what it took for Chinese immigrants to enter San Francisco in the early 1900s.
SF News Outrage Grows Over Postal Carrier Robberies After Armed Robber Sentenced to Only 30 Days in Jail As robberies of postal carriers skyrocket in the Bay Area and nationwide, the Postal Service is up in arms over one suspect who committed an armed robbery of a mail carrier and only got a 30-day sentence.
SF News SF Exodus Still Reversing: New Census Numbers Show Small Population Uptick Last Year San Francisco gained population in 2023, while most of the surrounding Bay Area lost population, though SF’s fraction-of-a-percentage-point increase still indicates a slow population rebound from the pandemic.
SF News More China Live Drama, as Bank Is Now Threatening to Foreclose Property on the Landlord The tables may have turned in the China Live restaurant-landlord dispute, as now it's Wells Fargo suing the landlord who’d previously sued China Live over unpaid rent, and the bank is threatening to foreclose.
Arts & Entertainment Seattle Indie Station KEXP Buys Up Bay Area’s Constantly Format-Changing 92.7 FM, Starts Broadcasting Tuesday A popular Seattle radio station has bought the Bay Area’s 92.7 FM station (currently known as 92.7 The Hu$tle), and will start broadcasting their indie rock stylings next week.
SF News California Retail Theft Rings Making Millions Allegedly Just Selling Stolen Goods on Amazon One SoCal woman allegedly netted $8 million by selling shoplifted cosmetics on Amazon, while a San Jose operation reportedly made a mint reselling stolen TJ Maxx items at flea markets, as organized retail theft operations become more ruthlessly organized.
SF News City Vows to Crack Down on Bernal Heights RV Encampment, Which Has Been Growing In Recent Months A smattering of RVs permanently camped on Bernal Heights Boulevard has grown larger, and now City Hall says they’ll enforce a long-forgotten 27-year-old ban on overnight parking on the street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford Basketball Star Cameron Brink is Leaving the Farm for the WNBA The principal of Everett Middle School is on leave over that school’s sexual assault scandal, Bernie Sanders endorsed Dean Preston for supervisor, and Stanford basketball star Cameron Brink has declared she’s heading to the WNBA Draft.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Building Gets Landmark Status, Skate Parties Will Apparently Keep On Rollin’ The former church on Fillmore Street now popularly known as the Church 8 Wheels was granted landmark status by the SF Board of Supervisors Tuesday, and while the property will be redeveloped into housing, its popular skate rink will reportedly stay intact.
SF News Looks Like Recology’s SF Monopoly Will Live On, as Competing Trash Collector Drops Their Rival Bid You would think that overcharging SF residents by $95 million would lead to Recology losing its monopoly on local trash collection. It has not, and now it appears Recology will keep that monopoly after a competitor dropped their bid.
SF News Racist Zoom-Bombs at Emeryville City Council Meeting Test Remote Public Comment Policies Literally every remote public commenter at last Tuesday's Emeryville City Council meeting was a racist troll, presenting a test for one of the few Bay Area cities that still allows remote public comment.
SF News CHP Announces They’ve Made 168 Arrests, Recovered 360 Stolen Vehicles In Oakland In the Last Five Weeks Governor Gavin Newsom says his Oakland crime crackdown is working, announcing that California Highway Patrol sting operations have netted 168 suspects and 360 stolen cars since early February.
Bay Area Sports 49ers QB Brock Purdy Got Married This Weekend, and Here is the Wedding Registry Brock Purdy married his college girlfriend Jenna Brandt over the weekend, and we found their wedding registry, which is on Crate & Barrel and has mostly modest items priced at under $100.
SF News SF Nonprofit Worker Charged With Sexually Assaulting Everett Middle School Student A 20-year-old San Francisco man has been charged with multiple felony sex abuse counts for an alleged sexual assault of an Everett Middle School student, and remains in custody.
SF News Popular, Recently Shuttered Vintage Store Stuff Opening New SF Location Saturday In Polk Gulch There are actually two new locations of the now-reincarnated vintage emporium Stuff, and the SF shop will have the same giant letters from the old Valencia Street location.