SF Politics Minor Figure in Sheng Thao FBI Raid Claims DA Pamela Price Tried to Shake Him Down for $25,000 Bribe Two of the East Bay’s strangest political stories just collided head-on, as a very colorful character from the FBI probe that led to the Sheng Thao raid now says that Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake him down for $25,000. But oh, this fellow has credibility issues.
SF News Union Square Dior Once Again Rammed Into by Car in Smash-and-Grab Burglary Nearly one year to the day after thieves rammed a car into the Union Square Dior storefront, another car pulled the same scheme just before 3 am Friday morning, and the suspects are still at large.
SF News Mayor Breed Touts 60% Drop in Tents on Streets, Mandelmans’s District 8 Supposedly Has Just One Tent Some very encouraging new statistics saying the number of tents on San Francisco streets is at a six-year low, including there being only one tent counted in District 8, but this does not seem to have meaningfully lowered SF’s homeless population.
SF News Blistering New Report Describes SF Zoo as ‘Unsafe for Visitors and Animals’ Well, this complicates the push for pandas. A new report by an SF Zoo oversight commission describes the facility as “dilapidated,” “extremely outdated,” and says parts of the zoo are even “crawling with rodents.”
SF News SFPD Arrests 17-Year-Old Suspect In Shooting of Teen Outside Galileo High School A Galileo High School student was shot next to the school's football field just as the new school year began, and on Tuesday, police arrested a 17-year-old suspect for the crime.
SF News Federal Officials Shoot and Kill Crissy Field Coyote That Had Killed Three Dogs In Three Weeks DNA tests determined that it was one single coyote who’d killed three dogs at Crissy Field and the Presidio since September 15, so National Park officials killed that coyote Sunday, as it had been getting pretty aggressive with people too.
SF News Officials Raise Serious Safety Concerns Over BART-to-San Jose Design, Because Boy Does This Seem Like a Lot of Stairs Riders would have to climb the equivalent of eight flights of stairs in an emergency under the current design of the proposed BART-to-San Jose stations, and some officials are waving red flags that this is not feasible emergency planning.
SF Politics Report: Alameda DA Pamela Price Had 1,000 Misdemeanor Cases Dismissed Because Her Office Simply Blew Filing Deadlines A possible October Surprise in next month’s recall election of Alameda County DA Pamela Price comes in a new report that claims that more than 1,000 misdemeanor offenders walked free because Price’s office missed deadlines to file charges.
SF News Oakland Airport Hits Back on SFO Injunction, Claims SFO 'Manipulated Results’ Showing People Went to Wrong Airport The latest legal drama regarding whether Oakland Airport can have "San Francisco" in its name comes from the Oakland airport, which has filed its opposition to SF’s injunction, and claims SF is faking the data that customers are confused by the name change.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sorry, Castro 7-Eleven Not Going to Become a Specialty Meat Shop Some of the transferred FCI Dublin prisoners say they face terrible conditions at their new prison; Nima Momeni’s lawyer wants Bob Lee’s ex-wife banned from the trial over some very funny insults; and the Castro’s former 7-Eleven will not become a specialty meat shop.
Business & Tech Shocker: California Leads the Nation in Cryptocurrency Fraud, According to FBI More than 20% of all cryptocurrency fraud happened right here in California last year, and the FBI San Francisco Field Office was kept busy, dealing with a staggering $260 million in crypto scams in 2023 alone.
SF News SF Curiously Considering Building a Gondola to Laguna Honda Hospital San Francisco is now officially assessing the possibility of building a gondola airlift from the Forest Hill Muni station to Laguna Honda hospital, a seemingly out-of-left-field idea that would admittedly be fun as heck if they actually went through with it.
SF News Stats Show SFPD Very Effective at Solving Murders, But Worst in the State at Solving Most Other Crimes The good news is that the SFPD solved 94% of all homicides committed in SF last year. The bad news is that SFPD ranks worst of all major California police departments in solving nearly every other form of crime.
SF News Invasive, 20-Pound ‘Swamp Rat’ Rodents Spreading Across Bay Area, Definitely Pose a Threat Rodents of unusual size are no longer just something from the movies. These swamp rats known as nutria are a scourge spreading across Contra Costa and Solano counties, and they’re a risk to our crops, livestock, and water supply.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey Debated Tonight, If Anyone Cares Muni underground service is finally back up and running; that former San Jose Police union director pleaded guilty to dealing opioids; and the debate for the former Feinstein Senate seat happened tonight.
Business & Tech California Joins 13 Other States in Suing TikTok for Alleged Harm It Causes to Teen Users A new lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general goes after TikTok for those “challenge” videos that have killed teens nationwide, and even alleges an economy of underage nude videos that have created a "virtual strip club" on the platform.
Business & Tech Tech Bros Try to Help Waymo Entangled With Muni Bus, Leave Behind Stalled Waymo A new viral video shows a stalled Waymo getting entangled with a Muni bus this weekend, and when a gaggle of tech bros coming from an industry party try to help, they seem to just make things worse.
SF News Oakland City Council to Decide Whether to Renew Controversial ShotSpotter Gunfire Detection System Several US cities have recently ditched the police surveillance tool ShotSpotter that’s used to detect gunfire, and Oakland could become the latest, as critics say it bogs police down with false-positive notifications.
SF News Report: Some of UCSF Parnassus Was Sweltering With No Air Conditioning During Heatwave Nurses say that a group of patients at the UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus were subjected to torrid indoor temperatures of 98 degrees or more during this past week’s heatwave, as the hospital does not have air conditioning on certain floors.
SF Politics Chronicle Infers That Maybe Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi Aren't All That Cool With Each Other Right Now An exhaustive analysis from the Chronicle wonders if there’s some chilly vibes in the relationship between Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, possibly dating back to Harris beating Pelosi’s friend DA Terence Hallinan in 2003.
Business & Tech SF-Based Weed Delivery Service Eaze, Once Valued at $700 Million, Shutting Down By Year’s End The company that called themselves “the Uber of Weed” is going up in smoke, having blown through $250 million in venture capital but now announcing they’ll likely cease operations on December 31.
SF Politics Elon Musk Jumps Around Like a Cheerleader at Trump Rally, Internet Memesters Have a Field Day The only thing funnier than Elon Musk’s prepubescent jumping at a Donald Trump rally this weekend was a series of jokes made on Musk's own Twitter mocking the awkward antics.
SF News Dramatic Video Shows Oakland Police Rescue Drowning Man From Lake Merritt Channel Bodycam video from the Oakland Police Department shows a high-stakes drowning situation in the Lake Merritt Channel, but officers were able to rescue a man by jumping into the water themselves to pull him ashore.
SF News Gaza Protest In Mission District on Eve of October 7 Anniversary, Manny’s Gets Tagged Hard Again The day before the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the now-year-long response of sustained Israeli counterattacks, a Sunday Mission District protest drew 1,500 people but left the event space Manny’s coated with malicious graffiti.
SF News SF Sheriff’s Office Suspends Pre-Trial Ankle Monitor Program, Claims Courts Are Forcing Them To Suspects awaiting trial in SF will no longer be assigned to home confinement or an ankle monitor, and must proceed directly to jail, because the SF Sheriff’s Office is yanking the ankle monitor program over a legal rift on warrantless searches.
