SF News Scammers Are Now Applying To California Colleges Just To Steal The Financial Aid A stunning 20% of all applications to California community colleges are now “ghost students,” that is, scammers using someone else’s name to pocket the financial aid and never show up for a single class.
Arts & Entertainment Big Festival ‘All Day I Dream’ Descends On Golden Gate Park Saturday Golden Gate Park’s Hellman Hollow will become a combination of Burning Man and Ibiza on Saturday, as the house and techno festival All Day I Dream is firing up a daytime house music party all afternoon and into the early evening.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lori’s Diner Has Finally Reopened Its Flagship Union Square Restaurant On Sutter Street It’s been more than three years since the one remaining Lori's Diner has served its all-day breakfast and club sandwiches, but the retro tourist trap reopened this week, and yes there is still a 1959 Ford Edsel in the dining room.
SF News Only The Second Wolverine In 100 Years Just Spotted In California There are believed to be only 300-400 wolverines left in the contiguous United States, and one of them has been popping up in Yosemite and the Sierras, only the second wolverine seen in California in the last 100 years.
SF News Day Around the Bay: National Spelling Bee Finals Will Feature Three Bay Area Students A Santa Rosa mother allowed her one-year-old to OD on fentanyl, a Muni collision halted the Hyde Street cable car line this afternoon, and the Bay Area has three finalists in tonight’s Scripps National Spelling Bee.
SF News Two Dozen Killer Whales Spotted Off Farallon Islands, Likely There To Chow On Seals And Baby Whales Whale watchers were thrilled to see a giant pack of 24 orca killer whales right off the coast of the Farallon Islands, but you might be less thrilled to learn that those orcas are probably there to feast on sea lions, elephant seals, and baby gray whales.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Oldest Diner, the Mission’s 105-Year-Old St. Francis Fountain, Has Found a New Owner It’s not a done deal yet, but the 105-year-old legacy business St. Francis Fountain appears to have found a new owner, a veteran of North Beach spot Mama's on Washington Square.
SF News Two of Three Murder Charges Dropped In Already Controversial Oakland Triple-Murder Case The triple-murder trial of Delonzo Logwood was already a hornet’s nest after a judge threw out a plea deal and Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to remove him from the case, and now that same judge has agreed to dismiss two of the three murder charges against Logwood.
SF News City of Oakland Employees Launch Class Action Lawsuit Over Ransomware Attack Furious that gobs of their personal data are now available on the dark web, some Oakland employees are suing the city in a class action lawsuit over the February ransomware attack that hobbled the city’s IT systems.
SF Politics Breed Introduces New Record $15 Billion Budget That Increases Spending Despite Deficit Mayor London Breed introduced the city's highest-ever $14.6 billion budget Wednesday, which despite a $780 million deficit, has big spending increases for police, homelessness, and anti-drug measures.
SF News US Postal Service Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Suspect Who Robbed Mail Carrier This suspect in bright orange Warriors jacket stands accused of robbing a mail carrier of their postal keys, and the U.S. Postal Service is offering $50,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
SF News Hundreds of Angry North Oakland Residents Bring Out the Pitchforks at Town Hall On Crime Oakland District 1 city councilmember Dan Kalb and other city officials had plenty of shouting directed their way at a Tuesday night meeting about the recent crime spike in the North Oakland area, and Kalb seems to be drawing some political battle lines in response.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Declares He’s ‘Not Running for Office in 2024,’ Takes Job at UC Berkeley Think Tank It looks like the political equivalent of riding off into the sunset for former DA Chesa Boudin, as he’s starting up a UC Berkeley department called the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Manson Family Member May Get Paroled After More Than 50 Years In Prison The suspect in Monday’s Chinatown stabbing has been identified and arrested, the former Chow space at Church and Market has a new restaurant coming, and Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten has been granted parole by an appeals court.
SF News Guilty Verdict Comes Down in 2020 Richmond District Murder Recorded on Zoom 79-year-old Yu Quin Sun was murdered in her home in June 2020 and her roommate and accused killer Min Jian Guan was found guilty today, in no small part because the murder was broadcast on Zoom with Guan visible on the screen.
SF News BART Police Making Lots More Arrests Since Beefing Up Police Force This Year BART claims that March and April of this year saw “two of its highest monthly arrest totals since the arrival of the pandemic,” and is engaging in a PR campaign that hopes more people getting arrested on BART will make riders more comfortable coming back on BART.
Bay Area Sports Warriors GM Bob Myers, Architect Of Their Dynasty, Has Resigned The man who built this four-championship Warriors dynasty has resigned, and the loss of Warriors GM Bob Myers makes their future all the more cloudy.
SF News Monday Morning Stabbing Leaves Chinatown Bakery Employee With Life-Threatening Injuries A seemingly unprovoked stabbing at Chinatown's AA Bakery Monday morning left one employee with stab wounds in her neck, though she is now in stable condition — and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred AL’s Place Location Set To Reopen as Dosa Corner Chef Aaron London closed AL’s Place last August despite great reviews and big crowds, but now the location is slated to reopen as the Indian spot Dosa Corner.
SF News Sutro Tower Had Some Red and White Cladding Removed, But Nixes Proposal to Let Artists Reuse Them The operators of Sutro Tower removed some panels without proper approval in 2019. City Hall retroactively approved their removal Thursday, but shot down a plan to let artists paint the removed panels, and instead they’ll be producing a “virtual tour” of the tower.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Hayward Shooting of Pregnant Ex-Wife Arrested in Seattle The man suspected of shooting and killing his pregnant ex-wife, and also injuring her current boyfriend in the shooting, has been on the run for two weeks. But U.S. Marshals arrested him in Seattle this week.
SF News Banko Brown’s Family Suing Walgreens, Security Firm, and Security Guard for Wrongful Death We figured there would be a lawsuit coming when the family of Banko Brown hired famed civil rights attorney John Burris over Brown’s fatal Walgreens shooting in late April, and that lawsuit is now here.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO To Be Jam-Packed Friday, But Nearly Had A Terrifying Runway Accident Carnaval weekend is set to dazzle the Mission District, a 49ers corruption scandal continues to roil Santa Clara City Council, and we’re learning of a scary near-miss at SFO last week right on the eve of a holiday weekend Friday that’s expected to mob the airport.
SF Politics Poll: Two-Thirds of California Voters Think Feinstein Is ‘No Longer Fit’ to Serve In Senate A strong majority of California voters think nearly-90-year-old Senator Dianne Feinstein is “no longer fit to continue serving in the U.S. Senate,” though oddly, she’s actually gaining support among Republicans.
SF News Two Will Face Murder Charges In Shooting of Two-Year-Old Jasper Wu, Third Suspect Cleared of Homicide Charge On Wednesday, a judge ruled that two of them will stand trial for murder, but the third was exonerated due to self-defense.
