SF News ‘Shrimp Boy’ Back In the News! SF Sheriff Rehired Deputy Who Admitted He Lied to FBI to Protect Hired Killer Another serving of “Shrimp Boy” in today’s headlines, as the SF Sheriff’s Office has rehired a deputy who admitted lying to the FBI over lending a Shrimp Boy-affiliated hired hitman his department-issued bulletproof vest.
SF News Neighbors Furious as Oracle Park Leaves Its Floodlights on In the Wee Hours of the Morning The San Francisco Giants finished their season nine days ago, but neighbors who live near Oracle Park say the ballpark has been blasting its bright-white flood lights as late as 4:30 am, and wreaking havoc on their sleep schedule.
Business & Tech Proposed Pilates ‘Chain’ Studio on Valencia Street Rejected by SF Planning Commission Over Formula Retail Ban The 1,300-store chain Club Pilates was hoping to swoop into a Valencia Street storefront that’s been vacant for a year and a half. The SF Planning Commission still deemed this formula retail, and rejected their bid.
SF News Seven Deplorable Teens Arrested After Alleged Late-Night Smash-and-Grab at Concord Mall Seven teens are accused of busting the glass entrance doors of Concord’s Sunvalley Shopping Center and emptying merchandise out of stores at around 4 am Sunday morning, but they didn’t make it far after a bungled getaway attempt.
SF Politics South Lake Tahoe Mayor Admits to Embezzling Money From Church, Recent Suicide Attempt A shocking political story out of South Lake Tahoe, as Mayor Tamara Wallace admits to stealing money from the local Presbyterian Church, and having attempted to end her own life because of it last month.
SF News Which SF Speed Camera Captures the Most Speeders? Hint: It's on Bryant Now a few months into the speed-camera era of San Francisco traffic enforcement, the most notorious block for speeding covered by the cameras is at Third and Bryant streets, which accounts for nearly 25% of all SF speed camera tickets.
Bay Area Sports Watch: Oakland Ballers Baseball Team Celebrates Championship With Hyphy-Infused West Oakland Parade The minor-minor leaguer Oakland Ballers won a championship in just their second year of existence, and took to the streets with their wacky possum mascot Sunday to celebrate how they’ve replaced the Oakland A’s with a bona fide champion.
SF News Parents of College Students Killed in Piedmont Cybertruck Crash Sue Tesla, Say Kids Were Trapped in Burning Car The lawsuits against Tesla seemed likely after three college students died in a burning Cybertruck in Piedmont, and the parents of the victims say the doors of the Cybertruck would not open as the vehicle burned.
SF Politics Newsom Threatens to Cut Off Funds to Universities That Comply With Trump’s Threats to Cut Off Funds to Universities Governor Newsom has created a Spiderman-pointing-at-Spiderman GIF dilemma for any state universities that comply with Trump's demands to adopt his policies or lose federal funding, as Newsom says he’ll yank their state funding.
Business & Tech Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media The new Meta Ray-Ban video-recording glasses are being used exactly as you would expect, as some lonely perv is harassing and recording women on the USF campus, and posting his videos of this to social media without the women's consent.
Bay Area Sports Underdog 49ers Shock LA Rams With 26-22 Overtime Win, Take Sole Possession of First Place In NFC West Vegas oddsmakers had the 49ers as the biggest underdogs they’d been in five years, but a cast of no-name Niner back-ups stepped up and stunned a national TV audience with a 23-20 overtime victory over the LA Rams.
Business & Tech Waymo in Hot Water After Robotaxi Illegally Blows Past School Bus With Stop Lights On in Georgia The latest safety scare for Waymo robotaxis comes from all the way in suburban Atlanta, where a Waymo vehicle illegally drove around a school bus that was dropping off kids and flashing its stoplights, and Georgia lawmakers are furious.
SF News Teen Accused of Defacing Pink Triangle Gets Felony Vandalism Charge, But No Hate Crime Charges The 19-year-old who allegedly spray-painted on the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle last Pride Month has been charged with a felony, though not a hate crime, as his attorney says the kid didn’t even know what the Pink Triangle meant.
SF News SFUSD to Open New Mission Bay Elementary School Next Year, Despite Declining Enrollment Wait, weren’t we just trying to close some SF schools? We were, but the SF Unified School District is still opening another elementary school this fall in the burgeoning Mission Bay neighborhood.
SF Politics Trump Admin Trying to Stoke Fear That ICE Will Be at Santa Clara Super Bowl, Because of Bad Bunny Trump’s DHS is on a smear campaign claiming that this year’s Santa Clara Super Bowl will be overrun with "illegal aliens" because of Bad Bunny’s halftime show, even though Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reggie Aqui Leaves ABC 7 News After Ten Years There were hundreds of wind-related flight delays at SFO Wednesday; Brock Purdy has been sidelined again for Thursday night’s Rams game; and Reggie Aqui is leaving KGO and his 'ABC7 Mornings' position after ten years at the station.
SF News More Frank Somerville Trouble, as He’s Charged With Battery Over Alleged Drunken 2024 Incident Yet another troubling development involving former KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, as we’re learning of a November 2024 incident over which he’s now charged with battery, and the story sure is similar to what got him arrested again last month.
SF News California AG Rob Bonta Leading 16-State Revolt Against Trump’s Harsh Student Visa Restrictions Trump trying to charge people $100,000 for visas is only one of his administration’s over-the-top new restrictions on visas, and state Attorney General Rob Bonta is leading a crusade to reverse the administration’s proposed new student visa rules.
SF Politics Former Pelosi Aide Gary McCoy Announces He’s Running Against Manny Yekutiel for District 8 Supervisor There are already two candidates who’ve announced they’re running for Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s District 8 seat when he’s termed out in the November 2026 election, as one-time Nancy Pelosi aide Gary McCoy has thrown his hat in the ring.
Arts & Entertainment Levi’s Reopening Its Battery Street Museum, Redesigned and Triple Its Original Size The Levi Strauss & Co museum at Battery Street’s Levi’s Plaza has been closed since the pandemic, but they’ve been quietly redesigning it and overhauling it, and the museum reopens to the public in November, now three times its former size.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Cyclist Getting a Record $7 Million Settlement for Pothole Crash The accused killer in that Walnut Creek double homicide had his mistress charged as an accessory; Trump garbled more nonsense about sending the military to SF; and an Oakland cyclist is getting $7 million over a pothole crash.
Business & Tech That 'Farm' In Those Jennifer Garner Capital One Commercials Is a Real Berkeley-Based Company, and It’s Filing for an IPO Turns out that the business that Jennifer Garner hypes in one of her Capital One commercials is a real Berkeley-based company, though it's not really a farm, and they just filed to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
SF News That Huge, Bulky SFPD Cop Bus Is No Longer Sitting at 16th and Mission Streets After six and a half months of sitting there and trying to look intimidating, the SFPD’s giant, RV-style “mobile command unit” has been removed from the corner of 16th and Mission streets as the SFPD shifts gears on cleaning up that corner.
SF News Infamous New Year’s Eve DUI Hit-and-Run Suspect Troy McAlister Seeking Diversion Instead of Jail The case that largely drove the recall of DA Chesa Boudin is still in the courts nearly five years later, and the attorney for the man accused of killing two women while driving intoxicated on New Year’s Eve 2020 is asking for diversion instead of a jail sentence.
SF News Government Shutdown Could Clip the Wings of Next Weekend’s Fleet Week Your dog might be relieved if the Blue Angels aren’t flying for next weekend’s Fleet Week celebrations, but there is indeed a possibility that the looming government shutdown will cancel the involvement of US military planes and ships.
