SF News DUI Charges Filed In Last Week’s Albany Crash That Killed 40-Year-Old Delivery Driver Friday’s three-vehicle crash in Albany that killed delivery driver Daniel Alejandro Oliva Morales has been deemed a DUI, and a 34-year-old El Cerrito man is being charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette’s Long-Shuttered Park Theater to Reopen With a $12 Million Renovation The lottery is open for the Pointer Sisters-Lyrics Born show at Stern Grove; a Cotati DUI suspect was pulled over with 70 empty beer cans in his vehicle; and Lafayette’s Park Theater that closed 20 years ago is set to reopen with a big renovation.
SF News Walnut Creek Teacher Facing Rape Charges for Alleged Sex With Teen Student A 43-year-old Walnut Creek teacher has been charged with the rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, and assault of a student, and it does not help his case that he admitted to these things on a phone call that police had secretly wiretapped.
SF News Oakland Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Contraband Porn Into Solano County Jail A well-known Oakland attorney has been arrested on charges that he tried to sneak contraband to a prisoner in Solano County Jail, and further reporting on the matter says that the contraband he tried to sneak was a stack of pornographic magazines.
SF News New App Lets Users Crowdsource ICE Agent Sightings, Trump Administration Goes Apoplectic A new iPhone app purports to be “Waze but for ICE sightings” and lets users share the location of ICE operations they see, but now the Trump administration is throwing massive tantrums and claiming they’ll sue CNN for reporting that the app exists.
SF News Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
SF News Stinson Beach Releases $1.2 Billion Sea-Level Rise Plan, Which Comes Out to About $2 Million Per Resident The Marin County community of Stinson Beach is pretty much surrounded by water, which makes its flood risks off the charts in the climate change era, but the community is contemplating a billion-dollar plan to adapt to rising sea levels.
SF News SF Drag Performer Was Detained By ICE Heading Into Pride Weekend On Thursday of last week as we were leading up to Pride Weekend, a Guatemalan drag performer living in SF and performing under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained after showing up for an immigration court hearing.
SF News Slew of New California Laws Set to Take Effect July 1, With Bars Required to Provide Anti-Roofie ‘Drink Lids’ At least four Bay Area municipalities will see minimum wage increases go into effect on July 1, plus there are other new laws targeting hidden Airbnb fees, and bars will have to provide drink lids on request to prevent people from getting roofied.
SF News There’s Actually Some Thunderstorm Risk (and Wildfire Risk) In NorCal as We Head Toward 4th of July The possibility of lightning has led to Red Flag Warnings Monday and Tuesday in some of California’s northernmost counties, but the low-pressure system that’s bringing them will mostly just bring more fog to San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Cornerback Deommodore Lenoir Arrested in LA on Charges of Obstructing Justice Fresh off signing a $92 million contract, up-and-coming 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir spent a few hours in a Los Angeles County jail Thursday night, and is being charged with obstructing justice in an incident that police say involved a gun.
SF News Oakland Airport Tries To Change Its Name Again, This Time to ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’ Having hit a legal roadblock after trying to change its name to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport,’ Oakland officials are now taking another stab at it with the new proposed new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’
SF News Two Arrested After Discovery Bay Boat Rage Incident, Accused of Ramming Jet-Ski and Other Boats After some social media video showed a boat in Discovery Bay seeming to intentionally plow into a Jet-Ski and other boats Sunday, two suspects have been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News SFPD Touts 97 Arrests In One Day, In What They Call a ‘Fugitive Enforcement Operation’ The SF Police Department is claiming a major victory against the street drug trade, saying they made 97 arrests Wednesday and insisting they caught a large number of “fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Recology Rates Going Up By Nearly 25%, Starting in October Barry Bonds is getting a statue at Oracle Park; there’s an IMAX screening of the Grateful Dead concert movie coming to SF; and Recology will be jacking up your rates by almost 25% in a phased approach beginning October 1.
Arts & Entertainment Ghirardelli Square Clock Tower Restored, After a Year Behind Covers and Scaffolding The 107-year-old clock tower at Ghirardelli Square has been concealed behind white wrapping for nearly a year, but just had its triumphant unveiling now that some water damage problems have been repaired.
SF News Latest Tenderloin Liquor Store Busted Not Just for Being Illegal Gambling Den, But Also Selling Weed, Mushrooms A new twist on Tenderloin corner stores harboring illegal gambling dens comes via the latest one busted on Taylor Street, which was also allegedly selling illegal cannabis and mushrooms, all apparently in plain sight.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Still Would Have Lost If More People Had Voted, New Data Suggests Turnout was slightly down in the 2024 presidential election, which some Kamala Harris supporters have blamed for her loss. But a new analysis finds that even if turnout had been higher, Harris still would have lost the race.
SF News 117-Year-Old Central Drug Store, Oldest Store in the Excelsior, Closing Permanently in July It’s the end of a very long era, after Central Drug Store has spent 117 years at its current Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue location, it will close permanently on July 15 as owner Jerry Tonelli is heading toward a well-deserved retirement.
SF News In-N-Out Sues YouTube Prankster for Vulgar Video Where He Impersonated a Store Employee, Made Condom Jokes Apparently the In-N-Out burger chain will sue you if you make YouTube videos impersonating one of their employees and saying there are condoms and cockroaches in their food, as one SoCal YouTuber has discovered this week.
Arts & Entertainment Pride Weekend Festival SoSF Has Lost Its Headliner, Changed Its Name and Venue, and Scrubbed Its Social Media There’s some head-scratching among those planning to attend this Saturday's Pride Weekend music festival previously called SoSF, after the event lost Kehlani as headliner, then changed its name and location, and deleted all social media posts.
SF News Vehicle Crashes Into Backyard Near Cole Valley, Hits Propane Tank, Driver Injured There was a wild scene at Frederick and Masonic streets in SF early Wednesday afternoon, after a vehicle drove onto the sidewalk, crashed into a backyard, and landed on a propane tank. There was no fire, but the driver of the vehicle has been hospitalized.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Are Now The First Women’s Sports Franchise Valued at $500 Million Despite having won barely half their games and having no real standout star, your Golden State Valkyries now hold the highest valuation of any women’s pro sports team ever, and not even a month and a half after playing their first game.
SF News Former Antioch Cop Gets Seven Years In Prison for Siccing K9 on Suspects, Fraudulently Getting a Pay Raise The longest prison sentence yet in the ongoing Antioch Police Department scandals came down Tuesday, as a now-former officer who ordered grisly K9 attacks and falsified work to get a pay raise has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Suspicious’ Package Shuts Down Customs Building Near Jackson Square The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously, in an initial vote, to remove the sheriff; Trump’s airstrikes on Iran apparently weren’t all that successful; and a suspicious package forced the closure of an SF US Customs and Border Protection building.
