SF News Almost $180K Worth of Camera Gear Stolen From Store Close to SF's Union Square Despite this year's uptick in police presence in Union Square, a quick group of thieves managed to raid a high-end store in downtown San Francisco Saturday afternoon, leaving the camera shop Leica with $20K in damages and without $178K worth of products.
SF News Sunday Links: Comic-Con-Like Event Comes to San Francisco SFPD responded to a bizarre biting incident Saturday, Solano County remains the “most affordable” place to buy a home in the Bay Area, and tens of thousands of people have flocked to SF's Moscone Center for Fan Expo this weekend.
SF News Pedestrian Fatally Struck by Train in San Francisco; Second Caltrain-Related Fatality in Three Days Saturday morning, Caltrain's #221 train heading north collided with a person on the track of Tunnel 3 in San Francisco — becoming the second deadly Bay Area train collision in just three days and Caltrain’s tenth fatality recorded this year.
SF News Hijacked Muni Bus Hits 10 Cars in Mission District, Suspect Now in Custody Friday night around 8 p.m., a suspect allegedly assaulted a Muni driver operating a bus at Cortland and Mission streets, before stealing the vehicle and traveling up to 19th and Guerrero streets — striking at least ten cars on their way.
SF News Saturday Links: BART's Powell Street Station Closes Due to 'Major Medical Emergency,' Reopens After Person Pulled Off Tracks East Bay's Wingen Bakery is expanding, Lower Nob Hill just got a new (and very green) corner store, and BART announced Saturday morning that it closed the Powell Street station because of a "major medical emergency" — but was reopened after it was resolved.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Ranks Worst for Package Theft, According to Report There's a good chance we're in for a winter boom in COVID cases, you can (for the first time ever) cut down your own Christmas tree inside the Stanislaus National Forest, and a new report shows SF Bay Area residents are most likely to experience package theft.
SF News National Park Service Closes Municipal Pier at SF's Aquatic Park Cove Indefinitely Citing its poor state of condition — "[the pier] is incrementally deteriorating" — the National Park Service quietly and abruptly closed SF's "Muni Pier" on October 27... with no plans of reopening it anytime soon.
SF News 18 People Injured in Multi-Car Collision on Bay Bridge, Massive Traffic Delays Reported The San Francisco Fire Department responded to multiple car crashes, caused in a chain-like reaction, Thursday around 2 p.m. on the Interstate 80 tunnel across Treasure Island — leaving at least 18 people hurt, all of whom suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Fremont Police Announce At-Risk Man Last Seen on BART Wednesday Night Has Been Found 20-year-old Eleandrei Palisoc, who is non-verbal and autistic, was reported missing Wednesday after last being seen around 10:45 p.m. boarding a northbound BART train at the Fremont Station — but Fremont Police announced Thursday afternoon Palisoc was successfully located.
SF News Turkey Day Headlines: Don't Forget That the SF Botanical Garden Is Free Today Some asshole is abusing cats in Gilroy, this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is filled with pop-culture nostalgia, and take a pre-dinner walk through the San Francisco Botanical Garden today — for free.
SF News Waymo Can Now Offer Driverless Taxi Rides In SF (But Can't Charge for Them) Joining the likes of General Motors-owned Cruise, Waymo — the Alphabet-owned autonomous car company — is now permitted to give fully self-driven rides in San Francisco after months of testing with drivers behind the wheel.
SF News Shooter at Club Q in Colorado Kills Five, Leaves at Least Another 25 Injured On the eve of Transgender Day of Remembrance, a 22-year-old gunman opened fire inside a Colorado Springs queer nightclub, fatally wounding five individuals and injuring at least twenty-five others; patrons inside Club Q are being praised for their bravery.
SF News Sunday Links: Sheng Thao Ekes Out Razor-Thin Lead in Oakland Mayor's Race COVID experts continue recommending testing and mask-wearing ahead of Thanksgiving, SF’s Deck The Halls pop-up bar returns next week, and City Councilwoman Sheng Thao is narrowly leading Loren Taylor in the Oakland mayor’s race.
Business & Tech Oof: Trump's Twitter Account Is Back Online After Millions Vote in Poll About Its Reinstatement After Elon Musk's posted a Twitter poll that showed around eight million votes in favor of allowing former President Donald J. Trump back on the platform, Musk tweeted "the people have spoken" Saturday night.
SF News Police Officers Race After Auto Burglary Suspects on Highway 101 in San Francisco; Three Arrests Made Those traveling on the 101 on Friday, November 11, around 3 p.m. got a front-row seat to a foot chase between San Francisco Police officers and three auto burglary suspects as they were chased down the middle of the freeway.
SF News San Francisco Police Arrest Eight Alleged Gang Members, Recover Stolen Property SFPD announced police have detained eight individuals, all of whom are allegedly connected to a gang that has conducted a slew of crimes, including "shootings, armed robberies, and car burglaries" done around the Bay Area.
SF News Saturday Links: First Train Leaves Central Subway Station Packed With People A person was killed in a suspected freeway shooting in Oakland early Saturday morning, the Bay Area is in the middle of a "Pastrami Renaissance," and service officially started at SF's Central Subway station today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Downtown Whole Foods in SF Now Requires Receipt to Use Restrooms Bathrooms at the Whole Foods location at 1185 Market Street are now only open to customers amid drug use in them, there’s an apartment for rent in the historic Pasquale’s Tower on Telegraph Hill, and the popular brunch spot That’s My Jam is back.
SF News Of Course Trump Wanted to Dissolve the SF-Based Ninth Circuit Court During His Presidency Released earlier this year, "The Divider" — a book co-authored by Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and Peter Baker of the New York Times — includes a revelation from former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that Trump said "let’s just cancel” SF's Ninth Circuit court in 2018.
SF News Two Photographers Attacked at SF's Palace of Fine Arts — on Same Day In separate incidents, two photographers — one of them visiting San Francisco from Dallas — were subjected to violent robberies on November 9 near the Palace of Fine Arts; no arrests have been made in either robbery.
SF News Sunday Links: Looks Like SF Will Have a Rain-Free Week Ahead Dozens of completed ballots were found near Highway 17 in Santa Clara, mostly clear skies are in the forecast for SF next week, and it looks like Democrats will hold control of the Senate — with the House majority still on a knife edge.
SF News Meta's Mass Layoff Includes 362 Employees Based at San Francisco Office A recent notice about the layoffs by Meta was tweeted by District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, showing 362 of the 11,000 employees laid off worked at the company's Howard Street office in SF.
SF News Saturday Links: New Count Shows LA Has Comparably More Unhoused Individuals Than Bay Area A small earthquake shook the East Bay, a massive strike of 50,000 UC employees is expected Monday, and one recent count shows Los Angeles has proportionally more people suffering from homelessness than the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: There's a Mistake on Rose Pak's Plaque at New Chinatown Central Subway Station Named After Her The SF Zoo recently became home to a second Komodo dragon, Disney announced it's putting a freeze on new staff hires amid "dismal" earnings, and, of course, there's an error on the namesake's memorial plaque at the new Chinatown-Rose Pak Station.
SF News ICU Units at UCSF Children's Hospitals at Capacity Due to RSV Cases An outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory infections are overwhelming Bay Area children's hospitals — forcing ICU units to send pediatric patients to other floors because they've reached capacity.
