SF News Sunday Links: Don't Forget About Those SF Marathon-Related Street Closures Today The Oak Fire is now over 14,000 acres in size, here's another reminder that the SF marathon route will cause some streets to close until 3 p.m. today, and speaking of the footrace: its first group of finishers completed the race at dizzying paces.
SF News SFDPH Prioritizing First-Dose Monkeypox Vaccinations; City Department Expected to Offer Second Doses After Supply Increases There are an estimated 197 cases of either confirmed or suspected monkeypox infections in SF. Thus far, the City has received 7,700 units of the two-dose Jynneos vaccine from the federal stockpile via CDPH — though some 35,000 doses have been requested to meet the need.
SF News Small Airplane Crashes in San Jose Leaving Pilot With 'Life-Threatening Injuries' Sometime around 7 p.m. Friday, a small private plane dove onto the concrete at Karl Street and Ocala Avenue — close to the Reid-Hillview Airport — in San Jose, forcing some nearby residences to evacuate due to the crash downing power lines.
SF News Saturday Links: Oak Fire Smoke Expected to Stay Away From Bay Area (for Now) The Oak Fire has now grown to over 6,500 acres in size — its smoke expected to still stay away from the Bay Area today — President Biden is likely stricken with the BA.5 omicron subvariant, and the WHO has declared the spread of monkeypox a global health emergency.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Arrested for... Um, 'Pleasuring' Himself Outside UC Berkeley Students' Home Church Street's Amos Goldbaum mural is being restored, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt for defying a January 6 committee subpoena, and a man was arrested for entering a UC Berkeley Greek residence — and showing off his genitals to students.
SF News AIDS Walk San Francisco Returns for First Time Since Pandemic Began After a two year-hiatus, SF's 6.25-mile AIDS Walk through Golden Gate Park returned for the first time since the COVID-19 public health crisis began in 2020 — and now amid a rising number of recorded monkeypox cases in the city, an outbreak being tackled by AIDS organizations.
SF News Photos: Presidio Tunnel Tops Park Finally Opens to the Public (With Gorgeous Sunset Views of the SF Bay) Saturday saw throngs of eager park-goers sitting atop the wooden benches — which were made from fallen cypress trees — at Presidio Tunnel Tops, sponging up views of the Golden Gate Bridge as Karl the Fog rolled into the SF Bay.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Injured in Shooting in San Francisco's Mid-Market Neighborhood One person was killed in a bowling alley shooting in Livermore Saturday, you'll no longer have to wear a mask when riding BART starting tomorrow, and a shooting on 6th Street Saturday left two people with gunshot wounds.
SF News Mountain View Police Officer Shot During Traffic Stop, Suspect Still at Large An officer from the Mountain View Police Department was injured in a shooting Saturday shortly after midnight when the patrol officer pulled over a car at Villa Street and Wild Cherry Lane; the shooter is still at large Saturday afternoon.
SF News Saturday Links: Well-Known Nonprofit Leader Attacked Outside Community Center in SF A UCSF doctor has said this "could be our second worst surge in terms of numbers of cases,” the Washburn Fire has now burned 4,822 acres, and the executive director of SF's Ella Hill Hutch Community Center was attacked outside the building Friday afternoon.
SF News SFO Evacuated Friday Night Due to Alleged Bomb Threat, Suspect Arrested SFPD first learned of a potential bomb threat at the San Francisco International Airport Friday night around 8:15 p.m., which prompted passengers to be evacuated from the international terminal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 40 Cases Dropped by Contra Costa District Attorney This Week Because of ‘Moral Turpitude’ Among Police Officers A new lawsuit filed with the California federal court is claiming Skittles are toxic, SFMOMA’s "Diego Rivera’s America" exhibit opens tomorrow, and the Contra Costa DA confirmed this week that prosecutors dropped criminal charges for at least 40 cases due to untrustworthy police officers.
SF News Growing Washburn Fire More Than Doubles in Size, Threat to Nearby Giant Sequoias Increases The Washburn Fire in Yosemite National Park measures over 1,800 acres as of Sunday afternoon — more than doubling in size from the day prior — and remains completely uncontained, extending ever so slightly now closer to Mariposa Grove... where some 500 mature giant sequoias are rooted.
SF News Sunday Links: 90% of Armsby Fire Contained; Fire Crews Battling Pittsburg Vegetation Fire The six-acre Armsby Fire is now almost completely contained, Contra Costa fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire burning in Pittsburg, and plans to expand Castilleja School — an all-girls school in Palo Alto — have gotten city approval.
SF News 600 Monkeypox Vaccines Administered in San Francisco So Far, More Units Requested by SFDPH The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) reported it has administered 600 monkeypox vaccines to eligible residents who had close contact with someone who has monkeypox (suspected or confirmed) or working in proximity to the virus in a lab setting.
SF News Upscale SF Restaurants Targeted by Cookie-Cutter Bad Reviews From Online Trolls Several local high-end eateries have noticed an increase in one-star reviews being left online from different, often faceless accounts — which has greatly affected their ratings on Google — and some owners have even been emailed by online trolls, demanding money to stop posting the one-star reviews.
SF News Saturday Links: Missing Pittsburg Woman With Dementia Found Newly appointed SF DA Brooke Jenkins's first meeting with staffers was allegedly quite "icy," Sunday Streets is coming to Valencia Street this weekend, and a 72-year-old Pittsburg woman with dementia and diabetes was safely found by local police.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vegetation Fire in Morgan Hill Prompts Evacuation Orders CAL FIRE officials ordered evacuations Friday afternoon after a vegetation fire broke out off Armsby and Sleep Valley roads, SF's largest landlord is threatening to evict tenants organizing around new tenants' rights, and the Washburn Fire in Yosemite continues burning.
SF News One Killed, Four Injured in Downtown Sacramento Shooting Early Monday morning, five adults were involved in a shooting that left four of them injured and one dead near the State Capitol Building in Sacramento; the shooting occurred less than three months after a gang-related shooting in downtown Sacramento killed six people and wounded twelve others.
SF News Fourth of July Rundown: SoMa Sushi Joint Quietly Shutters After Failed Lease Negotiations The team behind SF's firework show is putting together the last details this afternoon, a man was arrested on Friday for taking a sledgehammer to several cars in SF, and Kaisen Sushi at 71 5th Street suddenly closed for good after five years of serving fresh and cheap rolls.
SF News Man Shot and Killed in Bayview Friday Night, Suspect Arrested; One of Three Reported Shootings in SF Within 24 Hours San Francisco police have arrested a suspect in a Bayview shooting that left a 38-year-old man with life-threatening injuries Friday night; the victim was promptly taken to a nearby hospital, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Broke a Daily Rain Record Yesterday The Castro will have a new specialty grocery shop soon, an Oakland man was charged with dealing fentanyl in the Tenderloin, and less than a tenth of an inch of rain was recorded in downtown SF Saturday — but it was still enough to beat the record for that day.
SF News Man Who Died in Collision Between Two Boats in SF Bay Identified On Thursday, a collision between two boats in the San Francisco Bay — about a mile southwest of Angel Island — left one ship spinning out of control and a man dead. The man has been identified as 65-year-old Contra Costa County resident Michael Wells.
SF news Saturday Links: SF Couple Fined Over $1.5K for Parking in Their Own Driveway SoMa's newest pizza joint is also serving up great Tiki drinks, Oakland will again open cooling and clean air sites this summer, and a San Francisco couple that's been parking in their driveway for almost four decades was recently fined over $1.5K by the City for doing so.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Show Near Sacramento Subjected to Transphobic, Homophobic Remarks by Alleged Proud Boys The Castro's newest plant shop officially opened today, a new Spanish taverna is coming to the Mission District, and a drag show in Yolo County was disrupted by a group of possible Proud Boys making homophobic and transphobic remarks Thursday night.