SF News Saturday Links: Governor Newsom Proposes National Billionaire Tax A search of a suspect's home in Alameda allegedly reveals a cache of 546 pounds of fireworks, Anna Wintour may have SF in her sights for Vogue World 2027, and the San Jose Sharks win big on draft night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Civil Jury Report Finds SF Jails Woefully Overcrowded, Underfunded Authorities release identifies of two people found dead last month in a San Jose parking garage, a San Francisco civil jury finds city jails are underfunded and overcrowded, and the U.S. strikes Iran in response to Thursday's container ship attack.
SF News 49ers Fan, Former Pro Skateboarder Veronica Lopez Among Two Dead In Pomona Double Homicide California Highway Patrol officers engaged in a 90-minute chase to apprehend a suspect they allege shot two people to death at a Pomona apartment complex on Thursday afternoon. The victims included 24-year-old former professional skateboarder and devoted San Francisco 49ers fan Veronica Lopez.
SF News Authorities Say Hayward Kidnapping Attempt Possibly Linked to 'Justin Bieber Lookalike' The victim of an attempted kidnapping on Friday afternoon in Hayward told authorities that the man responsible shares a striking resemblance to a certain pop star. Hayward police are now searching for a Justin Bieber lookalike in connection with the crime.
SF News Sunday Links: Woman Found Dead in Remote Humboldt Well Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office identifies woman who was killed by train in February, figure skating gold medalist and Oakland hero Alysa Liu hits Ballhalla, and a big-rig crash on the 210 kills one and injures 32 in Los Angeles.
SF News Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Among Two Dead After Plane Crash In France Global gaming company Ubisoft, maker of 'Assassin’s Creed,' is mourning the loss of co-founder Claude Guillemot after authorities confirmed that he and flight instructor Marc Guillet were both killed in a plane crash on Friday in western France. An investigation into the crash is now underway.
SF Politics Dublin Democrat Melissa Hernandez Advances In California Special Election to Replace Rep. Swalwell Former Dublin mayor Melissa Hernandez has officially advanced to face state Senator Aisha Wahab in a special election to fill the state congress seat vacated by Eric Swalwell, who resigned in April following allegations of sexual assault. A final vote to decide the outcome is set for Aug. 18.
SF News Saturday Links: U.S. Men's Team Will Play in Santa Clara for World Cup Knockout Round A 75-year-old woman with Alzheimer's is found safe in SF a day after being reported missing, Iran is once again closing the Strait of Hormuz, and the U.S. men's squad earns a date in Santa Clara as top team in World Cup's Group D.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DOJ Opens Investigation Into MLB Over Pride-Night Cap Fiasco New lawsuit alleges ex-employee of Fremont speech and therapy center of sexually assaulting two-year-old boy, the U.S. is on to the knockout round in the World Cup with a big win over Australia, and DOJ opens new investigation into MLB over SF Giants Pride night protest.
SF News Suspect in Two Unsolved California Homicides Captured in Laos, Extradited Back to Santa Clara to Stand Trial On Friday, a rare joint release from two California counties confirmed that 31-year-old Myung Jin Kim was arrested in Laos and extradited back to California earlier this week to face prosecution in Santa Clara and Orange County in relation to two unsolved fatal shootings from the past decade.
Bay Area Sports Former 49ers All-Pro Pass Rusher Aldon Smith Found Dead at 36 On Saturday morning, 49ers All-Pro pass rusher Aldon Smith was found unresponsive in the front passenger seat of his pickup truck by a friend in Los Gatos. Less than an hour later, the former No. 7 overall NFL draft pick in 2011 was declared dead at San Jose's Good Samaritan Hospital. He was 36.
morning links Sunday Links: San Jose Car Crash Leaves One Dead, Three Injured A car crash in San Jose left one dead and three injured after the driver reportedly ran a red trying to evade police, Vallejo's Six Flags Discovery Kingdom suffers power outage, and beloved film critic Gene Shalit dies at 100.
SF News Vigil In Castro Honors Pulse Nightclub Victims on 10-Year-Anniversary of Mass Shooting On Friday, a vigil was held at the Castro's Jane Warner Plaza in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead a decade ago.
SF News San Jose Police Allege Suspect Knew Female Victim In Fatal Stabbing Officials with the SJPD’s Homicide Unit released a statement following a fatal stabbing at a North San Jose apartment complex late Thursday night that left one woman dead and another man injured. Authorities now allege that the unidentified male at the scene was responsible and knew the victim.
SF News Saturday Links: SFFD Mounts Daring 7-Hour Cliffside Rescue at Dead Man's Point SFFD mounts a daring overnight rescue of hiker trapped at Land's End; baby penguins arrive at SF Zoo; and SF Giants pitcher Landen Roupp reps a bible verse for Pride.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Found Dead in Bushes on UC Berkeley Campus UC Berkeley gardeners discover body in bushes on campus; SFPD fears a rise in Pokemon card robberies; and "Last Black Man in San Francisco" director Joe Talbot drops a new ad for his favorite city.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Bolster Frontcourt, Ink Stanford Center Nadia Fingall The Golden State Valkyries welcomed a face familiar to Bay Area college sports fans by signing former Stanford center Nadia Fingall to a rest-of-season contract on Sunday. The team also waived forward Ndjakalenga Mwenentanda in a corresponding move.
SF News Cancer Death of Retired SF Firefighter Reignites Calls to Reform Blue Shield Coverage The death of San Francisco firefighter Ken Jones has renewed calls to reform Blue Shield, the city's designated insurance provider. The late firefighter’s battle to treat his stage 4 lung cancer first gained attention in January, with advocates now blaming delays in care for his premature passing.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Rattled Sunday AM By Preliminary Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake East Bay jolted by a preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake on Sunday morning; teenager injured in I-580 shooting; and SF tasting menu restaurant Anomaly SF slated to close.
SF News Truck Crashes Into Oakland Apartment, Leaving Infant Boy in Critical Condition A one-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after a truck smashed into the side of his family's Oakland apartment building earlier today.
SF News San Jose Mother and Daughter Both Receive Prison Sentences Tied to 2023 Daycare Drownings A mother-daughter daycare team convicted of three felony child endangerment charges stemming from a 2023 double drowning at the pair's Happy Happy Daycare facility in San Jose were sentenced to sizable prison stints on Friday.
SF News Saturday Links: Democrat Xavier Becerra Advances to General Election for California Governor Democrat Xavier Becerra has officially qualified to run for governor in California's general election this fall; Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was spotted shopping for analog treasures at Berkeley Typewriter; and the former home of Cal Shakes in Orinda reopens as music venue Siesta Valley Bowl.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stern Grove Announces Free Concert Series at SFO Stern Grove is going to be doing free concerts at SFO this summer, by Gate B4; Anthropic is in support of taking an industry-wide "pause" to ensure AI safety; and CA is part of a coalition of states suing over the Warner Brothers-Paramount deal.
SF News SF Giants Call Up Top Hitting Prospect in Last-Ditch Effort to Fix Lost Season The San Francisco Giants made a bold move Saturday, adding top hitting prospect Jonah Cox to their major league squad directly from Double-A. The surprising call for Cox to bypass any time at the AAA level comes as the team continues a historically bad start to its 2026 campaign.
SF News 17-Year-Old Dead, Three Injured in Overnight Collision with Recology Truck A Chevrolet Camaro with four teenagers inside took a terrifying 25-foot-plunge over San Francisco's eastbound 1-80 overpass late last night, killing one 17-year-old boy who wasn't wearing his seatbelt and leaving at least one other passenger with major injuries.
