SF News Day Around The Bay: Elvira Donates Tesla With 'Elon Sux' Painted On It To NPR Trump issued an executive order calling for swathes of US national forests to be used for timber; Elvira donated her Tesla to NPR while wearing a "Make America Goth Again" hat; and a San Mateo substitute teacher was arrested for possession of child pornography.
SF News Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.
SF News San Mateo Police Seize U-Haul Van Full of Stolen Mail From Across the Bay Area San Mateo police arrested two suspects yesterday who were in possession of a U-Haul van containing stolen mail from over 100 residents from across the Bay Area, including social security and ID cards, as well as a stolen apartment complex mailbox.
SF News Another Spot Where the Drug Scene Moved, Jefferson Square Park, Gets Raided By SFPD Overnight In addition to shuffling the drug users to parts of the Mission District, the city's efforts to "clean up" Sixth Street and parts of the Tenderloin also just shuffled a crowd of users over to Jefferson Square Park on Cathedral Hill. And the park was just the subject of a large-scale raid by police.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tesla Sales Plummet In Europe Tesla sales decreased by 45% across Europe in January; Oakland city departments were found to have paid more than $1.6 million in excess overtime over the past six years; and a man who shot at San Leandro police was charged.
SF News Saturday Links: Daily Beast Breaks, Then Deletes, Bombshell Story That Trump Was Allegedly Recruited By KGB in 1987 The Daily Beast broke the news that the KGB allegedly recruited Trump in 1987, which they've deleted; Twilio signed a three-year lease for its current Rincon Center space but maintains its remote-first policy; and the suspected killer of Too Short's brother has been linked to a more recent murder.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Man Convicted Of Imprisoning 74-Year-Old Woman For Two Years An Oakland man was convicted of imprisoning his dead mom's friend; the Trump administration is considering a Northern California military site for one of its detention centers; and Luigi Mangione appeared in court day, along with a gaggle of supporters.
SF News Thieves Are Obsessed With The Berkeley North Face Outlet Store One of several suspected thieves to target the Berkeley North Face Outlet store is Brezjana Wilson, who was arrested last month after she was allegedly captured on surveillance footage rappelling through a skylight into the store.
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Giant Pillow Fight Is Back On The giant pillow fight is back at Embarcadero tonight; the man suspected of murdering Too Short’s brother turns himself in; and some experts think Kamala Harris might be seriously considering running for California governor.
SF News Armed Assault In San Rafael Leads to Police Chase, Arrests In San Francisco San Rafael police chased some allegedly armed suspects across the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon, ultimately making three arrests on Presidio Parkway after the suspects' car experienced engine failure.
SF News Two Women Charged For Sunday Crash Into Napper Tandy Parklet on 24th The two women who were in the allegedly stolen SUV that crashed into the Napper Tandy's parklet in the Mission District on Super Bowl Sunday, injuring seven people, have now been charged.
SF News Felon on Parole Allegedly Carrying Meth For Sale Leads Police on Chase, Tries to Hide In East Bay Casino A man fleeing from Vallejo police last weekend led the cops on a multi-county pursuit into the East Bay, where he reportedly ran into a casino in San Pablo in an attempt to escape from arrest.
SF News Driver Fleeing Police Crashes Into Mission Parklet During Super Bowl, Injures Six Six people were injured — including two critically — after a car that was fleeing police crashed into a parklet outside The Napper Tandy in the Mission on Super Bowl Sunday.
SF News Sunday Links: Sebastopol Smash-And-Grab Thief Steals Candy, Leaves Trail For Police SFPD announced a $250,000 reward in a 2006 unsolved murder case; an East Bay chiropractic school professor is being sued by students for alleged sexual misconduct; and authorities race to investigate an Alaska commuter plane crash that killed ten people.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Google Removes Pledge From Its Website That It Won’t Use AI For Weapons Or Surveillance Bob Geary, 1980s ventriloquist cop, has died; Trump dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water from two California lakes last weekend; and a Wisconsin Democrat is set to introduce a bill called “Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy.”
SF News Shots Fired Near 16th and Mission Minutes After Mayor's Press Event With Wiener Exemplifying the general and ongoing sketchiness of the area around the 16th and Mission BART Station, there was a shooting Monday minutes after and less than a block away from a press conference with Mayor Daniel Lurie and state Senator Scott Wiener.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Oakland Gyms Ditch CrossFit Over Its New Gender Policy Business owners in potential flood zones attempt to prevent flooding on their own; Musk's aides have locked federal workers out of data systems; California Historical Society shutters downtown S.F. location.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lawrence Livermore Lab Partners With OpenAI Muni subway experiences mid-morning technical issues and delays; S.F. man charged with hate crime and assault over Tenderloin garage incident; and Lawrence Livermore Laboratory tests OpenAI's AI models in hopes of streamlining its fusion research.
SF News Triple Shooting at Weekend Sideshow In Oakland Leaves One Dead A Sunday evening sideshow led to Oakland's 11th homicide of the month and of the new year, with two other people injured by gunfire.
SF News Sunday Links: Sonoma State Athletes Left In The Lurch After School Cuts NCAA Sports Sonoma State eliminates its NCAA sports teams, leaving 227 transfer student-athletes scrambling; San Francisco's Chinese American community leaders vow to protect immigrant rights; and John Muir Land Trust purchases private island in S.F. Bay, which will be restored to its natural state.
SF News Friday Night Stabbing in the Tenderloin Leaves One Person Injured No suspects have been arrested thus far, and an investigation is ongoing.
SF Politics Elon Musk Repeats Tall Tale That SF Twitter Employees Were Threatened By Axe Murderer, SFPD Says It’s All Bunk Dark MAGA’s premier San Francisco antagonist Elon Musk repeated his constantly changing story that his SF employees were threatened by an axe murderer, and that SFPD did “nothing.” SFPD points out that no such thing was ever reported to them.
SF News Attempted Murder Charges Filed In Two SoMa Shootings In two separate shooting incidents that have occurred since the new year began in the SoMa neighborhood, two suspects are now facing attempted murder charges.
SF News Alleged Serial Bar Tab-Skipper ‘Jared’ Arrested and Detained at a Red Lobster In San Bruno The infamous dine-and-dasher known around SF as “Jared” was arrested and detained for once again skipping on a bill, though he has since been released, and bartenders be warned that he is currently a free man.
SF News Prosecutor Outrage Ensues as Serial Car Burglar Gets Probation After Long String of Car Break-Ins In SF 27-year-old Robert Sonza was in court Thursday for a series of car thefts and gun charges dating back to 2019, having been given probation and then reoffending each time. Yet an SF Superior Court judge gave him probation yet again, despite more than a dozen arrests.
