SF News Day Around the Bay: Trump Sends Tweets From '@POTUS' Account — and They've Already Been Taken Down Google has removed the right-wing associated app Parler from the Google Play Store, Auto Erotica in The Castro needs your help to stay afloat, and Trump took to the official "@POTUS" account early Friday evening to tweet his usual antics; those posts have since been taken down by Twitter.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi's House Vandalized With Graffiti, Blood-Like Paint — and Pig's Head Several storms could bring seven straight days of rain across the Bay Area, beach clean-ups in California have been hampered by shutdown orders, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Cow Hollow home was defaced with black lettering, red paint — and what looks like an actual pig's head.
datb Day Around the Bay: Tick Tock, 2020, Tick Tock 2020 got its last licks in with a freeway shooting that roiled the 101 in South San Francisco, but the state is handing out half a billion dollars in COVID-19 small business relief, and the Moderna vaccine is confirmed to be everything it’s cracked up to be.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID-19 Variant Discovered in Southern California California's COVID-19 death count is close to passing the 25,000 mark, rainstorms are expected to soak the Bay Area as we enter into 2021, and the more communicable variant of COVID-19 that's been circulating in the UK and elsewhere has been discovered in Southern California.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gingerbread Monolith Goes Up in Corona Heights Park A woman was seriously injured after her car went off a cliff near Fort Funston, rain continues to come down in the Bay Area, and a gingerbread monolith (that stands over seven feet tall) mysteriously went up in SF on Christmas Day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Temporary Tombstones' in San Jose Honor Local Homeless People Who Died in 2020 New data shows that SF neighborhoods with the least access to testing are the most affected by COVID-19, Glide hosted its annual Christmas Eve prime rib dinner today, and the 196 unhoused people who died in San Jose this year have each been memorialized with a “temporary tombstone.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Winter Solstice is Upon Us It’s the longest night of the year, right-wingers on Facebook insist that Nancy Pelosi’s vaccination shot was fake, and a good samaritan EMT may have contracted COVID-19 by committing an act of heroism on a flight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 58 San Franciscans Lost Their Lives to Drug Overdoses in November The FDA has now officially authorized the "emergency use" of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, SF's public school students won't start returning to campuses on January 25 as originally planned, and 58 more people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco last month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Will Enact Mandatory Quarantine for Incoming Travelers Starting Friday A suspect believed to be related to the Lake Merritt-area assaults has been arrested, the SF Weekly and the Examiner have been purchased by Clint Reilly Communications, and San Francisco will soon make it mandatory for travelers (arriving anywhere outside of the Bay Area) to quarantine for 10 days.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Little Original Joe's Opens in West Portal With Takeout-Only Menu A medical emergency at Civic Center caused BART delays this afternoon, California is now running out of body bags as COVID-19 deaths soar, and the smaller sibling of the Original Joe's restaurants, Little Original Joe's, is now open for business in West Portal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oracle Will Move Headquarters to Austin It looks like Oracle is the next company to flee California amid the current mass tech exodus, rain is expected to drench much of the Bay Area this weekend, and the high-end Indian eatery August 1 Five is shuttering before the end of the month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Dark COVID Winter' We've Dreaded Is Here A new Cuban-Colombian eatery in Civic Center is now open (for takeout only), a coyote apparently bit an East Bay runner Friday morning, and the Contra Costa County health officer lamented today that the "dark COVID winter" we've all feared is here.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SantaCon 2020 Has Been Canceled Oakland's Slow Streets program has helped reduce the number of traffic-related injuries since the program started, LA officially adopted a new stay-at-home order Friday, and organizers of SantaCon 2020 have canceled the annual bar-hopping event — a welcomed bit of good news for the day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Has Highest COVID-19 Per Capita Death Rate in Bay Area A data analysis done by ABC7 showed Marin has the highest COVID-19 per capita death rate among Bay Area counties, coronavirus testing "pop-ups" are set to begin across SF ahead of Thanksgiving, and Donald Trump Jr. is now positive for COVID-19 — because, well, karma.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two-Alarm Fire Engulfs Abandoned Building in Oakland An early morning Friday fire burned an empty (and red-tagged) building in Oakland, there will be a new Saturday farmers' market at Lower Polk Plaza starting this weekend, and Rainbow Grocery in the Mission will now offer reservations for safer holiday-season shopping.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 20-Foot-Plus Waves Coming to Bay Area Shorelines Waves as high as 24 feet will break along Bay Area shorelines this weekend, a chameleon that was rescued from a power line in Daly City on Wednesday has been reunited with its owner, and historic SF sports bar Tommy's Joynt has reopened.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 5-Year-Old Boy Who Found Stolen Lemur Receives Honor From City Mayor Breed presented 5-year-old James Trinh with a certificate of honor from the City for helping find SF Zoo’s stolen lemur, a forest of LEDs will come to Golden Gate Park this winter, and West Oakland's Magnolia Street Wine Lounge and Kitchen opens today — featuring Asian-inspired Creole cuisine.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entire Bay Area To Receive Red Flag Warning Sunday Amid Strong Winds The entire Bay Area is expected to be under a Red Flag Warning come Sunday evening, a Muni bus collided with a bicyclist earlier this afternoon, and yes: there's another fire burning in Napa right now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Four-Alarm Fire at Sign Hill Completely Contained The four-alarm fire that broke out at Sign Hill today has been fully contained, CA voting officials now say those unofficial GOP ballot boxes can harvest votes, and East Bay coffee companies are banding together to help remove racial bias in their industry.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shasta County Coroner's Office Names Four Victims of Zogg Fire The Shasta County Coroner's Office has identified four victims who lost their lives in the Zogg Fire, SFPD is searching for a pickup truck driver who critically injured a man in a Thursday night hit-and-run, and Male Image in the Castro has been renamed “Castro Barbers.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Tests Negative for COVID-19 Despite Prior Meeting With Mnuchin House Speaker Pelosi on Friday tested negative for COVID-19 after having attended a previous meeting with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, 85-year-old Harrington's Bar & Grill is closing, and SF is now moving the homeless out of shelter-in-place hotel rooms... and into more affordable types of housing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Popular Mission District Cafe and Community Space Manny's Vandalized Manny's in the Mission District was vandalized last night, covidiots are going after SF eateries that uphold face-covering policies on Yelp, and a wayward driver crashed into Fitness SF and Weaver's Coffee & Tea in The Castro early Friday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dolan Fire Grows to Almost 100,000 Acres as Orange Skies Continue Blanketing Bay Area The once slow-growing Dolan Fire in Monterey County is now nearly 100,000 acres, Ritual Coffee Roasters shuttered its Castro location over the long weekend, and the orange skies that continue coloring the Bay Area are likely to stick around until at least Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Stay on California's Coronavirus Watch List "Dome dining" is back in San Francisco at Hashiri after changes were made to its controversial “igloos,” the SCU Lightning Complex fire is now ten times larger than the size of Manhattan, and… alas: San Francisco will stay on the state’s COVID-19 watch list, after all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Stop Leasing Additional Shelter-in-Place Hotel Rooms San Francisco officials announced this week the City will stop acquiring new shelter-in-place hotel rooms, the CDC is now not recommending face masks with ventilators to be worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and a crowd of Trump supporters has shut down an overpass in Novato... because 2020.
