SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Couple Charged In Toddler's Fentanyl Death Santa Clara County has its first case of parents being charged in the fentanyl-related death of a small child; the SFPD is stepping up its presence in Union Square; and Taylor Swift's Eras Tour movie is screening at the Castro Theatre next month.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Academy of Sciences Rainforest Sphere Has Reopened A mom started a brawl at a children's basketball game in Concord; three teens stand accused of trying to rob a Union City dispensary; and the California Academy of Sciences’ Rainforest sphere has just reopened after a three-month closure.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-Boyfriend Convicted In San Carlos Beheading Jose Solano Landaeta was convicted Monday in the Sept. 2022 beheading murder of ex-girlfriend Karina Castro; two men have been arrested in a stray-bullet homicide in Oakland; and a longtime SF novelist dies at age 99.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Says Very Nice Things About San Francisco at Big APEC Speech PG&E got the green light to raise your bill by 13%; SF’s historic Haas-Lilienthal House just laid off all their staff; and President Biden talked up San Francisco flatteringly in his Thursday morning APEC CEO Summit address.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traffic and Protests Continue as Biden and Xi Attend Dinners In SF Demonstrators laid out hundreds of children's shoes to symbolize child deaths in Gaza outside the Ferry Building; Presidents Biden and Xi reach an agreement on fentanyl; and both presidents headed to San Francisco for dinner events.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The First-Ever California Denny’s Drive-Thru Has Opened Twin Peaks is closed to cars for five days; APEC will make Warriors games a nightmare for fans; and the first Denny’s drive-thru in California has opened, though it’s about 180 miles from SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gwen Stefani Maybe to Perform at Biden's Exploratorium VIP Party for APEC It's rumored that Gwen Stefani will be performing at Biden's VIP event during APEC on Wednesday night; a barricaded suspect was causing a significant police response in the Western Addition Monday afternoon; and firefighters in Oakland were battling small blazes along Highway 13.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Way-Too-Early Union Square Macy’s Tree Lighting is Tonight Four Sonoma County schools were put on lockdown over a shooting threat Thursday, Noise Pop announced the first batch of bands playing its 2024 schedule, and the Macy’s Great Tree at Union Square will be lit Thursday night, albeit without an official ceremony.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'End Fossil Fuels' Banner Goes Up on Bay Bridge An 89-year-old woman was injured in a hit-and-run in SF's Cow Hollow; a banner went up ahead of the APEC conference protesting fossil fuels on the Bay Bridge; and apparently some Russians will be attending APEC as well.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Arrested in Alleged Santa Clara County Sex Trafficking Ring Nextdoor is laying off 25% of their staff, BART is hyping another batch of seemingly encouraging ridership rebound numbers, and Santa Clara County prosecutors say they've busted a significant sex trafficking ring.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Swastika Incident Shocks SF’s Washington High School Police in Berkeley shot and killed an auto theft suspect, Castro Italian restaurant Vico Cavone closed abruptly, and swastika graffiti was discovered in a stairwell at Washington High School.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Crypto Mogul Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty on Seven Counts of Fraud Japantown’s Geary Street pedestrian overpass has been gussied up, the Capp Street bar Uptown is closing permanently, and disgraced FTX crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all counts in his fraud trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Halloween Went Quite Well Halloween festivities in the Castro were lively and without incident both Saturday and Tuesday; the City of SF is suing companies that sell illegal license-plate concealers; and DoorDash is going to start making you wait longer for your food if you don't tip.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Swing Blockbuster Trade for Pro Bowl Defensive Lineman A one-alarm electrical fire caused some trouble in the Castro, SFPD is seeking the public’s help in the case of a missing 11-year-old, and the 49ers have traded for 2020 Pro Bowl defensive lineman Chase Young.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Party Mom' Indicted By Grand Jury Governor Gavin Newsom made a gaffe knocking down a child in China; state Sen. Scott Wiener has a new car break-in bill; and a full quarter of a city fund to revitalize downtown is going to Tyler Florence's Union Square project.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Dead and One Injured In Western Addition Shooting A double shooting in SF's Western Addition Thursday left one person dead; an East Bay man has been acquitted after giving a false confession to murder; and the on-the-market 115 Sansome building has drawn an unexpectedly large slew of offers to buy it.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Aggressive Santa Cruz Sea Otter Gives Birth to Pup A shooting at a San Leandro barbershop left one man dead; downtown SF businesses are expressing concerns about the APEC security zone that's being set up; and that aggressive sea otter in Santa Cruz might have been acting oddly toward surfers because she was pregnant, and she now has a pup.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Report Says Cruise ‘Withheld’ Accident Footage, Leading to Company's SF Suspension The Giants will hire Bob Melvin as their new manager, Oakland’s First Fridays is going on a temporary hiatus, and a bombshell report alleges that self-driving car company Cruise got their operations suspended in SF because they withheld accident video from state regulators.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Thieves Steal Hundreds of Puppets From Touring Show Thieves stole a U-Haul truck containing over 500 handmade puppets from a touring show in SF; a suspect was arrested for a Monte Rio homicide on Sunday; and SF restaurateurs discuss their anxiety amid declining business.
SF News Day Around the Bay: PG&E Wants to Jack Your Rates Up By 22% Gavin Newsom is the latest U.S. politician heading to Israel, it’s a surreal scene inside that Folsom Street Target that closes Saturday, and PG&E is asking permission to lay a 22% rate increase on us.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oregon Couple Killed While Biking In Napa Identified A Muslim woman says she was spat on and harassed in Burlingame; an audit has found more irregularities at SF's Community Challenge Grant Program; and a pair of bicyclists killed in Napa Tuesday have been identified as a couple visiting from Oregon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Supervisors Vote to End Remote Public Comment at Board Meetings The bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed hundreds Tuesday, the House of Representatives failed to elect a new Speaker again, and the SF Board of Supervisors have ended remote public comment at their meetings.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Nabs Retail Thieves Who Showed Up at Walgreens With Wagon The SFPD arrested six people who were part of a blitz-style robbery at an Excelsior District Walgreens; a San Jose mother and daughter have been arrested in connection with those two day-care drowning deaths; and the suspects arrested for a string of armed robberies in the Mission were arraigned.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Teachers Overwhelmingly Vote in Favor of Going on Strike Oakland’s oldest kosher bakery is for sale for $1, Haight Street’s counterculture costume shop Distractions is closing permanently, and SF schoolteachers voted to approve a strike by a 97% margin.
