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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired LA Dodgers Bum Steve Garvey Running for Feinstein’s Former Senate Seat A 104-year-old woman died just a week after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, the Castro’s former Tacorgasmico space is now the reincarnated Zona Rosa, and one-time Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey is running for Feinstein’s former Senate seat as a Republican.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Chinese Consulate, Driver Shot A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dianne Feinstein’s Funeral Service Attracted Exactly One Protester Fleet Week will start rattling your windows just before 1 p.m. Friday, an Oakland LGBTQ bar was vandalized in what may have been a hate crime, and Dianne Feinstein’s funeral service brought out all of one protester with a cardboard sign.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Badlands in the Castro Just Officially Reopened Wednesday The Blue Angels start flying Thursday as the heat wave intensifies, Dianne Feinstein’s memorial announced it will not be open to the public, and the long-shuttered Castro bar Badlands just reopened under new management.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DPW Employee May Be in Hot Water for Knocking Over Hot Dog Vendor’s Cart A big new heat wave arrives Wednesday, a 72-year-old woman was killed in an Oakland hit-and-run and her body wasn’t found until the next day, and social media is up in arms over a DPW worker’s treatment of a Fisherman’s Wharf hot dog vendor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom's Senate Pick Called Out for Maryland Residence Newsom's appointee to the Senate, Laphonza Butler, has apparently been living in Maryland since 2021; a brush fire was threatening homes in Oakland; and the Trader Joe's space in Hayes Valley has a new owner.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Government Shutdown Could Indeed Cancel Blue Angels’ Fleet Week Air Show A man was found dead at the 16th Street BART Plaza, the first snow of the season is expected Saturday in the Sierras, and we now learn that a government shutdown could indeed cancel the Blue Angels air show component of Fleet Week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley Murder Suspect Misses Court Appearance A man was shot by Fairfield police for allegedly having a gun near a school; Berkeley murder suspect Jonah Roper failed to appear in court today; and two women have been charged with a brazen retail theft in Pacific Heights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Permanent Car-Free Hayes Street Effort Picking Up Steam California schools superintendent Tony Thurmond declared he’s running for governor, two men committed an Oakland carjacking in a just-carjacked car, and there’s an effort afoot to make a block of Hayes Street permanently car-free.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Officer Facing Felony DUI Charges An SFPD officer is facing felony DUI charges relating to a December crash in Hillsborough; all schools in California will have to install gender-neutral bathrooms by 2026; and SF-based Anthropic just struck a huge deal with Amazon.
