SF News Day Around the Bay: New Falcon Living on Berkeley's Campanile Tower Named After Archie Williams A former Contra Costa County deputy has taken a plea deal in a felony case; Biden told supporters to stay focused on the fight against Trump at an LA event; and the new male mating with falcon Annie on the Berkeley campus has been named Archie, following a naming contest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tech CEOs Who Left SF Are Curiously Moving Back to SF Apple has officially debunked the idea that you should put a water-damaged iPhone in a bag of rice; some anti-Israeli graffiti has turned up at Lake Merritt; and plenty of tech bros who made a big deal of leaving SF are now moving back to SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gaza Ceasefire Protest Blocks Central Freeway In SF A protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza spilled onto the Central Freeway at Octavia Boulevard in SF; a 16-year-old girl who was missing in SF has been found safe; and the 19-year-old son of a former YouTube CEO died on the UC Berkeley campus last week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose’s Raging Waters Waterslide Park Likely to Reopen This Summer Santa Clara-based Nvidia just became the nation’s third most valuable company; former supervisor John Avalos is in hot water over a provocative tweet; and San Jose’s shuttered Raging Waters park will probably reopen under new ownership this summer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vintage Cable Car Dedicated to Tony Bennett A refurbished 1907 cable car was dedicated to the late Tony Bennett today, for Valentine's Day; Lyft saw its stock price leap up due to a typo in an earnings report; and the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade was marred by a deadly shooting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Did Musk Just Buy Twitter to Shut Down That Jet-Tracker Account? A new book suggests Elon Musk's primary motivation to buy Twitter was to shut down that ElonJet account; an Oakland police officer was arrested for DUI; and four people were found dead of possible overdoses in a South Lake Tahoe house.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bagdad Café Space to Be Reborn (Again) as Bar 49 It’s confirmed that the potential 49ers championship parade would indeed be in San Francisco and not Santa Clara; a Fremont man was arrested with 500 pounds of copper wire; and the old Bagdad Café space will rise again as a new bar from a Hi Tops manager.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa's La Tortilla Factory Relocating to Kansas A pair of SF tow-tuck operators accused of fraud; another video goes viral of a brazen retail theft, this time in Emeryville; and Santa Rosa's 47-year-old La Tortilla Factory is shutting down.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF to Acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Hospitals UCSF is reportedly weeks away from closing a deal to acquire two struggling hospitals; a sex offender was arrested for jumping a fence at a Livermore school and acting lewdly; and the top wind gust recorded in the Bay on Sunday was 102 mph.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Year-Old SF Bar Faces Possible Eviction Blackthorn, a 30-year-old bar in the Sunset, is facing a possible eviction; a judge has ruled that Californians don't need background checks to buy bullets; and Clorox is offering security escorts to employees exiting their Oakland headquarters.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lost MC Hammer Tapes Discovered in Modesto Storage Unit Michael Bloomberg just gave $200,000 to re-elect London Breed; a San Leandro man has been sentenced to eight years for sex trafficking; and a trove of what appears to be lost MC Hammer tapes was discovered in a storage unit in Modesto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sotomayor Expresses Frustration With SCOTUS at Berkeley Event Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Berkeley today discussing her frustrations with the court; a Google engineer believed murdered by her husband in Santa Clara has been ID'd; and a person was stabbed near the State Capitol in Sacramento Monday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muddy Waters Coffee House is Up for Sale Levi’s is laying off 10% of its corporate workforce right after spending big on Levi’s Stadium naming rights; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is changing his name; and the Muddy Waters on Valencia Street is on the selling block for $75,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man With Gun Arrested for Indecent Exposure Outside SF School A man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly sitting in his car outside Washington High in SF; Rep. Josh Harder wants the DEA to criminalize Tranq; and six bodies were found in the Mojave desert under strange circumstances.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Space at Eighth and Market Is Up For Lease Chunli Zhao, the man accused in last year's mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, was just formally indicted by a grand jury; the short-lived Whole Foods space on mid-Market is up for lease; and Judge Judy is out campaigning for Nikki Haley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Statue of Controversial ‘Colonizer’ Removed in Pacifica Another arrest has been made in the murder of the ex-cop providing security for a KRON4 crew; SF’s former Westfield mall is losing yet another tenant; and the controversial statue of a Spanish explorer has been removed in Pacifica.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Local Band Shoots Video On Late-Night BART Trains A date has been set for David DePape's state trial; Tesla owners in frigid Chicago are having some major trouble operating their cars in this weather; and local band Business Casual has a new video for their song "Last BART," shot on BART.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now the California DPH Says You Can Go to Work With COVID-19 The Supreme Court handed trans kids a surprise win on bathroom issues; China Live struck a deal so that it won’t be evicted; and the California Department of Public Health just puzzlingly said you can go to work with COVID-19 if you don’t have symptoms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found Near Site of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash The body of one victim of yesterday's plane crash off Half Moon Bay has likely been found; one of the victims in a hot-air balloon crash in Arizona was a 24-year-old from Cupertino; and hundreds take part in an MLK Day march in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Will Finally Begin Next Week Another avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe Thursday; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is running for state treasurer; and Dungeness crab season will finally begin on January 18 after many delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BottleRock Three-Day Passes Sell Out Fast SF-based Twitch is laying off a third of its staff; three-day passes for BottleRock have already sold out; and SF Animal Care & Control has a full shelter and is waiving adoption fees for dogs.