SF News Day Around the Bay: Old Navy Is Moving Back In With Gap Inc. The suspect in the deadly assault on an 84-year-old SF man is being held without bail, a GoFundMe for the DoorDash driver whose kids were briefly abducted has raised $120K, and Old Navy is shuttering its Mission Bay offices to move in with parent company Gap.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cliff House Burglarized Ahead of Online Auction Featuring Historical Items The permanently closed Cliff House restaurant was burglarized back in late January (now a month out from its scheduled auction), a California man survived seven days trapped in the Sierra snow, and speaking of snow: 134 years ago to the day… nearly four inches of snowfall buried downtown SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Cases of COVID UK Variant at UC Berkeley A man killed in a Tuesday morning shooting in the Bayview has been ID'd, Oakland police are seeking a suspect in three assaults in the city's Chinatown, and Biden already has a higher approval rating than Trump ever had by about 15 points.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Day Around the Bay: The Cliff House Will Be Reopening As a Restaurant The National Park Service says that the Cliff House will reopen as a restaurant (though it may not be called the Cliff House), nine DPW workers in SF have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks, and Chamath Palihapitiya now says he's not intending to run for governor after all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Traci Des Jardins' Two Presidio Restaurants Have Made Their Closures Permanent Kaiser had to cancel 5,000 vaccine appointments in Santa Clara County due to low vaccine supply, Twitter has kicked the official MyPillow account off the platform due to apparent threats against Jack Dorsey, and The Commissary and Arguello have both closed for good in the Presidio.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Labor Lawsuit Over Female Employees' Pay Google/Alphabet has agreed to pay $1.3 million in back pay to 2,565 female engineers in a pay equity lawsuit from the Dept. of Labor, Biden has issued a federal mask mandate for transit, and the Oakland Zoo's ticketing system crashed due to high demand after reopening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lawsuit Says That NorCal Subway Locations Are Passing Unknown Substance Off as Tuna A Bay Area lawsuit contends that Subway's tuna salad isn't made of tuna or any other fish, state lawmakers have extended the eviction moratorium through June, and a 33-year-old SF man was sentenced for cryptocurrency fraud.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 85-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Struck By Car in the Mission Mayor London Breed had some stern words for the school board over this renaming project, Blue Shield of California has been tapped to help the state with the vaccine rollout, and a high-ranking CA appeals court justice is being removed for sexual harrassment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stormy Weather Halts Mass Vaccinations at City College The extreme weather this week is forcing SF's newly set-up mass-vaccination site to close til Friday, a gay Black firefighter is suing the SFFD for discrimination, and Marin conservatives rally in support of the MyPillow guy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter Launches Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Program Twitter is going the Wikipedia route with a new fact-checking program, California's new My Turn vaccine app was developed by Salesforce, and outdoor dining resumed without hesitation at some Bay Area restaurants today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Amazon Doesn't Have to Reinstate Parler, Judge Says A suspect remains at large in a hit-and-run that killed a seven-year-old in Milpitas, inmates at the Santa Clara County main jail are on hunger strike over lax COVID protocols, and a judge declined to force Amazon Web Services to reinstate Parler.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Evacuation Orders Lifted In Santa Cruz County White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave her first press briefing, Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement, and the SFMTA board took a first step toward approving that "Bummer Market Street" plan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires Kick Up In CZU Complex Scar Two young men were critically injured in a Bernal Heights shooting Monday night, some anonymous flyers about an affordable housing complex proclaim 'No slums in the Sunset,' and a $1.9 million Chinatown relief measure passed at the Board of Supes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter CEO Hedges on Banning Trump - 'Was This Correct?' Ever-indecisive Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets some lame crap about not taking pleasure in banning Trump, Newsom mobilizes National Guard troops in Sacramento, and Sutter Health's website crashes as seniors clamor for vaccine appointments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City Administrator Steps Down Amid Corruption Probe Naomi Kelly is now the fifth city department head in SF City Hall to resign amid a federal probe, a new lawsuit has been filed challenging Prop 22, and Joe Biden is returning a donation from Barbara Boxer because she's lobbying for the Chinese.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Local ICU Capacity Dips to 0.7% Members of Congress may have been exposed to COVID-19 while in tight quarters last week, South Lake Tahoe is dealing with a surge, and Dungeness crab is finally coming to local stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Destroys Cherry Blossom Trees In Japantown Elon Musk became richer than Jeff Bezos today, Bay Area ICU bed availability fell to 3.5%, and a 19-year-old woman was shot in SF's Silver Terrace neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Merrick Garland Nominated to Be Attorney General Congress has reconvened to accept the Electoral College results, the woman who was shot inside the Capitol has died, and calls rise for Trump's resignation or his forced removal from office two weeks early.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser San Jose Workers Infected Despite Wearing Masks, Getting Vaccines Marin County restaurant owners are appealing to supervisors to reopen outdoor dining, a fire near the BART tracks briefly interrupted service near Richmond, and a local advocacy group is blasting the SFUSD for its project to rename multiple schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Down 27% in San Francisco A half-million-dollar donation to the Recall Newsom effort is the subject of a lawsuit, UCSF is planning to build over 1,200 units of housing in Parnassus Heights, and rents in SF ended the year down 27% from the year prior.
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: Vandalized Breonna Taylor Bust Goes Missing In Oakland The Breonna Taylor bust that was found vandalized in Oakland on Saturday has apparently been stolen, the man killed in a freeway shooting in SF last week has been ID'd, and two people were injured in a Tenderloin stabbing Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SFPD Officer Pleads Not Guilty In Bayview Shooting A man was arrested after leading authorities on a chase through three Bay Area counties, the former SFPD officer charged with manslaughter in a 2017 shooting has pleaded not guilty, and a local sea lion has recovered from a severe shark bite and returned to the ocean.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Biden Team Slams Twitter Over White House Account Plan A house fire in Potrero Hill was caused by a back deck barbecue, Twitter got slammed by the Biden transition team for wanting to wipe followers from the White House accounts, and there's another problem with Dungeness crab season.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Nominates Shirley Weber as Secretary of State Newsom is making up for not appointing a woman of color to the Senate by nominating Assemblywoman Shirley Weber to be secretary of state, The Alley bar in Oakland is in danger of closing, and the Presidio wants to bring back quail.