SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Retailers Closing Self-Checkouts to Prevent Shoplifting Safeways and Targets around the city have disabled their self-checkouts; Swifties are mad at Elon Musk; and the ex-SF Fire commissioner allegedly attacked by a homeless man didn't show up in court.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF City Hall Holiday Tree Lighting is Tonight Another shooting in Las Vegas has left three people dead; SF synagogues are on edge in advance of Thursday night’s Hanukkah celebrations; and tonight’s SF City Hall holiday tree lighting will be livestreamed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jerry of the ‘Tom & Jerry Christmas House’ Has Died San Francisco office vacancy hit another all-time high; two long-planned residential towers at Fourth and Brannan have been redesigned yet again; and Jerry of the famed ‘Tom & Jerry House’ has passed away.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cyberattack Compromises Blue Shield of California Customer Info Hackers might have gotten details about customers including Social Security numbers; Caltrain's festive annual Holiday Train will make its rounds this weekend; and companies are leaving downtown SF for Jackson Square.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Northern Lights May Be Visible in Northern California Tonight Former San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo looks like he’s running for Rep. Anna Eshoo’s seat, Beyonce’s 'Renaissance' movie is premiering tonight, and the famed aurora borealis Northern lights may be visible tonight in northern California.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Silicon Valley Bank (Sort Of) Back From the Dead, Leases SF Space From LinkedIn Valencia Street’s Stonemill Matcha is going to reopen, Oakland is getting a new minor league baseball team, and the bankrupt-but-acquired Silicon Valley Bank has agreed to leasing some space in the downtown SF LinkedIn building.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three People Ram Car into Closed East Bay Store to Steal Merchandise Some freeze and frost warnings were issued for the North Bay this weekend; three people purposely crashed a car into a Pleasant Hill Kohl's to steal some stuff; and two people were arrested in Benicia for driving a stolen vehicle with a handwritten license plate.
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: Federal Jury Finds 'Party Animal' VC Guilty of Defrauding Investors Out of $18 Million Companies like IBM, Oracle, Disney, and Apple aren't happy that their ads on X are showing up next to rampant hate speech; ex-investor Michael Brent Rothenberg was convicted on several fraud and money laundering counts; and it's been 45 years this week since the Jonestown massacre.
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: 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: Daytime Shooting in the Bayview Leaves 2 People Injured Friday Afternoon No arrests have been made in the shooting that left one victims were transported to a hospital with two wounded, one with life-threatening injuries; A person died off the coast of Point Reyes; and the Golden Gate ferris wheel is moving to the piers.
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: 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: Passengers on Flight Where Off-Duty Pilot Allegedly on Drugs Tried to Shut Off Engine Sue Airline Three passengers are claiming emotional distress after the disrupted Alaska Airlines flight; an unconscious surfer was rescued at Ocean Beach Thursday; and another Bay Area police department is facing a racist text scandal.
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: 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: Suspect in Fatal Stabbing Downtown Thursday Morning Arrested The suspect, 41-year-old Paul Durden, was arrested about 6 hours after the stabbing; the ex-MLB pitcher accused of fatally stabbing his father-in-law in Tahoe in 2021 has been extradited to California ahead of being arraigned; and a new Chinatown night market is set for November 10th and 11th.
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: 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: Warriors' Andre Iguodala Announces Retirement After Nearly Two Decades in the NBA Iguodala, four-time NBA champion with the Golden State Warriors, said it was time to retire; the Oakland Zoo had a new giraffe birth; and the San Jose BART extension project is getting an oversight committee.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Rosa Man Gets 33-Year Sentence for Running Disturbing Website With AI Images of Child Abuse The Santa Rosa resident operated an "obscene" website that ran stories about the rape, torture, and murder of children; the Martinez Refining Company apparently released (more) coke dust Friday morning; and social media platforms X and Meta haven't banned fake AI political ads.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Arrests Man in Connection With Brutal Attack on West Portal Candy Shop Owner Wednesday SF Giants’ general manager Gabe Kapler has officially been let go after the team's disappointing season; an SF woman allegedly stole over $34,000 of Walgreens merchandise; and SFPD arrested the suspect behind a Wednesday afternoon attack on three people at the long-time Shaw candy store.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo's Lone Female Elephant Moved to New Home in Tennessee Donna, the Oakland Zoo's 43-year-old African elephant, was relocated after the death of her long-time elephant friend earlier this year; SF's executive pay tax targeting high-earning CEOs has been lucrative; and there was a kidnapping in Oakland Thursday.
