SF News Day Around The Bay: No, Dude, You Can't Rent Your Dorm Room Out On Airbnb An Emerson student in Boston is facing expulsion after he tried to rent out his dorm room via Airbnb. [Guardian] In other higher education news, a student is sick at Santa Clara University
SF News Day Around The Bay: Arrest Rate In Murder Of Whites, Asians Double That Of Blacks, Latinos Arrests were made in 67.1 percent of murder cases where the victim was white or Asian, according to a [Chronicle] study, while it was just 37.1 percent where the victim was
SF News Day Around The Bay: FBI Super Bowl Command Center Is Reading Your Tweets The FBI has a secret command center set up for Super Bowl security, and agents "will be closely monitoring social media." So, you know, watch what you tweet! [Chronicle] BART is now using
SF News Day Around The Bay: The Warriors Arena Shall Be Called The Chase Center JP Morgan Chase "won" the naming rights to the upcoming, albeit delayed, Warriors Arena, and so it will be called The Chase Center, or just The Chase. [KRON 4, Business Times, ABC 7]
SF News Day Around The Bay: Lyft Settles Class Action Suit, Drivers Remain Contractors Lyft just settled a class action lawsuit for $12.25 million. The result: Its drivers won’t be employees. [Wired] Is Apple expanding to San Jose? San Jose sure hopes so. [Business Times]
SF News Day Around The Bay: 3,000 Limo Drivers Sought To Ferry Around Super Bowl VIP's A company is trying to hire 3,000 limo drivers for the express purpose of driving around Super Bowl 50 VIP's. The firm doing the hiring has been contracted out by the NFL,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Get Even More Paranoid About Super Bowl Terrorism! [BuzzFeed] is still trying to make 'Frisco' happen. [Earlier] As discussed last week, the FBI is gearing up for various kinds of potential terrorist threats during Super Bowl Week. And while there will
SF News Day Around The Bay: Chronicle Tolls Bell For Tech Sector These are the [San Francisco Chronicle's] reasons why “the tech sector should be scared.” In fact, has a bubble already burst, and we just didn't notice? Essex Street? The Caltrain Paint Yard? Those
SF News Day Around The Bay: Rain Blamed For Majority Of Nearly 500 Bay Area Car Crashes In 12 Hours Mayor Lee apparently requested that major taxpayer-funded construction projects be put on hold to ease traffic during Super Bowl 50. [CBS SF] This Portland, Oregon Community College has planned a White History Month
SF News Day Around The Bay: Wave Of Fainting Strikes BART Passengers Well this is a weird one. It seems that three separate passengers fainted on three separate BART trains this morning. One passenger reportedly accepted medical treatment, while the other two refused. [Chronicle] A
SF News Day Around The Bay: How Was Your 'Blue Monday'? Congratulations on making it through the “saddest day of the year,” i.e. Blue Monday, i.e. the second or third Monday in a new year that one psychologist claimed a decade ago
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mission Bay Alliance Delays Opening Of Warriors Arena Until 2019 "We're officially announcing that the arena will open in 2019 rather than 2018 in light of the litigation that the Mission Bay Alliance recently filed," said Warriors team President Welts. The deep-pocketed Alliance
SF News Day Around The Bay: Super Bowl Is Coming For Your Parks With Huge, Light-Up Statues Ten Super Bowl 50 statues are being placed around San Francisco. The 1,600-pound signs are self powered, and light up. One of them was installed in Alamo Square Park, and was vandalized
SF News Day Around The Bay: Bones Found Near Alamo Square Likely Dismembered Adult And Child In this video from Stanley Roberts, an unpleasant bro-type incorrectly blames homeless people for car break-ins, complains that homeless aren't hidden enough. [KRON4] A Google/Alphabet announcement indicates their self-driving cars still need
Arts & Entertainment Day Around The Bay: Powerball Jackpot Means Some Extra Cash For SF Schools The latest in Saturday's shooting on BART at West Oakland: It is very hard to get surveillance video off of BART trains, if it even was recorded at all. [ABC 7] The massive,
SF News Day Around The Bay: Official Super Bowl 50 Poster 'Raptures' San Mateo County Eerie new #SuperBowl50 poster, where all of San Mateo County appears to have been raptured. (h/t @RosenbergMerc) pic.twitter.com/BRT3mF18w9— Peter Hartlaub (@peterhartlaub) January 11, 2016 The official Super Bowl 50
SF News Day Around The Bay: Guy Fieri's $700 Super Bowl Menu Is A Desperate Cry For Help Nerd alert: Preorder an Oculus Rift headset. [Ars Technica] [Wired] Conviction for man accused of racist graffiti in SF. [KRON 4] San Francisco officials wrote to Airbnb, HomeAway/VRBO, Craigslist, and FlipKey to
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fight Over Mission Development Turns Homophobic A Clipper snafu with monthly passes not loading right after the new year means possible refunds for some riders but not you, Nevius. [KRON 4] Woman and her teenage lover accused in child
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Ranks Ridiculously Low On 'Fit' Cities List Instead of a new jail, DA George Gascon and a couple supervisors are now championing a behavioral health center for the mentally ill, attached to the SF jail, and Supervisor London Breed is
SF News Day Around The Bay: Parking Meter Fees Might Soon Be Going Up Parking meter fees might soon go up for everyone, not just credit card users, after Visa calls out SFMTA for violating an agreement. [Examiner] [CBS 5] More details on the Sacred Heart (Church
SF News Day Around The Bay: Gather Two Of Each Animal A new study links two local faults, the Hayward and Rodgers Creek Faults, which are far closer than previously considered. That might suggest the “big one” will be even bigger than expected. [Chron]
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF's Drinking Water Win From 8 tonight to 5 tomorrow morning, Muni is free. Enjoy it! [SFist] How a $250,000 water fountain plan is edging out sugary beverages in San Francisco. [SF Chronicle] Airbnb sure makes
SF News Day Around The Bay: Low Temperatures Cause Dangerous Black Ice Low temperatures are causing dangerous black ice to form in the East Bay. [Chronicle] A man challenged some alleged vandals in the Financial District and was violently assaulted. [Chronicle] Super Bowl parking plan
SF News Day Around The Bay: More Details Emerge About Super Bowl 50's Impact On Downtown SF More details were revealed about all the changes coming to downtown San Francisco for Super Bowl 50. [Hoodline] A Sikh man was attacked in Fresno in what looks to be a hate crime.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Mayor Lee And Aaron Peskin Are Pals Now? Lee, Peskin put bitter election behind them. via @matierandross https://t.co/vLc01gP3kh pic.twitter.com/K9MgayQML0— The Chronicle (@sfchronicle) December 27, 2015 Ed Lee and newly reelected Supervisor Aaron Peskin are hanging
