SF News Thirty Probation Officers Accused of Facilitating Gladiator Fights At LA County Juvenile Detention Facility In a sickening case out of Southern California, 30 officers at a juvenile detention facility have been accused of facilitating gladiator-style fights involving over 140 youth in their care.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Wildfire Consumes 8,000 Acres North of LA The Hughes Fire, which broke out near Santa Clarita this morning, has already burned over 8,000 acres; Sonoma State announces they're cutting athletics, eight academic programs amid a budget crisis; and Trump issues a possibly empty threat toward SF officials.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Returns Home to California, Volunteers In LA Kamala Harris flew home to Los Angeles Monday night, onboard an Air Force flight commanded by an all-female crew, and today she began volunteering and visiting firefighters who have been battling the wildfires there.
Arts & Entertainment Benefit 'FireAid' Concert In LA to Feature Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish Big stars are lining up to join the lineup for a concert fundraiser later this month to benefit victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, which are still smoldering and not fully contained.
SF News Dozens of Shelter Pets Coming to SF SPCA From Los Angeles; Puppy Adoptions Currently Free The San Francisco SPCA is getting ready to receive 30 dogs and cats from Southern California shelters that have been impacted by the wildfires there, and they are hoping to get more dogs adopted this week to make space.
SF News Bay Area Firefighters In LA as Eaton Fire In Altadena Threatens Thousands of Homes The raging fire situation in LA looked ominous for many residents this morning, even if they were not immediately in view of the flames. And while the Palisades Fire has captured coverage in the last 12 hours, the Eaton Fire in the northeastern part of the county is looking even more destructive.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wind-Fueled Palisades Fire Destroys 1,000 Structures The Palisades Fire raged overnight in Los Angeles destroying at least 1,000 structures; gusty winds here in the Bay toppled trees and power lines; and Daniel Lurie gets inaugurated today in Civic Center Plaza.
SF News LA District Attorney Gascón Unveils New Evidence That May Reopen Menendez Brothers Case New evidence has come to light in the notorious Menendez brothers case, including a one-time member of the band Menudo giving sworn claims of sexual abuse by the brothers’ father, and LA District Attorney George Gascón may reopen the case.
SF Politics Newsom Signs Off on Bill Allowing One Tiny, Rich-Person Club to Serve Booze Until 4AM Various competing interests have killed multiple bills in the California legislature over the last decade that would have allowed specific cities to grant licenses for liquor service past the longtime 2 am cutoff. But one LA assemblymember has gotten one tiny carve-out passed in her district.
SF News Someone’s Trying to Make a San Francisco-to-LA Overnight Train Happen Again There’s another attempt underway for an SF-to-LA overnighter that would compete with airline travel, this time a train service, which has made progress on getting access to the existing train tracks the trip would require.
Business & Tech Just as Waymo Launches In Los Angeles, Statewide Bill Gains Momentum to Allow More Local Control of Robocars Waymo is getting set to launch its autonomous taxi service in Los Angeles this week, and just announced it will launch in Austin this year. Meanwhile, California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give cities more leeway in limiting the company's impact.
SF News SF Does Not Have Highest Homelessness Rate In California — We’re No. 3 A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
Business & Tech Detestable L.A. Tesla Owner Performs 50-Foot Jump on Public Street, Damages Multiple Other Cars In a hit-and-run fiasco that a crowd of Tesla fans clearly delighted in, a Tesla owner in L.A. performed a massively dangerous 50-foot leap on city streets, and damaged a few other cars with this stupid stunt.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Is Opening a New Restaurant... In LA Along with longtime Chez Panisse chef and NY Times contributor David Tanis, Alice Waters is taking on her first new restaurant project since Cafe Fanny closed almost a decade ago.
SF News Bay Area Criminals Are Reportedly Driving to SoCal to Break Into More Cars In what is perhaps a sign that local law enforcement is doing an OK job at deterring and catching auto burglars for a change, police in Southern California have noted a trend in Bay Area gangs traveling down there to target tourist vehicles.
SF News Los Angeles Homeless Census Number Echoes San Francisco's, With 16 Percent Increase New numbers released Tuesday for Los Angeles County and the city proper show sharp increases in the homeless population there, with a figure for the city that tracks with San Francisco's.
SF News LA-Based AIDS Nonprofit Is Using SF As Example To Shut Down Housing Development In LA A much reviled figure in the worlds of adult entertainment and HIV/AIDS healthcare in California, Michael Weinstein of the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), is now catching plenty of heat in
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: Do You Hate LA? Dear Rain, I haven't lived here my whole life, but it has been a good long while (23 years!), and while I can't remember where I first heard it, it seems like there's
SF News Thanks, LA: Salesforce Tower Won't Be The Tallest Building In The West Those obsessed with tall buildings and those who've been paying attention likely already knew this news. But while Salesforce Tower (née Transbay Tower), which once completed will stand at 1,070 feet, was
Arts & Entertainment Tim Lincecum Signs With Los Angeles Angels, Becomes A Bit Less Freaky Today, the #Angels signed two-time National League Cy Young Award winner, Tim Lincecum, to a 2016 contract. pic.twitter.com/3oBhKRdlLT— Angels (@Angels) May 20, 2016 The much loved, two-time Cy Young Award
SF News Take An Overnight SF-to-LA Trip Aboard This Sleeper Pod Bus For Under $50 One of the most useful innovations of the app era might not even be an app, but instead a converted big rig filled with sleeping pods. While California's high-speed rail construction won't be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally about the
SF News Anti-Gay Group Goes Mum About Threatened Pissoir Lawsuit, LA Times Picks Up Story Months Late With its February 24 deadline to the city to remove the Dolores Park pissoir or face legal action well passed, active anti-LGBTQ group Pacific Justice Institute has gone strangely quiet about what it
SF News The Raiders Really, Really Want To Leave Oakland Sorry Raider Nation, it appears like you've got yourself a one-sided love affair. Despite efforts this week by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to convince top NFL officials that the potential Oakland Raiders' fan
SF News Do You Recognize This Caught-On-Tape Mission Mural Vandal? The San Francisco Police Department hopes to figure out who's been repeatedly vandalizing a Mission District mural, by releasing video footage of an arson attack on the artwork and asking for public assistance
