SF News Sunday Links: Amazon's Plans For A Massive SOMA Delivery Center Get A Reboot Amazon is reviving its proposal for a 65,000-square-foot delivery center in the heart of SOMA after a zoning dispute setback last year; West Nile Virus has been found in Contra Costa County; and some City College of San Francisco students' debt will be forgiven by SF.
SF News Saturday Links: 2023 Outside Lands Music Festival Attracts Crowd of 75,000 on First Day Friday's OSL featured Kendrick Lamar, Interpol, Janelle Monae, and the DJ stylings of Shaquille O’Neal; Crypto founder SBF is heading to a New York jail after his Palo Alto house arrest and bail was revoked on Friday; and the death toll from the Maui wildfires has risen to 80.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 225,000 Outside Lands Tickets Have Been Sold The gates to Outside Lands open shortly and 225.000 tickets have been sold; the death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to at least 55; and a flash-mob-style robbery hit a YSL store in Glendale.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Mayor London Breed Evacuated From Maui The death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to 36; SF Mayor London Breed was on a personal vacation on Maui when the fire struck and she evacuated to Oahu; and the current COVID test-positivity rate in California could be quite high if Walgreens data is any indication.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Inner Sunset Fire Damages Apartment Building, Hardware Store A two-alarm fire in the Inner Sunset impacted at least 12 residential units; a Novato man was arrested twice for hate crimes; and Oakland has had three homicides in 72 hours.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brazen Thieves With Trash Bags Hit Oakland 7-11 Stores Groups of thieves have hit multiple Oakland 7-11 stores, sweeping merchandise into trash bags; CNN has a new piece about the crime surge in Oakland; and apparently Newsom and DeSantis will be debating each other.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: East Bay Church Group Safely Home From Niger The Antioch church group that was trapped in Niger has safely landed back home; BART had another record ridership day for the post-pandemic on Saturday; and Zoom is asking employees to come back to the office in San Jose.
SF News Sunday Links: East Bay Health Agencies Investigating Richmond Spa as Potential Link to Legionnaires' Disease Deaths The Zen Day Spa in Richmond has been possibly linked to three cases of Legionnaires' Disease, two of them fatal; Two sinkholes in Alameda this week caused water shutoff for residents; and a chaotic sideshow in Antioch ended with a car in the Antioch Marina.
SF News Saturday Links: UFC Fighter Robbed At Gunpoint At Bay Area Gas Station MMA fighter Song Yadong said he was robbed and his friend was pistol-whipped at a Vallejo gas station Wednesday; Elon Musk's company X was fined for its roof sign; and the Chinatown subway station has a leak.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: San Jose State Trainer Groping Trial Ends In Mistrial The trial of a former San Jose State athletic trainer accused of groping female athletes has ended in a mistrial; 911 response times in San Francisco are getting worse; and Delta Airlines had a couple of scary incidents this week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: CHP Officers Being Deployed to Assist Oakland Police As they're doing in SF, CHP officers will be deployed on the streets of Oakland to help fight crime; the building under construction that burned in Hayes Valley Tuesday was a 14-unit condo project; and a mountain lion has been spotted wandering around Petaluma.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Arrested For Shoving Elderly Woman On Cathedral Hill A 21-year-old man has been arrested for attempted murder for shoving an 81-year-old woman on Franklin Street; Santa Clara Co. Health Officer Sara Cody recommends masking up again; and the former Manresa space may have a new tenant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 13-Year-Old Crashes Tesla In Sonoma County Three kids including a 13-year-old driver crashed a Tesla in Santa Rosa; a Fremont couple had their car stolen out of a Walmart Auto Care center; and a missing 12-year-old girl has been found in San Francisco.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Car Fire Sparks Brush Fire Outside Livermore There was a deadly domestic violence stabbing in Redwood City on Sunday; a car fire sparked an 87-acre brush fire near I-580 outside LIvermore; and Anchor Brewing's taproom officially shut down Sunday.
SF News Sunday Links: 3.6-M Earthquake Rattles the South Bay Sunday Morning The quake hit Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose, at 6:49 a.m.; Taylor Swift fans brought the VTA's ridership to historic highs over the weekend; and a man stabbed two women on Sunday, one fatally.
SF News Saturday Links: Taylor Swift's First Bay Area Eras Tour Friday Night Draws Massive Numbers, Breaks Curfew Taylor Swift's Friday show brought droves of Swifties to Santa Clara via BART; Dave Chapelle came back for a surprise show in SF Friday that went better than the last one; and an SF woman is speaking out after her car was destroyed in an encampment fire in NoPa this week.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Firefighters Contain Two-Alarm Blaze In Sunset District A two-alarm residential fire in the Sunset left two injured Thursday night; Sen. Dianne Feinstein flies home today for the August recess; and Taylor Swift fans are likely to be lining up when the parking lot at Levi's opens today at 2 p.m.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pregnant Woman Shot In Oakland A woman who is nine months pregnant was shot Wednesday night in Oakland; SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto talks about the fentanyl crackdown; and the SF Unified School District is being sued over a sex abuse claim from 2004.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oregon Fire to Cause Some Hazy Skies Around the Bay There's a push to name a cable car after Tony Bennett; smoke from a wildfire burning in Oregon is likely to cause some haze around the Bay; and Rudy Giuliani has admitted to defaming two election workers in 2020.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Man Rescued From McCovey Cove After Fall A man fell into the water near Oracle Park this morning and required rescue; workers at the Academy of Sciences have unionized; and A's fans want Giants fans to support the protest over the A's relocation to Vegas during this week's Bay Bridge series.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Marathon Breaks Participant Record Elon Musk has swapped out all the birds and projected an "X" on Twitter HQ last night; the San Francisco Marathon had its most participants ever on Sunday; and neighbors are trying to block a homeless housing hotel project in Millbrae.
SF News Sunday Links: Elon Musk Plans to Remove All Birds from Twitter Logo and Platform Anchor Brewing's parent company confirmed it's considering the offer from employees who want to buy the brewery as a co-op; SF City Hall saw a rally to support the UPS union's planned strike on Saturday; and Elon Musk is taking the birds out of Twitter's branding.
SF News Saturday Links: Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Reopened Saturday Morning After 17-Hour Standoff The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge is open again after negotiators were able to talk a person literally down from the ledge; watch out for road closures and runners as the SF Marathon begins; and the outgoing Antioch Police Chief won't testify in the trial over officers' racist texts.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Tony Bennett Has Died This weekend’s heat wave could see parts of the East Bay hit 100 degrees, some jokers had their way with the Valencia Street bike lane signs, and “I Left My Heart in San Francisco” singer Tony Bennett has died at age 96.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Hospitalized In Bike-vs-Scooter Crash on Market Two people were badly injured in a scooter-on-bike crash on Market Street; the SFPD has made an arrest in Friday's food-delivery carjacking; and the winning $1B Powerball ticket was sold in California (but not here).