SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Fire Damages Oakland Senior Apartments A fire broke out early Friday morning at a senior apartment complex near Lake Merritt in Oakland, the death of Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled accidental, and San Jose saw two hit-and-run collisions on Thursday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Sports-Betting Prop Backers Admit Defeat The backers of two competing sports-betting ballot measures know the props are toast, BBQ chef Matt Horn faces public complaints about bounced checks, and our unusually (for October) damp and foggy weather continues.
SF News Humpday Headlines: 'Golden Girls Kitchen' Pop-Up Headed to SF The Supreme Court will be weighing the constitutionality of California's animal cruelty law for food products, UC Berkeley parents are freaking out over last weekend's shooting, and a 'Golden Girls Kitchen' pop-up is coming to SF.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Strange Weather Pattern to Blame For Fog and Cold Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall on Monday in solidarity to protest Russia's new attacks in Ukraine, a gig-worker union is going to be announced outside Uber HQ, and a strange weather pattern has been keeping SF's early October colder than usual.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The Metaverse Sounds Tedious The Blue Angels' air show was canceled Sunday due to fog, 74% of respondents to a Chronicle Twitter poll agree with Soleil Ho that the French Laundry isn't worth a splurge, and a Times reporter spent 24 hours in Facebook's metaverse, such as it is.
SF News Sunday Links: Karl The Fog Really Got in the Way of Fleet Week's Air Shows Yesterday Stanford has reported a rape that happened on the campus Friday afternoon, San Jose recorded its 52nd fatal traffic collision this year, and Karl The Fog's fall thickness made seeing Saturday's Fleet Week air shows quite difficult
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: State Auditing Bay Area Police Forces The state is now auditing multiple police forces in the Bay Area following revelations about "unsuitable" psych evaluations in Alameda County, an infamous wine arsonist is getting out of jail, and there was a vigil for the slain family in Merced.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: State Homeless Population Rises By 22,500 We now have an estimate for how much the state's homeless population grew during the pandemic, the clearing of the Wood Street encampment has entered a final phase, and a federal appeals court has declared DACA illegal.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Member Lashes Out Over Encampment Clearing Tensions flared last night at the Oakland City Council over the clearing of the Wood Street encampment, classes have restarted at the Oakland campus where a shooting took place last week, and all local grocery stores are going to be transitioning to compostable plastic.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Janitors Striking at Meta Janitors are striking in protest of layoffs at Meta/Facebook, there was another major BART delay due to a problem in the Transbay Tube, and a longtime Bay Area physicist has just won the Nobel Prize.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshows On Both Sides of the Bay Lead to Injuries Sideshows in both Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday night ended with injuries, Ayesha Curry's Oakland store was broken into, and hackers released stolen data from the L.A. Unified School District when before their ransom deadline.
SF News Sunday Links: Yep... Gas Prices in California Are on the Rise (Again) A woman suffering from a gunshot wound was found dead in San Jose Friday night, The Castro Street Fair is currently underway, and the average price of a gallon of regular gas in CA is now about $6.38.
SF News Saturday Links: SF's Karl The Fog Was Very Thick Last Night and This Morning Newsom signed a bill into law that decriminalized jaywalking in most instances, a deadly car crash in Burlingame killed one pedestrian, and SF’s marine layer was very thick in parts of the city last night and this morning.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Former PG&E Execs to Pay $117M to Fire Victims Oakland's Highland Hospital is seeing twice the number of gunshot patients it saw just four years ago, a settlement has been reached between fire victims and former PG&E executives, and witness testimony begins in the trial of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Food Worker Strike Ends The three-day strike by food workers at SFO has ended with the workers getting better pay, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office is being investigated by the state over its hiring practices, and there is some city council drama in Daly City.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFPD Seeks Suspect Who Swung Axe at Muni Driver Police are seeking a suspect who allegedly swung an axe at a Muni driver near Van Ness and California, a carjacking suspect tried to carjack an off-duty SFPD officer's car, and Elizabeth Holmes may succeed in getting her sentencing delayed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Car Fire On Oakland Freeway Quickly Spreads to Brush A car fire along I-580 near Edwards Avenue quickly spread to nearby brush and grew to four alarms Monday evening, an SFFD truck caused some damage to parked cars, and Hurricane Ian is bearing down on western Florida.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Musk Gets Deposed By Twitter Thousands of motorcyclists gathered on Saturday in Stockton for a massive funeral for Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Elon Musk is getting deposed today by Twitter's attorneys, and temps in SF will cool off before warming back up by the weekend.
SF News Sunday Links: Many Neighborhoods in San Francisco Had Broken Traffic Lights Yesterday A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near Eureka, Cal Academy’s new exhibit is “bug-tacular,” and many traffic lights were either blinking red or outright not working Saturday in SF.
SF News Saturday Links: Mosquito Fire Now at Least 60% Contained All CA counties have left the CDC's “high” category for COVID-19, Bay Area rents could swell by an extra 10% this year, and fire crews are making progress controlling the largest wildfire this year in California — with 60% of the Mosquito Fire now contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Officially In CDC's 'Low' Tier For COVID BART had similar Transbay Tube electrical problems this morning as it had on Sunday, a noted SF stalker/creeper is back and harassing women, and the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "low" tier for COVID transmission once again and finally.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Fatal Freeway Shooting In Oakland A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Sees Four Homicides In 18 Hours A fourth fatal shooting in Oakland Tuesday capped off a violent 18 hours, a child was struck by a bus and gravely injured in San Francisco, and new data shows that SF lost more than half its restaurant jobs during the pandemic.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Two Women Shot In the Mission District Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Rain's Not Over Yet A Sunday homicide in the East Bay was likely linked to road rage, President Biden declares the "pandemic is over," and rain is going to continue sporadically around the Bay Area the next couple of days.