SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Half Moon Bay Shooter to Enter Plea The 66-year-old Half Moon Bay shooting suspect, Zhao Chunli, is due to enter a plea in court; SF city officials meet with residents who lived near last week's home explosion; and an Oakland councilmember is mad about the decision to fire the police chief.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Elon Musk Says New Twitter CEO Will Be Chosen By Year-End The wife of the man who allegedly drove his family off a Pacifica cliff doesn't want him prosecuted; norovirus is newly surging across the country; and Elon Musk now says he'll pick a new CEO for Twitter "toward the end of the year."
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Franciscans Mostly Over Valentine's Day There was a homicide in the Tenderloin early Tuesday; the person who won that $2 billion Powerball jackpot in LA County has come forward; and a survey of SF Bumble users found that a third say Valentine's Day is about "self love."
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sacramento Man Arrested In Brutal Hit-and-Run A 28-year-old Sacramento man is accused in a brutal hit and run that killed five people in an SUV he was driving; supplies are being sent from the Bay Area to Turkish quake victims; and US officials continue scrambling to identify objects that flew into US airspace.
morning links Sunday Links: Super Bowl LVII Will Feature Bay Area Local in First All-Women National Anthem Flyover Navy Lieutenant Commander Calli Zimmerman, who grew up in San Jose, will be in this Super Bowl's flyover; SF wants to make parking meter hours much longer; and evictions have returned to pre-pandemic levels in four out of five Bay Area counties.
SF News Saturday Links: Lawsuit Alleges Scandal-Plagued Bayview Homeless Services Org Funds Went to CEO's “Lavish” Lifestyle The troubled organization United Council of Human Services faces a new lawsuit about the misuse of funds; Davis is California's most "college-y" town with the highest proportion of the population students; and a cybersecurity attack has hit Oakland's systems.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Baker Dies From Injuries After Robbery Oakland baker and activist Jen Angel has died from injuries sustained while trying to chase down thieves; UCSF is seeking help identifying a patient; and a Calistoga man is suing the Napa hotel whose water was found to have high levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease last summer.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Conviction In Carmel Cold-Case Murder From 1981 The SoCal doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving over a Pacifica cliff is due in court, a 67-year-old Seaside man has been convicted in a 1981 murder in Carmel, and the 2019 Texas Walmart shooter has pleaded guilty.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Former Twitter Execs Hauled Before Congress A House committee is grilling three former Twitter execs over the Hunter Biden laptop business, the SFMTA says Muni's "financial cliff" is coming in 2025, and Pelosi attacker David DePape is appearing in federal court today.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Paul Pelosi to Be Guest at State of the Union SF's Roosevelt Middle School is addressing a threat made on Facebook, five teens were arrested for a string of armed robberies in Castro Valley, and Paul Pelosi has been invited as a guest of Jill Biden to the State of the Union this evening.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Police Chief Fights for Reinstatement Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, still on leave, pushed back again on a federal monitor's report; two arrests have been made in a Marin City stabbing; and we are in for a few days of sunny weather.
SF News Sunday Links: Annual San Francisco Lunar New Year Parade Saturday Weathered the Rain to Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit The 1.3-mile parade route stretched from Second and Market Streets through Union Square all the way to Chinatown, drawing thousands; San Jose police arrested a suspect in a fatal shooting; and Oakland firefighters put out a 2-alarm blaze in Jack London Square Saturday night.
SF News Saturday Links: Pest Control Company Finds 700-lb. Stash of Acorns in Walls of Sonoma County Home Nick's Extreme Pest Control removed 8 trash bags of acorns from the walls of a Glen Ellen house; a judge ruled the city of Oakland could clear out the Wood Street homeless encampment; and a dead body was found in a stage hole near downtown Oakland.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Hills Fire Damages Multiple Homes A house fire in the Oakland hills on Thursday turned into a three-alarm blaze that damaged at least two other homes; PG&E will be giving bill credits soon; and the forecast for the weekend includes a fair bit of rain.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pelosi Endorses Schiff For Senate Nancy Pelosi has made a rare endorsement in a Democrat v. Democrat race; there was a second major crash on southbound 101 in SF last night; and a former reality TV star has filed suit against Windsor's former mayor for sexual assault and battery.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Boy Bitten By Mountain Lion In San Mateo County A boy was bitten and minorly injured by a mountain lion in rural San Mateo County, the Chronicle's Heather Knight is once again calling out the SFPD for doing nothing after a burglary, and rumor has it former Apple design guy Jony Ive just bought a building in Jackson Square.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: This Chilly Weather Isn't Going Away The Arctic air mass currently chilling much of the country isn't lifting off of California before Thursday, Everett Middle School is getting a schoolyard makeover, and Trump's legal tactics aren't working for him so much anymore.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Downtown Oakland Once Again Sees Big Protest Over Police Killing Many hundreds (thousands?) gathered in Downtown Oakland Sunday to protest the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis; Elon Musk has apologized for linking to a conspiracy story about the Paul Pelosi attack; and three years ago today the WHO first declared COVID a global emergency.
SF News Sunday Links: 49ers Rookie Brock Purdy’s Injuries Forces Him Out of Playoff Game, Fourth-String Josh Johnson Enters 49ers’ rookie third-string 23-year-old quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a right elbow injury on the team’s first drive; potential frost and freezing warnings could happen this week; and a Tesla spontaneously caught on fire just outside of Sacramento.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Protests After Release of Video of Fatal Memphis Traffic Stop Resulting in Death of Tyre Nichols Five Memphis police officers were charged with murder and kidnapping on Thursday following the death of Tyre Nichols; a shooting near Beverly Hills killed three people Saturday morning; and a vigil in Half Moon Bay for victims of shootings there draws crowds of hundreds to mourn Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Rain and Then Frigid Cold On the Way Sunday We could be in for some light rain Sunday followed by some very cold temps; there was a vigil in Chinatown for the Half Moon Bay victims; and the oldest person in the world is a woman born in San Francisco.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Schiff Makes Senate Candidacy Official Rep. Adam Schiff has made his candidacy for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat official; isolated Big Sur residents are getting supplies airlifted in today; and Chinese company ByteDance (owner of TikTok) has moved into new offices in San Jose.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Two More Half Moon Bay Shooting Victims Named A family member has identified two brothers as among those shot in Half Moon Bay; two siblings stand accused of attempting to murder their mother in Monterey County; and all 11 victims in Saturday's Monterey Park shooting have now been identified.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 69 People Killed In Mass Shootings So Far This Year In U.S. There is still no known motive for Monday's mass shooting at two farms in Half Moon Bay; a person was fatally struck by a BART train at Lafayette Station Tuesday morning; and a shootout between individuals at a gas station in Oakland left one dead and seven injured.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Castro Bar Closes After 27 Years A pedestrian was killed in a vehicle collision on Cathedral Hill; SF firefighters rescued two people from a cliff at Fort Funston; and Harvey's, the 27-year-old bar and restaurant at the corner of 18th and Castro, closed for good on Sunday.