SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Healthcare Conference In SF Canceled Closing arguments begin today in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, a brazen mugging happened Wednesday afternoon in Pacific Heights, and JP Morgan just canceled an in-person healthcare conference in SF in January.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highway 1 Closed Due to Big Sur Rockslides The SF School Board passed a balanced budget on Tuesday avoiding a state takeover, alleged retail thieves were busted in Vallejo, and a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur remains closed to traffic after multiple rockslides.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some Spots In Sierra Getting Eight Feet of Snow Tahoe got inundated with a thick dumping of snow on Monday and it is still snowing, a 14-year-old in Fairfield was arrested for threats to a high school, and the oldest living person in California resides in the East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Heaviest Rain Arrives Heavy rain and landslide potential have shut down a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1, today is the deadline for all BART employees to be vaccinated, and the 49ers eked out a messy win.
SF News Saturday Links: Three-Alarm Fire at Bayview Warehouse Is Now Contained There was yet another smash-and-grab car robbery recorded in SF, the Oakland Ballet Company will bring ‘The Nutcracker’ back to the stage next weekend, and a large fire broke out at 335 Barneveld at Newcomb avenues Saturday morning — but it's now contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Santa Clara County Finds First Omicron Case Santa Clara County has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant, an Oakland teen allegedly stabbed his father to death, and Millennium Tower has tilted another quarter inch.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rain Storm Headed Here Late Saturday The LAPD is now facing a racist texting scandal, Lyft is telling its workers they can stay remote through all of 2022, and we are in for a decent amount of rain late Saturday night into Sunday.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Booster Protects Against Omicron The state has again warned the SF school board that it's in danger of a takeover, Marin's COVID spike is not due to Omicron, and a swarm of offshore earthquakes is rattling northern Oregon.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Prolific Target Shoplifter Arrested Again After Being Freed By Judge Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Early Reports Suggest Omicron Causes Less Severe Illness The owners of Hilda and Jesse in North Beach have apologized for turning away SFPD officers, a Black couple is suing a Marin appraisal firm, and Omicron might cause less severe illness (on average) than Delta.
SF News Sunday Links: Holiday Shopping Slowly Returns to Union Square Holiday shopping busied at Union Square over the weekend, many NorCal Planned Parenthood locations are preparing for an influx of out-of-state abortions, and new research shows that the Omicron variant was likely in the U.S. before it was first recorded.
SF News Saturday Links: 5 Cases of Omicron Variant Recorded in Alameda County Nearly a foot of snow is expected in parts of Hawaii over the weekend, “pudgy” cookies are now a thing in Cupertino, and five cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Alameda County — each case described as "mildly symptomatic."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Carlos Santana Recovering From Surprise Heart Surgery Carlos Santana had an "unscheduled heart procedure" over the weekend, a Palo Alto couple has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and unemployment claims in CA are near pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tolls Go Up to $7 On 7 Bay Area Bridges Next Month Tolls on the Bay Bridge and six other bridges go up $1 on Jan. 1, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a pivotal abortion case today, and high demand for boosters is creating trouble for some local pharmacies.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Body Found In Bay Near Ferry Building A body was pulled from the water near the Ferry Building Tuesday morning, Oakland's police chief is addressing the public again today, and Oakland cannabis retailers are reeling after recent robberies.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Woman Robbed of Dog at Gunpoint in Oakland President Biden and Dr. Fauci addressed the nation about the Omicron variant, smash-and-grab thieves hit an East Bay Walgreens, and gas prices in the Bay Area may be leveling off.
SF News Sunday Links: Coyote Rescued in SF at Marina Green Released Back Into Wild The SFPD's presence at Union Square has remained steady this weekend, thrift shops are filling up around the Bay, and "Phoenix" — the coyote that found itself in the waters off Marina Green Friday — was successfully treated before being released back into the wild.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Security Guard at KRON4 Dies From Gunshot Injuries KRON4 security guard Kevin Nishita passed away Friday after sustaining gunshot wounds during an attempted robbery, Bay Area scientists continue to sound the alarm regarding the Omicron variant, and over 30 peacocks are causing chaos in a Tracy neighborhood.
SF News Black Friday Constitutional: Solo Crash Briefly Closes Northbound 101 In SF The days of lining up at midnight for Black Friday deals in the Bay Area may be over, there were multiple highway fatalities around the Bay on Thanksgiving, and there was one early Friday morning on 101 in SF that closed all the northbound lanes until 6 a.m.
SF News Turkey Day Topline: Glide Is Serving Thanksgiving Meals and COVID-19 Vaccines for 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returned in full (with a Baby Yoda float in tow), a growing number of wild turkeys are making themselves at home at California college campuses, and Glide is giving away thousands of meals today — as well as offering COVID-19 vaccines.
SF News Thanksgiving Eve Headlines: SF Asks Residents to Curb Water Use By 5% The SFPUC has declared a water emergency and is asking for residents to cut back usage, CNN looks at the smash-and-grab trend nationwide, and BART trains now have new air filters to further protect against virus spread.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Masks Return In Santa Cruz Amid Rising Cases SF DA Chesa Boudin is announcing felony charges today for eight suspects caught in Friday's retail robbery spree, PG&E just got fined again by the CPUC, and Santa Cruz County has reinstated its mask mandate amid rising COVID cases.
SF News Monday Morning Happenings: Three Racehorse Deaths In a Week at Golden Gate Fields The smash-and-grab robbery swarm hit a mall in Hayward Sunday night, three racehorses have died in a week at Golden Gate Fields, and Dungeness crab season will open for waters north of the Bay Area on Dec. 1.
SF News Sunday Links: SF to Limit Car Access to Union Square Following Night of Citywide Looting San Francisco will crackdown on car traffic through Union Square after Friday’s widespread looting, a Saturday police killing in Oakland left one alleged carjacker dead, and FYI: many more booster shot appointments came online today in SF.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Shot and Killed by SF Police Friday at Residential Hotel Identified The Rittenhouse verdict drew large protests in Oakland Friday night, CHP is reporting that a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Oakland on I-880, and 41-year-old Ajmal Amani was the victim of the police killing at the CW Hotel near 5th and Folsom streets yesterday.
