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.
SF News Sunday Links: Woman Dies After Tesla Crashes Into Residential Swimming Pool in Marin Police say the car careened through a fence and into the pool, though the reason for the crash is still unknown.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland A's Hall of Famer and World Series Champion, "Captain Sal" Bando, dies at 78 Sal Bando remembered as Oakland A's captain who led the Oakland A's to three World Series wins in the 1970s; the search for missing SFSU student near Pacifica beach called off; and actor Jeremy Renner said he broke at least 30 bones in Nevada snowplow accident.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Google Lays Off 12,000 Workers Google/Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, a 3.6M earthquake struck Thursday evening in Sonoma County, and the state wants you to please withdraw your Middle Class Tax Refund ASAP.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden to Visit Capitola Pier and Santa Cruz President Biden is visiting the storm-damaged Santa Cruz area, an employee at Trick Dog is being hailed as a hero for saving two elderly people in last week's fire across the street from the bar, and two SF socialites gave money to George Santos.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Another Landslide Halts Another Train In Niles Canyon A second landslide hit and halted a second ACE train in Niles Canyon early today; we are in for a "last" bout of rain this evening; and the nine-person jury is seated in Elon Musk's federal trial over his 2018 Tesla tweets.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Auction Kicks Off There were shots fired on Geary Blvd. near Laurel Heights early this morning; a stabbing in the Mission left a man with serious injuries; and bidding has kicked off in the Twitter surplus office-furniture auction.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: We Are In For a (Mostly) Dry Week, Everybody Don't place any big bets on it but we are forecast to have a pretty dry week except for a stormy Wednesday night; the body of a fisherman missing since Christmas was found in San Pablo Bay; and new SF Board of Supes Prez Aaron Peskin broke his phone.
SF News Sunday Links: Dead Body Found In SF Bay Near Ferry Building Sunday Morning The SFFD says that an unidentified body was discovered near the Ferry Building; Highway 37 near Novato is closed until Monday due to flooding; and bottlenose dolphins might start calling the Bay home because of climate change.