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[Update] Abducted Infant Found In San Mateo Following Amber Alert

The phones of Bay Area residents buzzed in unison Thursday morning, as an Amber Alert was issued for San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties in the case

Arts & Entertainment

San Francisco Dates For 'Hamilton' Run Finally Confirmed

The Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Hamilton is coming to San Francisco next spring, and we now for the first time have the official dates for the five-month run. The Mercury

SpaceX Rocket Carrying Facebook's First Satellite Explodes On Launchpad

For anyone who wondered why launch prep takes weeks & why no one is allowed near, this is why #Falcon9 #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/ukCPmAhOhD— Hunter Blaeser (@MinnesotaLoving) September 1, 2016 A SpaceX

Trump Promises Immigration Law Named For Kate Steinle In Wednesday Speech

Presidential unhopeful Donald Trump worked the story of Kate Steinle's July 2015 shooting into his speech on immigration on Wednesday in Phoenix, which seems predictable enough given how Fox News has previously taken

Iconic Downtown Wells Fargo Robbed By (Possibly?) Armed Man

A possibly armed bank robber remains on the loose Thursday, following a brazen mid-afternoon heist at one of San Francisco's most prominent banks. It was 3:20 Wednesday afternoon, police say, when a

Thursday Morning Roundup: Sorry, 'Harry Potter Go' Is A No-Go

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here Another former SFPD officer heads to jail. [SFist] Twitter

Arts & Entertainment

Here Are Your Top Cities For Students: At Home And Abroad

Attention students: the U.S. offers so many great cities, it’s tempting to switch states without considering other countries. But don’t rule out studying abroad just yet! After all, international study

Day Around The Bay: San Jose Declares Crime A State Of Emergency

Follow SFist on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook. You can also get the top stories mailed to you—sign up here. Crime in San Jose is so bad, they’ve

Bill To Streamline Construction Of In-Law Housing Heads To Governor's Desk

Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill that would make it easier for homeowners to construct secondary housing units on their property. The San Francisco Business Times reports that the measure,

Ninth Circuit Rules Medical Marijuana Card Holders Can't Buy Guns

Possessing a medical marijuana card may allow you to buy, posses, and consume marijuana in one of 25 states (plus DC!), but as CBS 5 reports, it also comes with some limitations: Namely,

No Injuries After FiDi Manhole Cover Blows Off

An underground explosion beneath in the Financial District this morning resulted in what the Fire Department calls a "PG&E Vault Incident" and what the casual layperson observer might describe as "oh

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Marina's Spaghetti Bros. Decides To Drop Confusing Name, Pivots To Maybeck's

Believing, probably correctly, that the name Spaghetti Bros. had pigeonholed them into being a spaghetti restaurant, the owners of the ten-month-old Marina restaurant in the former Republic space are rebranding themselves with a

If You Used Dropbox In 2012, Your Password May Have Been Compromised

The extent of a previously announced breach of Dropbox user data back in 2012 is now coming to light, and as Motherboard reports, in addition to users' email addresses, passwords were obtained and

Jail Sentence For Former SFPD Officer Who Illegally Searched SRO

The former San Francisco police officer convicted of illegally entering and searching a SRO in 2010 has been sentenced to over a year in jail. Bay City News reports that Arshad Razzak claimed

Oakland Housing Crisis Is Also A Health Crisis, County Health Director Declares

Alameda County Public Health Department head Dr. Muntu Davis has declared Oakland's housing crisis a health crisis as well. The East Bay Express writes that Davis is drawing on a new study conducted

Protests Planned For Friday Release Of Brock Turner

Convicted Stanford rapist Brock Turner is less than 48 hours away from his scheduled release, as reported earlier this week, after serving half his sentence just three months in a Santa Clara County

Scandal! Jane Kim Maybe Came Between Clinton Advisor Ann O'Leary And Her Husband, Kim's Former Law Professor

A little bit of potential scandal news has entered the otherwise boring race for the state senate seat being fought by Supervisors Jane Kim and Scott Wiener: Kim has been implicated, according to

It May Be Too Late To Keep Tahoe Blue

As we speak, President Obama is arriving in South Lake Tahoe preparing to deliver the keynote address at this year's Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual gathering since 1997 of federal, state, and local

Arts & Entertainment

Paris Hilton Is Instagramming From Her First Time At Burning Man, You Guys

Excited for my first trip to the #Playa! It's going to be #Magical! ✨✨✨ #BurningMan 🔥 pic.twitter.com/0k9mAryGu5— Paris Hilton (@ParisHilton) August 30, 2016 Paris is burning. Radically self-reliant hotel heiress Paris Hilton

SF Restaurants, Food & Drink

Go Drink This: Standard Deviant Brewing Extra Pale Ale

New brewers on the block Standard Deviant Brewing are so fresh that when you step inside their warehouse space in a former auto-body shop on 14th Street, the first thing you'll smell isn't

Families Of Boys Struck By Alleged Drunk Driving Debutante Sue Driver, San Francisco

Readers eager for an update (yes, we've gotten your tweets, Facebook messages, and emails) on the case of Kirsten Andereck, the allegedly drunk Seacliff resident who witnesses say slammed into two kids as

Wednesday Lunchtime Links: Segregation Alleged In School Funding Debate

The SF City Attorney’s Office has filed suit against a Bernal Heights firm alleged to have misled clients into thinking they had hired an immigration attorney and collecting fees for work they

Burning Man Exodus Is Really Not That Many People, Says Chron

You've heard it before: San Francisco "empties out" the week of Burning Man, leaving trendy bars and restaurants less crowded and that hot brunch spot free of lines. However, as the Chronicle points

Rare Beaked Whale, Likely Killed By Ship Collision, Washes Ashore In Point Reyes

Never before in the 41-year history of the Marine Mammal Center have its experts had occasion to examine a Baird's beaked whale. This week they're doing so, but under unfortunate circumstances: A highly