![[Update] Fifteen Shot at Kid’s Birthday Party Near Stockton in Gang-Related Incident, Four Dead](https://img.sfist.com/2025/11/GettyImages-1481901238.jpg)
A mass gang-related shooting occurred at a child’s birthday party in the Central Valley just north of Stockton Saturday evening, killing four people — including 3 children — and injuring 11 others. There are reportedly multiple suspects.
This week: Where to find ladybugs in Oakland, Oakland’s “Old Survivor” redwood. Napa Valley holiday wine train, tea round-up, holiday architecture book sale, award-winning molé sauce, ancestral quilts, and Bruce Lee’s time on Bay Area streets.
A 90-year-old man plowed through a Los Gatos coffee shop, DUI suspected; pop star Kesha gave an impromptu performance at a Palo Alto bar but was kicked out by unsuspecting security staff; and SF’s Powell Street now has a new independent bookstore, 'The Best Bookstore.'
![[Update] Three Shot, Including Two Bystanders, In Likely Gang-Related Incident at South Bay’s Valley Fair Mall](https://img.sfist.com/2025/11/South_Valet_-cropped-.jpg)
The South Bay’s largest mall, Westfield Valley Fair Mall, was temporarily closed until noon Saturday during the investigation of a shooting that led to the evacuation of thousands of Black Friday shoppers. A man was shot during an argument with the suspect, and two bystanders were also shot.
Riders aboard a crowded BART train were met with a festive Thanksgiving extravaganza Thursday morning, courtesy of “Bay Area TV Man” and friends. The special feast began and ended at West Oakland station with a full loop from Daly City to Dublin in between.
Cue more complaints about the Great Highway being closed! A project to repave 19th Avenue means that a major north-west route through the city — and part of Highway 1 — will see lane closures lasting a full year.
![[Update] Suspected Gunfire Near Coast Guard Housing in Novato Prompts Prolonged Search Friday, Saturday](https://img.sfist.com/2025/11/Coast-Guard-Housing.jpg)
Residents in southern Novato in Marin County were told to shelter-in-place Thanksgiving night as authorities investigated a possible shooting near the US Coast Guard Housing. The order was lifted around 10:25 pm Thursday. The search was resumed as additional gunfire was heard Friday and Saturday.
There was a series of small earthquakes early Friday centered near Gilroy; thieves targeted a Great Wolf Lodge parking lot; and there won't be an in-store Santa at Macy's in Union Square for the first time in 80 years.
Two National Guard members doing a routine patrol in DC were shot and critically wounded today; SF supportive housing providers worry about HUD cuts; and the annual Great Dickens Christmas Fair has kicked off at the Cow Palace.
Corner stores in parts of SoMa would be forced to close at midnight if the district’s Supervisor Matt Dorsey gets his way, as Dorsey proposes a corner store “curfew” similar to the one that’s been placed on parts of the Tenderloin.
While Sam Altman’s one-time romantic partner Lachy Groom was not the person who had $11 million in crypto stolen from his account, Groom does own the home where the invasion happened, and reportedly lives there too.
A federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to cease detaining immigrants at its downtown San Francisco facility due to unsanitary and inhumane conditions in the facility.
Last-minute, unanticipated needs are sure to strike any Thanksgiving Day celebration, so we've listed all of the major SF grocery chains’ Thanksgiving Day hours, for when you absolutely need that forgotten food item or an alcohol restock.
Some more information has emerged about the Sunday home-invasion robbery in Ingleside that resulted in a homicide, and the suspect has now been charged with murder.
It’s actually two consecutive life sentences for the 25-year-old man found guilty of brutally beating and killing 88-year-old Yik Oi Huang in Visitacion Valley in January 2019, and then robbing her house immediately afterwards.
A 4.0M earthquake and several smaller ones struck Gilroy this a.m.; a man was shot and critically wounded in North Oakland; and we can look forward to sunny, mild weather through the Thanksgiving holiday.
Data shows when the worst times to drive in the Bay Area will be these next few days; Rep. Eric Swalwell is hitting back hard against his Trump prosecution; and there’s a list of SF charitable organizations serving free Thanksgiving dinners.
Lacy Camden leads a giant tic-tac-toe tower of local drag and nightlife stars in a warped reboot of the game show ‘Hollywood Squares,’ in Saturday night’s on-stage ‘San Francisco Squares’ where the cash and prizes all go to charity.
Last Christmas, three brothers discovered a rare Great Depression-era copy of the first Superman comic in pristine condition in their late mother’s SF attic. It just sold for $9 million, making it one of the most valuable comic books in the world.
A cold case that has lingered on for over 40 years, in part because it was in the hands of a tiny police department in Foster City that was likely ill equipped to investigate it, may finally be nearing justice for the victim.
The DOJ arrested a San Leandro man and three others as part of an alleged conspiracy to evade US trade laws by smuggling powerful Nvidia GPUs and AI chips to China through Thailand and Malaysia. The man allegedly bragged that his dad did the same work for the CCP.
The Civic Center BART station was closed as of around 11:30 am Tuesday due to what BART called an "equipment problem on the track," and train delays were developing on all lines as a result.
It was 50 years ago this Thursday that San Francisco’s own annual ‘Unthanksgiving’ started on Alcatraz Island, and as always, this year’s sunrise ceremony will be streaming online if you can’t make it to Alcatraz at 6 am.
San Francisco police have made an arrest in a shocking burglary that turned deadly on Sunday afternoon.
The 49ers easily manhandled a terrible Carolina Panthers team 20-9 on Monday Night Football, but everyone’s talking about a dirty punch to the unmentionables of Niners’ Jauan Jennings’s that set off a post-game fracas.
