SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Seizes 16 Cars From Bay Bridge Sideshow Using surveillance footage, the CHP ID'd and seized 16 cars connected to a September Bay Bridge sideshow; the mummified body found on a toilet in Union City has been ID'd; and Rep. Eric Swalwell's war of words with Pamela Price is escalating.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Victim Identified in Tuesday’s Fatal Parnassus Heights Dump Truck Crash The new Casa Guadalupe in a shuttered Mission Street Walgreens opens Saturday; Los Angeles DA George Gascón will indeed seek to resentence the Menendez brothers; and we now know the identity of the man hit by a dump truck Tuesday at Parnassus Avenue and Stanyan Street.
SF Politics With November’s Prop 36, California Voters Could Effectively Undo the Infamous Prop 47 Property Crime Law California's 2014 law known as Prop 47 is often blamed for unleashing crime, homelessness, and the fentanyl crisis, and voters will have a chance to toughen up its under-$950 misdemeanor theft threshold with the new state measure Prop 36.
SF News CHP Touts 1,100 Arrests, 2,000 Stolen Cars Recovered In Oakland This Year The governor's office and California Highway Patrol have provided another quarterly update on the CHP's efforts to aid Oakland police on the car-theft and sideshow front.
SF News Onions From One NorCal Farm Linked to McDonald's E. Coli Outbreak A farm in Salinas has been pegged as the culprit in the nationwide E. coli outbreak that was initially linked to Quarter Pounders at McDonald's, and that has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Bayview Warehouse Owner for Allegedly Running Two Huge Illegal Marijuana Grows Two Bayview warehouses have been acting as illegal indoor cannabis grows for over a year, according to a new lawsuit from City Attorney David Chiu, after state agents raided and found nearly 6,000 plants at the two facilities.
SF News Runt of Berkeley Falcon Brood Dies Three Months After Injuring Wing There's some sad news out of Berkeley, where the fourth of four young falcons hatched this spring atop the UC Berkeley Campanile tower has died following a July injury.
Arts & Entertainment Japanese Arcade With Bowling Opening Next Month at Stonestown An arcade complex that's kind of like a Japanese version of Dave & Busters, with a lot of claw machines, is getting set to open in November at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News SF Superior Court Clerks On Strike Today, Bob Lee Murder Trial Brought to a Halt A one-day strike has brought massive chaos to SF Superior Court today, with more than 200 clerks striking outside 850 Bryant, and the Nima Momeni trial is delayed for the day because of the strike and will resume, possibly, Wednesday.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested After Allegedly Dragging Assistant Principal By the Hair During East Bay High School Dance A teenager is accused of assaulting and dragging an assistant principal by the hair at California High School in San Ramon after she approached the teen and another student outside of a homecoming dance.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rent Control Remains Divisive Issue In SF Expanding rent control remains a divisive issue in SF; those new anti-sex-work barriers have gone up on Shotwell Street; and a Castro dessert shop was closed by the health department.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Animal Care Rescues Barn Owl Caught In Kite Line SF Animal Care & Control officers rescued an injured barn owl caught in a kite line near Baker Beach; Berkeley teens under 18 get to vote for school board this year; and Straus Family Creamery in Sonoma County gets a TikTok boost.
SF News Six Former BART Employees Sue in Federal Court Over Being Fired for Refusing to Get Vaccinated A few holdout BART employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and lost their jobs because of it, have taken their case to a federal court, claiming BART did not honor their religious exemptions.
Bay Area Sports NBA Season Preview: Warriors Come Out to Play, Without Klay, For First Time In 14 Years In a season where the All-Star Game will be played right here in San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors’ hopes to be contenders again probably depend on whether they actually have more than one all-star on this team.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern French Bistro — With DJ Booth — Opens In Former Hard Water Space on Embarcadero A new French bistro, with a focus on Champagne and small plates, has just debuted at Pier 3 on SF's Embarcadero, from the owner of Sens at Embarcadero Center, and Barcha in SoMa.
Arts & Entertainment New 2,000-Pound Star Sculpture From Occasional Burning Man Artists Arrives In Mint Plaza A new star-shaped, gold-painted sculpture, which will cast entrancing shadows from a light within it at night, has just been installed at Mint Plaza.
SF News City Hall Unveils Latest Plans to Redevelop Candlestick Point, 11 Years After 49ers Left More than a decade after the 49ers left Candlestick Park, the city has unveiled new plans for Candlestick Point, with 7,200 new homes, but it seems questionable whether there will be much call for all of the office space in this plan.
SF News Tensions Escalate During Fourth Day of Sister's Testimony In Nima Momeni Trial; Victim's Ex Lashes Out The tone of things became more combative Wednesday in the courtroom where Nima Momeni is being tried for the April 2023 murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
SF News Partially Mummified Corpse Found Sitting on Toilet In Union City This one sounds like the opening scene from a horror film and probably could be, and it just so happens to coincide with pre-Halloween Week.
Arts & Entertainment SF Getting Another Mosaic Tiled Stairway, This One In Anza Vista, as a Tribute to ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee SF’s next tiled mosaic stairway was just approved to be installed without fees, and it’s a powerful homage to late 84-year-old “Grandpa Vicha” Ratanapakdee, who was killed nearby in a brazen morning attack in 2021.
SF News Buddhist Nuns' Residence Next to Mission District Temple Burns In Two-Alarm Fire, Four Displaced The nuns' residence next door to Hua Zang Si temple on 22nd Street was heavily damaged in a fire Tuesday, but luckily firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the temple building next door.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SFO's Beloved Bouncy Walkways Are About to Go Away The bouncy rubber walkways of SFO's Terminal 3 are set to be demolished; DA Brooke Jenkins talks to Mission District businesses about crime; and Tyler, the Creator announces Bay Area tour dates.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Will Be Rocking Another Light Show Tonight People are talking about a Geary Boulevard subway again; the former Westfield Mall is switching its name once more; and the Transamerica Pyramid will host another light show Tuesday night to ring in this week’s TED AI San Francisco conference.
SF News SF Supervisors Strengthen Legacy Business Protections, Hoping to Save La Mediterranee and Others After a billionaire bought up several Upper Fillmore buildings and legacy businesses there were given their walking papers, Supervisor Aaron Peskin just passed his bill adding protections to keep those businesses in place.
SF News Aquarium of the Bay’s Ex-CEO Goes Nuclear With Lawsuit Full of Wild Allegations Over His Ouster The former CEO of Bay.org George Jacob resigned in May amidst reports of lavish spending, but he’s hitting back with a ferocious new lawsuit claiming staff tried to secretly sell shark blood to Disney, and wanted to release all the animals back into the ocean.
