SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Gets In Dig at Elon Musk After Momeni Verdict Before he became Trump's temporary lackey, Elon Musk was just your average bandwagon-jumping, San Francisco-hating tech CEO on Twitter, trying to tell the world that the city that birthed his company and many others had gone to hell overnight.
SF News Jury Finds Nima Momeni Guilty of Second-Degree Murder of Cash App Founder Bob Lee After seven days of deliberations, the verdict in the trial of Nima Momeni was read Tuesday morning, and the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder in the April 2023 killing of Bob Lee, but guilty of second-degree murder.
SF Politics Lurie Hires Former Twitter CFO Ned Segal to Be ‘Policy Chief’ of Housing and Economic Development A former Twitter executive who’s suing Elon Musk over unpaid severance is now taking over SF’s housing and economic recovery response under the Daniel Lurie administration, as Ned Segal has been named Chief of Housing and Economic Development.
SF News Tuesday Morning What's Up: Sheng Thao Serves Final Day as Oakland Mayor It's Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's last day in office; a man was found dead in a burning RV on Wood Street in West Oakland; TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block the law that wants to shut down its US operations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Wants CHP's Help Too Vallejo residents are calling on Newsom to send in the CHP to help their city's crime problem; a man escaped from a psych ward in San Leandro on Friday and is still missing and at-risk; and an Oakland smoke shop got busted for selling drugs.
SF News Verdict Reached In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Won't Be Read Until Tuesday Morning After a seventh day of deliberations, the jury said they had reached a verdict Monday in the trial of Nima Momeni for the killing of Bob Lee in April 2023. But the verdict won't be read until Tuesday morning.
Arts & Entertainment Gaggle of SantaCon Santas Manages to Conquer BART’s Evasion-Proof Gates With Mass Fare Evasion A battalion of Santas successfully cheated BART’s new evasion-proof fare gates during this weekend’s SantaCon festivities, and a TikTok video capturing their gate-hopping exploits is going viral.
SF Politics Charges Tossed Out for San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Whom Sheriff Had Ordered Arrested Controversial San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus had the head of the sheriff’s deputies’ union arrested last month, accusing him of grand theft. But the San Mateo County DA has dropped all of those charges, in the latest black eye for Corpus.
Business & Tech San Francisco's Sky-High Office Vacancy Rate Declines Slightly, In Sign of Possible Turnaround The improvement was ever so slight, but a key indicator of the health of the office leasing market in San Francisco showed another glimmer of hope that the bottom has been reached and leases continue to tick up.
SF News Mendocino Town of Point Arena Being Rocked By City Councilmember Buying Up Properties With LLCs A sort of “California Forever” type situation has been brewing in the small Mendocino County town of Point Arena, where a sitting member of city council has bought up about 20 properties through a web of LLCs and chased out long-term tenants.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Helps Lead Charge to Thwart a Republican-Led Constitutional Convention Nightmare Among the many, many nightmare scenarios we face as Donald Trump and his band of anti-government zealots march back into the White House is the looming threat of a constitutional convention.
SF Politics El Cerrito to Have First Majority-LGBTQ City Council In Bay Area When New Members Are Sworn In Tuesday Well check out El Cerrito, as the Contra Costa County city will have an LGBTQ majority on its city council as of Tuesday night, the first ever such majority in the Bay Area and only the third ever in state history.
SF News Cafe Worker In SF's Mission District Springs Into Action to Stop Petty Thief A cafe worker in the Mission District is being hailed as a hero for jumping out from behind the counter to pummel a would-be backpack thief Friday morning and hold him until police arrived.
SF News SFPD Rescues Two Dogs From SoMa Apartment After Apparent Battery Fire Another apparent battery fire broke out at an apartment at Sixth and Minna streets this weekend, and two dogs had to be rescued from the blaze.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Storm Cleanup Continues A six-year-old boy was killed after running onto I-280 in San Jose; cleanup continues across the city after Saturday's storm; and the 49ers have suspended De'Vondre Campbell for conduct detrimental to the team.
SF News Surprise Tornado Touches Down In Scotts Valley A storm that brought flooding across the Bay Area this weekend, punctuated by a false alarm tornado warning for San Francisco residents just before 6 am Saturday morning, brought an actual tornado to Santa Cruz County.
SF News Sunday Links: SFPD Officer Kills Pedestrian Near Bernal Heights An SFPD officer killed someone with their car; Trump is sending out a flurry of defamation lawsuit threats; and San Mateo citizens are undertaking an unprecedented effort to recall their Sheriff.
SF News Warriors Make Early Trade Splash, Acquire Schroder From Nets It might not be the only trade they make in the coming weeks.
SF News An Oakland BART Station Might Be Renamed, If Someone Pays $750k A recent BART Board of Directors meeting saw the unanimous approval of a motion to rechristen the station as the Oakland Chinatown Station, provided a third-party fronts the capital required to do so.
SF News Saturday Links: Mayor London Breed "Always a Winner," Says Mayor London Breed London Breed feels like a winner; A new arcade has arrived to level up San Francisco; and tech execs are trying to play nice with Trump.
SF News Was That Tornado Warning Really Necessary In San Francisco? San Franciscans with cellphones were abruptly awakened at 5:50 am Saturday by a blaring tornado warning, barely a week after we received a similar blaring warning about a tsunami that never arrived.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Oakland Man Taking Smoke Break Dies in Shooting A man died in a shooting while taking a smoke break; Intel's latest graphics card is seeing glowing reviews.; and a local military member almost died after her insurance denied coverage for her care.
Business & Tech OpenAI Whistleblower Found Dead In His SF Apartment Three months after publicly accusing his former employer, OpenAI, of infringing on copyrights when training its AI chatbot, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Magnolia Brewing Makes a Comeback Magnolia Brewing has reopened under its new ownership in the Haight, Turtle Tower might be making a comeback downtown, and the owner of The Kon-Tiki in Oakland has some choice words for haters and city leaders as the bar closes.
SF News BART Releases Bodycam Video of Incident Where BART Police Shot a 32-Year-Old Woman We now have bodycam video of the November 18 BART Police shooting of a woman at the Union City BART station parking lot, after BART Police responded to reports she was doing donuts in the parking lot.
