SF News Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Kingpin of the Bitcoin Drugs-and-Murder Online Market Silk Road In another sop to the libertarian crypto bros, President Trump has pardoned the San Francisco founder of the Silk Road online drug marketplace, indicating Trump’s increasing fondness for crime among the cryptocurrency crowd.
SF News Family of Woman Shoved In Front of BART Train Sues BART The family of Corazon Dandan has filed suit against the BART agency for wrongful death, alleging that the transit system was aware of the threat posed by the man accused of shoving Dandan in front of a moving train last July.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Father and Son Who Drowned Near Half Moon Bay Identified A father and son who died after being pulled into the ocean by a rip current near Half Moon Bay have been ID'd; local chefs mourn Charles Phan; and immigrants are now worried about sending their kids to school.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Books Inc. Files for Bankruptcy, Will Close Berkeley Store We’re getting more information on Sunday’s mass-casualty crash in SoMa; Vans has closed its Marina District store; and the 174-year-old Bay Area bookstore chain Books Inc. has filed for bankruptcy and will close its Berkeley location.
SF News San Jose Police Union Exec Gets Probation for Dealing Opioids, SF Officer Who Robbed Rite-Aid Resurfaces Two high-profile examples of Bay Area law enforcement personnel being on the wrong side of the opioid trade are back in the news, just with lighter sentencing than what law enforcement usually clamors for in the newspapers.
SF News Local Billionaire and Onetime Presidential Candidate Tom Steyer Plans to Build Stunning Mansion In Sea Cliff Plans have been approved for a striking modern mansion to be built on property with sweeping Golden Gate views that is currently occupied by a nearly 90-year-old home in SF's Sea Cliff neighborhood, and the owner is Tom Steyer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Charles Phan, SF Chef Who Elevated Vietnamese Cuisine For American Diners, Dies at 62 Slanted Door chef-owner Charles Phan, the celebrated Vietnamese American chef who first brought modern, elevated versions of Vietnamese dishes to San Francisco three decades ago, has died at age 62.
Business & Tech SF-Based Hims & Hers Healthcare Company, Founded By Owner of New West Portal Doughnut Shop, Donates to Trump Inauguration Hims & Hers Health, the SF-based telehealth startup founded by Andrew Dudum, just kicked $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration fund, perhaps because they're concerned about the administration's future plans when it comes to mail-order drugs.
SF Politics Bay Area Trans Community Braces for Civil Rights Onslaught After Trump Remarks ‘There are Two Genders, Male and Female’ Donald Trump’s inaugural speech seemed to be an opening salvo of war against the trans and non-binary communities, who are gearing up for legal attacks on their passports and driver's licenses, and the potential for widespread discrimination.
SF Politics Kamala Harris Returns Home to California, Volunteers In LA Kamala Harris flew home to Los Angeles Monday night, onboard an Air Force flight commanded by an all-female crew, and today she began volunteering and visiting firefighters who have been battling the wildfires there.
SF News Bloomingdale's to Close at SF Centre, Ushering In Further Bleak Days for Beleaguered Mall This is not news that anyone wanted to hear today about San Francisco and its downtown recovery efforts, but following in the footsteps of major retailers Nordstrom and Macy's, Bloomingdale's is shuttering its massive SF store.
SF News Federal Employees Ordered Back to Office Five Days a Week, Including in SF One of Trump’s Day One executive fiats was to order all federal employees back to the office five days a week, which seems more like an attempt to manufacture excuses to fire career civil servants who are not Trump loyalists.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bonta and Other AGs Sue Trump Over Birthright Citizenship Order 18 attorneys general are suing Trump over his birthright citizenship order that flouts the constitution; the NY Times Editorial Board excoriates Trump over the Jan. 6th pardons; and the Fancy Food Show is coming back to SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect ID'd In Deadly SoMa Multi-Car Crash The suspect driving the Tesla that caused the deadly crash on Sixth Street Sunday has been ID'd; the fire at that Moss Landing battery station is still burning; and Marco Rubio has been confirmed as Secretary of State.
Business & Tech Big Tech Bigwigs Agree to Strict New EU Hate Speech Moderation Rules, But They’re Free to Just Ignore Them Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have signed on to a European Union agreement to prevent and remove hate speech from their platforms, which seems meaningless, because all of their CEOs and founders were at Trump’s inauguration today.
SF News In 2024, SF Saw Fewest Fatal Drug Overdoses In Five Years San Francisco may have turned the corner on its fentanyl overdose crisis, or at least, we saw substantially fewer overdose deaths in 2024 than in the record year of 2023, and 2024 had fewer SF overdose deaths than any year of the last five years.
SF Politics Feds’ Sheng Thao Indictment Says She Actually Tried to Solicit $3 Million Bribe When the Department of Justice announced their indictment of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao last week, they said her live-in boyfriend was bribed to the tune of $95,000. But the full indictment says Thao actually asked for $3 million, though didn’t get it.
SF News Man and Boy Die After Being Pulled From Ocean Near Half Moon Bay A man and a boy, both of whom appear to have been swept out to sea by a rip current Sunday, both died after initially being rescued in the waters south of Half Moon Bay.
SF News Mostly Sun In Store But Slight Chance of Rain Returns Later This Week, Bay Area Peaks Could See Dusting of Snow Amidst an unseasonably dry January in Northern California, we may get a tiny sprinkling of rain this weekend, but likely not enough to impact rainfall totals for the month in any meaningful way.
Business & Tech Trump Launches Meme Coin Ahead of Inauguration In Likely Pump-and-Dump Scheme This weekend, President Donald Trump and his family launched their own Trump-branded cryptocurrency, just days ahead of his inauguration.
SF Politics 1,000 Protesters Marched Down Market Street Ahead of Trump Inauguration With Messages About Immigrants, Palestine There were protests around the Bay Area and the country over the weekend ahead of Trump's inauguration. But while there are real, grave dangers ahead in this presidency, especially for immigrant communities and trans people, the protests in SF were not major draws.
SF News Tesla Reportedly In Autopilot Mode Plows Into Mission District Plant Store A plant store called Mellow SF was hit by a Tesla that was reportedly in autopilot mode early Sunday afternoon, but the car seems to have taken more damage than the shop, and no people or plants were harmed.
SF News One Killed, Seven Injured In Multi-Vehicle SoMa Crash; Tesla Driver Detained, Linked Also to Freeway Crash A violent collision Sunday evening on Sixth Street between Bryant and Harrison streets involved seven cars, and left one person and a dog dead. The suspect vehicle that may have caused the crash is also linked to a hit-and-run incident minutes earlier on I-280.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Biden Preemptively Pardons Fauci, Others Trump's inauguration speech is what you'd expect; Biden issued preemptive pardons for his family, and for several Trump targets of the last several years; and one person was fatally shot in East Oakland Saturday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed SF Chef Charles Phan Hospitalized With Undisclosed Medical Emergency Charles Phan, the James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur behind The Slanted Door, has reportedly been hospitalized for several days due to an undisclosed medical emergency.
