SF News SFPD Arrests Gang of Teens, One of Them Just 12 Years Old, for String of Walgreens Robberies Totaling $84,000 Eight minors from across the Bay Area, one of them only 12 years old, have been arrested and charged for 23 separate Walgreens robberies in which their estimated alleged stolen loot totaled $84,000 worth.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price Faces Another Accusation She Offered Lesser Charges for Campaign Donations Pamela Price has been recalled, but the Alameda County District Attorney is still facing another allegation that she dangled lenient sentencing in exchange for a financial contribution to fight the recall campaign against her.
SF News Sonoma Sheriff Being Questioned About Case In Which Murder Suspect Was Let Go By Deputies Hours Before Killing On Monday we learned of a brutal murder that occurred in rural Sonoma County, near Petaluma, involving a suspect who was screaming outside a home and trying to force his way inside. Hours earlier, Sonoma County deputies had contact with the man, who was being kicked out of a high-end hotel.
SF News US Secret Service Arrests Man In Martinez For Unknown Reasons The US Secret Service descended on a home in a quiet neighborhood of Martinez Wednesday evening and served an arrest warrant for a male suspect who has not yet been publicly named.
SF Politics Meet Adena Ishii, the Political Newcomer Who Will Be the Next Mayor of Berkeley More than two weeks after Election Day, the City of Berkeley has finally tabulated the votes and determined that its new mayor will be former League of Women Voters chapter president Adena Ishii, the city’s first Asian American mayor.
SF News Famed Leather Bar SF Eagle Robbed of $30,000 In an Alleged Inside Job Someone connected to the cleaning crew at the legacy queer bar SF Eagle allegedly broke in and stole $30,000 in cash and checks early Monday morning, and one arrest has been made while another suspect is still at large.
Business & Tech Department of Justice Pushes for Google to Sell Off Chrome, Android Following a landmark antitrust ruling in August, the Department of Justice and a group of states made a court filing Wednesday asking a judge to force Google to sell its popular Chrome web browser.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Jackknifed Big Rig Snarls Eastbound Bay Bridge A semi truck in a solo crash blocked four lanes of the eastbound Bay Bridge early Thursday; two spots in the North Bay saw over 11 inches of rain; and voter turnout in California was lower than in 2020.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Waymo Ridership Has Majorly Skyrocketed The rain and wind have caused a host of troubles around the Bay including power outages; SF can't afford to paint all the "daylighting" curbs red; and Waymo ridership has skyrocketed in the last year.
SF News Good News for Newsom, as California Deficit Slashed From $68 Billion to Just $2 Billion What a difference a year makes, as the state’s Legislative Analyst Office said early last December that California had a $68 billion budget deficit, but now that deficit is down to just $2 billion.
Arts & Entertainment Fur Real: Puppies and Kittens Return to Macy’s Windows in Union Square on Friday Santa’s little yelpers will be back in the windows for the SF SPCA Holiday Windows at Macy's promotion starting this Friday at noon, and the impending closure of Macy’s means this may be the last year for what is purr-haps SF’s favorite holiday tradition.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Oakland Restaurant Daytrip Is Calling It Quits, Owners Say Costs Are Too High In another disappointing end-of-year closure announcement in the local restaurant world, a restaurant that won national accolades is shutting its doors in Oakland after three years in business.
SF News Mountain View Barber Skips Bail on Charges of Sexually Assaulting Men While They Were Unconscious A 34-year-old Mountain View man may have sexually assaulted as many as 20 men after spiking their drinks, and he’s skipped bail and currently remains at large, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
SF Politics Dean Preston Makes End Run to Thwart Fillmore Safeway Development Plan In the waning days of his time on the Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Dean Preston made a final effort Tuesday to stop a plan to redevelop the Fillmore Safeway property and to make sure it becomes affordable housing.
SF News Placer County Approves Massive, 85-Acre New Development at Palisades Tahoe Ski Resort Despite major community objections, Palisades Tahoe won approval on Tuesday for a gigantic, 85-acre expansion that would add 1,500 hotel rooms, plus shops, restaurants, and a movie theater to their resort.
SF News Defense Rests In Bob Lee Murder Trial, Rebuttal Begins The defense rested its case Tuesday after over a week of presenting witnesses supporting the theory that Nima Momeni was acting in self-defense when he stabbed Bob Lee three times in April 2023.
SF News Pregnant Woman Shot In Bayview Domestic Dispute A pregnant woman was shot twice in the stomach Tuesday at a residence in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood, and both she and her baby are expected to survive.
SF News It’s Official: Valencia Street Bike Lanes Moving Back to the Curbside, Starting in January The 15-month experiment of moving Valencia Street’s bike lanes to the center of the street has just been officially reversed, as the SFMTA just voted to move Valencia's bike lanes back to the curb in early 2025.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Body Found Near Oakland Freeway A dead body was found near an I-880 exit in Oakland this morning; the rain forecast for SF continues to top out at 1.5 inches; and House Speaker Mike Johnson makes sure everyone knows he's transphobic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: You Can Be Primus’s New Drummer, as They’re Now Accepting Applications Someone pulled the fire alarm at City Hall while a Board of Supervisors meeting was in progress today; San Mateo County supervisors are angling to remove their embattled sheriff; and Primus is holding open auditions where you could be their new drummer.
SF News Vallejo Police Say 63-Year-Old Man Admitted to Stabbing His Mother to Death, Also Allegedly Stabbed His Wife A Vallejo couple was hospitalized Saturday with stab wounds, and now the Vallejo PD says the male in that couple admitted to stabbing and killing his mother. And sure enough, police found her dead at her home.
SF News SF Bathhouses Could Be Back, After Supes Remove Onerous Regulations From Law Only one gay bathhouse remains in San Francisco, as requirements mandating unlocked doors and registries of patrons have thrown cold water on the bathhouse scene generally. But Supervisor Rafael Mandelman just got those restrictions stripped away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lower Haight's New Cocktail Spot Stoa Lands on National Best New Bars List Stoa, the one-year-old cocktail bar with food in the Lower Haight from the team behind Nopalito, just landed on a national list of the best new cocktail bars in the country.
SF News Child In Alameda County Tests Positive for Bird Flu Nobody panic. But one of 27 human cases of avian flu to date in California has turned up in Alameda County, in a child.
SF News Man Gets Trapped In Downtown Public Restroom, Jaws of Life Used to Free Him A door jammed on one of those antique-style public restrooms with the automatic doors on Market Street, trapping a man inside sometime Tuesday morning.
