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.
Business & Tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Sucks Up to Trump With $1 Million Inauguration Donation It’s a little awkward for incoming mayor Daniel Lurie that his top transition adviser is now a Donald Trump donor, as AI titan Sam Altman has donated $1 million to the Donald Trump inauguration, obviously hoping to curry favor.
SF News Scathing SFPD Audit Finds Rampant Abuse of Police Overtime Charges The SF Police Department is now spending $108 million a year on overtime pay alone, with wild and potentially fraudulent abuse of paid sick leave, officers approving their own overtime, and some taking paid time off to moonlight as security guards.
Bay Area Sports De'Vondre Campbell Gets the Boot After Refusing to Play In 49ers-Rams Game The 49ers are firing De'Vondre Campbell, effective immediately, after the linebacker refused to take the field Thursday night when he called in, apparently over some ego thing.
SF News SFMTA Director Jeffrey Tumlin is Resigning at the End of the Year The five-year reign of SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin will come to an end on December 31, and while he steered Muni through the pandemic and saw some big projects completed, he was a lightning rod for criticism over bike lanes and car-free streets.
SF News California DMV Lets Antisemitic Vanity License Plate Slip, and It Was For a Cybertruck Just imagine the douche who bought a Tesla Cybertruck and then decided to put a license plate on it trivializing violence.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nancy Pelosi Hospitalized In Luxembourg After Taking 'Hard Fall' Nancy Pelosi was injured in a 'hard fall' down some stairs while at an event in Luxembourg; the current storm system will get more intense in the Bay Area tonight; and jurors in the Momeni trial apparently look stressed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Reportedly ID’ed Luigi Mangione Days Before He Was Arrested The Union Square holiday Winter Walk starts Friday; SFMTA won’t start issuing those “daylighting” parking tickets until March; and there are reports that SFPD identified accused CEO shooter Luigi Mangione days before he was arrested in Pennsylvania.
SF Politics Pamela Price's Phone Records Subpoenaed Over Extortion Allegations Against Her A public defender claims former Alameda County DA Pamela Price tried to shake her down for political donations in exchange for a lighter sentence for her client, and that public defender just won a subpoena to go through Price’s phone records to prove it.
SF Politics Lurie Taps Former Giants Executive as Chief of Staff, Announces Other New Hires Mayor-Elect Daniel Lurie announced his first three hires, and while two of them were campaign staffers, his out-of-left-field pick is former Giants executive vice president Staci Slaughter as his new chief of staff.
Arts & Entertainment Brace Yourself: SantaCon Has Expanded to Three Consecutive Days This Weekend You better watch out, as Saturday’s SantaCon has fattened up with additional new Friday and Sunday events, making SantaCon a three-day, weekend-long affair as SF’s new holiday pop-up bars are hosting expanded SantaCon events.
SF News Tour Group Set to Take Visitors to Jonestown Site In January; Jackie Speier and Others Outraged An adventure tour group is planning to begin taking visitors on morbid tours of the site of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana, and Bay Area family members of victims, and one of the near-victims herself, former Congresswoman Jackie Speier, are saying "hell no."
SF News SF District Attorney Charges Two In Connection With Union Square Dior Store Burglary Two suspects were charged and entered not-guilty pleas in connection with an October smash-and-grab burglary at the Union Square Christian Dior store, a heist that involved at least 10 individuals, and that resulted in the theft of nearly $300K in handbags.
SF News Is Sixth Street Worse Than It's Ever Been? San Francisco's Sixth Street, two blocks of it anyway, has been a circus of drug use and general chaos for going on four decades, if not more. But business owners and police say that it's suddenly gotten much worse.
Business & Tech No Surprise Here: Bay Area Has Highest Concentration of Million-Dollar Jobs of Any US Metro Area The good news is that the Bay Area has the highest concentration of high-earning people of any United States metropolitan region. The bad news is that this is partly the case because rich people have priced so many lower-income people out of the city proper.
SF News Two Killed In Single-Car Crash In Fremont Two people were killed in an apparent high-speed crash in Fremont Wednesday night in which a car collided with a tree, which then fell on a house, and debris from the car damaged the house as well.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden Commutes Sentences For 1,500 Some rain arrived ahead of schedule Wednesday night in SF; crews are responding to the scene of a school bus crash on the Peninsula; and Biden just commuted the sentences of 1,500 inmates, most of whom were in home confinement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Symphony Chorus Gets Contract Deal Cruise employees say they were blindsided by news that GM is ending the autonomous taxi business; HGTV's Chip and Joanna Gaines are now part owners of a Tahoe hockey team; and sunsets in SF will start getting later next week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF’s Next Boozy ‘Entertainment Zone’ Could Be Coming to Cole Valley Three blocks of Cole Valley are poised to be the next “entertainment zone” where bars can sell to-go cocktails during certain outdoor events and gatherings, adding to the two existing entertainment zones on Front Street and outside the Chase Center.
SF News ‘Magic Mushroom Church’ Is Closing Down Its SoMa Location, Claiming Harassment From SF City Hall The Church of Ambrosia’s Zide Door in SF has been providing magic mushrooms and other legally questionable delights for over a year now at Howard and Seventh streets, but says they’re shutting down the SF location because of “harassment” from the SF Planning Department.
SF News FBI Produces Age-Progression Image of SF Toddler Who Went Missing Eight Years Ago Arianna Fitts would be 11 years old today, and if she is still alive she may be living under another name with no memory of being called Arianna.
SF News Car Plows Into Front of Walgreens In West Portal, Store Temporarily Closed A car drove into the front of a Walgreens in West Portal Wednesday morning, causing some damage to the building, and minorly injuring two people.
SF Politics Daniel Lurie Plans to Create Four Deputy Positions In Mayor's Office San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has plans to switch things up a bit in the mayor's office, reverting to a system that voters in the city did away with almost 30 years ago.
SF News United Airlines Flight Snafu Diverts SFO-Bound Flight From New Zealand to Hawaii United Airlines just resumed the only non-stop route between the US and Christchurch, New Zealand, and it runs to SFO, but a Tuesday flight from Christchurch to SFO was diverted to Hawaii because it needed a crew change.
SF Politics SF City Hall Cancels Contracts With Nonprofit That Had Improper Spending Scandal After the director of a city commission was found to be directing taxpayer-funded contracts to a man she lived with, City Hall officials have found what appears to be more self-dealing, and canceled their contracts with a controversial nonprofit.
