SF News At Least a Few Airline Passengers Are Getting Confused About Oakland Airport Name Change, Showing Up at SFO Oakland Airport's name change to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport has duped at least a couple of Spirit Airlines passengers so far, who have shown up at SFO wondering why they can't find any Spirit Airlines counter.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Shot and Injured Near 16th and Mission A man was shot and left with life-threatening injuries Wednesday night in the Mission District; there is now surveillance video of the teen suspect moments after the Ricky Pearsall shooting; and the OPD isn't likely to shake federal oversight soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland's Burdell Named Food & Wine's Restaurant of the Year SF's Dream Keeper program may be getting an audit; an arrest was made in a Tuesday BART stabbing; and Oakland soul food restaurant Burrell was just named Restaurant of the Year by a national magazine.
SF News Accused Teen Shooter of Ricky Pearsall Is 'Very Sorry,' Says Attorney The 17-year-old from Tracy who allegedly shot and wounded 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall during an attempted robbery on Saturday made his first court appearance Wednesday. And his attorney expressed remorse on his behalf.
SF Politics Michael Bloomberg Kicks Down $1 Million to Breed PAC, Daniel Lurie Gives His Own Campaign Another $1 Million Nearly $17 million has now been poured into the SF mayoral race, and Mayor London Breed just benefited from huge donations from former presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg and the Doordash CEO, while the Daniel Lurie campaign got another $1.3 million from Daniel Lurie.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Open-Air Drinking Zones Coming to Chase Center, Several Downtown Alleys With news last week about the establishment of SF's first Entertainment Zone on Front Street, just in time for Oktoberfest, we now get word on the next new zones in the works.
SF News Santa Clara County DA Is Looking For This Convicted Con Artist Who Skipped Out on Prison Sentencing A scamster who likes to bilk investors with phony tech invention schemes may be out there conning someone new, after he was a no-show at a sentencing hearing last month in Santa Clara County.
SF News Exclusive: Shuttered Mission Street Walgreens to Become Locally Owned Produce and Meat Market Is it a "doom loop" when an SF Walgreens closes, but a locally owned fresh produce market pops up in its place? That's what's happening, as Casa Guadalupe has filed permits to move into the former Walgreens at Mission and Cesar Chavez.
Arts & Entertainment Sculpture Garden Comes to Transamerica Pyramid, Featuring Famous French Sculptors When the Transamerica Pyramid reopens to the public next week after a renovation, it will have some new, publicly accessible, outdoor art from a pair of renowned French sculptors.
Business & Tech Lyft Laying Off More Staff, Scaling Back Bike and Scooter Division SF-based Lyft is going through a restructuring, and making some changes in its bike and scooter division to become more profitable, which includes laying off 1% of its staff.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed in Tenderloin Apartment on Labor Day, Suspect in Custody An unnamed man was stabbed and killed in a Leavenworth Street apartment on Monday afternoon, and a 37-year-old suspect was arrested for the killing shortly afterward.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Monterey County Man Goes on Alleged Animal Killing Spree The body of a missing 71-year-old hiker has been found in Stanislaus National Forest; a man was arrested Tuesday for an alleged farm animal shooting spree in Monterey County; and Atherton is dealing with another rash of burglaries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Dead After Car Flies Off Cliff at Point Lobos The sweltering weather is expected to continue throughout the week; the teen who shot the 49ers’ Ricky Pearsall has been charged with attempted murder; and a two-car accident that sent cars off a cliff near the Cliff House has left one person dead.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Crack Down On Tailgate Parties in Parking Lot, Longtime Fans Are Furious The San Francisco 49ers are going to enforce a new parking lot policy called “Directed Parking,” which is similar to assigned seats. But longtime season ticket holders say it’s going to destroy the team’s famed tailgate scene.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Dust Storms Led to Reported Ten-Hour Wait to Leave Burning Man on Monday Extreme weather caused massive backups in the line out of Burning Man for the second consecutive year on Monday, and car rental companies are vowing to charge hundreds of dollars if they find a speck of that incriminating desert dust on their vehicles.
Arts & Entertainment Elton John Reveals Reason For Canceling His Dreamforce Concert Elton John has now explained the "unforeseen circumstances" that are keeping him from performing his much-anticipated Oracle Park show during Dreamforce.
SF News Tenants Set to Be Evicted En Masse at Potrero Hill Housing Complex Where Manager Was Illegally Collecting Rent Even though they’d been paying rent, tenants of some 40 units at Potrero Terrace-Annex are facing eviction proceedings, because they’d been paying rent to a rogue manager who was allegedly just pocketing the money.
SF News New Interim SF Fire Chief Sandy Tong Sworn In By Mayor London Breed Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced and swore in San Francisco's new interim fire chief, Sandy Tong, who takes over after the sudden retirement of Chief Jeanine Nicholson.
SF News Oakland PD Officer Placed On Leave After Giant Illegal Marijuana Grow Found in His Antioch Home Last week CNN ran a report detailing that more than 50 very nice houses in Antioch were just giant hidden illegal pot grow operations, with no one living in the houses. Now it turns out one of those homes is owned by an Oakland police officer.
SF News Weekend Stabbing In SF Turns Into Crime Spree That Ends In Castro District A stabbing Sunday in the NoPa neighborhood led to an alleged rampage by a suspect in a vehicle, including hit-and-run collisions, and an ultimate confrontation with police.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Charges Coming In Union Square Shooting Charges should be filed today or tomorrow in the shooting of Ricky Pearsall; there was an increased police presence in Union Square Sunday and Monday; and a Spare the Air Day has been declared for Tues. and Wed.
SF News Labor Day Links: Shooting of 49er Turns Political With Farrell Comments Mayoral candidate Mark Farrell engaged in some political opportunism vis a vis Saturday's shooting; Ricky Pearsall is out of the hospital; and slain hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was mourned at events in Berkeley and Jerusalem.
SF News Berkeley-Born Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Among Six Found Dead In Gaza Among the six hostages found fatally shot in a tunnel under the city of Rafah on Saturday was American citizen and Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose parents have spent the past eleven months advocating for the hostages.
SF News Sunday Links: Major Hotel Workers Strike to Begin A major hotel workers strike is set to begin; Sonoma County's biggest marijuana trade show is opening its doors; Lottery officials say a million dollar Powerball ticket was dispensed.
SF News 49ers Rookie Ricky Pearsall Shot In Union Square, Currently In Fair Condition 49ers rookie Ricky Pearsall was shot in Union Square Saturday after an apparent attempted robbery. He was rushed to Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, where he is reportedly now in "fair" condiition.
