SF News Scandal-Plagued SF Towing Company Hit With Federal Indictment for Faking Car Accidents, Collecting Insurance Money New federal indictments lay out a slew of insurance fraud charges against the co-owner of the Bayview’s notorious Specialty Towing, among them a charge that he loaded a tow truck full of four clunkers, faked an accident, and tried to collect full insurance.
Arts & Entertainment Oprah Winfrey Hosting Prime Time Special on AI Featuring Sam Altman, Bill Gates Oprah is taking on the topic of artificial intelligence, and she'll be airing a prime-time special on ABC in September to ask the question "AI: What is it?" and other things your parents and grandparents have been asking.
SF News Meet the New Drones the SFPD Will Be Using (and Is Actually Already Using) SFPD now has six drones in their fleet after voters approved the department's use of drones this past March. Here's what those six drones look like, and how they will be deployed.
Business & Tech Google Says It's Fixed Gemini People-Generating Feature, Also It's Releasing Customizable Chatbots Google's AI project Gemini hit a snag earlier this year when its image-generating feature was found to create wild historical inaccuracies in the interest of diversity. Google says it's been working on that, and the new and improved people-generator will made available to some paid users soon.
SF News Dublin Student's Mother Speaks Out, Says Son's Beating Was Case of Mistaken Identity The mother of the Dublin High School student who was bizarrely attacked by a group of people, including a parent, in the school locker room last week, is speaking out and calling for better security at the school.
SF News California Legislature Passes Bill to Ban or Limit Cellphone Use in Schools California will likely soon become the fifth state in the nation to ban students from using smartphones in schools, though the full ban likely would not go into effect until the 2026-27 school year.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rare Bee Documented on Mount Tam A 27-year-old man was killed while working in East Oakland; a 20-acre brush fire destroyed several structures east of Petaluma Wednesday; and a rare bee not documented in 45 years has been spotted in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Muni Buses Collide, Four Hospitalized Four people, including two bus operators, were injured in a crash of two Muni buses in the Bayview; a person was reportedly struck by a BART train in downtown Berkeley; and the final legal dispute over Salesforce Transit Center's construction has been resolved.
SF Politics New January 6 Video Shows Pelosi Calling Trump a 'Domestic Enemy In the White House’ Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had choicer words than we realized for Donald Trump in the aftermath of the January 6th insurrection, calling Trump “a domestic enemy in the White House” and saying, “He’s gotta pay a price for that.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Cocina Alum Opening New Hot Dog Stand at Ferry Building A chef known for her Louisiana-style gumbo and po'boys is pivoting to selling zhuzhed-up hot dogs at a new Ferry Building kiosk that opens next week.
SF News SF Performing an Audit of City’s 98 Statues to Determine If Any Should Be Removed for Being Racist or Sexist An outside firm has been hired to perform an audit of the 98 statues and monuments in SF, and recommend which ones should be removed or altered if they "no longer represent the values that we say the city stands for.”
SF Politics Trump Reposts Blowjob Joke About Kamala Harris and Willie Brown And in the latest example of Donald Trump acting less like a president and more like a crude teenage boy, he reposted a joke on Truth Social that makes an off-color reference to both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.
SF News SFDPH Is Handing Out Anti-Psychotic Drugs to Meth Users to Keep Them Out of the Emergency Room For the last two years, SF General Hospital has been proactively trying to limit ER visits and public episodes among meth users by providing them with an anti-psychotic drug called Olanzapine that’s being called “the next Narcan” for stimulant addiction.
SF News CHP Efforts In Oakland Yield 800 Arrests, Over 1600 Stolen Vehicles Recovered Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday touted the success of the ongoing "surge" of California Highway Patrol officers doing added law enforcement in Oakland.
SF News Charges Dropped Against Man Accused of Aiding Burglary That Led to Oakland Police Officer's Shooting All charges have been dropped in the case against Marquise Cooper, one of four suspects who has been jailed in connection with the December 29 shooting death of Oakland police officer Tuan Le.
SF News New Oakland PD Chief Vows Sex Work Crackdown; In SF, Mission Residents Sue City Over the Scene on Shotwell There’s pushback against the sex worker situation on both sides of the Bay, as the new Oakland Police chief is promising a coming crackdown on International Boulevard, while Shotwell Street residents have sued SF over sex work on that street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Big Rig Hits Freeway Sign, Shuts Down 680 A big rig struck a freeway sign on I-680 in Pleasanton; a Berkeley homeless man was arrested for killing another man; and one of the suspects in the beating of a Dublin High School student was reportedly a parent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pop Star M.I.A. Goes on Pro-Trump Rant Just a Month Before Portola Festival Set Tesla batteries are being blamed for a grass fire in Lafayette; Bay Area biotech giant Genentech will lay off nearly 100 employees; and pop singer M.I.A just took a hard Trumper turn a month before her Portola Festival performance in SF.
Bay Area Sports Levi’s Stadium Getting a $200 Million Facelift as Super Bowl and World Cup are Coming In 2026 With the 2026 Super Bowl and several World Cup games coming to Levi’s Stadium, the 49ers say they’re sprucing the place up with plenty of enhanced 4K, 5G, and whatever amenities there are in the pricey luxury suites.
SF News SF School With Large Low-Income Population Gets First Free Supermarket In a CA School A San Francisco middle school in the Portola District, identified as serving one of the most food-insecure populations of students in the SF Unified School District (SFUSD), now has a free grocery market in the school, with the help of Amazon.
SF News Update: Parent and Four Teens Attack Dublin High Student, Football Players Break It Up We don’t know why a parent and four other teens followed a high school student into a locker room and beat him up Friday, but the school’s principal is vowing that arrests are on the way.
SF News San Jose Woman and 14-Year-Old Boy Killed In Wrong-Way Crash on Highway 85 A horrific wrong-way crash occurred Monday afternoon in which a pickup truck being driven by a Florida man collided head-on with a woman's Tesla, killing her and her 14-year-old passenger.
Business & Tech Zuckerberg Once Again Capitulates to Conservatives Over COVID Misinformation, Hunter Biden Laptop Faced with right-wing criticism that taking down false posts somehow “censored Americans,” Facebook-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threw in the towel and said that his social media companies will be more hands-off with misleading posts.
Arts & Entertainment Giant Nude Female Figure Likely to Be Installed In Union Square This Winter A towering, illuminated sculpture of a nude woman, one of a series of three created for Burning Man by artist Marco Cochrane in the last decade, is set to make an appearance in SF's Union Square, pending final approvals.
Arts & Entertainment SFO Bomb-Sniffer Dog Wins TSA 'Cutest Canine' Contest Barni, a 5-year-old German shorthaired pointer whom you may have encountered while waiting in a TSA line at San Francisco International Airport, just won a prize for being cute from the TSA.
