SF News Oroville Nine-Year-Old Swipes Mom’s Car, Rams It Into Highway Patrol Cruiser A nine-year-old in Oroville took the liberty of grabbing his mom’s car keys and driving her car to school, but things ended poorly for the youngster when he ended up in a chase with a Highway Patrol car, which he then rammed into.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland’s First Fridays Announces Its Return From Hiatus Next Weekend For First Friday April The popular outdoor nighttime street fair Oakland First Fridays has been on hiatus since January, but recently announced they’re bringing the event back for the First Friday of April, next Friday, April 5.
Business & Tech Disgraced FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years Fallen crypto mogul and Bay Area native Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday morning to 25 years in federal prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Daniel Lurie Gets Endorsement From Former Mayor Frank Jordan Mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie got an endorsement from former mayor Frank Jordan Wednesday; a pedestrian was struck and killed on 101 in San Jose; and a documentary is being made about the disappearance of Alexis Gabe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reward Raised For Info In 2022 Crocker-Amazon Shooting Benecia police announced the arrests of three people connected to a bank robbery; the reward has been upped to $250K for information in a 2022 shooting case in SF; and a mountain lion sighting in South SF was just a big gray cat.
Arts & Entertainment SFFILM Festival Announces 2024 Film Festival Lineup, Including Richard Roundtree’s Final Role The SF International Film Festival SFFILM just announced its 2024 lineup, with an Opening Night feature shot in Fremont, and a Closing Night feature that has the final screen appearance of the late Richard Roundtree (“Shaft”).
Bay Area Sports Giants Season Preview: The Melvins Hope to Rock Harder Than Their Mediocre Expectations New SF Giants manager Bob Melvin has some freshly added weapons in reigning Cy Young winner Blake Snell and Korean superstar Jung Hoo Lee, as the Giants start their 2024 season Thursday against the San Diego Padres.
SF News Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
SF News Pacifica Woman Allegedly Shoots Son, Drives Off, and Is Killed By Police An officer-involved shooting occurred in Pacifica Wednesday morning, and reportedly the person shot was a woman who had just shot her adult son.
SF Politics East Bay Man With Habit of Threatening Federal Officials, Including Nancy Pelosi, Gets 11 Months In Prison A Concord man who left threatening messages on the office voicemails of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 11 months in federal prison.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Born Metal Sculptor Richard Serra, Known As the ‘Poet of Iron,’ Has Died at 85 Brother to the famed local defense attorney Tony Serra, internationally renowned metal sculptor Richard Serra may be best known locally for sculptures so huge that they blocked traffic in SoMa, but he passed Tuesday in New York from pneumonia.
SF Politics SF Bar Association Says DA Brooke Jenkins Is Inflaming Controversy Over Light Sentence; Judge Now Getting Death Threats A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and judges say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence.
SF News SF Condos Are Starting to Sell Again, and the Twisty Mira Tower Is Almost Sold Out While condo sales, especially in downtown San Francisco high-rises, were sluggish at best through the pandemic, things appear to be turning around. And one notable tower only has a handful of units left to sell.
SF News Tech Bus Trouble Snarled Traffic for Two Hours In Noe Valley Tuesday Night A gigantic tech shuttle bus blocked traffic for at least two hours Tuesday night at 24th and Dolores streets, as apparent transmission problems kept the enormous bus stuck, forcing Muni reroutes and confusing a steady stream of motorists.
SF News Here's What We Know About the Anchor Brewing Company Auction, As It Stands The winning bid for the up-for-auction Anchor Brewing Company was supposed to be announced at the end of January, but things appear to be delayed, and a company rep tells us “a winner most likely will be announced in late April.”
SF News Humpday Headlines: New Oakland Police Chief to Be Formally Introduced New Oakland Police Chief Floyd Mitchell is being introduced at a public event today; Oakland's downtown economic outlook is worse than SF's; and designer Ken Fulk's loft and office space on 7th Street is on the market at a reduced price.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jellyfish-Like Sea Blobs Showing Up on SF Beaches The Halfway Club (the former Broken Record) was awarded a live entertainment permit; Richmond taqueria Tacos El Tucán is opening a Castro outpost; and some gelatinous, jellyfish-like creatures are washing up on SF beach shores.
SF News Berkeley To Repeal Natural Gas Ban, Probably Because the Courts Are Forcing Them To After a lawsuit for the California Restaurant Association, that group says the City of Berkeley is going to repeal their ban on natural gas in new buildings that went into effect in 2020.
Business & Tech Instagram and Threads Now Making You Opt In If You Want to See Political Content, or Anything Related to Anything Important It turns out that Meta's definition of "political content" is quite broad, as the company rolls out a new feature — or, some would say, involuntary content filter — that will scrub your feeds of most anything that isn't cat/dog videos.
SF Politics Supervisors Override Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Density Limit Legislation, In Big Win for Peskin With two supervisors likely running for mayor, the SF Board of Supervisors flexed a supermajority and shot down Mayor Breed’s veto of their measure to limit large towers along parts of the city’s northern waterfront.
Business & Tech Denver-Bound United Flight Out of SFO Suffers Bird Strike, Returns to Gate After Takeoff Another United flight out of SFO had an issue on Saturday morning, but this one was due to natural causes, or, rather, a random collision with nature.
Arts & Entertainment People Are Putting ‘Free Blockbuster’ Kiosks Around the Bay Area, and Really the Whole Country Retro movie lovers are creating their own DIY “Free Blockbuster” kiosks so people can borrow or leave DVD and VHS movies for free, and a smattering of these lending libraries are popping up around the Bay Area.
SF Politics Silicon Valley Lawyer (and Sergey Brin's Ex) Nicole Shanahan Named as RFK Jr.'s Running Mate The spoiler third-party presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a running mate from the Bay Area: Silicon Valley lawyer and previous Democratic donor Nicole Shanahan.
SF News Alleged Lululemon Thieves In Napa Chased By CHP Plane to Oakland, Where They Crashed Their Car A car crash on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue Monday afternoon was apparently connected to a retail theft at a Lululemon store in Napa and a law enforcement chase across four counties.
SF News 11 Anti-War Protestors Who Blocked Travis Air Force Base Entrances on Friday Arrested A group of protesters tried to block people from entering Travis Air Force Base in Solano County early Friday morning until police showed up and arrested them.
