SF News Serramonte Plaza Caregiver Fined For Placing People With Criminal Records in Homes of the Elderly A Daly City-based senior care provider called Serving Seniors.Care had been hiring caretakers with criminal records, with the unsurprising result that one of them allegedly stole thousands of dollars from an elderly man.
SF News Avoid Being Scammed By Fake FasTrak Texts Telling You to Pay Penalties Bay Area drivers should know that a scam has been going around involving fake websites posing as the FasTrak toll system trying to extract payments from people.
SF News Oakland Finally Names a Police Chief: Former Lubbock, Texas Police Chief Floyd Mitchell The year-plus search for a new Oakland Police Chief has finally concluded, as Mayor Sheng Thao has named Floyd Mitchell as the new chief, who’d previously held that role in Lubbock and Temple, Texas.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Civic Center Gets Evasion-Proof BART Gates BART's new evasion-proof fare gates are getting installed at Civic Center Station today; a 28-year-old man was found shot at an Oakland motel; and rain arrives again this afternoon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 Finally Passes — Just Barely A Swiss company has bought up a large Genentech facility in Vacaville; storms will make Tahoe roads treacherous this weekend; and Gavin Newsom’s Prop 1 can finally declare victory by a mere two-tenths of a percentage point.
SF News SF Worker Who Bought VR Headsets With City Money Now Accused of Stealing $627K In Workers' Comp It’s now two arrests in two months for a since-fired city HR manager who allegedly used city funds to buy fancy tech gear, as he was arrested again Thursday for charges of stealing $627,000 from the city through a fraudulent workers' compensation scheme.
Bay Area Sports Oracle Park Gets More Like Being In the Club This Season With New Soundsystem, Lighting Effects Going to a Giants game this baseball season — or, likely, to any upcoming concerts at Oracle Park — is going to have a lot more nightclub vibes, thanks to a major lighting and sonic upgrade at the stadium.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cult Beer Hit Pliny the Younger Releases Its 20th Anniversary Edition on Friday Are you willing to wait in a six-hour line for exceptional beer that only comes out once a year? You’ll get your chance starting Friday, as Russian River Brewing Company’s 20th anniversary edition Pliny the Younger comes out tomorrow, and will be available for two weeks.
SF News 24 Hour Fitness Locations In SF Cease to Be Open 24 Hours 24 Hour Fitness, which has been closing some of its SF gyms in recent years, will no longer be living up to its name at any of its remaining locations in the city, with an hour change just announced to members.
Business & Tech Some Longtime Reddit Moderators Possibly Got Quite Rich Today Following the Company's IPO The long-awaited Reddit IPO happened Thursday afternoon, and shares in the company soared 48%, closing at $50.31 per share by the end of the day — well above the initial price of $34.
SF News SFPD Cop Found Guilty of Sexual Battery Over Marina Bar Groping Incident A jury just found a five-year veteran of the SFPD guilty of sexual battery, over a 2021 incident where he groped a woman at a Marina bar, and brazenly did so with her husband right there.
Business & Tech Apple Hit With Sweeping Antitrust Lawsuit From Justice Department and 16 States Over iPhone Monopoly After years of scrutiny by regulators and rumblings from states' attorneys general, and following similar prosecutions against Google and other major tech players, Apple was hit with a sweeping lawsuit Thursday accusing it of creating a monopoly around its popular smartphones.
SF News Berkeley Mother Allegedly Stabbed and Killed by Her Own Daughter While Daughter Was Having Mental Health Episode A 60-year-old Berkeley woman was stabbed and killed Sunday afternoon in her University Avenue apartment, and her 23-year old daughter who reportedly has mental health issues is in custody on murder charges.
SF News Infant Dies From Injuries In West Portal Crash, Marking Fourth Victim From the Same Family On Wednesday evening, city officials confirmed that the three-month-old who was gravely injured in Saturday's crash in West Portal has died.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: FTC Calls Out Grocery Chains For Hiking Prices An equipment problem between Daly City and Balboa Park was causing BART delays; a bunch of cars in the Richmond District had their tires slashed; and the FTC is calling out large grocery chains for unfairly hiking prices after supply chain issues eased.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFMOMA and City College Settle Legal Dispute Over Mural The "Free Fentanyl" guy is back hanging around a Richmond District playground; SFMOMA and City College have settled their legal dispute over the cost to move that Diego Rivera mural; and Evan Low is leading in the South Bay primary for second place to succeed Anna Eshoo in Congress by just 3 votes.
SF News California State Senate Poised to Have a Female Majority for First Time Ever While election results are still pouring in, there are enough ‘women vs. women’ primary races that come December, the California state Senate is likely to be comprised of 53% women.
SF News Five Arrested After Driving Recklessly In Allegedly Stolen Vehicle Across Multiple Bay Area Counties Five individuals were arrested Saturday night after an hourslong chase that involved the Alameda County Sheriff's Office helicopter tracking a speeding vehicle through the East Bay and back and forth across the Bay.
SF Politics Hold on to Your Hat, It’s Willie Brown’s 90th Birthday Today Former SF mayor, ex-California Assembly Speaker, and longtime political string-puller Willie Brown turns 90 years old today, and the tributes are pouring in for the man whose SF political machine may still be as strong as ever.
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musicals and a World Premiere Musical Come to the Bay Area This Spring This spring's theater season in San Francisco is especially full with acclaimed shows newly on tour, and a world-premiere musical at Berkeley Rep centered on the story of Galileo Galilei.
Bay Area Sports El Farolito Amateur Soccer Team Knocks Off Portland Pro Team in Stunning Tournament Upset We got your March Madness right here — the taqueria El Farolito’s amateur soccer team El Farolito SC defeated the pro team Portland Timbers 2 Tuesday night in the first round of the US Open Cup.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Drink This: Dirty 90s Martini at Starlite What's more 90s than a Grey Goose vodka martini, icily shaken and well seasoned with brine?
SF News Oakland Man Sentenced to 18 Months For Helping Launder Drug Money, Wire It to Mexico and Honduras An Oakland man who owns a money-wiring service has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison in a plea deal, after pleading guilty to money-laundering charges.
SF News Don't Get Too Used to This Sunny Weather — the Rain's Coming Back Rain will return to the Bay Area this weekend, after a welcome springtime respite, and it looks like our early spring is going to be a wet one beyond the weekend as well.
SF News Possible Measles Exposure Reported at San Leandro Restaurant The Alameda County Public Health Department says you may have been exposed to measles if you were at San Leandro’s Sons of Liberty Alehouse on Saturday, March 9, as the troublesome nationwide measles uptick continues.
