SF News Authorities ID Body of Missing East Bay Mother-In-Law Found In Oakland Estuary Six weeks after a San Pablo man was arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and mother-in-law, police have confirmed that the mother-in-law's remains have been found.
SF News Humpday Headlines: All Alaska Airlines Planes Grounded By FAA The FAA issued a ground stop for all Alaska and Horizon flights this morning; CA public health officials are warning about a death from a hemorrhoid cream bought on Facebook; Dubai is in chaos after heavy rains.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Political Activist Faces Fresh Sexual Assault Allegations, Promptly Resigns A new giant discount store has opened on Mission Street; Tadich Grill was curiously left off the Chronicle’s “Top Classic SF Restaurants” list; and a well-known progressive community organizer has resigned amidst a report detailing sexual assault accusations from three more women.
SF News Mystery Buyer Who’s Bought Nearly a Block of Fillmore Street — Including the Defunct Clay Theatre — May Be Identified The Chronicle may have solved the riddle of the mystery buyer who bought the old Clay Theatre and five other buildings on the same block, and unsurprisingly, the person appears to be a wealthy venture capitalist.
SF News Los Gatos-Based HGTV House-Flipper Sentenced to Four Years In Jail for Real Estate Fraud Who’d have thought that a house-flipping character calling himself “Mr. Flip It” on an HGTV reality show would be neck-deep in real estate fraud? South Bay man Charles "Todd" Hill was just sentenced to four years for a $10 million scheme.
SF News Less Than Three Years After That Lavish City Hall Ceremony, Socialite Ivy Getty Is Getting a Divorce Welp, young love doesn't always endure. And 29-year-old heiress Ivy Getty is already getting a divorce from her actor/photographer husband Tobias Engel, after less than four years married.
SF Politics Sports Gambling Won’t Make 2024 California Ballot, as Tribes and Betting Apps Are Still at Each Other’s Throats We will not be barraged with sports gambling campaign ads for the November election, as two ballot measures to legalize sports betting in California have been shelved. But we will still be barraged with ads for gambling apps that Californians cannot use.
SF News CHP Reveals Concrete Drum Tactic Used By Protesters Which Hindered Their Removal Monday Many wondered — especially those stuck in traffic! — why it took hours to remove the handful of protesters who created a barricade across the northbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning. Well, they did something fairly clever with barrels, which is a variation on the "sleeping dragon" technique.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famous Rotating Turntable Bar Atop SF's Hyatt Regency to Reopen The word "iconic" gets way overused these days, but I can safely say the rotating former Equinox restaurant and bar atop downtown SF's Hyatt Regency is an iconic piece of the city's hospitality history, and the hotel is bringing it back.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: Mission District’s Beauty Bar Has Closed Permanently, Was Reportedly Sold They’ve polished their last nail and served their last shot at the Mission and 19th street kitsch nightclub Beauty Bar, which apparently closed and laid off all staff over the weekend following a reported sale.
SF News Three Arrests Made In Shooting of Two Teens In Napa We still do not know the complete circumstances that led to the shooting of two young women in Napa on Saturday, but now one man and two similarly young women have been arrested.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Saw More Rain Than Seattle This Winter SF saw five more inches of rain this past winter than Seattle, thanks to El Nino; more Gaza protests are expected today; and a total of 38 arrests were made in connection with Monday's protests.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Victims Shot In Napa May Have Been Teen Girls The two female victims in a Saturday shooting in downtown Napa may have been no older than 15; a man's body was found in the Berkeley Marina Saturday; and the Oakland Coliseum concessionaire has warned workers against talking publicly about the A's departure.
Bay Area Sports 49ers-Branded CA License Plates Are Coming, and You Might Be Able to Get One for Free A drive to get the California DMV to produce a 49ers logo-license plate looks likely to be successful, and you might even be able to get yours free, but you’ll have to act fast.
Arts & Entertainment Portola Festival Announces Its 2024 Return, In Letter Promising Alameda It Won’t Be So Loud This Time The Portola Music Festival announced its coming back in late September, though not in a splashy social media announcement, but instead in a letter to Alameda residents who’ve been up in arms about the festival’s noise.
SF News Tiny Home Homeless Housing Facility Opens at 16th Street BART, Behind Big, Black Gates The on-again, off-again effort to open 60 tiny homes for the homeless is complete, though a large fence surrounds the entrance of the new facility called “Mission Cabins” in apparent hopes that passersby won’t notice it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Another Sign of Life Downtown, Michelin-Starred Chef From Baumé Is Opening a New French Brasserie French-born chef Bruno Chemel is making a return to the San Francisco restaurant scene after two decades, and he'll be opening something called Le Parc Bistrobar a few blocks from Union Square this summer.
SF News Developer Unveils Rendering of Expanded, 576-Unit Residential Project on Presidio Heights Hospital Site The proposed development at the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at 3700 California Street has grown significantly larger, and now we have a better picture of what it would look like.
SF News Two SF County Jails on Lockdown Amidst Reported Rash of Attacks on Deputies After seven staff members were reportedly attacked by inmates at SF County Jail in just a two-week span, two of the jail’s facilities have been placed on lockdown, with the incarcerated restricted to their cells and visits canceled for the time being.
SF News Scandal-Plagued FCI Dublin Women’s Prison Is Abruptly Closing After Torrent of Sex Abuse Claims In a sudden and surprising Monday morning announcement, the federal Bureau of Prisons announced they’re immediately closing the FCI Dublin women’s prison, and they’re already transferring the inmates out.
SF News Multiple Sideshows Break Out In Oakland; Three Cars Set Ablaze, One Car Rams OPD Cruiser Oakland saw another series of chaotic sideshows Saturday night beginning around midnight and extending well into the morning hours of Sunday. And police did try to intervene, and multiple people were taken into custody.
SF News Protests Block Golden Gate Bridge, All Northbound Lanes of 880 In Oakland Tax Day protests over the war in Gaza have caused a commute nightmare for anyone trying to get to San Francisco from the North Bay, or anyone traveling north on I-880 toward Oakland or San Francisco.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: South Bay Man Arrested for Impersonating a Cop A man was convicted last week in a fatal 2021 shooting at the 24th Street BART station; a man was arrested by Santa Clara County deputies for impersonating a police officer; and Clarence Thomas was absent from the Supreme Court today.
SF News 11 People Rescued In Two Separate Boat Capsize Incidents, One Off Ocean Beach and One In Tomales Bay Two boats capsized in the Bay Area this weekend in separate incidents amid windy conditions, leading to 11 people requiring emergency rescue from cold waters.
SF News Sunday Links: Shooting Kills Two In Napa A rare shooting in Napa left two women dead on Saturday; a tiny house in Cupertino sold over asking, and asking was $1.7M; and the Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off in Japantown.
