SF News Nonprofit ‘SF Safe’ Improperly Spent Tens of Thousands of SFPD Money on Limo Rides, Tahoe Trips A new report from the City Controller says that a long-standing “public safety services” nonprofit has been improperly billing the police department nearly $10,000 a month on limo rides, Vegas and Tahoe trips, and curiously pricey gift boxes.
SF News Pacifica Woman Says Boyfriend Died Trying to Protect Her From Estranged Husband A Pacifica woman who survived a brutal pre-Christmas attack by her estranged husband, against whom she had a restraining order, is now speaking out about the boyfriend who came to her rescue and gave his life protecting her.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Wet Weekend Ahead The rain is coming any hour now, and will continue on and off through the weekend; Barbara Lee responds to Nikki Haley saying the country has never been racist; and the Apple Mac turns 40.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Statue of Controversial ‘Colonizer’ Removed in Pacifica Another arrest has been made in the murder of the ex-cop providing security for a KRON4 crew; SF’s former Westfield mall is losing yet another tenant; and the controversial statue of a Spanish explorer has been removed in Pacifica.
SF News Presidio Heights Residents Appear to Get Their Way as Some Pickleball Nets Get Removed From Presidio Wall Courts Complaining neighbors in Presidio Heights who have been unhappy about the noise caused by pickleball games happening at the Presidio Wall tennis courts are getting their way, at least in part.
SF News It’s Official: Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake Will Be Renamed Blue Heron Lake After a seven-month debate over what to rename Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, the SF Rec and Parks Commission on Thursday bestowed the new name Blue Heron Lake.
SF Politics Activists Hang Giant ‘Let Gaza Live’ Banner From SF's Coit Tower The 60-foot banner saying "Jews Say: Let Gaza Live!" was unfurled from the top of Coit Tower Thursday morning, though it only remained for about ten minutes until police arrived.
Arts & Entertainment Apple Cancels 'Schmigadoon' After Two Seasons, Fans Revolt on Social Media Musical Theater Twitter and Gay Twitter and Tituss Burgess Twitter are collectively enraged that Apple TV+ would dare cancel the most brilliant sendup of musicals since Forbidden Broadway.
SF News Dungeness Crab Season Finally Starts Today, Fishermen Selling Crab Right Off the Boat The many-times-delayed local Dungeness crab season is finally here, and fishermen are selling the crab straight off the boat down at Fisherman’s Wharf Piers 45 and 47.
SF News Bay Area Woman Who Calls Herself 'Love,' Charged In 2017 Burglary and Stabbing Gets Parole Revoked Over Threats A 50-year-old woman, jailed in the East Bay since November, is facing a revocation of her parole over alleged criminal threats against judges, district attorneys, and others made since her last release.
SF News Five Shot In SF's Tenderloin Overnight, One Person Dead Five people were shot in a mass shooting Thursday morning in the Tenderloin, and one of the five people died from their wounds with the others all suffering life-threatening wounds.
SF News Suspects In Oakland Cop Killing Plead Not Guilty In Latest Court Appearance The three suspects charged in connection with the December 29 killing of Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le made their first court appearance together on Thursday, and all three entered not-guilty pleas.
SF Politics Rowdy District 9 Supervisor Debate at El Rio Draws Hecklers, Very Vocal Peanut Gallery Things will get a little raucous when you have your SF supervisor candidate debate at a bar serving liquor, as we learned Wednesday night at El Rio when six candidates squared off over who will take Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s seat.
SF News Prolific Honduran Fentanyl Dealer Based In Oakland Being Kept Behind Bars Now After Multiple Arrests, Releases A Honduran national who had been arrested multiple times by law enforcement in recent years, and was on pretrial release for drug charges from 2022, has now been ordered to stay in federal custody pending his trial on new charges.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Warriors Postpone Friday Game The Warriors are postponing their Friday game against the Dallas Mavericks following the death of Assistant Coach Dejan Milojević; this weekend could be the start of a true El Niño pattern; and Alameda is offering the biggest police signing bonuses in the country.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Local Band Shoots Video On Late-Night BART Trains A date has been set for David DePape's state trial; Tesla owners in frigid Chicago are having some major trouble operating their cars in this weather; and local band Business Casual has a new video for their song "Last BART," shot on BART.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Automat Returns In Pop-Up Form In the Outer Sunset The NoPa neighborhood's well-loved but short-lived new bakery-restaurant of the pandemic era, Automat, closed its doors last summer having not quite made it two years in business. But it's back, in pop-up form.
Arts & Entertainment SF Sketchfest Returns Thursday for Two Weeks of Sketchy Activity The 21st annual comedy festival SF Sketchfest is back starting Thursday, featuring everything from a freshly crowned Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actor to a puppet dog that mostly just makes poop jokes.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Assistant Coach Dejan Milojević Dies of Sudden Heart Attack, Wednesday Night’s Game Postponed Golden State assistant coach Dejan Milojević is credited with developing Nikola Jokic and was considered a key component to the Warriors’ 2022 title run, but he died Wednesday morning after a sudden heart attack Tuesday night.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest In Late December Double-Stabbing in SoMa One man died and another woman was injured in a double-stabbing at around 5:30 a.m. on December 28 in SoMa. SFPD determined their suspect and arrested him last week, and he appears to have a history of armed robbery.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area 'Gone Girl' Case Gets New Documentary Treatment on Netflix, 'American Nightmare' The almost-too-nutty-to-be-believed 2015 rape and kidnapping case involving Denise Huskins and then boyfriend Aaron Quinn, who lived on Mare Island near Vallejo, has been turned into a new docu-series from the team behind 2022's 'The Tinder Swindler.'
SF News 'California Forever' Billionaire Group Begins Ballot Initiative Effort to Create New City In Solano County However misguided it may be, the proposal to build a new city out of whole cloth on some agricultural land in Solano County, east of Vallejo, is likely headed to the November ballot, and the signature-gathering effort officially launched Wednesday.
SF News Final Grim Tally Arrives: SF Had Highest-Ever 806 Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2023 We already knew that 2023 would be the deadliest year ever for drug overdoses in SF with nearly a month left to go in the year, but the Medical Examiner’s office now acknowledges we broke the previous record 2020 death toll by nearly 100.
SF News Los Gatos Man Charged With Murdering Wife, Hiding Body In Santa Cruz Mountains When a 40-year-old Los Gatos woman went missing for more than a week, her employer started asking questions. That led to a chain of events in which her 56-year-old husband was arrested for murdering her and dumping her body in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SF News Modest-Sized Sinkhole Appears Next to Cable Car Tracks In Downtown SF; Motorcyclist Injured After Hitting It A sinkhole appeared Tuesday evening along the California Street cable car tracks, near the intersection of Montgomery Street, but the situation appears resolved as of Wednesday morning.
