morning links Sunday Links: San Francisco Stocks Up on Sandbags, Bunkers Down Ahead of This Week's Storm City crews are rushing to clear drains before the atmospheric river hits the SF; thieves stole $5,000 of Wagyu beef and seafood from a Marina District sushi restaurant; and an Oakland man is pleading guilty to trying to export illegal weapons to the Sultanate of Oman.
SF News 'Tis the Season: Atmospheric River-Fueled Storms Returning to the Bay Area Get ready for another wet holiday season — heavy winter storms are forecast to hit SF for the rest of December.
SF News Saturday Links: Child Safe After Stolen Car With Minor Inside Recovered in SF SFPD is investigating a car theft that occurred with a minor still inside the vehicle on Friday afternoon in the Ingleside neighborhood; a man was injured after his car was hit by an Amtrak train in Oakland; and a Mt. Shasta ski mountain is trying to put up a giant statue of the Virgin Mary.
SF News Day Around the Bay: West Oakland BART Station Hosts Test Run for 'Evasion-Proof' Gates BART says the trial run will last two weeks and passengers should expect delays; an SF judge ruled that an SF rapper jailed for murder who ex-DA Boudin wanted to can challenge his trial; and pro-Palestine protestors who shut down the Bay Bridge will face charges.
SF Politics San Francisco to Begin Compelling More People Into Mental Health Treatment January 1; Newsom Slams Counties That Are Delaying California's new conservatorship law, which expands the pool of potential candidates who can be involuntarily compelled into mental-health or substance-abuse treatment, takes effect January 1, and San Francisco is one of the counties opting to implement it right away.
Bay Area Sports A’s Agree to Cough Up $45 Million for Unpaid Oakland Coliseum Bill Oakland is at least getting one piece of good news as the A’s prepare to bolt for Las Vegas, with the team agreeing to pay Alameda County $45 million of the unpaid balance on their Oakland Coliseum deal.
SF News SF Man Accused In Stabbing Death of Girlfriend Pleads Not Guilty to Murder 29-year-old Scott Fisher was arraigned Friday for the murder of girlfriend Kimberly Wong in the Presidio Heights apartment they shared.
SF News Mohammed Nuru’s Ex-Girlfriend Sandra Zuniga Gets Probation, Not Jail, For Laundering His Bribe Money SF’s former head of the Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga, also known as “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI’s Mohammed Nuru indictment, will skate with just three years probation after a very favorable sentencing Thursday.
SF News Martinez Refinery Flaring Again, Town Currently Reeks of Sulfur Dioxide Yet another flare-up at the oil refinery in Martinez has homes reportedly shaking, and as of Friday afternoon, the refinery is still spewing sulfur dioxide into the air of Martinez and Pacheco.
Arts & Entertainment Rising Star Dylan Mulvaney Talks About Why She Loves SF Ahead of Her SF Symphony 'Holiday Gaiety' Performance TikTok- and Instagram-famous trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who became the center of an unwanted culture-war firestorm earlier this year, is performing in San Francisco tonight, and she says it's her first time ever performing with a symphony orchestra.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Getting Arraigned Today For June Mass Shooting on 24th Street Nearly six months to the day of his arrest, 23-year-old Javier Campos is being arraigned in San Francisco for the June 9 shooting at 24th and Treat streets that injured nine people.
SF News Car Theft Suspects Caught In Oakland After Leading Police on 40-Mile Chase, Throwing Tools at Cop Cars A 2:30 a.m. Friday morning car chase started when two auto theft suspects were allegedly casing cars in Napa County, and police chased them all the way to Oakland, despite that the suspects were hurling construction tools at the police vehicles along the way.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That New Jollibee Is Indeed Coming to the Former Payless Shoe Store at Market and Fifth Streets Jolly good news for fans of Chickenjoy meals and coconut pineapple pies, as after years of starts and stops, that long-stalled Jollibee at the former Payless ShoeSource at Union Square is getting close to opening.
SF News Alameda Agrees to Pay $11M In Wrongful Death Suit Brought By Family of Mario Gonzalez In a controversial case of a man who died while in custody of Alameda police in 2021, the City of Alameda has agreed to pay $11 million to the man's son in a wrongful death suit.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Man Charged With October Killing In Oakland A San Francisco man was just charged with a fatal shooting in October outside an Oakland nightclub; a woman is suing St. Mary's College over a suppressed rape allegation in 2000; and the NYT has the inside scoop on how the Dobbs decision came to be.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Winter’s First Spare the Air Day Is Friday The New York Times just discovered that crime is worse in Oakland than in SF, some Safeway and Target stores are ditching self-checkout, and wood burning is banned Friday because it’s a Spare the Air day.
SF News Feds Haul Canadian/Lebanese Man in From Greece to SF Over $10 Million Yellow Pages Scam An alleged con artist who’d escaped to Greece is accused of making $10 million pretending his company was the Yellow Pages, and billing businesses for "unpaid invoices" that never actually existed.
SF News It’s Official: 2023 Is SF’s Deadliest Year Ever for Drug Overdoses We knew we were on track to pass this morbid milestone for months, and now it has come to pass: an all-time high 752 people in SF have died from accidental drug overdoses in 2023, and we still have a couple more weeks of December to go.
SF News Amidst Continuing Furor Over Valencia Street Bike Lane, SFMTA Hints They May Overhaul It Last week, Valencia Street businesses protested the controversial center bike land and called for the scalp of SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin. Now Tumlin has published an op-ed hinting that they just might redesign the bike lane, maybe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Napa Winemaker and Judgement of Paris Figure Mike Grgich Dies at 100 A renowned and beloved figure in the Napa Valley, Mijenko “Mike” Grgich, died Wednesday at age 100, reportedly passing in his sleep with family members at his side at home in Calistoga.
SF News Uh Oh: Forecasters Now Say This Winter's El Niño Could Be 'Historically Strong' We've been operating under the belief that this year's El Niño winter, given the past few El Niño cycles, was unlikely to be as bad as last winter's historically wet, months-long string of atmospheric river storms. But we may need to batten down the hatches once again.
SF News Protesters Outside Public Utilities Commission Call for Ouster of Commissioner Who Worked for Cruise A rally outside the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) offices in San Francisco Thursday morning was calling for the prosecution of executives at self-driving taxi company Cruise, and for the ouster of the commissioner who helped approve Cruise's permits.
SF News APEC Protester Says Chinese Government Was Behind Him Getting Roughed Up After Protest A protester who was assaulted after an APEC demonstration claims the attack was the work of Chinese government “thugs,” and a couple members of Congress find the claim credible enough that they’re calling for an investigation.
SF News Stonestown Redevelopment Project Gets New Renderings, Revisions The planned redevelopment of the Stonestown Galleria property, which will turn what are currently parking lots into new residential, retail, and office space, has received some revisions, which include dropping a planned 200-room hotel.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Yosemite Bringing Back Reservation System Three people were arrested in San Pablo with 600 lbs. of copper wire; Yosemite National Park is requiring reservations for entry next year; and Buster Posey says SF's reputation may be partly to blame for Shohei Ohtani passing up the Giants' offer.
