Business & Tech Elon Musk Wants More Compensation Out of Tesla to Move More Toward AI Elon Musk is in some sort of negotiation with the board of Tesla to regain greater voting control at the board level, and he's making this publicly known in a series of tweets, for some reason.
SF News Vallejo Couple Finally Going to Trial for Alleged 2018 Murder-Robbery, Six Years After Crime Occurred The wheels of justice have moved stunningly slowly in the case of a man found dead in a Vallejo hotel room in 2018, but the pair accused of killing and robbing him finally has a trial date set that will begin more than six years after the killing itself.
SF News Female Bicyclist Dies After Collision With Fallen Tree In Sonoma County A woman died Monday afternoon in a bicycle accident in rural West Sonoma County, about six miles north of Timber Cove and in a northern section of Cazadero, after colliding with a downed tree.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Unmanned Sailboat Drifts From Sausalito to Baker Beach An unmanned sailboat drifted onto Baker Beach Monday; Google is laying off hundreds in its ad-sales department; and winter weather prompted 1,700 flight cancellations today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found Near Site of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash The body of one victim of yesterday's plane crash off Half Moon Bay has likely been found; one of the victims in a hot-air balloon crash in Arizona was a 24-year-old from Cupertino; and hundreds take part in an MLK Day march in SF.
SF News Big Eucalyptus Tree Comes Crashing Down On Cars In Golden Gate Park You've heard about the Bay Area's problem with big eucalyptus trees that smell nice but are nearing the end of their lives and have a habit of falling over? Well, one did just that on Crossover Drive in Golden Gate Park, causing a major traffic backup on 19th Avenue.
SF News Grindr Hookup Goes Wrong When SF Man Pulls Gun, Attempts Carjacking, Shoots Victim A 20-year-old San Francisco man is in jail for carjacking and assault, after hooking up with a Grindr date, allegedly pulling out a semiautomatic weapon, trying to steal the date’s car, and then shooting him.
Arts & Entertainment Sheila E. and Father Pete Escovedo Get Street Named After Them In Oakland The glamorous life is coming to Oakland’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, where a block of East 21st Street has been honorarily renamed “Escovedo Way” in honor of 80s pop star Sheila E. and her groundbreaking percussionist father Pete Escovedo.
SF News Sea Cliff Mansion With Illegal Staircase to Beach About to Sell Via Bankruptcy Trustee for $10M Under Its 2021 List Price A frequently listed Sea Cliff property that's been on and off the market at various exorbitant prices in the last few years was re-listed after the new year, and appears ready to change hands once again for well under its asking price.
SF News San Rafael Couple Nearly Scammed Out of $15,000 by AI Fake of Their Son’s Voice We are in era where AI can recreate someone’s voice, and scammers are taking notice, with one San Rafael couple almost paying $15,000 to con artists who’d accurately mimicked their son’s voice in a panicked phone call.
SF News University of California Might Give London Breed That SF Expansion Campus She’s Been Hankering For It seemed like a desperate trial balloon to fill vacant office space when Mayor London Breed asked the UC system to build an expanded campus in San Francisco, but now the university acknowledges they are at least “exploring” the idea.
SF News Are Commercial Landlords and Ridiculous Rents to Blame for SF’s Retail and Restaurant Troubles? Landlords expecting that another boom time is just around the corner, ignoring the fact that retail has been struggling since before the pandemic and that restaurants are struggling across the city, may shoulder much of the blame for the impossible economics of managing small businesses in SF.
SF News [Update] Search for Survivors Now 'Suspended' After Small Plane Crashed in Half Moon Bay A small plane which took off from the East Bay crashed in Half Moon Bay sometime after 7 p.m. Sunday night, and as of late Monday morning, the Coast Guard suspended their search for survivors, without having found the pilot or any of the passengers.
SF News Driver Takes Harrison Street Off-Ramp Too Fast From Bay Bridge, Car Launches Into Building, Lands On Road Below A female driver apparently speeding westbound into San Francisco from the Bay Bridge took the Harrison Street off-ramp going way too fast Sunday night, and flew right off it into an adjacent building.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Inmate Dies In San Mateo County Jail A 23-year-old man died in the detox unit of San Mateo County Jail; some parts of West Marin still have some flooding from Saturday's rains; and more rain is on the way next weekend, with some Tuesday as well.
SF News Multi-Car Drunk Driving Accident on Bay Bridge Leaves One Dead Sunday Morning A three-car pileup claimed the life of one woman, while two drivers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence around 3 a.m. Sunday morning.
SF News Burst Steam Pipe Fills Part of Grant Avenue With Cloud of Steam, SFFD Responds An underground steam pipe burst on Grant Avenue Sunday afternoon, shutting down the block between Geary and Post as San Francisco firefighters, Public Works staff, and PG&E responded to the scene.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Comes Out Against Supervisors' Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Passed This Week Breed issued a statement on Friday that said that the resolution is not the “official view of the entire city of San Francisco.”
SF News Sunday Links: Third Suspect Arrested In Connection With Killing Of Oakland Cop Tuan Le Marquise Cooper, 34, was arrested for the alleged murder of Oakland police officer Tuan Le; Oracle Park hosted a rainy, muddy Supercross race Saturday; and the San Jose Sharks are snowed in and stuck in Canada.
SF News [Update] Police Find Missing Woman Who Was Victim of Suspected Kidnapping in San Jose A woman who was inside a vehicle stolen by a group of people in downtown San Jose early Saturday morning is missing, and police are asking for the public's help to recover the suspected kidnapping victim.
tiffany li Onetime Hillsborough Heiress Tiffany Li Settled Wrongful Death Suit of Ex for $10M A year later, we now know the details of “Hillsborough Heiress” Tiffany Li's settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit related to the 2016 killing of Keith Green, brought by Green's mother and joined by Li's two daughters.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area-Based Kelly-Moore Paints Says It's Going Out of Business Immediately Kelly-Moore Paints is closing all stores and ceasing operations ASAP; protesters tried to block a possible shipment of military equipment to Israel from the port of Oakland; and this weekend's rains might cause the Russian River to flood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five 49ers Make AP's 2023 NFL All-Pro Team Christian McCaffrey and Fred Warner were unanimously selected for this year's All-Pro team; a South SF man who ran a day care was arrested for alleged child sexual abuse; and the Hilton Financial District in San Francisco has defaulted on its mortgage.
SF News Another Car Torched In Bernal Heights, Prompting Serial Arson Concerns After four cars were set ablaze on New Year’s Eve in Bernal Heights, yet another car was lit on fire some five blocks away on Tuesday night, though in this case the described arsonist had actually lit a disposed Christmas tree on the curb.
SF News SF Is Going to Install 400 License Plate Readers to Hopefully Deter Car Theft, Sideshows, and Such With a $17 million grant from the state to combat retail theft and auto burglaries, San Francisco is going to put 400 license plate readers about town in hopes of catching more criminals.
