SF News Famous TikTok Foodie Keith Lee to Visit and Review Bay Area Restaurants The viral TikTok star and food critic has already received thousands of suggestions from all corners of the Bay about where he should eat.
morning links Saturday Links: Famous Monster Truck Rally Returns to SF's Oracle Park This Weekend Monster Jam is kicking off its 2024 season with events in SF Saturday and Sunday; redevelopment plans for the Church of 8 Wheels building will allow roller-skating to continue; and Tahoe's first snowstorm of the season is drawing crowds.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Head of SF Mayor's Affordable Housing Office Announces Departure Eric Shaw, SF's director of the Office of Housing and Community Development, is resigning effective next week; there was a large residential fire in the Outer Mission Friday afternoon; and a hazmat incident in Fremont triggered a shelter-in-place.
SF News Remains of Zodiac Killer's Possible 'Victim 12' From Lake Tahoe Casino Finally ID'd A skull that was discovered in Placer County nearly four decades ago was recently identified through relational DNA tracing, and investigators say it belongs to a young woman who disappeared from a Lake Tahoe casino hotel in 1970.
SF News State Lawmakers Once Again Going After Prop 47 Amidst Retail Theft Blowback We’re now ten years into the Prop 47 era, and a pair of state Assembly members have introduced new bills to make it more likely accused thieves get charged with felonies under the law’s guidelines.
SF News Now Even the Mother of Man Accused of Killing Oakland PD Officer Has Been Arrested as an Accessory A highly unusual development in last week's fatal shooting of undercover Oakland police officer Tuan Le, as the mother of the man accused of pulling the trigger has herself been arrested as an accessory to the crime.
SF Politics Supreme Court Says It Will Rule on Trump's Eligibility for Colorado and Maine Ballots The Supreme Court said Friday that it will, as predicted, take up the question of whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for president because of his role in the January 6th insurrection.
SF News San Francisco's Only Adidas Store Closing at Former Westfield Mall The block of Market Street between Fourth and Fifth will have another vacancy soon, with Adidas announcing that it is closing its only San Francisco store next week — and they're having a liquidation sale.
SF Politics Very Predictably, Effort to Recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Now Afoot It’s unclear whether this is a real grassroots movement, or just sour grapes from defeated candidates in the last mayoral election, but the signature gathering is underway to recall Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.
SF News Retired East Bay Cop Pleads Not Guilty After Two-Day Pleasant Hill Standoff and Shooting That Injured Wife Attorneys for retired Pittsburg police detective Chunliam Saechao are arguing that he suffered severe post-traumatic stress in retirement and didn't receive adequate support from his former employer.
SF News U.S. Olympian, Surfer, and Famed Bay Area Swim Coach Richard Thornton Dies at 65 1980 U.S. Olympic swim team member, former U.S. national team swim coach, and four-decade coach of San Ramon Valley Aquatics Richard Thornton died while heading out to surf in Santa Cruz on Thursday, according to his family.
SF News Tahoe to Get First Big Snowstorm of the Season on Saturday San Francisco will get a sprinkling of rain starting Saturday morning, but the storm system moving in from the north will be bringing the first major snowfall of the winter season to the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Teen Killed In NYE Fireworks Accident ID'd The 18-year-old who was killed in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island has been identified; the 10-year-old boy in Sacramento who fatally shot a friend with his father's gun will not be charged; and the Pacifica Pier is closed for a damage assessment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Point Reyes Shipwreck’ May Soon Be Gone Another mass shooting at an Iowa high school killed a sixth grader and injured five others; London Breed is touting a decrease in SF crime over the holidays; and the so-called Point Reyes shipwreck could be gone from its Inverness beach before long.
Bay Area Sports Report: Draymond Green Will Return ‘In the Coming Days’ as Below-.500 Warriors Look to Regain Footing A Thursday ESPN report says Draymond Green will return to the Warriors “in the coming days,” which would sure help a Warriors team with a losing record just two weeks shy of the mid-season point.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Fast-Casual Cafe and Pizzeria With Golden Gate Views Opening In the Presidio A new cafe, with pizza, cocktails, beer and wine, is opening January 15 in the former Transit cafe space at the Presidio Transit Center (215 Lincoln Blvd.), right at the entry of the Presidio Tunnel Tops.
SF News Matt Haney Back On It With Trying to Legalize Cannabis Cafes In California Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bid to legalize Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes went up in smoke after a Gavin Newsom veto in October, but Haney has high hopes that the governor will take a kinder view of his new version of the bill.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News At Long Last (And Way Over Budget), Suicide Prevention Nets Finally Installed on Golden Gate Bridge They may be four years late and $148 million over budget, but the Golden Gate Bridge’s suicide prevention barriers are now fully in place on both sides of the bridge’s entire 1.7-mile span.
SF Politics Florida Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Swalwell's Kids A 72-year-old Florida man (and likely Trump supporter!) has been arrested after allegedly making criminal threats against Bay Area Congressman Eric Swalwell and his family.
SF News People's Park Once Again to Become Flashpoint of Protest as UC Berkeley Moves to Wall It Off We are likely to see another few days of protest at Berkeley's People's Park, after campus and city police descended Wednesday night to execute an elaborate operation in which 160 shipping containers are to be used to wall off the park on all sides.
SF News BART Reveals Details of How Train Derailed and Caught Fire on New Year’s Day The shocking Monday morning BART train derailment that left nine people injured and a train on fire seemed to be a combination of mechanical failures and human error, and that $2.2 million “Fleet of the Future” train will be out of commission for a while.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Men Charged In Oakland Cop Killing Make Court Appearance The two men charged in the killing of OPD Officer Tuan Le make their first court appearance; there was a vigil in SF for the 13-y-o boy killed in a pre-Christmas hit-and-run in Antioch; and House Democrats release report showing millions Trump received from foreign governments.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Teens Caught Stealing Cow-Crossing Sign, Others A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
SF News 27-Year-Old Stockton Man Arrested In Fatal Shooting of Oakland Cop Served Five Years For Another Oakland Shooting The suspect who Oakland police say fired the gun that killed Oakland Police Officer Tuan Le on Friday morning has now been publicly identified, and it turns out he already served time for killing another man a decade ago, when he was still a juvenile.
