SF Politics SF Rapper Who Made Breed Diss Track Alleges That Rev. Amos Brown Came to His Business and 'Threatened' Him A tempest in a teapot story from last week saw local rapper Chino Yang saying “someone extremely powerful” threatened him over a London Breed diss track. But we now learn it was allegedly just 82-year-old, long-ago SF supervisor Rev. Amos Brown.
SF News Naked Man Reportedly Shooting Off Gun Amid Mental Health Crisis In Outer Richmond A man who was reportedly naked and having a mental health crisis was firing off a gun on New Year's Eve morning, and he was arrested and thankfully no one was struck by any of the bullets.
SF News Two-Thirds of State's Cannabis Testing Labs Can’t Test Marijuana Right Now Over Bogus Results Scandal California cannabis regulators are onto a scheme where labs are overstating the amount of THC in your weed, and right now, two-thirds of the state’s labs are barred from testing marijuana flower.
SF News Arsonist Torched Four Cars in Bernal Heights on New Year’s Eve, Reportedly Tried to Burn House Too The normally quiet neighborhood of Bernal Heights saw an arsonist destroy four cars by setting them ablaze around 9:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, and some yet-unconfirmed reports say the same individual may have tried to burn at least one house, too.
SF Politics Manny Yekutiel Now Says He Won't Run For Mayor This Year It honestly didn't seem that wise or plausible to begin with, but Manny Yekutiel has officially said that his very hypothetical candidacy for San Francisco mayor has been put on the back burner for now.
SF News Guest at SF Marriott Last Summer Sues Over Alleged Attack By Homeless Person A man who stayed at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis last year has filed a lawsuit against the Marriott corporation claiming negligence after he was allegedly assaulted by a person he says was homeless on hotel property.
SF News Thieves Ram Into Outer Richmond Bank of America, Smashing and Stealing ATM In what’s fast becoming a copycat crime across the Bay Area, another ATM theft victimized a Bank of America at Balboa Street and 38th Avenue sometime after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.
SF Politics Oakland City Councilmember Pushing Mayor to Declare State of Emergency, Push Aside Police Commission Tensions are mounting in Oakland over the nearly yearlong selection process that has still not resulted in a satisfactory nominee to be the city's next chief of police. And following the on-duty death of a police officer last week, one city council member is urging the mayor to take decisive action.
Arts & Entertainment Urban Putt Closing After 10 Years, But Another Mini Golf Course Is Taking the Space The Instagrammable and booze-enhanced mini golf of Urban Putt has apparently run its course and closed permanently, though another miniature golf proprietor will tee it up at that Mission District location.
SF News Former Mr. Bungle Band Member Theo Lengyel Arrested In Murder of Girlfriend; Remains Found In Tilden Park It was the week before Christmas that we learned that Theobald “Theo” Brooks Lengyel, a Bay Area musician and former member of the experimental rock group Mr. Bungle, was being sought for questioning in connection with the disappearance of his girlfriend.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Rescued From Sinking Sailboat Off Alameda One person was injured this morning when a Caltrain struck an occupied vehicle on the tracks; a man had to be rescued in Alameda when his sailboat became submerged; and the burglarized cannabis business near which the Oakland cop was shot has been identified.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sierra Nevada Snowpack at Just 25% of Its Usual Average Elon Musk had a snit over Green Day’s New Year’s Eve performance; that November state gambling initiative is getting ready to spend big; and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is at just a fraction of where it normally is in a new year.
SF News Another Ousted SF Building Inspector Faces Charges Over Granting Permits for His Own Home Another hit for SF’s scandal-plagued Department of Building Inspection, where a freshly fired inspector is facing misdemeanor charges for granting building permits to his own home, and to buildings owned by his family members.
SF Politics Projection Pranksters Hit Ferry Building During New Year’s Fireworks, Mock Mayor Breed, Elon Musk, Trump Some “projection activists” did a number on the SF Ferry Building just before the clock struck midnight for the fireworks show Sunday night, briefly displaying “STFU Musk” and other messages hammering Donald Trump and London Breed.
SF News Berkeley's Ban On Gas-Powered Appliances Once Again Blocked By Ninth Circuit On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling denying an "en banc" rehearing of a case that was decided by a three-judge panel of the court last April, blocking Berkeley's ban on natural gas appliances in new construction.
SF Politics Peskin, Chan Making Noise About Suing the State Over Mandatory Housing Goals The latest drama over SF’s state-mandated goal to build more than 82,000 new housing units comes from Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, who want to blow up that mandate with a lawsuit, though City Attorney David Chiu may be unwilling to throw that bomb.
SF News Oakland Police Make 'Several' Arrests In Connection With Fatal Shooting of Officer Following Dispensary Burglary The investigation continues into the tragic killing of an on-duty Oakland police officer last week who was among several officers responding to an alleged cannabis dispensary burglary. And over the holiday weekend, the OPD says it made "several" arrests.
SF News Victim Identified In Fatal SoMa Stabbing A man who was fatally stabbed in SF's South of Market neighborhood before the New Year's weekend has been identified, and the condition of the second victim is not known.
SF News Bay Area Wastewater Shows Rising Levels of COVID, Flu, and RSV After Holidays Yet another new COVID variant called JN.1 is fueling yet another surge in COVID transmission according to wastewater data, while flu and RSV cases are also showing a sharp rise in the wake of holiday gatherings.
SF News One Dead, Two Injured In New Year's Day Rollover Crash on Highway 1 In SF A crash Monday night at the southwestern edge of San Francisco, near the Oceanview neighborhood on Junipero Serra Boulevard/Highway 1, left one person dead and two others with serious injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fresh Storm Rolling In BART resumed normal service this morning after Monday's derailment disaster; a storm is rolling Tuesday afternoon with some heavy rain; and a high surf advisory has been issued for Wednesday for the NorCal coast.
SF News Person Killed In Fireworks Accident on Treasure Island A person died early Monday in a fireworks mishap on Treasure Island, less than an hour into the new year.
SF News New Year's Day Links: BART Train Derails, Injuring Nine A person was struck and killed by a car doing donuts in Oakland on New Year's Eve; a BART train partially derailed outside Orinda Station Monday morning, sparking a fire and injuring nine passengers; and another storm is heading our way.
SF News Workers at Bay Area Locations of Iconic Sex Shop, Good Vibrations, Move to Unionize About 40 employees across eight Bay Area Good Vibes stores filed for a union election on Friday.
SF News What You Need to Know About Bay Area Public Transit Changes for New Year’s Eve Muni and AC Transit are offering free rides, while BART is extending its operating hours.
