SF Politics Sup. Dean Preston Walks Back Statement That Failed to Condemn Hamas Attack; Democratic Socialists Take It Further While most Democratic leaders in San Francisco have been quick to rally behind Israel and condemn Saturday's deadly terrorist attacks by Hamas militants, one city supervisor stood out among the rest for putting out a statement that seemed to solely express support for Palestinians.
SF News Richmond Couple Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter In Death of Five-Month-Old Son A 2021 incident at a Richmond hotel saw the death of a five-month-old boy, but the parents were just found guilty of manslaughter after the infant turned out to have broken bones, burns, and methamphetamine in his system.
SF News More Details Emerge In Pleasanton Murder and Dismemberment Case During Preliminary Hearing A judge has ordered a Pleasanton man to go to trial for the murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found dismembered on an Alameda shoreline in early August. And we're now learning that he was a Republican advocate for men wrongly accused in the #MeToo movement.
SF News First Ever Fentanyl Dealer Charged With Murder In California Gets Sentenced to 15 Years In Prison In what may be the shape of things to come, a 21-year-old Placer County man was sentenced to 15 years on a second-degree murder charge Tuesday, the first time a fentanyl provider has been sentenced for murder in the state of California.
SF News Just In Time For Spooky Season, Live Rabid Bat Found In Hayes Valley A live and rabies-positive bat was found and captured in Hayes Valley several weeks ago, and the health department wants anyone who may have had any contact with the animal to give them a call.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Woman Who Fell From Building During Blue Angels Show ID'd The woman who fell from a rooftop Blue Angels party Saturday has been identified; the Chinese consulate on Geary remains closed after Monday's crash; and House Republicans are trying to elect a new speaker.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired LA Dodgers Bum Steve Garvey Running for Feinstein’s Former Senate Seat A 104-year-old woman died just a week after becoming the world's oldest skydiver, the Castro’s former Tacorgasmico space is now the reincarnated Zona Rosa, and one-time Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Garvey is running for Feinstein’s former Senate seat as a Republican.
SF News SF City Attorney Sues Three Chinatown SRO Owners, Alleging ‘Inhumane’ Conditions City Attorney David Chiu has three Chinatown SRO landlords at the center of his latest lawsuit, saying their properties are “a public nuisance,” and that “dozens of health and safety violations linger” at these buildings.
SF News Expert In Distressed Assets Assigned to Take Over Management of Westfield Mall An expert in receivership of large properties who's based in Southern California has been given the go-ahead by a judge to take over the operations of the San Francisco Centre mall, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF News The New SF ‘I Voted’ Sticker Contest Now Underway, and You Have One Week to Vote Ten finalists have just been announced for the new San Francisco ‘I Voted’ sticker, with designs featuring cable cars, the Golden Gate Bridge, wild parrots, sea lions, and more, but you only have until October 17 to choose the winner.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two For String of Recent Armed Robberies In the Mission District San Francisco police announced the arrest of two individuals, both men in their 30s, for a series of armed robberies in recent weeks that targeted businesses in the Mission District.
SF News Newsom Signs Bill That Further Expands Conservatorship of Mentally Ill People Who Refuse Treatment Just a week after Governor Newsom’s CARE Courts started up to compel severely mentally ill people into treatment even if they don’t want it, Newsom has signed a new law that allows a broader interpretation of who can be forced into what they call conservatorship.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Still Trying to Sell Us on This 'Top 25 Restaurants' List That Ignores Like 100 Great Restaurants It was time again for the Chronicle to update their bizarrely unhelpful Top 25 Restaurants list for Fall 2023, and it remains like a less informative version of the Eater 38, but with 13 fewer restaurants, representing a region which deserves far better coverage.
SF News Car Crashing Into Chinese Consulate In SF Considered an International Incident, Just Weeks Before APEC Information about the suspect shot and killed by police and his motivations are not being released quickly, the SFPD says, because Monday's crash is being treated as an international incident.
SF News Vehicle Fire Causes Backup on Westbound Bay Bridge A vehicle fire and its aftermath caused a significant traffic backup east of Treasure Island on the Bay Bridge Tuesday morning.
SF News Berkeley Native Believed to Be Among Hostages of Hamas Invasion, His Arm Reportedly Blown Off 23-year-old Berkeley native Hersh Goldberg-Polin was at the Saturday music festival near the Gaza Strip that was invaded by Hamas militants, and he is believed to have been taken hostage.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Big Rig Driver Dies In Richmond Bridge Tollbooth Crash A big rig crashed into the tollbooth plaza of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Monday night; a woman was carjacked near the UC Berkeley campus; and the Oakland Police Commission remains divided amid search for new chief.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Crashes Into Chinese Consulate, Driver Shot A car crashed into the Chinese consulate at Geary and Laguna and shots were fired; Newsom vetoed a bill that would have outlawed caste-based discrimination; and a beloved pumpkin patch in Morgan Hill was vandalized.
SF News Another Tent Fire In Hayes Valley Has Neighbors Angry A tent fire that broke out Saturday afternoon at an encampment in Hayes Valley has angered neighbors who have given multiple warnings to the city, especially when it was very near an August 1 fire that burned down a building under construction.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Tex-Mex Restaurant West of Pecos to Close After 11 Years The popular 11-year-old Tex-Mex restaurant and bar West of Pecos has apparently suffered a drop in business since the pandemic, as so many restaurants have, and has announced its final day in business will be Saturday, October 28.
SF News Report of Man With Gun Leads to Evacuation of NoPa Shopping Center A report of a man with a gun inside a Chase Bank in the NoPa neighborhood prompted SFPD officers to evacuate a Lucky supermarket Monday afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 2,749-Pound Pumpkin Wins Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Contest, Sets New World Record The 2,500-pound largest pumpkin ever grown in California still wasn't big enough to win the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Pumpkin Weigh-Off, as a farmer from Minnesota drove in a pumpkin that won the contest and set a new world record at 2,749 pounds.
SF News [Updated] Six People Injured When Cable Car Makes Hard Stop on Nob Hill A San Francisco cable car had to make a hard stop to avoid colliding with another vehicle Monday afternoon, resulting in some passenger injuries.
SF News Newsom Vetoes Wiener’s Magic Mushrooms Bill, Haney’s Bill That Would Have Allowed Cannabis Cafes Two groundbreaking drug bills from SF's state legislators went to pot on Gavin Newsom’s desk, as he’s vetoed state Senator Scott Wiener’s bill to decriminalize plant-based psychedelics, and Assemblymember Matt Haney’s bill for Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes.
SF News Five People Injured In Four Separate Shootings In Oakland Saturday, One Victim Is a 16-Year-Old Girl Four shootings occurred across Oakland Saturday night, including three in a 30-minute span, leaving four people hospitalized, among them a 16-year-old girl. But none of the victims have life-threatening injuries.
