SF News Report: Trans People Seven Times More Likely Than Cisgender People to Experience Violence In California An annual report detailing how many Californias were the victims of violence over the past year finds a slight dip in reported violence among most populations, but a sharp increase in reported violence against transgender people.
SF News Grimes Files Suit Against Elon Musk Over Parental Rights After Saying She Had Not Seen Her Son One of Elon Musk's baby mamas, Grimes, a.k.a. Claire Boucher, made a legal filing in San Francisco Superior Court Friday that may indicate all is not copacetic between the two parents, who now share three children together.
Business & Tech Driver Strikes Pedestrian Near Fifth and Market; Cruise Car Subsequently Runs Her Over and Stops On Top Of Her A pedestrian collision Monday night is likely to provide more fodder for the debate over autonomous vehicles and how they react to certain uncommon situations — and it has Cruise once again in aggressive defense mode.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Senate Candidates Express Support for Newsom Nominee Reps. Adam Schiff, Katie Porter, and Barbara Lee have all put out statements of support for Laphonza Butler; Monday's grass fire in East Oakland was contained; and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might lose his job today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom's Senate Pick Called Out for Maryland Residence Newsom's appointee to the Senate, Laphonza Butler, has apparently been living in Maryland since 2021; a brush fire was threatening homes in Oakland; and the Trader Joe's space in Hayes Valley has a new owner.
SF Politics Disgraced Former SF DBI Inspector Bernie Curran Gets Sentenced to Two More Years In Prison The feds already sentenced ex-DBI inspector Bernie Curran to a year and a day in prison back in July for taking bribes to grant permits, and now DA Brooke Jenkins has won another guilty plea on him, and got two more years added to his prison term.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The SoMa Building That Houses Marlowe Might Get Torn Down to Build a Five-Story Building, Complicating Life for Marlowe Plans surfaced last week to tear down the 500 Brannan Street building that’s home to the decade-old bistro Marlowe, creating some uncertainty for Marlowe, which may have to become a pop-up or even move.
SF News They Built a New City From Farmland In the Central Valley, and It Hasn't Totally Gone as Planned Mountain House in San Joaquin County serves as an example of how even in the best of circumstances, the process of placemaking can take a very long time.
SF News East Bay Store Clerk Set On Fire After Confronting Shoplifter A clerk at a store in El Sobrante is recovering from severe burns that he got in an altercation with a shoplifter two weeks ago.
SF News Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court Program Starts Today, Can Force Severely Mentally Ill People Into Treatment San Francisco is one of seven California counties that begins Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court program today, a new system that can force mentally ill people into conservatorship and involuntary treatment.
SF News Possible Shark Attack In Point Reyes Leaves One Person Missing Eyewitnesses say a person was attacked by a shark and pulled under the water Sunday morning at Point Reyes’s Wildcat Beach, and despite an expansive search effort, the victim has still not been located.
SF News Dianne Feinstein's Body to Lie In State at City Hall Wednesday The body of late Senator Dianne Feinstein was flown back to the Bay Area Saturday, and members of the public will be able to pay their respects this week at San Francisco City Hall.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Hardly Strictly Performer Had Van Broken Into A man died after an apparent fight on a hiking trail in Antioch; English singer Beth Orton told the Hardly Strictly audience that her van was broken into Saturday; and Donald Trump is making a rare, voluntary court appearance in New York.
SF Politics Newsom Appoints Laphonza Butler, President of Emily's List, to Fill Feintstein's Senate Seat Laphonza Butler was set to be sworn in Monday as only the third Black woman ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, and the second openly lesbian senator, after Governor Gavin Newsom moved swiftly to make his choice to fill Dianne Feinstein's seat.
SF News Police Pursuit Ends In Fatality and Injury Following Armed Robbery A police pursuit of suspects in an armed robbery and multiple auto burglaries took a deadly turn in San Francisco on Saturday, resulting in one fatality and another individual sustaining injuries.
SF News Downtown San Francisco Attack Leaves Three Stabbed and One Assaulted Sunday SFPD arrested a man in connection with an attack near Market and Battery Streets at approximately 7:45 a.m. Sunday morning.
SF News Sunday Links: Warriors Star Draymond Green to Miss Training Camp After Ankle Sprain Warriors star forward Draymond Green is expected to miss training while recovering from a sprained ankle, which could take up to six weeks; Fleet Week is officially starting Monday; and the new COVID vaccine is in short supply and high demand across the Bay.
SF News Bay Area Gears Up for Potential Government Shutdown Amid Funding Impasse As the Saturday night deadline to make a deal to fund the federal government quickly approaches, some of the best spots in the Bay Area could face indefinite closures.
SF News Trump Tries to Win Over California Republicans by Advocating Violence in GOP Convention Speech Friday Republican presidential nominee frontrunner and alleged criminal Donald Trump attacked California for its crime, forests, homelessness, and electric vehicles, while also complaining about Nancy Pelosi and alleged election fraud.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Men Fatally Shot in Same San Leandro Gym Parking Lot Days Apart Police are investigating two separate morning homicides a few days apart that occurred in a San Leandro 24-Hour Fitness Center parking lot; two separate earthquakes hit Northern California Saturday morning, one near the Oregon border and one near the Nevada one; and SF remembers Dianne Feinstein.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Arrests Man in Connection With Brutal Attack on West Portal Candy Shop Owner Wednesday SF Giants’ general manager Gabe Kapler has officially been let go after the team's disappointing season; an SF woman allegedly stole over $34,000 of Walgreens merchandise; and SFPD arrested the suspect behind a Wednesday afternoon attack on three people at the long-time Shaw candy store.
SF Politics Now Elon Musk Says SF Supervisor Dean Preston ‘Should Go To Prison’ Twitter/X owner Elon Musk continues his obsession with District 5 supervisor Dean Preston, on Friday tweeting that “Dean Preston should go to prison,” prompting the tech PAC in line for Musk’s promised $100k donation to defeat Preston to say they’ll refuse the money.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: La Connessa Makes a Big Splash on Potrero Hill A Ju-Ni partner has just opened an Italian restaurant in Merced Manor; the team from Spruce has just opened a huge and sleek new Italian spot on Potrero Hill; and Blue Whale, the new Cow Hollow spot from Empress by Boon chef Ho Chee Boon, opens tonight.
SF News Oakland PD Announces Arrests of Ten Alleged Gang Members, All Tied to Carjackings and Armed Robberies As Oakland gets more restless over the city's current crime spike, Mayor Sheng Thao and the Oakland police held a Thursday press conference making a big to-do over the arrest of ten alleged gang members they say were running a significant carjacking and robbery ring.
SF Politics An 'RGB-Level Disaster'? Or Will Republicans Make Nice and Let Democrats Fill Feinstein's Seat on the Judiciary Committee? While the rumblings shall grow louder in the coming days about Governor Gavin Newsom's potential pick to appoint to Dianne Feinstein's now vacant seat in the Senate, one thing seems certain: Republicans are going to use this vacancy to their advantage however they can.
