SF News Suspect In North Beach Assault, Pipe-Bomb-Throwing Had Federal Bomb Conviction, Domestic Violence History The suspect has now been named in Sunday's bizarre incident that began in North Beach and led to a police chase across the Bay that included improvised explosives.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Major Bay Area Freeway to Be Shut Down This Weekend A SoCal wildfire grew to 2,200 acres overnight thanks to Santa Ana winds; Oakland saw its 107th homicide early this morning; and a large portion of I-680 in the East Bay will be shut down for roadwork this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Party Mom' Indicted By Grand Jury Governor Gavin Newsom made a gaffe knocking down a child in China; state Sen. Scott Wiener has a new car break-in bill; and a full quarter of a city fund to revitalize downtown is going to Tyler Florence's Union Square project.
Arts & Entertainment Visitacion Valley Gets a ‘Church of Clown,’ a New Venue for Clown Performances and Classes Something funny's going on in Visitacion Valley, where a new venue called Church of Clown is right on the nose with clown troupe performances, and clown classes for both youth and adults.
SF News BART Paper Tickets Are Going Away — For Real This Time — On November 30 It's the second time in three years that we've been told to "say goodbye" to paper tickets on the BART system. But after re-introducing them last year, the paper tickets are really going away this time.
Arts & Entertainment PHOTOS: Saturday’s SF Sandcastle Classic Saw Spooky Sand Sculptures Stand Out With the 41st annual Sandcastle Classic falling on Halloween weekend, you’d better believe that monsters, jack-o-lanterns, and skeletons got their heads out of the sand for Northern California’s largest sandcastle competition.
SF News Report Alleges Oakland PD Officers Lied About No-Headlights, 100-MPH Car Chase That Killed Bystander An Oakland Police Commission report seems to confirm the allegation that two officers lied about a June 2022 high-speed chase of a suspected sideshow participant they conducted with no headlights or sirens on, a chase that killed an innocent bystander.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Food Vendors, Several of Them Vegan, Announced for IKEA-Adjacent Food Hall In SF We now know what six of the food concessions will be in the new Saluhall food court being opened by IKEA affiliate Ingka Centres in the downtown San Francisco Meeting Place complex.
SF News Red-Flag Warning Weekend Included Brush Fire In Benecia, Several Barns Destroyed In Petaluma Blaze It was not a completely quiet weekend for the North Bay during this past weekend's Red Flag Warning, but the reported fires were fairly quickly contained.
SF News 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hit-and-Run That Killed Pregnant San Jose Woman Last Week A 21-year-old preschool teacher was killed last week in a tragic hit-and-run collision at a busy South San Jose intersection, and police say they have now arrested the 15-year-old boy responsible, who was driving a stolen car at the time.
Business & Tech Biden Administration Issues Executive Order on AI Safety Requiring Testing of New Tools As has been expected for months, the Biden Administration on Monday issued an executive order laying out standards and basic regulations for safety and security around artificial intelligence.
SF News The Prisoner Who Attacked Kristin Smart’s Killer Also Killed the I-5 Strangler in Prison An interesting twist in the August prison attack on Kristin Smart’s convicted killer Paul Flores: It turns out his attacker is the same prisoner who strangled and killed his cellmate in 2021, a cellmate who was the notorious “I-5 Strangler.”
SF News Man Suspected of Assault In SF Church Allegedly Tossed Multiple Explosives Out of His Car, Led Authorities on Chase Across the Bay A wacky story involving a chase from San Francisco deep into Contra Costa County began unfolding Sunday evening in North Beach, when a suspect allegedly assaulted a parishioner at Saints Peter and Paul Church on Filbert Street.
SF News Man Fatally Shot After Leaving Nightclub In Oakland's Uptown District An as-yet-unidentified 34-year-old man was shot and killed just after 3 a.m. Sunday morning near 19th Street and Broadway, marking Oakland’s 106th homicide of the year.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two People Stabbed Near Bernal Heights Two people were stabbed and injured Sunday near SF's Bernal Heights; Oakland police launched and canceled a social media program to combat auto burglaries; and it's going to be another dry, sunny day around the Bay.
SF News Contra Costa County Sideshows Spark Fires and Result in Crash Saturday Night Two separate sideshows in Contra Costa County led to small brush fires, one in Antioch and one in Brentwood that burned about four acres.
SF News Oakland's Social Media Auto Burglary Reporting Program Shuts Down Less Than 24 Hours After Launching The Oakland Police Department set up accounts called @OaklandAutoBurg on Instagram and X for people to DM about car break-ins in real-time, but shut them down after less than a day.
SF News Sunday Links: Halloween Festivities Take Over SF This Weekend The Castro hosted its first Halloween celebration in 17 years; 15 people who staged a sit-in at the Cal-USC football game delayed it and were arrested; and 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy completed concussion protocol and will start on Sunday.
SF Politics Demonstration For Free Palestine Blocks 101 Freeway In San Francisco A protest march against the Israeli invasion of Gaza and in support of the Palestinian people proceeded up an on-ramp to a major freeway interchange in San Francisco on Saturday.
SF News Saturday Afternoon Rally at the Embarcadero Urges Ceasefire in Gaza Activists planned a demonstration in support of Palestinians near the Harry Bridges Plaza and San Francisco Ferry Building starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
SF News Lawsuit Accuses Half Moon Bay Ritz-Carlton of Shocking Incident Involving Semen-Laced Water A female guest alleges that a Ritz-Carlton employee ejaculated into a water bottle that she was served —and that the hotel was negligent and won't comply with authorities.
SF News Saturday Links: 3.7M Earthquake Hits Right Under SFO Friday Evening A 3.7-magnitude earthquake rattled San Francisco around 6:45 p.m. Friday, but no damage was reported; a TikTok about Mountain View's Diddams Party & Toy Store went viral; and Alameda County DA's work laptop was stolen in a car break-in.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect in Fatal Stabbing Downtown Thursday Morning Arrested The suspect, 41-year-old Paul Durden, was arrested about 6 hours after the stabbing; the ex-MLB pitcher accused of fatally stabbing his father-in-law in Tahoe in 2021 has been extradited to California ahead of being arraigned; and a new Chinatown night market is set for November 10th and 11th.
Business & Tech One Year Into the Musk Era, Twitter/X Has Fewer Users, Fewer Advertisers, Less Clout Whatever Elon Musk's ultimate vision for the platform he and almost no one else calls X may be, it is still slow to take shape, and one year into his tenure at the company, the results of his leadership aren't great.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
