SF News Sunday Links: 2 Juveniles Stabbed in Golden Gate Park Saturday Night Two fatal car crashes took place in SF early Sunday morning, killing 3; two young people were hospitalized after being stabbed in Golden Gate Park, but injuries were not life-threatening; and a fight broke out in a Santa Clara In-N-Out between Raiders and 49ers fans that hospitalized two people.
SF News Two Arrested and $85,000 Worth of Stolen Merchandise Seized in Bay Area Flea Market Bust Two men from Oakland were arrested after California Highway Patrol found stolen items from Victoria's Secret, Sephora, Sunglass Hut, Safeway, and Walgreens at a traffic stop.
SF News Stolen Car Chase Sparks Cross-Bay Pursuit and Dramatic Richmond Standoff A dramatic high-speed chase led authorities across the Bay Bridge twice before the teenage driver was arrested. No human injuries were reported but a K-9 officer was struck.
morning links Saturday Links: Judge Says Antioch Police Officers Don't Have to Testify in Trial Over Racist Texts Friday A judge decided that officers in the racist text scandal didn't need to take the stand this week, prompting criticism; Uber raises the age for drivers to 25; and an ultrarunner set a new speed record on the PCT.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ex-SF Commissioner Rodrigo Santos Gets 30-Month Jail Sentence for City Hall Scandal The 49ers traded former rising star QB Trey Lance to the Cowboys for a 2024 fourth-round pick; Santos officially received prison time for embezzling, defrauding, and bribery; and there are a few adoption events for dog lovers to get new pets this weekend.
SF News Uber and Lyft Drivers Detail Five Most Common Screw-Ups Made by Self-Driving Cars There’s no love lost between human rideshare drivers and the self-driving car companies that hope to replace them, but the rideshare drivers are quick to point out that the robotaxis are nowhere near up to the task yet.
SF News Mystery Group Behind Solano County Land-Grab Revealed to Be Silicon Valley VC Types, Plus Steve Jobs's Widow It didn't take the New York Times very long to get to the bottom of the mystery that has been troubling Solano County officials for several years, namely the identity of the people behind a massive buy-up of farmland totaling over $800 million.
SF News Oakland Woman Arrested for Dealing Drugs in Tenderloin Had Two-Year-Old With Her When Arrested A 21-year-old Oakland woman was arrested in a Tenderloin drug bust that turned up more than three pounds of illegal narcotics, and, more shockingly, she had her two-year-old child with her when arrested.
SF News Meet the First 17 Pop-Ups That the City Will Pay to Live Rent-Free Downtown In Revitalization Effort We learned in April that the city was offering to pay pop-ups as much as $8,000 to occupy vacant retail spaces downtown. We now know the first batch will include Devil’s Teeth Bakery, KALW, and a flea market called Sucka Flea.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Police Union Calls Out Reem's In the Mission for Refusing to Serve Uniformed Cops We've got another one of these controversies in which a Bay Area restaurant has made it a policy not to serve armed and uniformed police officers, and the SF Police Union is again up in arms.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Chef of Empress By Boon to Open New Restaurant In the Marina Next Month The acclaimed chef behind Empress By Boon, Ho Chee Boon, is opening a new, casual restaurant in the Marina District, and it's opening soon.
SF News Viral ‘Police Sit Back & Watch’ Alamo Square Video Was Edited, SFPD Did Pursue Suspect A viral video has racked up nearly a million views claiming “Police Sit Back & Watch” in an Alamo Square theft case, but the video edits out the part where police gave chase, and the stolen items were all recovered.
SF News The Bidens Are In Tahoe, and Two F-16 Fighter Jets Just Had to Chase a Plane Out the Restricted Airspace There President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden have been spending the week on vacation in Lake Tahoe, and this morning two fighter jets had to be deployed by NORAD to chase a private plane out of the temporarily restricted airspace around the lake.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Cruise Vehicle Involved In Crash A Cruise AV was involved in a crash with a construction vehicle on Gough; there was a 3.9M earthquake this morning in Sonoma; and the updated COVID booster is coming available in mid-September.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin’s Black Cat Jazz Supper Club Reducing Its Hours Because of Crime An early morning Bay Bridge toll plaza shooting left one woman injured, DA Jenkins won convictions on a man accused of attacking two women in SoMa, and the Black Cat jazz bar is scaling back its hours over crime concerns.
Arts & Entertainment Welp, Time to Add Carlos Santana to the Anti-Trans Celebrity List After Bizarre Onstage Rant Get ready for guitarist Carlos Santana to be the latest right-wing hero, as video just surfaced of him launching into a completely unprovoked transphobic rant at a late July Santana show in Atlantic City.
SF News Downtown SF IKEA Store Evacuated on First Day Due to False Alarm The city-sized IKEA store that opened Wednesday on Market Street in San Francisco had to be evacuated midway through its first day — and let's hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come!
SF News Tourists' Car Broken Into at Palace of Fine Arts Just as SFPD Holds News Conference On Break-Ins Nearby SF officials held a press conference Thursday morning to discuss a long overdue crackdown on the epidemic of car break-ins in the city. And just as they were about to kick it off, a break-in was occurring a short distance away.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boom! Bissap Baobab Gets Their Liquor License After Year-Long Fight With NIMBY Neighbors The new Mission Street location of Bissap Baobab opened nearly a year ago, and the neighbors were battling its alcohol licenses before it even opened. But the state just granted Bissap Baobab a full liquor license.
Bay Area Sports The A's Could End Up Sharing Oracle Park With the Giants In 2025 Well this would be odd. It looks like the A's management have come up with a shortlist of possibilities for what happens when their lease runs out at the Oakland Coliseum in 2024, and one of them is temporarily moving to San Francisco.
SF News Today Marks the Nine-Year Anniversary of the 6.0 Napa Earthquake That Injured 208 People Wine country was rocked nine years ago today by the South Napa Earthquake, which caused at least $400 million worth of damage to the county, and caused one death and more than 200 injuries.
Arts & Entertainment Civic Center Carnival Kicks Off With Funnel Cakes and a 100-Foot Super Slide San Francisco's latest effort at temporarily activating the plaza in front of City Hall, a four-day, county-fair-style carnival, begins at 2:30 p.m. Thursday and runs through the weekend.
SF Politics Disgraced Ex-DBI Head Rodrigo Santos to Be Sentenced Friday for Corruption That Apparently Spanned Decades On the eve of former DBI commission president Rodrigo Santos’s federal sentencing Friday for fraud, tax evasion, and lying to the FBI, a new report delves into his corrupt exploits that allegedly date back to at least 2005.
SF News Authorities Seize $15,000 Worth of GHB From Marin Nail Salon Federal and local authorities conducted a sting operation after U.S. Customs agents recently discovered a package full of the party/date-rape drug GHB being shipped to a nail salon in Fairfax.
SF News Kristin Smart's Convicted Killer Paul Flores Gets Attacked In Prison The man convicted last year for the 1996 murder of his college classmate Kristin Smart, Paul Flores, was reportedly attacked in prison Wednesday and was hospitalized in serious condition.
