SF News Chinese Tycoon Admits To Bribing Mohammed Nuru, Gets Sweetheart Plea Deal From Feds Billionaire developer Zhang Li, known for bribing Mohammed Nuru with the $2,000 bottle of wine, a trip to China, and a fancy tractor, admitted guilt on Wednesday. But he got a highly favorable deal that involves no jail time.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Two Hospitalized In Bike-vs-Scooter Crash on Market Two people were badly injured in a scooter-on-bike crash on Market Street; the SFPD has made an arrest in Friday's food-delivery carjacking; and the winning $1B Powerball ticket was sold in California (but not here).
SF News Day Around the Bay: Urban Alchemy Has Another Weapons Scandal Over Employee Carrying Giant Knife On Duty The Castro may be getting a new pilates studio, a new report finds ex-DBI commissioner Rodrigo Santos was allegedly working from an unpermitted office, and street ambassador outfit Urban Alchemy will have to answer for an on-duty employee carrying a very large knife.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Star Pippi Lovestocking Speaks Publicly For First Time Since Cardiac Incident at Heklina’s Memorial Since suffering a severe medical incident at Heklina’s memorial in May, Pippi Lovestocking has endured an induced coma, sepsis, and lost both hands and feet, but has opened up about the experience in a just-published interview.
SF News Stanford University President Resigns Amid Probe Into Integrity of His Research Stanford University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne announced his resignation Wednesday after an independent review board found serious flaws in five studies he'd been a part of, triggered by the school's student newspaper reporting.
SF News Legal Battles For Control of the Dianne Feinstein Fortune Trust Already Underway Senator Dianne Feinstein is a very wealthy woman, thanks in large part to her late financier husband Richard Blum, but Blum’s estate trustees and Feinstein’s daughter are locked in a bitter battle over who gets control of that money.
SF News Skeleton Found in Abandoned Building on UC Berkeley Campus Identified as Texas-Based Homicide Victim The skeletal remains on a UC Berkeley dormitory campus have been identified as Steven Lawrence McCreary, a nomadic Texas man who was last seen in 2009 at the age of 37, but forensic evidence shows his death was likely a homicide.
SF News Two New Forms of Fentanyl, Including Tranq, Turning Up More In SF Overdoses The SF fentanyl supply is getting laced with new varieties of the drug, like the potentially five times more powerful drug fluorofentanyl, and the veterinary tranquilizer with the street name “tranq.”
SF News Air Quality Advisory Issued for Bay Area Wednesday Afternoon as Oregon Wildfire Smoke Approaches The Bay Area Air Quality Management District warned that smoke from an Oregon wildfire is set to drift into the Bay Area Wednesday afternoon and evening, and residents could see hazy skies and smell soot.
SF News Five Officers In Antioch Police Scandal Won’t Show For Hearing, Claiming They Have ‘Industrial Injuries’ Hearings begin Friday in a Contra Costa County Superior Court over the Antioch PD’s racist text message scandal, but five officers will resist their subpoenas, claiming they are too injured to testify.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Restaurants Gain Michelin Stars, Two Lose Them In New Guide The 2023 update to the California Michelin Guide — coming just seven months after the 2022 guide release — brings new star ratings to three Bay Area restaurants, including two in San Francisco. And two SF restaurants were stripped of stars.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Dies On Bay Bridge A man seen climbing the Bay Bridge last night was found dead; three people were killed in two separate shootings in Oakland this morning; and Nancy Pelosi is raising money like she does not plan to retire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Those Dead and Company Shows Pumped $31 Million Into the SF Economy SF supervisors approved Mayor Breed’s $15 billion budget, while Breed is courting the University of California to build a downtown SF campus, and this weekend’s Dead and Company shows brought a reported $30.9 million into the local economy.
SF Politics Sunset NIMBYs Once Again Appealing 90-Unit Affordable Housing Project at Irving Street and 28th Avenue After losing a court battle as well as a previous government appeal, the “No Slums in the Sunset” crowd is back with another appeal of an affordable housing project, this time claiming concerns over “soil vapor.”
SF News Dutch Tourist Dies Following Scooter Collision In Downtown San Francisco A 55-year-old Dutch man who was visiting San Francisco earlier this month has died from injuries he sustained after being struck by a scooter on Market Street.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Swift to Be Named Honorary Mayor of Santa Clara, City to Be Renamed ‘Swiftie Clara’ For two days (and two Midnights), Taylor Swift will be the honorary mayor of Santa Clara, and the city ceremonially renamed “Swiftie Clara,” under a proposal that will be considered tonight by Santa Clara City Council.
SF News Talk of Redeveloping Golden Gate Fields Has Already Begun Following Monday's announcement that 80-year-old East Bay racetrack Golden Gate Fields plans to shut down racing for good this fall, the talk has already begun about could be done with the 140-acre property.
SF News Speed Limit Cameras Proposed For SF, Oakland, San Jose, Other California Cities The latest proposal to roll out speed-limit detection cameras in the largest California cities is picking up the pace in the state legislature, and drivers in Oakland, SF, and San Jose could get automated speeding tickets for going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
SF News SF Delivery Drivers Targeted In Crimes Twice In Two Days A Friday carjacking of a delivery driver in SoMa was followed by a Saturday shooting of an Amazon driver in Potrero Hill, making a rough weekend for delivery drivers in San Francisco.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff's Helicopter Rescues Teen With Rattlesnake Bite We haven't heard about too many rattlesnake incidents around the Bay so far this year. But there are plenty of the venomous snakes up in the North Bay, and a 13-year-old boy had an encounter with one over the weekend.
SF News Marauding RV Causes Extensive Damage on Altamont Pass as It Tries to Speed Past Traffic An RV driving recklessly Monday on I-580 on the Altamont Pass, in Livermore, caused damage to multiple vehicles as it tried to plow past and through some traffic.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 80-Year-Old Ice Cream Man Robbed In Oakland An 80-year-old man selling ice cream was the victim of an armed robbery in Oakland's Fruitvale; California is again facing a shortage of firefighters for fire season; and Donald Trump says he is officially a target of the Jan. 6th investigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Another Child Is Hit By Gunfire In East Bay Freeway Shooting An 8-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being hit by crossfire in a freeway shooting Friday; two Santa Clara Co. sheriff's deputies have died in the last week; and a new poll finds Rep. Katie Porter leading in the race for Feinstein's Senate seat.
SF Politics Breed’s Latest Pick For Homelessness Commission Faces Blowback For Having Opposed a Shelter After her last pick for the Homelessness Oversight Commission was tripped up over an accounting scandal, Breed’s newest pick has hit a hurdle over some Nextdoor comments opposing an RV homeless shelter.
SF News One Person Shot In Attempted Armed Robbery at Emeryville Bank of America The victim is in stable condition, but four male suspects are still at large after fleeing in a Hyundai sedan after an attempted robbery at the San Pablo Avenue Bank of America in Emeryville.
