SF News 73-Year-Old Oakland Woman Killed in Hit-and-Run, Driver Suspected of Street Racing A Friday night hit-and-run near Fruitvale in Oakland took the life of 73-year-old Santu Maya, and police believe the suspect vehicle was engaged in illegal street racing.
SF News Newly Surfaced Surveillance Video Shows Gunman In Wharf Area Shootout Some new video has surfaced showing one of the shooters involved in Sunday evening's rolling gun battle that began near Fisherman's Wharf and ended a mile down the Embarcadero.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hunter Biden Takes a Plea A crash involving two big-rigs snarled traffic this a.m. on I-80 in Richmond; five teens were arrested Sunday in San Mateo County for armed robbery; and Hunter Biden just pleaded guilty to tax and gun charges.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Pink Triangle Once Again Installed on Twin Peaks The big pink triangle is up looking over the Castro once again this week; a suspect with a warrant in SF for armed robbery was arrested after three armed robberies in Marin County; and a Pacific Heights Church just hosted a "Drag Queen Bible Story Hour."
SF Politics Mayor Breed Scoffs at ‘Good Morning America’ For Saying It Was Too Dangerous To Shoot A Segment at Union Square SF Mayor London Breed has some words for a 'Good Morning America' reporter who claimed it was “simply too dangerous” to shoot a segment in Union Square, even though they clearly shot the segment anyway.
SF News Wildfire Season Already? Four Fires This Weekend In Bay Area and Beyond Spur Concerns This weekend's Snell Fire in Napa County is now 100% contained after burning 103 acres, but despite this year’s rainy winter, a weekend of several NorCal fires has officials warning that precautions are still very much necessary.
Business & Tech Hacking Outfit Demands $4.5M Ransom From Reddit, Threatens to Leak 80GB of Confidential Data A ransomware group known as BlackCat or ALPHV is reportedly trying to extort $4.5 million from Reddit, and they have glommed on to the recent user controversy and boycott over recently announced pricing for Reddit's API.
SF News Two In Custody Following Pier 39 Shootout; Supervisors Say It's a 'Miracle' Bystanders Weren't Seriously Injured A white Infiniti sedan was still at large Monday morning, according to police, after it was seen exchanging gunfire with a black Chevy Blazer Sunday evening, and two individuals in the Chevy are in police custody.
Sponsored Neil Young's Coastal Tour 7/15 in Berkeley @ The Greek and & 7/23 @ Oxbow RiverStage Acclaimed singer-songwriter Neil Young recently announced his 'Coastal Tour,' with supporting act Chris Pierce, which will include a memorable event on Saturday, July 15, at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley and another on July 23rd in Napa.
SF News President Biden Arriving In Bay Area Today For Multi-Day Visit Biden’s in the Bay Area starting this afternoon to tout a climate project and of course raise money for his reelection campaign, and oddly, Ron DeSantis will be here courting donors tonight too.
SF News Very Few Homes Hitting the Market In SF In Ongoing, Interest-Rate-Related Slump Prices remain very high in San Francisco's for-sale market for homes, but that is partly because so few have come on the market, relatively, over the last year — the lowest monthly number in two decades. And the reason for that is pretty clear.
SF News Six People, Including 10-Year-Old Child, Injured In Shootout Between Cars Near SF's Fisherman's Wharf Initial reports were that two people were shot, but ultimately San Francisco police found that six people were injured in the conflict including four bystanders, in a "rolling gun battle" between two vehicles Sunday night in a busy tourist section of town.
Bay Area Sports Giants Sweep Dodgers In Series Where L.A. Had Disinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Did the Dodgers curse themselves with their clumsy disinviting and reinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their Pride Night? Because the Giants swept the Dodgers in Los Angeles during the series, their first sweep of the bums in L.A. in 11 years.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Die In Music Festival Shooting In Washington 22-year-old Javier Campos, the suspect in the Mission District shooting ten days ago, was in court in Santa Cruz County; two people were killed at the Beyond Wonderland EDM festival Saturday; and four were displaced in an early morning fire in Oakland.
SF News Rare Corpse Flower Set to Bloom at San Francisco Conservatory in Next Two Weeks One of the Conservatory's Corpse flowers, colloquially called Scarlet but scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanium, could bloom for a mere two to three days in the next few weeks, if we're lucky.
SF News Pod of Orcas Attacks Palo Alto Family's Sailboat Off the Coast of Southern Spain, Stranding Family Asea The Currier family's Mediteranean trip was cut short when their boat was rammed by the orcas in an increasingly common and characteristic that lasted only four minutes but broke its rudder.
SF News Sunday Links: 4.4-M Earthquake Shakes Mendocino County Saturday Night The earthquake around 9 p.m. Saturday night caused no injuries; Police arrested 11 people for shoplifting over 125 items in a Milipitas mall; and a man was attacked with a pickax in San Carlos.
SF News 103-Acre Snell Fire in Napa Now 80% Contained, Cal Fire Confirms [Updated] The vegetation fire is just southeast of Middletown in Napa County, but forward progress has been stopped and there are no reported injuries or damage.
SF News From 'Beach Bummers' to 'Poo-cifica,' California Coast Struggles with High Levels of Sewage After Winter Storms A new report shows how the winter's storms caused sewage overflows that have polluted the state's beaches, with five of its dirtiest beaches located in San Mateo County.
SF News Saturday Links: Hateful Anti-LGBT Protesters Try to Spoil Pride Night at Giants-Dodgers Game in LA It's not clear if the demonstrators were against the Pride Night or the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who were invited to the game; almost all of the Capp Street barriers have been destroyed; and there's a Juneteenth festival happening in the Fillmore District today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sriracha Shortage Is Rocking the Bay Area A man's death at an Oakland encampment from injuries from a porta potty fire is being investigated as a homicide; Señor Sisig says desperate customers are taking its Sriracha; and a new natural wine bar called Bar Gemini is opening in the Mission.
SF News Another Bay Area Movie Theater Closes, This Time the 88-Year-Old Albany Twin We’ve seen this movie many times before as theaters try to emerge from the pandemic slump, but this one's truly the end of an era, as the 88-year-old Albany Twin theater on Solano Avenue suddenly closed permanently on Thursday.
SF News Young Pitbull Pup Found Wandering on Bay Bridge An orange pitbull puppy was found either abandoned or having escaped some vehicle on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, and SF Animal Care & Control is looking for the dog's owner.
SF News New Jazz Club and Harlem-Based Red Rooster Restaurant Among Proposed Tenants at Beleaguered Fillmore Heritage Center It's been years of false starts and back and forth between the community and the city, but there's finally some movement at the Fillmore Heritage Center that could see it transformed into a lively destination again in the coming years.
Business & Tech Meta Is Abandoning Their COVID-19 Misinformation Policy on Facebook and Instagram Great news for your crazy uncle: Facebook and Instagram will no longer remove posts with COVID misinformation in countries that no longer have a COVID-19 public health emergency declaration, which is basically most of the world.
