SF News Dead Body Found In West Oakland After Fire Is Set Near Freway Off-Ramp CHP is investigating the death of a person whose body was found near the I-980 off-ramp at 17th Street early Tuesday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 13-Year-Old Crashes Tesla In Sonoma County Three kids including a 13-year-old driver crashed a Tesla in Santa Rosa; a Fremont couple had their car stolen out of a Walmart Auto Care center; and a missing 12-year-old girl has been found in San Francisco.
SF News Four-Alarm Fire In Hayes Valley Destroys New Building Under Construction, Displaces Eight In Nearby Buildings A major blaze broke out Tuesday morning around 6 a.m. that sent flames into the sky on Octavia Boulevard, threatening neighboring buildings and disrupting the morning commute for some in San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Woman Shoots at Intruders, Scares Them Off The SFPD is seeking help finding a missing 12-year-old girl; a 75-year-old Oakland woman shot her gun at some home-invasion suspects and they ran off after trying to shoot back; and onetime KTVU reporter Betty Ann Bruno died over the weekend at age 91.
SF News Fish Beware, Another ‘Red Tide’ Toxic Algae Bloom Could Be Coming To Bay Area Waters This Summer We could see a repeat of last summer’s “red tide” toxic algae bloom that caused a mass fish kill-off at Lake Merritt, as scientists have observed the telltale reddish-brown water at shorelines in Berkeley, Emeryville, and Albany.
Arts & Entertainment Ferris Wheel and 100-Foot Super Slide Coming to Four-Day Carnival In SF's Civic Center In her latest effort to enliven the Civic Center area and push the open-air drug trade back further into the Tenderloin, Mayor London Breed announced Monday that there's going to be a four-day carnival outside City Hall in late August.
Arts & Entertainment 'Euphoria' Actor Angus Cloud Dead at 25, Found at Home In Oakland It appears that actor Angus Cloud, who played Fezco on two seasons of the HBO series 'Euphoria,' has taken his own life at age 25, and he was found dead in his family's home in Oakland.
Arts & Entertainment KGO Anchor Dan Ashley and His Band Added to Outside Lands Lineup Dad rock fans rejoice! 59-year-old ABC-7 news anchor Dan Ashley, who does indeed moonlight as a rock’n’roll singer, has just had his band added to the Saturday lineup for Outside Lands.
SF News Semi-Truck Full of 40,000 Pounds of Chocolate Goes Up in Blazes in Placer County A real meltdown in the Placer County city of Colfax, as a semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of chocolate burst into flames early this morning on I-80, and that 40,000 pounds of chocolate is still sitting there in the sun.
SF News New Attorneys for Accused Killer Nima Momeni Begin Hearing By Questioning the Handling of the Murder Weapon Monday's preliminary hearing in the trial of Bob Lee's accused killer Nima Momeni saw his new defense team questioning a key piece of evidence, the kitchen knife that prosecutors say was the murder weapon and that Momeni disposed of near the crime scene.
Business & Tech As Quickly As It Went Up, the 'X' On Top of the Twitter Building Is Gone The defiance of Elon Musk seems to have some limits, as the X on top of what I guess we're now supposed to refer to as the X Building was removed on Monday morning, after a weekend of neighbor complaints.
SF News Bay Area Shelters Overwhelmed With Rabbits as People Keep Dumping Bunnies in Parks An unusual run of people abandoning domesticated rabbits in parks has Bay Area shelters hopping to get creative, and SF Animal Care & Control is waiving rabbit adoption fees for the month of August.
Arts & Entertainment Sunny Dore Alley Fair Day Brings Out Pre-Pandemic-Sized Crowd Sunday marked the first Up Your Alley fair day on Folsom Street since the pandemic that looked and felt just like the old days, rampant nudity and all.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Car Fire Sparks Brush Fire Outside Livermore There was a deadly domestic violence stabbing in Redwood City on Sunday; a car fire sparked an 87-acre brush fire near I-580 outside LIvermore; and Anchor Brewing's taproom officially shut down Sunday.
SF News Oakland Police Investigating Deadly Shooting in Church Parking Lot, Amid Spate of Weekend Shootings Several separate incidents left two dead and six others injured from gunfire throughout Oakland over the weekend, amid recent outcry from residents about crime.
SF News Elon Musk's Social Media Company Installs Giant 'X' Logo on HQ Roof, Prompting Another City Investigation San Francisco opened a complaint and launched an investigation into the installation, but city workers say they were denied access to the roof on-site to inspect it on Friday and Saturday.
SF News Sunday Links: 3.6-M Earthquake Rattles the South Bay Sunday Morning The quake hit Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose, at 6:49 a.m.; Taylor Swift fans brought the VTA's ridership to historic highs over the weekend; and a man stabbed two women on Sunday, one fatally.
SF News California State Law Won't Let In-N-Out Ban on Workers Wearing Masks Go Through The burger chain said in a memo earlier this month that it wants to "emphasize the importance of customer service” and “smiles," but the ban on employee masking won't happen in California.
SF News Illegal Medical Lab Found in Warehouse Near Fresno, With Bioengineered Mice, COVID and Hepatitis Material On Site Authorities are investigating after a warehouse in Reedley City, owned by a company operating under the name "Prestige Biotech," turned to house infectious agents and biohazardous materials.
SF News Saturday Links: Taylor Swift's First Bay Area Eras Tour Friday Night Draws Massive Numbers, Breaks Curfew Taylor Swift's Friday show brought droves of Swifties to Santa Clara via BART; Dave Chapelle came back for a surprise show in SF Friday that went better than the last one; and an SF woman is speaking out after her car was destroyed in an encampment fire in NoPa this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Billionaire Developer Who Pled Guilty to Bribery Faces Lawsuits and Unfinished Projects in SF The backup Uber driver in the first death by a fully autonomous car pled guilty; Anchor Steam employees say Sapporo won't give them a fair chance to buy it before it closes; and mega-rich real estate tycoon and briber Zhang Li still faces a lawsuit and broken deals in San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fisherman’s Wharf Restaurants Pompei’s Grotto and Lou’s Fish Shack Both Close Permanently Both Lou’s Fish Shack and Pompei’s Grotto have been closed the whole the pandemic, and they won’t reopen, as they’re both taking exit deals to relinquish their properties to the Port of San Francisco.
SF News DA Jenkins Releases Castro Car-Flip Carjacking Suspects, Drops Charges Pending More Evidence Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anchor Brewing Employees Frustrated By Sapporo, Say Their Purchase Bid Was Delayed A group of unionized employees at Anchor Brewing Co. were pleading with Sapporo to keep the brewery open an extra month so that they could secure financing for their purchase bid and go over the company's financials. But Sapporo is going ahead with their bankruptcy receivership.
SF News Oakland Residents Fume Over Crime at Community Meeting With DA, Oakland Police As an East Bay crime wave continues, Alameda County DA Pamela Price and Oakland PD top brass faced the music at a Thursday night community meeting, where people largely just shouted the speakers (and each other) down.
