SF News Oakland Police Arrest Trio In Connection With Carjacking Spree, Including Attempt Caught on Video While a spate of robberies and carjackings by multiple crews still may not be over, Oakland police say they've arrested three individuals who they believe were working together on a spree of carjackings, including an attempted one earlier this week that was caught on dashcam video.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Fried Chicken Spot Minnie Bell's Is Coming to the Fillmore Minnie Bell's Soul Movement, the five-year-old soul-food stall at Emeryville's Public Market, is expanding to San Francisco, and it's a homecoming for chef-owner Fernay McPherson, who's a third-generation resident of the Fillmore District.
SF News State Bureau Fines Walgreens Guard Who Shot Banko Brown $1,500 This is by no means the end of the legal recriminations in the fatal shooting of Banko Brown by a Walgreens security guard, but the guard in question has been fined $1,500 by the state’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Firefighters Contain Two-Alarm Blaze In Sunset District A two-alarm residential fire in the Sunset left two injured Thursday night; Sen. Dianne Feinstein flies home today for the August recess; and Taylor Swift fans are likely to be lining up when the parking lot at Levi's opens today at 2 p.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brock Purdy Successfully Throws Football Again, Fans Go Berserk Senator Dianne Feinstein had another embarrassing memory loss episode, the city of Hayward says they’ve restored their hacked computer network, and Brock Purdy was seen throwing a football for the first time since tearing an elbow ligament in the playoffs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Snug Team's New Raw Bar, Little Shucker, Debuts On Fillmore Next Week Cocktail and snack spot The Snug in Pacific Heights is getting a sister seafood restaurant, Little Shucker, which opens to the public next week, on August 3.
SF News Developer Wins Bid to Nix Tennis Courts From SoMa Tennis Club Redevelopment The one-time SF Bay Tennis Club has been razed to the ground, and after a new developer promised and then backed out of a promise to put tennis courts on their forthcoming project, the SF Planning commission approved the no-tennis-court version Thursday.
SF News SFPD Scandal Could Cause 132 Drug Cases to be Tossed, Suspect With 11 Pounds of Fentanyl Off the Hook Drug suspects in a stunning 82 SF cases have already received “Get out of jail free” cards courtesy an SFPD officer accused of having an inappropriate relationship with an informant, including one suspect busted with 11 pounds of fentanyl, and more may yet walk.
SF News Woman Stabbed In San Mateo Apartment; Suspect Streams Final Moments On Facebook San Mateo County has just seen another gruesome murder that sounds like a domestic violence incident, this time involving a woman being stabbed live on Facebook.
SF News SF Does Not Have Highest Homelessness Rate In California — We’re No. 3 A new report shows that both Oakland and Los Angeles have higher rates of homelessness than San Francisco, but it's still telling that California has the top five highest homelessness rates among major U.S. cities.
Business & Tech Turning 'Tweets' Into 'Xs' Not Likely Happening In the General Lexicon Anytime Soon While Elon Musk can order all the graphics and signs swapped out that he likes, he actually doesn't have the power to erase a verb and a noun from our contemporary vocabulary.
SF News Accused Bob Lee Killer Nima Momeni Due Back In Court Monday, More Evidence May Emerge As the multiply delayed preliminary hearing in the Bob Lee murder case is finally set to begin Monday, we learn there may be some new evidence from the prosecution — perhaps about motive — that will be made public.
SF News Video Surfaces of Wednesday's Police Shooting in Bayview, Victim Identified Graphic video of SFPD shooting a man in Bayview Wednesday afternoon has been posted to social media, and it does appear the victim was pointing a gun at officers. He’s since been identified as a 41-year-old San Francisco man.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pregnant Woman Shot In Oakland A woman who is nine months pregnant was shot Wednesday night in Oakland; SF Sheriff Paul Miyamoto talks about the fentanyl crackdown; and the SF Unified School District is being sued over a sex abuse claim from 2004.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Police Shooting In Bayview There was a fatal police shooting Wednesday afternoon in the Bayview District; a woman in the Oakland hills narrowly escaped being carjacked and it was caught on camera; and SF Mayor London Breed just signed the city's two-year budget.
SF News Dr. Bob Wachter Recovers From COVID and Gruesome Trash Can Injury, Jokes About It on Podcast After a bout with COVID and a nasty collapse onto a trash can, UCSF COVID sage Dr. Bob Wachter is almost as good as new, and yukking it up over the whole ordeal on a new podcast.
SF News SF Adds New Teacher Housing Projects, One of Which Will Convert Eyesore at 18th and Mission There are two new housing developments for teachers in the SF housing pipeline, including the highly tagged, dilapidated abandoned property at 18th and Mission Streets.
SF News SFPD Makes Two Arrests In Sanchez Steps Car-Flip, Carjacking It's been just four days, and the SFPD has made two arrests in that carjacking and subsequent spectacular, coocoo-crazy car crash over the Sanchez Street steps in the Castro.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cellarmaker Brewing Co. Opens New Berkeley Beer Garden, Oakland Taproom Coming Next Month The Detroit-style pizza and craft beer of Cellarmaker is making its way to the East Bay, as the brewer recently opened its Berkeley beer garden, and its anticipated Oakland brewery and taproom is coming next month.
SF News Feinstein's Office Seeks 'Clarification' On Golden Gate Fields Track Shutdown Senator Dianne Feinstein (or one of her aides) penned a letter this week to the owners of Golden Gate Fields, the 80-year-old horse racing track on the Berkeley-Albany border that announced its closure last week.
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Early 2023 Lineup Reveal Includes Jason Isbell, John Doe, The Church While there are still many, many acts yet to be announced, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2023 festival teased its first ten artist announcements, highlighted by former Drive-By Truckers guitarist Jason Isbell.
SF News SF Man Charged With Section 8 Fraud Scheme In Which He Allegedly Used Funds to Pay For Maui Timeshare A San Francisco man has been indicted on federal fraud charges for a scheme in which he allegedly received Section 8 housing payments for years while concealing his actual income from the feds.
SF News Oakland Man Who Did Time For Attack On Chinatown Leader Charged With Assault on Elderly SF Woman A mentally ill Oakland man who was previously convicted for a 2021 assault on Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce leader Carl Chan has now been charged in an attack on an elderly Asian woman that took place in SF last week.
SF News The SAG-AFTRA Strike Comes to SF With City Hall Rally Wednesday Night After the striking writers and actors picketed Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos last week, now they’re coming to San Francisco City Hall for a 5 p.m. Wednesday rally where all are welcome to come raise heck.
SF News Video: Nude Woman Fires Gun Multiple Times Near Bay Bridge Toll Plaza We have yet another story involving a Bay Area bridge, someone going through something, and a major traffic backup resulting from the situation.
