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.
SF News Two United Airlines Employees Charged With Stealing Copious Amounts of Marijuana From Passenger Baggage Both the FBI and the drug dealers were wise to a scheme where two airline employees were allegedly stealing mass amounts of marijuana from San Francisco airport passengers’ luggage and selling it themselves.
SF News SF General Calls Brentwood Family to Tell Them Their Son Is Dead, But It Was a Mistake A Brentwood family is reeling from a case of mistaken identity in which a staffer at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital called to tell them last week that their family member was fatally shot. But it actually wasn't true.
SF News Tenant of Sunset District Home That Exploded Due to Alleged Drug Lab Re-Arrested on Murder Charge Darron Price, the Sunset District resident who was arrested in February after his home exploded due to what investigators say was a leaky butane tank that was part of an illegal drug manufacturing lab, is now facing a new murder charge and was re-arrested.
SF News Another Planet Entertainment Gets Their Way On Castro Theatre Renovations In Decisive City Hall Vote Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their wish on their proposed Castro Theatre renovations Thursday, though also agreed to a laundry list of compromises dictating their film and LGBTQ programming, and even what concessions they sell at the snack bar.
SF News 32-Year-Old Man Convicted In SoMa Mugging In Which Victim Was Shot In Leg A jury in San Francisco this week convicted a 32-year-old man in a brazen attempted armed robbery on a SoMa street last summer in which the victim was shot in the leg.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Residents Near 24th Street on Edge After Shooting Neighbors around 24th Street still uneasy after last week's shooting; a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Chesa Boudin; we're in for some more weather whiplash this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AT&T Closing Its Flagship Union Square Store MLB commissioner Rob Manfred pissed off the city of Oakland with inaccurate remarks, the SF Gay Softball League is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and yet another Union Square flagship store is closing.
SF News KRON4 Is Becoming a CW Network Affiliate, Will Broadcast TV Shows In Prime Time Shows Instead of Local News The four hours of local news every weeknight on KRON4 will be replaced by the likes of ‘Riverdale’ and ‘FBoy Island,’ as KRON4 will become an affiliate of the CW Network on September 1.
SF News Retail Experts Predict Downtown and Westfield Mall Recovery Maybe In 2024 It's not all doom-loop and gloom if you talk to retail real estate people in San Francisco right now. And while it's perhaps just their job to be cheerleaders even in sorry-looking times, at least a few say that empty storefronts are just opportunities.
Arts & Entertainment Free Drag Shows Make Up a Whole New Scene In SF During Pride Month Drag performers are kicking their heels out to Financial District bars, Salesforce Park, and even Ocean Beach in a series of free drag shows for Pride Month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Udon Noodle Spot, Katsuo & Kombu, Opens On Divisadero A Japanese noodle spot serving housemade udon has just opened on the Divisadero corridor, and it's sort of a spinoff of Noe Valley's Hamano Sushi.
SF News SF Man Convicted of Assaulting Girlfriend's Mother With Machete A man arrested in May 2022 at a Visitacion Valley home for an attack on the mother and sister of a woman he was dating has been convicted of assault and several other charges.
Sponsored Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan to Shine In Napa Next Month On Friday, July 14, 2023, the Oxbow RiverStage in Napa, California will host a night of unforgettable musical chemistry between two legendary artists: Charlie Wilson and Chaka Khan.
SF News Big Ol’ Black Bear Makes Self Right At Home In Marin County Front Yard The rare sight of a black bear was captured on security camera footage from a San Rafael home, and it's reportedly the second bear sighting in Marin County in the past month.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested For Mission Shooting Was Wanted for Oakland Music Video Shooting That Killed One 22-year-old Javier Campos was arrested Wednesday night in Santa Cruz County and he's been linked to both Friday's Mission District shooting and the shootout at a gas station in Oakland that killed an 18-year-old man in January.
SF Politics House Votes Against Censuring Adam Schiff; Schiff Trolls George Santos Over Video A House Republican effort to censure California Rep. Adam Schiff over his involvement in the first impeachment of Donald Trump failed on Wednesday, with a few Republicans even voting against it.
SF News CHP Drug Crackdown May Involve Low-Level Stops That SF Police Commission Voted To Ban The Chronicle did a ride-along with California Highway Patrol officers on their fentanyl crackdown efforts, and found they may be pulling people over for low-level traffic stops that have been likened to racial profiling.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Person of Interest Detained In Mission Shooting Javier Campos, the person of interest wanted in connection with Friday's shooting in the Mission, has been detained; accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape was back in court Wednesday; and two Americans were found dead in a Baja California motel.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Becomes First U.S. City With 50% Electric Vehicle Sales San Francisco just became the first U.S. city to see over 50% of new car sales be electric; a guy tried to donate a live grenade to the naval museum in Vallejo; and there's some explanation now for a power outage at SFO Tuesday night.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Entertainment Wants To Bring Free Outdoor Concerts To Downtown SF, Starting Next Year No acts have been named, but Another Planet Entertainment is proposing a batch of at least three free outdoor concerts in San Francisco next year, at Civic Center Plaza, Embarcadero Plaza, and Union Square, for the next three years.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Notoriously Nasty Burger King at Civic Center Has New Tenant: Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Outfit The beleaguered Burger King at Market and Grove Streets vacated that space in 2019, and now has a new tenant in ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens ghost kitchen operation.
SF News Sole Surviving Victim of Half Moon Bay Shooting Says He's 'Scarred for Life' Pedro Felix Romero Perez was the only one of eight people shot at two Half Moon Bay farms on January 23, and he's just now speaking out about the experience.
SF Politics Adding to Biden's Diverse Slate of Judicial Nominees, Senate Confirms SF's First Openly Gay Federal Judge The San Francisco federal bench just got its first openly gay judge, as odd as that is to say in 2023. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Biden's nomination of SF labor lawyer P. Casey Pitts to be a judge in U.S District Court.
SF News Driver Killed In Fatal San Jose Crash As SUV Veers Off Road, Catches Fire An early morning SUV crash closed off two lanes of traffic on I-680 near Warmsprings in San Jose Wednesday, and the driver did not survive after their SUV went off the highway and caught fire upon hitting trees.
