SF News Suspicious Package at SFO Prompts Evacuation and Delays Sunday Afternoon Chaos unfolded at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday afternoon when a suspicious package was discovered in a terminal, causing an evacuation and causing flight diversions and significant delays.
SF News Small Hawaii-Bound Plane Crashes Into Pacific Ocean Off Half Moon Bay, Killing 2 Onboard The plane went down around 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon right after the pilot issued a distress signal, and authorities are still investigating.
SF News Sunday Links: Bay to Breakers Race and Festivities Begin In San Francisco Organizers said that 5,000 more people signed up for this year's Bay to Breakers than 2022s, and expect crowds of tens of thousands; A Concord man was sentenced for shooting a teenager to impress Bay Area MS-13; and the wife of Sonoma County Sheriff was arrested on suspicion of DUI.
SF News San Francisco Man Indicted on Felony Charges for Firing Gun at U.S. Postal Worker Vo Nguyen, 38, allegedly fired at least 15 shots at a mail carrier outside his house on Sparta Street in the Viz Valley neighborhood in April, and now faces up to 20 years in prison.
SF News Allegedly Armed Suspect Shot By SFPD Officer After Hours-Long Standoff in Glen Park Neighborhood Friday Afternoon Police responded to reports of an armed individual apparently entering the building at 145 Bosworth Street with an open container of alcohol and a handgun and threatening people inside around 2:30 p.m. Friday.
SF News Saturday Links: Beyoncé and Jay-Z Break California Real Estate Record With Most Expensive House Purchase Jay-Z and Beyoncé reportedly paid $200 million for a massive Malibu house on the beach; Twitter is facing another lawsuit and city investigation around trying to force its employees to sleep in its office; and it's tide pool season in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: AG Bonta Won't Charge Former SFPD Cop Who Shot Keita O'Neil California just hit a high number of homes per person thanks to a surge in building and drop in population; Uber is downsizing its SF headquarters; and state AG Rob Bonta is declining to file charges in the 2017 Keita O'Neil police shooting.
SF News California Cops Worried That New ‘Fast & Furious’ Sequel Will Cause More Sideshows The City of Oakland just passed stricter new sideshow crackdown legislation, but some law enforcement authorities wonder if the new movie Fast X isn’t going to just set off more sideshows all over the state this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Bay Area Children’s Theatre Abruptly Closes After 19 Years of Performances for Kids The pandemic-era economic challenges to the theater business apparently also apply to children’s theater, as the Bay Area Children’s Theatre announced its sudden closure this week after nearly 20 years of performances.
SF News Florida Woman Extradited To Bay Area Over Odd Accidental Death of Kim Kardashian Look-Alike A silicone enhancement injection in a Burlingame hotel room that went very wrong took the life of a 34-year-old Kim Kardashian look-alike model, and the Florida woman who allegedly administered the fatal injection is being extradited back to San Mateo County to face charges.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
SF News North Beach Restaurant American Bites Facing Backlash After Hosting Virulent Anti-Trans Event A Soleil Ho opinion piece in the Chronicle brought attention to an anti-trans dinner party at a North Beach restaurant, but now the restaurant itself is getting a barrage of bad press and one-star Yelp reviews for hosting the event.
Business & Tech Twitter Exec Says He Quit After Being Ordered to Make Illegal Building Changes, According to Lawsuit Brought By Six Former Employees The fallout from Elon Musk's great shakeup-and-layoff spree at Twitter in late 2022 continues this week with a new lawsuit filed in Delaware's Court of Chancery by six former employees who claim they are still owed severance, and that they were ordered by Musk's team to break laws.
SF News Census: Santa Cruz Grew Quickly, SF Shrank Less Quickly In Second Year of Pandemic; Sun Belt Cities Saw Most Growth Santa Cruz, California was the second-fastest-growing city in the country between July 2021 and July 2022, according to detailed estimates just released by the U.S. Census Bureau. And in that second year of the pandemic, San Francisco fell off the list of fastest-shrinking cities.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nevada Lawmakers Balk at A's Dollar Ask Nevada lawmakers only want to give the A's half of the funding they are seeking for their new Vegas stadium; that new toll has been approved for Highway 37 in Sonoma County; and a reminder of which streets are closing for Bay to Breakers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Super Bowl Appears To Be Coming Back to Levi’s Stadium, For Better Or Worse West side supervisors are not happy about this expanded Outside Lands idea, Rep. Swalwell got a death threat from a former 49er, but the 49ers appear to have just scored the 2026 Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium.
Arts & Entertainment Your Bay to Breakers Guide To Drinking and Partying During the Run Our Bay to Breakers liquor store map is back for 2023, along with tips on navigating the enforcement hotspots where you run the risk of getting your booze confiscated, and which parts of town will be gated off to keep the drunken runners out.
SF Politics Senator Dianne Feinstein Continues to Suffer From Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a Side Effect of Shingles After much buzzing in Washington about Senator Dianne Feinstein's seemingly rushed return — after a nearly three-month absence — to the Senate, looking and sounding not-100%, her spokesperson has now clarified what is going on, health-wise.
Bay Area Sports Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Others Respond to the L.A. Dodgers' Dumbness In Bowing to Marco Rubio Late Wednesday we learned that the L.A. Dodgers had decided to disinvite the L.A. chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their annual Pride Night game at Dodgers Stadium — something the drag nuns were invited to this year to be recipients of the team's Community Hero Award.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
SF News Accused Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Found Guilty On Nine Counts After a trial where more than a dozen women described encounters of being grabbed, groped, or kissed by suspect Bill Gene Hobbs, Hobbs was found guilty Wednesday afternoon on eight misdemeanor counts and one felony.
SF News Bob Lee Stabbing Suspect Nima Momeni Pleads Not Guilty, Will Not Be Getting Bail The arraignment of Nima Momeni happened Thursday morning after five weeks and three separate delays requested by his attorney, and he entered a plea of not guilty to the April 4 stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Multiple Suspects In Alleged Robbery Spree That Included Injury to Toddler After several days of high tension in Oakland's typically quiet Trestle Glen neighborhood following an attempted robbery that injured a toddler with bullet shrapnel, Oakland police did a full-court press with undercover officers and they say they've made multiple arrests, or at least one arrest.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Names Its First Drag Laureate In a National First, and It's D'Arcy Drollinger One of San Francisco's most seasoned, bawdiest, and hardest-working drag queens, Oasis owner D'Arcy Drollinger, has been named the city's first Drag Laureate.
SF News Thursday Morning, What's Up: BART Paying Out $4.4M In El Cerrito Shooting Case BART is settling a case involving a BART police shooting in Feb. 2020; Hayward police are seeking a man accused of killing his ex-wife last week; and accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni is due to be arraigned.
