SF News Mega-Landlord Veritas Investments In Default on Loans, Could Lose a Third of Its Buildings SF’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments has $1 billion in delinquent loans that the company is trying to sell off, and could lose about a third of its properties across town.
SF News Man Accused of Fatally Stabbing 64-Year-Old Neighbor In Duboce Triangle Is Charged With Murder A fatal stabbing in San Francisco last Friday morning left a 64-year-old woman dead in a common area of her apartment building, and we now know the identities of the suspect and victim.
SF News Gas Thief Accidentally Torches Six Cars In Antioch eBART Parking Lot A suspect apparently trying to steal gas by way of an electric drill caused a fire Thursday afternoon that spread to six cars in the eBART parking lot in Antioch.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two Earthquakes Rattle Northern Plumas County A pair of earthquakes within 12 hours of each other have rattled Plumas County; the SF Chamber of Commerce brought on Amazon as a sponsor for Small Business Week; and Newsom has come out against cash payments for reparations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers Announce 2023 Schedule, Will Play Monday Night Football on Christmas Day Six cars were torched this afternoon at the Antioch BART station, Banko Brown's mother has given her first interview, and the 49ers’ 2023 schedule has been released.
SF News That Gray Whale Who Spent a Record Two Months In San Francisco Bay Has Died It was not a good sign that a gray whale had been sticking in the waters of the SF Bay since February, and we now know he’d been hit by ships twice, and has been found dead at the Point Reyes National Seashore.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News El Niño All But Guaranteed For Next Winter, So... More Rain? Climate scientists say the indicators are all there for the forming of an El Niño pattern in the Pacific this year, and now it's just a matter of how soon it will fully take shape.
Arts & Entertainment San Jose Adobe HQ Gets New LED Semaphore Puzzle, and Another Contest To Solve It A new LED semaphore brain-teaser is being projected atop Adobe’s San Jose Almaden Tower headquarters, and you can win free Adobe software for solving it, though it is unlikely to be solved for many years.
Business & Tech [Updated] Elon Musk Hires New CEO For Twitter, and She's an Ad Sales Exec In typical fashion, Elon Musk made a major announcement about Twitter via tweet on Thursday without providing complete details — which, again, might have been handled differently if he had a PR department.
SF News Detectives Detail How They Found the Alleged Killers In the Freeway Shooting of Toddler Jasper Wu Highway Patrol officers took the stand and detailed their sleuthwork on how they found the alleged shooters in the Oakland freeway shooting of toddler Jasper Wu, describing an elaborate investigation involving jail calls, wiretaps, and even car advertisements.
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SF News Friend of Accused Killer Nima Momeni Claims He Had 'Massive Drug Problem' It was pretty clear from moment one in the Bob Lee murder case that drugs were going to be pretty central to the narrative of how Lee ended up stabbed at 2:30 a.m. on April 4. But thus far we've mostly only heard about Lee's drug use.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California Bacon and Pork Regulations on Pig Confinement The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the California law saying that pigs must have enough room to turn around and lie down for their meat to be sold here in the state, in a ruling that sliced wildly across ideological lines.
SF News Heat Wave Will Bring Some of the First Hot Days of Spring to Inland Spots (But Not SF) Thanks to a ridge of high pressure, we're going to be seeing a warming trend around the Bay over the next few days, ushering in the first truly warm weekend of the year — though temperatures are going to remain pretty mild closer to the ocean and the Bay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crab Fishermen Test New Whale-Friendly Pots The Oakland teachers' strike stretches into its sixth day; SF crab fishermen are testing a new pot design that could reduce whale entanglements; and a new study suggests Australia's brush fires four years ago may have contributed to our triple La Nina seasons.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mercury Spill In Martinez Affects Multiple Sites Hazmat workers continue to cleanup a mercury spill in Martinez that seems somewhat widespread; Berkeley has a new police chief, Jennifer Louis; and Google says we'll be seeing more AI working its way into its search engine results.
SF News After Banko Brown Shooting, Supervisor Preston Wants To Ban Retail Security Guards From Using Guns As the controversy rages on over Banko Brown being shot and killed over $14 worth of shoplifted items, Supervisor Dean Preston is drafting legislation to prohibit retail security guards from drawing loaded weapons to protect store inventory.
Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
SF News AG Bonta Launches State Investigation Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch PD, Says ‘We're Moving In’ As the Antioch police scandals of racist text messages and alleged cocaine distribution get worse, state Attorney General Rob Bonta declares, “We're going to get to the bottom of what's happening in the Antioch Police Department."
SF News Scary Situation On BART As Lunatic Slashes Passenger With Meat Cleaver Just a day after we heard survey results showing that Bay Area residents largely don't feel safe on BART anymore, a crazed suspect pacing a train in the Transbay Tube apparently slashed a man with a meat cleaver.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Arrives Back at Senate In Wheelchair, Says Shingles Effects Have Lingered Senator Dianne Feinstein was wheeled into the Senate chamber Wednesday around 3 p.m. Washington time, and she has revealed some more details about her current health status.
SF News SF Health Officials Put Out Call For Mpox Vaccinations Again Ahead of Pride If you're among the group of people most likely to be exposed to the mpox virus — formerly known as monkeypox — in the event of a new summer surge in cases, the SF Department of Public Health would like you to please consider seeking out your second dose if you never got that.
SF Politics Supervisors Come Out Swinging Against Plan to Shut Down Bayview Homeless RV Site The ‘Pier 94 Backlands’ is currently home to 118 people still waiting for permanent housing placement, and while the SF Department of Homelessness wants to close it ASAP, supervisors are saying place the residents first.
SF News Police and FBI Dig For Possible Remains In Redwood City In Cold Case From 1996 The disappearance of Ylva Hagner has not made headlines in decades, but it was a big Bay Area story in October 1996, and the case has never been solved. Some sudden activity by FBI and police investigators Wednesday in Redwood City makes it look like there's been a break in the case.
