SF News Jurors In Kristin Smart Murder Case Speak Out About Convicting Paul Flores Jurors in the case against Paul Flores, for the 1996 murder of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, were barred from speaking publicly or with each other about the case for over three months. But now they're able to talk.
Business & Tech Feds’ Autopsy On Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Blames Bank Management, Loosened Regulations The Federal Reserve performed a post-mortem on last month’s spectacular, sudden failure of Silicon Valley Bank, and blamed terrible decisions by bank management, but also themselves and the FDIC for lax regulation.
SF News Gas Explosion In Richmond Injures at Least One An explosion at a Richmond District home reportedly sent glass flying into the street and left at least one person injured.
SF News Shooting at Market Street Walgreens Leaves 24-Year-Old Man Dead, Security Guard Arrested There was a fatal shooting Thursday evening near the busy section of Market Street outside the Westfield Mall, a few blocks from Union Square, and it involved a store security guard armed with a gun and an alleged theft in progress.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: CHP Officers to Be Deployed In Tenderloin Next Week Newsom's deployment of CHP officers to curb drug dealing in the Tenderloin starts Monday; Berkeley police are seeking catalytic converter thieves driving a Maserati; and COVID deaths in CA have dropped 65%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homeless Man Released From Jail in Alleged Attack on Former Fire Commissioner The 2023 NFL Draft is underway (though the 49ers don’t pick until Friday night), 10% of SF’s housing stock for the homeless is just sitting empty, and the former SF fire commissioner didn’t show up in court today so his accused attacker is a free man.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Ordered To Be Deposed in Trial Over 2018 Tesla Autopilot Crash in Mountain View Tesla attorneys have argued that Elon Musk can’t be responsible for video evidence of him touting “Full Self-Driving” mode because the videos might be deepfakes, so the judge in the trial of a man killed in a 2018 Tesla crash is ordering Musk to be deposed himself.
SF News Photos: One of 24th Street’s Largest Ficus Trees Has Been Reduced to Sawdust and a Stump What may have been the largest ficus tree on all of 24th Street has bit the sawdust, as its branches were all chopped down Wednesday, and on Thursday it was removed entirely.
SF Politics Board of Appeals Weighs In on Saga of Vacant, Apparently Unclaimed Mission District Lot, Tells Supes to Act The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Wednesday tossed out a permit that had been granted to local internet business Monkeybrains to put up a fence on one side of a lot adjacent to their building at 22nd and Treat.
Arts & Entertainment Guest Artist Creates Bird-Like Projections for Salesforce Tower, to Call Attention to Migratory Seabirds San Francisco artist Therese Lahaie has a new work that will be visible from a wide swath of the city this weekend, and starting Thursday night, on the illuminated crown of Salesforce Tower.
Business & Tech Twitter Relaxes Cannabis Ad Rules, Becoming First Platform to Allow Them Twitter made a big announcement that they’ll allow cannabis ads on the platform, but surprise surprise, companies can only do so if they’ve bought a blue-check subscription.
SF News Friend Says Accused Killer Nima Momeni and Sister Were 'Guard Dogs for Each Other' Following a brief court appearance Tuesday at which his attorney indicated that Nima Momeni intends to plead not guilty at a rescheduled arraignment next week, a few more details have come out about Momeni's relationship with his sister and his lack of real connection to victim Bob Lee.
SF News Gap Inc. Cutting 1,800 More Jobs, Mostly at SF Headquarters One of San Francisco's highest-profile, signature employers, Gap Inc., is once again shrinking its employee rolls, with many jobs getting cut at their Embarcadero headquarters.
SF Politics SF Supes Overturn Their Own Ban On Doing Business With States With Discriminatory Laws The SF Board of Supervisors overturned their own 2016 ban on doing business with states who’ve passed anti-LGBTQ legislation, restrictive abortion laws, and engaged in voter suppression, concluding the ban did more harm than good.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Power Outage Leaves Swath of Downtown SF In the Dark An underground vault fire appears to be to blame for a power outage impacting the FiDi, North Beach, and Nob Hill; First Republic Bank remains in serious jeopardy; and the nonprofit Castro Theatre Conservancy has released an ambitious plan for how they would run the theater if given the chance.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First Spare the Air Day of Spring Called for Thursday Thursday is the first Spare the Air day of the season; Oakland police are investigating a downtown homicide; and a person was shot and gravely injured in SF's Oceanview neighborhood this afternoon.
SF News Video: Antioch Police Now Have Excessive Force, Racial Profiling Scandal On their Hands Video of a Latino man who was not even suspected of a crime, yet received a thorough beatdown from Antioch police officers, is the latest dirty linen for a department already reeling from a racist text scandal and a federal investigation into their possible cocaine distribution.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes Novel Method to Crack Down on Sideshows: Drones SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman proposed a new idea Tuesday to potentially crack down on and deter sideshows in the city, without putting police or participants in unnecessary danger while they're occurring.
SF News BART Has Local Kids With Autism Doing Station Announcements for Autism Acceptance Month You might be hearing some new voices on your BART station announcements this month, as a group of Bay Area youngsters with autism are the stars of a new series of BART public-address bits.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Petit Crenn Reopens For Prix Fixe 'Pop-Up' In Hayes Valley The reservations went fast, but the good news is that Dominique Crenn's cozy Hayes Valley restaurant, Petit Crenn, is coming back alive for the first time in three years.
SF Politics After Ethics Censure, Longtime City Commissioner Gwyneth Borden Resigns A longtime commissioner on both the Planning Commission and the SFMTA board of directors, Gwyneth Borden, has decided to step down from the SFMTA board following her censure by the Ethics Commission over an undisclosed lobbying job.
SF News Amtrak Train Crash In Fairfield Leaves One Dead, Multiple Others Injured A crash Wednesday morning in Solano County involving an Amtrak train and several vehicles has left one person dead, and multiple other people injured.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Another Last-Ditch Appeal, Earning Her a Possible Few Extra Weeks Before Entering Prison With few options left but one last legal reprieve available, Elizabeth Holmes has avoided having to report to prison tomorrow, but she likely won't avoid it for long.
Arts & Entertainment Club Deluxe Has Indeed Closed, Will No Longer Operate at Haight and Ashbury Despite rebounding from last summer’s shock closure announcement, Haight Street jazz and swing nightclub Club Deluxe is apparently finished for good at its 1511 Haight Street location amidst an ongoing landlord dispute.
SF News SF Art Institute Has Declared Bankruptcy, Looks Finished After 152 Years Saddled with $10 million in debt and with only 41 students currently enrolled, the San Francisco Art Institute has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and the school appears to be liquidating all assets and calling it quits.
