SF Politics SF Sheriff's Department to Employ Emergency Unit to Crack Down on Drug Users as Part of Breed Plan Just in time for tourists to descend on downtown for Pride at the end of June, San Francisco sheriff's deputies will be out in force making arrests for drug dealing and open-air drug use, as part of Mayor London Breed's previously announced plan.
SF News Serial Groper Bill Gene Hobbs Sentenced To Five And a Half Years In Prison At a Thursday morning sentencing hearing frequently interrupted by Bill Gene Hobbs mercilessly heckling his own victims, the convicted sexual assault suspect received a jail sentence totaling five and a half years.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Suddenly Proposes a 28th Amendment to Curb Gun Violence In an out-of-the-blue move that indicates he’s still keen to build that national profile, Governor Gavin Newsom started a media blitz Thursday morning promoting a 28th Amendment campaign to promote popular but stalled gun control measures.
SF News Castro Hate-Crime Suspect May Have Repeatedly Targeted the Neighborhood, Tells Judge the LGBTQ Community Goes 'Against God' Happy Pride Month, everybody! A 20-year-old suspect who was arraigned Wednesday for an alleged hate-crime attack on two men in the Castro neighborhood Monday may be a repeat offender, according to prosecutors.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Air India Plane From Russia Lands at SFO That ferry flight from Air India taking stranded SFO-bound passengers out of eastern Russia has made it back safely; the Temecula school board is doubling down on calling Harvey Milk a "pedophile"; and the El Nino season is arriving early.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arrest Made In Hate-Crime Attack On Two Men In the Castro A 20-year-old suspect has been arrested for an alleged hate crime in the Castro; the Oakland Police Commission is being blamed for taking too long in the hiring process for a new chief; and Stockton's county building won't be getting a Pride flag this year, say the supervisors.
SF News Alameda County DA Removes Some (But Not All) Enhancement Charges In Freeway Shooting of Toddler The two men standing trial for the freeway shooting of two-year-old Jasper Wu are still getting gun and gang enhancements on their murder charges, but Alameda County DA Pamela Price has removed some of their special enhancement charges, which may leave them with lighter sentences.
SF News Breed Getting Guff For Not Being Able to Name a Good Nightclub — While Speaking To Nightclub Owners Some remarks at Monday’s 2023 Nightlife and Entertainment Summit have Mayor Breed getting some blowback from nightclub owners, when said she couldn’t think of a good nightclub in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment SF Porchfest Returns Saturday In the Mission District A beloved "front porch festival" that first happened in San Francisco in 2015 is returning this weekend for a day of local music on sidewalks and porches in the Mission District.
SF News Now They’ve Put Barricades Around the McDonald's at 24th Street BART Because of Illegal Vending Scene A new wrinkle in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between SFPD and illegal Mission Street vendors, as “event fencing” now surrounds the perimeter of the McDonald’s next to the 24th Street BART station.
SF News Prolifically Violent MS-13 Gang Member From SF's Mission District Convicted, Faces Life In Prison In a trial that followed over a dozen other convictions of his MS-13 associates, Elmer Rodriguez, a.k.a Gordo, was convicted in federal court this week on multiple counts of murder, attempted murder, and racketeering conspiracy.
SF News Homeless Woman Interviewed For CNN's San Francisco Doom Special Says They Misrepresented Her and Others' Stories It should come as no surprise that CNN's gratuitous San Francisco hit piece several weeks ago — a Sunday evening, hour-long special about how the city has gone to hell, in the vein of Fox News — didn't embrace any nuanced angles about the lives of homeless people.
SF News Big Sur Likely to Be Inaccessible From Highway 1 From the South Through the Summer as Cleanup Work Continues The southern route into Big Sur on Highway 1 is going to be closed for the next several months, Caltrans says, in an update on the progress of work to clear debris from a major landslide that occurred this past winter.
SF News Santa Rosa Woman Testifies In Pig’s Blood Vandalism Case Allegedly Spurred By George Floyd Testimony The trial is underway in a bizarre 2021 case of pig’s blood (and a severed pig’s head!) being smeared on the home of a former Santa Rosa police officer who testified in favor of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd trial.
SF News Overturned Garbage Truck, Landscaping Truck on Fire Cause Bay Area Freeway Backups An overturned garbage truck was causing a major traffic headache Wednesday morning on I-680. And separately, an Amazon truck dumped packages on Highway 92, and there was a landscaping truck on fire on 101 North in Marin County.
SF News SF Supervisors Declare Moratorium On New Pot Dispensaries In Town The Board of Supervisors put the kibosh on accepting any more new cannabis dispensary applications Tuesday, though existing retail applications will still be processed. The moratorium expires in 2028.
Business & Tech Hotel Expert: Hilton Owner's Declaration on Loan Might Just Be Negotiating Tactic It was one of the biggest local stories of the week, but is the owner of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels just negotiating with its bank by publicly saying they're defaulting on their loan?
SF News Gas and Water Main Leak Causes Disruption Near Duboce Park There was a simultaneous water main rupture and a gas leak Wednesday morning just above Duboce Park, near the intersection of Duboce Avenue and Castro Street.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Air India Sends Ferry Flight To Rescue SFO-Bound Passengers Stranded In Russia An Air India ferry flight has left Mumbai en route to Magadan, Russia to rescue those stranded SFO-bound passengers; New York is getting a taste of wildfire smoke; and the HRC has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ rights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Crypto Exchange Coinbase Sued By Feds For Acting As Unregistered Broker Gavin Newsom lashed out at a school board president who slandered Harvey Milk, we’re getting new accounts of what went on in Breed’s Tenderloin Center, and major crypto exchange Coinbase is facing a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit.
SF News SF-Founded Sex Cult-y Group OneTaste Has Founder, Top Executive Indicted For Forced Labor, Sex Traffic The once-popular, pricey “orgasm workshop” OneTaste is now defunct, but its founder and a top executive were indicted Tuesday for forced labor conspiracy and forcing people to perform non-consensual sex acts.
SF News SF Supervisors Vote Against Landmarking Castro Theatre Seats, In Major Win For Another Planet Entertainment Concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment got their biggest City Hall victory yet on Tuesday, as the SF Board of Supervisors shot down an attempt to landmark the theater’s seats that the promoter hopes to remove.
SF News Lake Oroville Spillway In Active Use as Lake Shasta Nears Capacity as Well The last time Lake Oroville neared capacity was four years ago, and very quickly it plunged into drought territory and has seen low water levels until this winter. And now that billion-dollar, renovated spillway is back in use as the reservoir is back at 99% of its capacity.
SF News SFPD Investigating Homicide In Lower Haight There was a fatal shooting Monday evening on a residential block in the Lower Haight where another fatal shooting occurred almost exactly 11 months earlier.
SF News SFO-Bound Flight From India Forced to Land In Russia After Engine Trouble An Air India flight with an unknown number of Americans onboard had to make an emergency landing in Russia on Tuesday, and this could very easily become an international crisis.
