SF News Monday Morning Headlines: G'Bye For Now, Tucker Carlson Supporters for Alameda Co. DA Pamela Price rallied on Sunday; there may be a clue about the mystery tenant negotiating for The Cliff House; and Tucker Carlson has "parted ways" with Fox News.
SF News Mother and Daughter Killed In Domestic Dispute In Oakland, Another Child Injured A mother of four and her teen daughter were both fatally shot in an Oakland apartment Saturday night, and the daughter's friend, who was at the home for a sleepover, was also wounded.
SF News 100 Motorcyclists Took Over the Bay Bridge for Sideshow Saturday Afternoon Traffic on all lanes of the bridge's upper deck came to a standstill around 5 p.m. for a few minutes, as drivers got out of their cars to take videos of the bikers' stunts.
SF News 3 Wrong-Way Crashes Reported Across the Bay Area This Weekend The incidents, across Oakland, San Mateo County, and the North Bay, resulted in the deaths of two people and five hospitalizations, as CHP investigates their causes and if alcohol played a role.
SF News Sunday Links: Armed Robbers in Walnut Creek Steal $100,000 in Jewelry from Victim in Parking Lot Armed robbers held up the victim in a Walnut Creek steakhouse parking lot; the Warriors-Kings Game 4 is set for Sunday afternoon at the Chase Center, with Draymond playing post-suspension; and California hit its EV sales goals, two years ahead of target.
SF News San Francisco Man Pleads Guilty to Pretending to Be a Movie Producer and Defrauding Investors Out of Millions San Francisco resident Min Jin Zhao, 60, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison and has to pay nearly $1.9 million in restitution to two swindled investors from separate schemes he ran.
SF News Get Ready for 'The Big Melt,' as This Weekend's Warm Weather Could Start Melting the Sierras' Massive Snowpack Snowmelt season is here, and the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, particularly the southern Sierra, is at high risk of flooding, as are San Joaquin Valley and the Tulare Lake regions.
SF News Saturday Links: Early Morning Shooting at Hayward Hookah Lounge Kills 2, Injures 2 The shooting, which was reported around 1:45 a.m., was believed to be targeted between two parties, at a hookah lounge that had recently been shut down for being a neighborhood nuisance;
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gov. Newsom Brings California National Guard in to San Francisco to Fight the Fentanyl Crisis Gavin Newsom announced the in California National Guard and California Highway Patrol will join a task force with SFPD tackling fentanyl trafficking; Lyft announces layoffs of about 30% of their staff; and the Supreme Court protects the abortion pill (for now).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City View Dim Sum Has Reopened at New Chinatown Location After a landlord dispute cost them their longtime home on Commercial Street, Chinatown dim sum favorite City View restaurant has reopened at a new location just a few blocks away.
SF News Goats Gone Wild Again, Dozens Escape to Rampage Near Fisherman’s Wharf Another goat mob escaped their confines and ran wild through the streets near Francisco Park Tuesday afternoon, though they were eventually corralled using SFPD and a tasty bale of hay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Certain Mission Brewpub Is Now Serving Up Rice-a-Roni Arancini, Cioppino, and $2 Oysters In the last nine months, Fort Point Beer Co.'s Valencia Street brewpub — which opened pre-pandemic, then closed for most of it — has ramped up its food offerings and become more of a full-fledged restaurant.
SF News Two Congressional Reps Call for DOJ Probe Into Scandal-Plagued Antioch Police Department As the Antioch Police Department faces a slew of allegations of wrongdoing from distributing cocaine, to accepting bribes, to having a trove of racist text messages recently exposed, two Bay Area congressional reps are calling for a Department of Justice investigation.
SF News Los Gatos 'Party Mom' Wants an 8-Year Plea Deal, as Victims Speak Out In Court Pushing for More and More Charges Get Filed The apparently troubled woman at the heart of a sensational case in the South Bay, Shannon O'Connor, was back in court Friday, and she was made to hear directly from some teenage victims.
SF News Planning Commission Approves New Plan For Infamous, Rejected 27-Story Residential Tower In SoMa That 27-story residential tower on a Nordstrom parking lot that the SF supervisors infamously rejected in October 2021 had its revised plans approved Thursday, along with plans for a controversial six-story development near Dolores Park.
Business & Tech Musk Plays Favorites With Blue-Check Purge, Says He's Paying for Stephen King, LeBron James, and William Shatner to Keep Theirs Elon Musk's plan to remove "Verified" blue checkmarks from all the celebrities who've had them for a decade unless they coughed up $8 likely wasn't that well thought-out.
Arts & Entertainment Watch: 4/20 Blankets Hippie Hill With Pot Smoke, Erykah Badu Exhorts Crowd To Smoke Even More Erykah Badu hit high notes at the most entertaining 4:20 countdown yet at Hippie Hill, as what appeared to be 20,000 happy stoners blazed up a gargantuan cloud of marijuana smoke for a blissed-out 4/20 celebration.
SF News More Retired SFPD Officers Being Deployed as 'Ambassadors' In a Half Dozen SF Neighborhoods The SFPD's Community Ambassador Program, in which retired, civilian officers are deployed to do foot patrols and deter crime, is expanding by 50 percent, as Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott announced Friday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: One Injured In Bayview RV Fire One person was injured in the Bayview when an oven caught fire inside an RV; BART may have had one of its best ridership weeks in years; and Larry Elder is running for president.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Investigating Possible Shots Fired In Haight During 4/20 Event Police were investigating near Haight and Cole whether shots were fired Thursday afternoon; the suspect in the Pleasanton Home Depot shooting was allegedly trying to steal a toolbox; and the president of the Oakland A's is trying to explain the team's move to Vegas.
SF News Murder Suspect Nima Momeni Was Cited For Domestic Battery Last Year Reporters around the Bay are trying to dig up whatever they can to continue reporting on the murder of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee, and the latest tidbits came from Emeryville police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Historic SF Oceanfront Restaurants, The Cliff House and Louis' Diner, Set to Come Alive Again... Sometime We still can't say what they will become or what they will serve, but the wheels of the federal government and National Park Service are turning ever so slowly to get new restaurant tenants into The Cliff House and Louis' Diner spaces, both closed since 2020.
SF News Supervisors Give SFPD Significant Pay Raise, Starting Salary Now $103,000 The SF Board of Supervisors approved a nearly 11% salary increase for SFPD officers over the next three years, which will hopefully do something to encourage new officers to join the department, and encourage existing officers to solve more crimes.
Business & Tech Sunny Balwani, Elizabeth Holmes's Ex-Partner In Business and the Bedroom, Begins 13-Year Prison Sentence Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, the 57-year-old former COO of Theranos who was convicted last year — like his former business partner Elizabeth Holmes — of defrauding investors in their blood-testing startup, is set to enter prison today.
Arts & Entertainment How 4:20 Came to Mean 'Smoke Weed' and Inspire SF's 4/20 Celebration It was never California police code for marijuana, and it had nothing to do with the date of April 20th. But the origins of "420" as the codeword of stoner culture lie here in the Bay Area, with a group of five teenagers — now men in their 60s — living in Marin.
