SF Politics Breed Introduces New Record $15 Billion Budget That Increases Spending Despite Deficit Mayor London Breed introduced the city's highest-ever $14.6 billion budget Wednesday, which despite a $780 million deficit, has big spending increases for police, homelessness, and anti-drug measures.
SF News US Postal Service Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Suspect Who Robbed Mail Carrier This suspect in bright orange Warriors jacket stands accused of robbing a mail carrier of their postal keys, and the U.S. Postal Service is offering $50,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
SF News Vallejo Man Gets 14 Years For Death of Friend Whom He Was Helping to Confront an Ex-Boyfriend In Dublin It was characterized as a home-invasion robbery gone wrong, but the death of 28-year-old Adrianna Marie Navarro was a complicated case and a tragic one, involving a volatile relationship and a violent confrontation that followed a breakup.
SF News Hundreds of Angry North Oakland Residents Bring Out the Pitchforks at Town Hall On Crime Oakland District 1 city councilmember Dan Kalb and other city officials had plenty of shouting directed their way at a Tuesday night meeting about the recent crime spike in the North Oakland area, and Kalb seems to be drawing some political battle lines in response.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tacolicious Expanding With Unnamed Mexican Spot In Former Village Rotisserie In Noe Valley In a sign of improving times for the local restaurant industry, the Tacolicious team is in expansion mode again, this time taking over the recently shuttered Village Rotisserie space at 4063 24th Street in Noe Valley.
SF News Two Drivers Dead After Head-On Collision On Highway 1; Both Cars Land In Lagoon Two men are dead and a passenger was seriously injured after a crash on Highway 1 in San Mateo County Tuesday evening which sent both cars careening off a cliff into a lagoon.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Declares He’s ‘Not Running for Office in 2024,’ Takes Job at UC Berkeley Think Tank It looks like the political equivalent of riding off into the sunset for former DA Chesa Boudin, as he’s starting up a UC Berkeley department called the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
SF News Chinatown Stabbing Suspect Was On Parole for 2016 Chinatown Stabbing It's time for another round of "why was this person out of jail?" following a very violent incident in San Francisco's Chinatown — and in this case it allegedly took the suspect less than two weeks to re-offend after getting paroled.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Twitter Now Worth One-Third of What Musk Paid The woman charged in the death of that Kim K look-alike model is out on bail in San Mateo County; Twitter is now worth one-third of what Elon Musk paid for it; and the parents of the Home Depot security guard killed in Pleasanton say that DA Pamela Price won't meet with them.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Manson Family Member May Get Paroled After More Than 50 Years In Prison The suspect in Monday’s Chinatown stabbing has been identified and arrested, the former Chow space at Church and Market has a new restaurant coming, and Manson Family member Leslie Van Houten has been granted parole by an appeals court.
SF News Guilty Verdict Comes Down in 2020 Richmond District Murder Recorded on Zoom 79-year-old Yu Quin Sun was murdered in her home in June 2020 and her roommate and accused killer Min Jian Guan was found guilty today, in no small part because the murder was broadcast on Zoom with Guan visible on the screen.
Business & Tech SF Tourism Board Launches New Ad Campaign to Sell City as Still Quirky and Fun Trying to counter several years of bad national press and a concerted effort by conservatives to single out San Francisco for urban ills that exist in many cities, SF Travel has launched its "largest ever" ad campaign to lure conventioneers and tourists back to town.
SF News BART Police Making Lots More Arrests Since Beefing Up Police Force This Year BART claims that March and April of this year saw “two of its highest monthly arrest totals since the arrival of the pandemic,” and is engaging in a PR campaign that hopes more people getting arrested on BART will make riders more comfortable coming back on BART.
Arts & Entertainment On BottleRock Stage, Lizzo Reacts to 'Choke the Woke' Sign Outside Napa Home Lizzo gave festival-goers a stellar show Saturday night at BottleRock — performing what many said was the best set of the three-day festival, which wrapped up on Sunday. But she felt she had to comment on some signs that were posted outside of one downtown Napa home.
Bay Area Sports Warriors GM Bob Myers, Architect Of Their Dynasty, Has Resigned The man who built this four-championship Warriors dynasty has resigned, and the loss of Warriors GM Bob Myers makes their future all the more cloudy.
SF News Momeni Fires Defense Attorney Paula Canny (Or She Quit), Hires Miami-Based Persian Attorney Who Has Not Reviewed Case Welp, the legal circus shows no signs of quieting in the murder trial of Nima Momeni, and what was supposed to be a preliminary hearing in the case Tuesday has become another reason for delay: defense attorney Paula Canny asked to be removed from the case.
SF News Monday Morning Stabbing Leaves Chinatown Bakery Employee With Life-Threatening Injuries A seemingly unprovoked stabbing at Chinatown's AA Bakery Monday morning left one employee with stab wounds in her neck, though she is now in stable condition — and a suspect was immediately taken into custody.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Set to Begin Her 11-Year Prison Sentence In Texas Today Today is the agreed-upon day for Elizabeth Holmes to report to federal prison in Bryan, Texas — the same minimum-security facility where "Real Housewife" Jen Shah is serving time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Nima Momeni Heads to Preliminary Hearing The suspect in the April 4 stabbing death of Bob Lee has his preliminary hearing today; Alameda police broke up a huge sideshow on Sunday; a delayed coyote pupping season has come to SF parks.
SF News Shooting Outside Mission Bay Hotel Leaves One Gravely Injured There was a shooting late Sunday night outside the LUMA hotel in Mission Bay, not far from Oracle Park, that left one man with serious injuries.
SF News Memorial Day Headlines: 26-Year-Old Drowns In Lake Del Valle The body of a 26-year-old San Jose man was recovered after he drownd in Lake Del Valle Saturday; a fire broke out at an apartment complex in Oakland Sunday; and both BART and Muni are seeking state funds to stay afloat.
SF News Sea Otter Reintroduction Plan Gains Momentum in Bay Area Efforts to repopulate the Bay with sea otters and help the coastal kelp forest gain support in Sonoma County, although local fishers and sharks could stand in the way.
SF News Sunday Links: State Farm to Stop Insuring Property In CA Due to Wildfire Risks and High Costs The types of stolen cars in SF are changing; State Farm will no longer insure new California homes due to wildfire exposure and construction prices; and the Malibu Sniper who shot at park vistiors has been convicted.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.
SF News A BART Custodian Was Wounded By Someone at 24th St. Mission Station Who Was Causing a “Disturbance” An individual within a disruptive group somehow cut the custodian while on the escalators with a smallish knife like a pocketknife, agency spokespeople said.
