SF News Nob Hill’s Century-Old Huntington Hotel Has Been Bought (Out of Foreclosure) Closed for the entire pandemic, and foreclosed and in default for the last six months, Nob Hill’s 101-year-old Huntington Hotel has new owners who apparently bought it on the cheap and claim they will make it “the single finest luxury hotel in San Francisco.”
SF News The Kids Are Not Alright: Teens Brawling In Large Mobs at Stonestown Mall After a spate of incidents made the news recently involving Bay Area kids bringing weapons to school and stabbing their classmates, we're getting news of multiple incidents of mob violence among school-age kids at Stonestown Galleria.
SF News Sunday Night Shooting On Muni Bus Leaves One Injured, Suspect Still at Large A Muni bus shooting just before 6 p.m. Sunday night, apparently on the 49-Van Ness, left one 34-year-old man injured and hospitalized, and the suspect fled the scene and is still at large.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Landslides Block Road Between Napa and Lake Counties The next round of rain will hit early Tuesday morning and into the commute hours; BART is beefing up its police presence on trains starting today; and landslides are blocking Highway 29 north of Calistoga.
SF News Three Juveniles Hospitalized Following Fireworks-Related Injuries at Ocean Beach Saturday Night Around 8 p.m., a group of about 30 youths on Ocean Beach were setting off fireworks, when three people got hurt, two of them with serious injuries.
SF News Antioch Man Arrested After Allegedly Stabbing Pregnant Woman and Two Children Police responded to 911 calls of a stabbing and took the three victims to the local hospital for their injuries, where two are still in critical condition.
SF News Sunday Links: California Enters 10-Year Partnership With Drugmaker to Start Producing $30 Insulin for Residents Another storm is coming to the Bay Area this week, but it won't be as bad as the last few ones; Newsom announced a plan to turn San Quentin prison into a rehabilitation center; and California is set to start manufacturing state-branded, affordable insulin.
SF News SFPD Searching for Missing One-Year-Old and Mother Who Allegedly Abducted Him Friday Evening Authorities asked for help locating the missing child and his mother, Chelsea Tamulevich, a 38-year-old woman suspected of abducting her 1-year-old son, Caspian, from a residential facility in the Panhandle.
SF News Details Emerge In Fatal Accident Where Fremont Woman Was Forced Onto I-880 Shoulder by Assailant and Hit by Car The 20-year-old woman, Fremont resident Diamond Ki’ilani Kamehaiku-Sysco, was apparently left stranded on the freeway by an attacker after an altercation over a plastic sign.
SF News Saturday Links: Ex-Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes Promises Judge She Won't Try to Flee U.S. (Again) Before Jail Sentence Starts A 2-car crash in Antioch killed one and injured two Friday night; two minors were arrested after a fight at the Santa Rosa school where a fatal stabbing took place last month; and Holmes' prison sentence is starting next month.
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SF News Day Around the Bay: Reddit Office Leaving SF Mid-Market for Rincon Hill The Mission’s favorite queer bar El Rio debuted three new bathrooms; Reddit is downsizing its office space and moving east; and two Bay Area jurisdictions are testing wastewater for drugs.
SF News Reminder: SFPD Will Have DUI Saturation Checkpoints All Over Town For St. Patrick’s Day As they do every year, SFPD will have DUI saturation patrol checkpoints around town for St. Patrick’s Day, so stay out of the paddy wagon on St. Patty’s Day and do not drive while intoxicated tonight.
SF News Stabbing at SF Middle School Comes Amid Uptick In Violence at Local Schools A child was stabbed by a fellow student at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco on Friday, and the incident comes after several weeks of similar cases of violence and threats at Bay Area schools.
Arts & Entertainment Robert Smith Forces Ticketmaster to Give Refunds to Overcharged Fans Who Bought Cure Tour Tickets The Cure frontman Robert Smith put Ticketmaster’s head on the door in a series of tweetstorms over price gouging and market manipulation, so now Ticketmaster is giving $5-$10 refunds to “verified fans” who got tickets, though a few refunds will be much larger.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Version of 'Clue' Gets Goofy at SF Playhouse Some pieces of pop-cultural output get loved to death, repeated and revisited so often they become like worn-out records — still playable, but no longer as vivid as they once were.
SF News Now Oakland Burglars Are Disguising Themselves as Amazon Delivery Drivers The Oakland Police Department sent out a warning Thursday about “an uptick in residential burglaries where the individuals involved are disguised as Amazon workers” who ring the bell to see if you're home, and then they bust right in.
Business & Tech Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Says He'll Rule on Prison Delay, Restitution Next Month The federal judge who sentenced Elizabeth Holmes last fall to 11 years in prison heard arguments Friday morning on whether Holmes should have to pay restitution to Theranos investors, and on whether she will be able to delay entering prison.
SF News Shot Fired During Argument On BART Train, Bullet Grazes Victim In another story that is unlikely to improve ridership on BART, a man was grazed by a bullet on a BART train Thursday night, after he was being pistol-whipped by another man and the gun went off.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese May File For Bankruptcy Over 330 Sex Abuse Lawsuits The Diocese of Oakland is trying to get ahead of what appears to be around 330 looming clergy sexual abuse lawsuits, announcing they may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which critics say is just a tactic to avoid testifying and paying damages.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Demolition of Seacliff Pier to Begin Next Week SF's Dept. of Building Inspection has ordered that blown out windows be replaced at 555 California; Sunny Balwani got out of showing up to prison yesterday; and the storm-damaged pier at Seacliff State Beach in Santa Cruz County is getting demolished next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sergio Romo Signs Symbolic Contract, Will Retire as A Giant PG&E admits Tuesday’s outages were the worst in nearly 30 years, the 4/20 Hippie Hill party announced its 2023 plans, and Sergio Romo, who famously wore an “I just look illegal” t-shirt in a championship parade, will retire as a San Francisco Giant.
Bay Area Sports March Madness Cult Hero ‘Sister Jean’ Was Born And Raised Right Here in San Francisco The annual NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is underway, and it turns out that the 103-year-old nun who’s become the tournament’s unofficial Cinderella-team mascot, Sister Jean Schmidt, grew up here in San Francisco.
SF Politics Newsom Announces Drop-In-the-Bucket Effort to Build 1,200 Tiny Homes for the Homeless, None of Which Will Come to SF Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a new plan to address homelessness across the state, with $30 million in state funds going to construct 1,200 tiny homes to serve as transitional housing in four metro areas. San Francisco isn't one of them.
SF News Central Subway Ridership Already Declining, Barely Two Months After Fully Opening We have two months of ridership data on the new Central Subway, and the second month saw a notable decline in riders — and stunningly, only about 300 people are using the Yerba Buena/Moscone Station on average each day.
