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.
SF News Charges May Be Dropped Against Homeless Man Who Struck Former Fire Commissioner With Metal Pipe The family of former SF fire commissioner Don Carmignani claims that charges are going to be dropped against the man who hit him with a metal pipe earlier this month, and they say that Carmignani himself may face charges.
SF News Ninth Grader Stabbed at Walnut Creek High School, Another Student in Custody A ninth grade girl was stabbed Tuesday at Walnut Creek’s Northgate High School, and while another ninth-grader is in custody on attempted murder and mayhem charges, a vice principal at the school is being praised for his swift intervention.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bay Area Men Arrested After High-Speed Chase In Capitola A high-speed chase in Capitola ended in the arrest of four Bay Area men; another high-speed chase in Oakland ended in an arrest Tuesday; and Chief Justice John Roberts defends SCOTUS's ethics code in a letter to the Senate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom In A Pickle Over Feinstein’s Lengthy Senate Absence Palo Alto High was locked down over the discovery of a threatening message, accused Bob Lee killer Nima Momeni had his arraignment delayed, and Gavin Newsom is stuck in paralysis-analysis mode over Dianne Feinstein’s continued absence from the Senate.
SF News New Valencia Bike Lane Construction Underway, Parking on Valencia Street Currently Quite Restricted The new project to create “center bike lanes” in the middle of Valencia Street has started construction, and it may be tough to find parking on certain swaths of Valencia through the end of June.
SF News SFPD Makes Multiple Narcotics Busts, Seizing a Total of 15.5 Pounds of Drugs The SFPD Narcotics Unit has been busy the past week, and between four busts officers have netted 15.5 pounds worth of meth, fentanyl, and other drugs, as well as some guns.
SF News SoCal Defendant Takes Stand In Case of Teen Prank Gone Bad That Left Three Youngsters Dead A prank that went wrong and left three teenagers dead has brought a trial of the man who chased after them in his car, and it doesn’t look good for him that he admitted to driving 99 mph after drinking 12 beers.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF News North Beach Shooting Happened During Attempted Mugging, One Suspect Now In Custody San Francisco police now seem to know the outlines of what occurred Sunday night near the Condor Club in North Beach, when five people ended up with gunshot wounds, one of them fatal. And one suspect has been arrested.
SF News Victim In Wrong-Way Crash On 280 Involving Naked Suspect Identified as San Francisco Mother The victim in one of three wrong-way freeway crashes in the Bay Area last weekend, the one that occurred on I-280 in Woodside, has been identified as a 54-year-old San Francisco woman, and her 14-year-old son was also injured in the crash.
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Announces 2023 Lineup: Flaming Lips, Indigo Girls, Patti Smith, And More The 2023 Stern Grove Festival announced its 2023 summer lineup Tuesday morning, with the Flaming Lips, plus Lyle Lovett, Buddy Guy, the Indigo Girls, and plenty more.
SF News Arrest Warrant Issued for Oakland Police Officer On Suspicion of Perjury, Bribery It’s likely to cause more tension between the Oakland Police Department and Alameda County DA Pamela Price that Price has issued an arrest warrant for OPD officer Phong Tran on five felony counts of perjury and bribery.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Civic Center Whole Foods Employees Say Store Didn't Close Just Because of Crime Much like Walgreens before them, Amazon-owned Whole Foods may be scapegoating San Francisco's petty crime problem and feeding into a narrative in order to avoid talking about the economics of the store they just shut down.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Richmond's Historic International Hotel Burns Down Nima Momeni's arraignment was scheduled today in the stabbing of Bob Lee but it's been delayed again; Great America is now requiring everyone under age 15 to have a chaperone; and Richmond's historic International Hotel, once a hub of Black labor organizing, went up in flames early Tuesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Possible Former Girlfriend Said Nima Momeni Had 'Mood Swings' We now know that the man who died in Sunday's North Beach shooting was 23 and from Solano County; the SF Board of Supes' Land Use Committee once again delayed a Castro Theatre vote; and an unclaimed Powerball jackpot in the South Bay has been claimed.
