SF News Elizabeth Holmes Had Her Second Baby and Her Lawyers Are Still Trying to Get Prison Entry Delayed New court documents reveal that convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes now has two young children, and also, maybe she and Billy Evans aren't legally married after all?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Robbed The El Tonayense Taco Truck At Gunpoint This Week The eminently popular taco truck El Tonayense was the victim of an armed robbery Wednesday, with the gunman making off with an estimated $500 from the truck, which has done business outside the Harrison Street Best Buy for 17 years.
SF News San Francisco Has Set Cold-Weather Records For Three Days In a Row Ugh! Late February should feel like spring around here and instead we're having a blizzard? Eff this.
SF Politics San Mateo Mayor Faces Recall Effort After Barely Two Months On the Job Recall-mania is back! San Mateo Mayor Amourence Lee was just elected in December, but already faces a recall effort, one which seems entirely about rehashing the circumstances of her election.
SF News Snowfall Shuts Down Roads, Delights Kids Around the Bay; Lightning Hits SF This storm system has been no joke, and while much of the Bay Area saw significant rainfall in the last 24 hours, many spots that don't usually see snow accumulation saw plenty between Thursday and Friday, leading to some surprises on local roads.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SoCal Man Claims Powerball Jackpot Ticket Stolen Highway 17 was closed in both directions Friday in the Santa Cruz Mountains due to heavy snow and downed trees; last night's storm knocked out power in most of Calistoga; and a man in Altadena is claiming that the man who claimed the $2B Powerball jackpot stole the ticket from him.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 101 Traffic Snarled By Downed Tree in Menlo Park SFPD has arrested a serial convenience store robbery suspect who is (!) 60 years old, we have our first poll in the four-way race for Feinstein’s Senate seat, and Highway 101 was a mess all afternoon when it was shut down over a downed tree.
SF News Hayward Teacher Placed On Leave Over Allegedly Giving ‘A Master Class in Antisemitism' An English teacher at Hayward’s Mt. Eden High School may have gone a little too Kanye West, adding to the curriculum a pamphlet that accuses Jewish people of a “Well-outlined Plan for World Dictatorship.”
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Zoo Lioness Sukari Dies at Age 20 The San Francisco Zoo community is mourning the loss of Sukari, the zoo's 20-year-old African lioness who had given birth to multiple cubs in captivity as part of a conservation program.
SF News BART Beefing Up Police Presence In Hopes It Will Bring Riders Back BART Police say “We are going to saturate every train and hit every train in Oakland and San Francisco” as the BART board of directors is on the verge of agreeing to more than double the presence of officers.
SF News Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years for Sexual Assault In L.A. In a Los Angeles trial in which Governor Gavin Newsom's wife was a star witness, convicted super-predator Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years for rape and sexual assault charges.
SF News 71-Year-Old Woman Who Went Missing While Mushroom-Hunting In NorCal Forest Found Dead A 71-year-old woman who was out foraging for mushrooms in a Northern California forest earlier this month and got separated from her husband and daughter was found dead last week after being missing for two weeks.
SF Politics Breed’s Pick For Homeless Commission Hits Trouble Over Improper Federal Accounting Scandal A five-year-old scandal over improperly billing $15,000 of taxpayer money, and lying on a resume, is complicating the prospects for Breed’s nominee for the homelessness oversight commission, Vikrum Aiyer.
SF News Notorious 'Evil Elmo' Guy Appears to Be Back at It Harassing People On the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Now As Cookie Monster Hide your kids if you see Cookie Monster coming at you near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk — he is not the cute and kindly Sesame Street character he appears to be.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF City Attorney to Use Red Flag Law on Synagogue Terrorizer A death in an Oakland homeless camp has been deemed a homicide; the suspect in the synagogue blanks-shooting incident earlier this month may have his guns taken from him permanently; and the high temperature in SF broke a record for coldness on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk and Newsom Have Odd Exchange at Tesla Facility Opening Elon Musk and Gov. Gavin Newsom shared some awkward words at an event celebrating a new Tesla facility in Palo Alto; a man was shot and injured in McLaren Park; and Rep. Barbara Lee has made her Senate candidacy official.
SF News Monkeybrains Purchase of Mission District Warehouse Provokes Hostilities With ‘Guerrilla Garden’ A vacant lot on Treat Avenue near 22nd Street has no owner, but has a community group who’ve occupied the space with a garden, and a new next-door owner in Monkeybrains who are effectively doing the same with parking. Their conflict is quickly growing like a weed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valencia Street Seafood Spot Ancora, In Former Locanda Space, Closes After Just Eight Months In a sign that the market for new restaurants in San Francisco may not be as ravenous as it was a few years back, a high-end seafood restaurant that opened last summer on Valencia Street is already calling it quits.
SF News First Gray Whale Sighting of 2023 In SF Bay Has Happened, More Whales Apparently Out There Whale watching season is here a little early in 2023, as the Marine Mammal Center spotted this whale tail February 9, and SF Bay Ferry riders say they’ve seen a few more since.
SF News Man Arrested In Weekend Incident In Dolores Park Will Face Hate-Crime Charges A 60-year-old San Francisco man is being charged with a hate crime after allegedly chasing and yelling threats at a woman of color in Dolores Park on Sunday.
SF News Breed Names Her Nominees to a Homelessness Commission She Preferred Did Not Exist San Francisco voters approved the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing oversight commission in November over Mayor Breed’s objections, but she still gets to pick most of the commission, which she did Tuesday.
SF News 100-Year-Old Man Killed In Oakland Hit-and-Run Identified, Mini Cooper Driver Still at Large The elderly man killed in a Sunday morning hit-and-run while out for his daily walk near Oakland's Lake Merritt has been identified, and his daughter says he was very health conscious and loved his walks.
SF News Wind Ripped Metal Panels Off the SFPUC Building Tuesday, Cars Smashed, Plenty of Wind Mayhem Elsewhere Amidst Tuesday afternoon’s wind gusts of nearly 65 miles per hour, two metal panels came flying off the SFPUC building near Civic Center, while downed trees and ripped-off roofs kept public employees busy all day.
SF News Three Dead After High-Speed Chase In Solano County In Allegedly Stolen Car Three people in a car that was reported as stolen in a Vallejo carjacking Tuesday night were killed in a crash following a high-speed chase with CHP officers on I-80 in Fairfield.
SF News Humpday Headlines: After the Wind, Bay Area to See Rain and Snow A one-year-old boy is in critical condition after a tree fell on his family's house in the Santa Cruz Mountains; one person died after a collision at the MacArthur Maze; and snow is likely to fall in multiple spots over the next two days including Santa Rosa.
