SF News Sunday Links: Distributor Drops Scott Adams's 'Dilbert' Following His Racist Tirade Newspapers are dropping Dilbert in droves and so is the strip's distributor; San Franciscans might see more thunderstorms Monday; and a 24-year-old man had to be rescued by a helicopter from a Daly City beach Sunday morning.
SF News Big Rig Joins In Sideshow In Oakland, Spins Donuts Near Port In one of three separate sideshow incidents early Saturday in Oakland, a big rig took center stage and, with a shipping container in tow, spun a few donuts near the Port of Oakland, to the delight of the assembled crowd.
city of oakland Three People Died Within Three Hours in Separate Shooting Incidents in Oakland Friday Evening The Oakland Police Department called it "a bloody Friday night" and is still investigating all three shootings, but no more details have been released.
Real Estate Famous Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Della Walker House In Carmel Sells for $22 Million The single-story house was originally only 1,200 square feet and was built for $125,000 for Carmel resident Della Walker in 1952.
SF News Saturday Links: JV from 'The JV Show' on Wild 94.9 Reported Missing In San Francisco Police are asking for the public’s help locating JV after he disappeared Thursday night; 10-20 boats caught on fire on Lake Berryessa Friday night; and Oakland's sixth annual Black Joy Parade is set for 12:30 p.m. Sunday in downtown Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Convicted of Murder in 2021 Deadly Shooting of Afghan Refugee Uber Driver in San Francisco A jury found Clifford Stokes guilty of first-degree murder for the 2021 fatal shooting of Afghan refugee Ahmad Fawad Yusufi; police made an arrest the hit-and-run that resulted in the death of 100-year-old Tzu-Ta Ko near Lake Merritt; and SFO briefly lost power Friday morning, causing delays.
Bay Area Sports Giants Lowering Beer Prices, Though Only At a Few Concession Stands Facing dwindling ticket sales since 2017, the SF Giants announced they’re lowering the price of beer from $14 to $9, though this only applies at select concession stands at Oracle Park.
SF News East Bay-Based ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Declares White People Should ‘Just Get the F*** Away’ From Black People More newspapers are dropping the cartoon “Dilbert” this week, after its creator Scott Adams went full racist granddad in a podcast rant declaring “the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away.”
SF News The LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate Comes to the Bay Area Suburbs Lest you think the Bay Area is immune to the sort of fights that are raging in school districts across the country, we are not, and a school board meeting in the East Bay was just this week filled with vitriol over books for LGBTQ kids.
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.
