east bay Large Power Outage Affects 50,000 People In East Bay and Leaves Alameda Drawbridge Stuck Half-Open The outage has also affected BART and AC Transit services, as well as stalled passengers going through Oakland Airport.
fairfield Fairfield Man Arrested On Suspicion Of Killing His Wife After Couple Was Reported Missing Last Week The suspect, 61-year-old Greg Hobson, was found by Fairfield Police Department detectives on Thursday arrested for the alleged murder of his wife, whose body is still misisng.
SF News Sunday Links: Norovirus on the Rise in San Francisco, Wastewater Data Shows Levels of norovirus, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea, are increasing around the country, and the Bay is no exception; a second attack on a food vendor in San Jose was reported; and a new book vending machine opened on Treasure Island.
SF News After a Warm Weekend, Some Parts of the Bay Area Could See Snow Next Week Some high-elevation neighborhoods like the Berkeley and Oakland Hills could get flurries as freezing temperatures and moist air come to the Bay this Tuesday through Friday.
San Quentin Prison San Quentin Prison Captain Accused of Sexual Assault of Unconscious Person The victim, whose identity has not been released, said that the assault occurred in San Quentin Village, CA area, close to the prison where the suspect, Orlando Ponce, 43, was employed.
SF News Saturday Links: Historic Seacliff State Beach Pier in Santa Cruz to be Demolished After Storm Damage Officials might begin demolition of the Seacliff State pier as early as next week; Bay Area favorites Drake's Brewing Co. and Bear Republic Brewing Co. are merging; and a Tesla driver died after the car struck a fire truck in Contra Costa early Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART to pay $9 Million in Settlement for S.F. Man Who Lost a Leg After Getting Dragged by a Train The payout amount is apparently BART’s largest settlement to date; an ex-Contra Costa sheriff's deputy faces multiple felonies for an alleged scheme to steal guns; and police are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a Half Moon Bay beach.
SF News Alleged Synagogue Shooter Pleads Not Guilty, But Gets Denied Release From Jail 51-year-old Dmitri Mishin had his first court appearance Friday over firing a round of blanks inside a Richmond District synagogue, and while he pleaded not guilty to firearm and hate crime charges, the judge denied his release saying he may still pose a threat to the community.
SF News Sunset Home Explosion Suspect Granted Bail, Ordered Released, Neighboring Family Remains Homeless Darron Price, the man whose alleged hash oil operation is suspected of blowing up his home and killing his wife, has been ordered released to home detention. It’s unclear what home he has to go to, but a neighboring family is also very much without a home.
SF News SF Mom Accused of Killing Two Daughters Can Be Tried For Murder, Judge Rules An SF Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that the Hunters Point mother accused of killing her two young daughters can be charged with felony murder, but prosecutors may hit a snag because the children’s cause of death is still not determined.
SF Politics SF DA Brooke Jenkins Has Cut Staff Level of Unit That Investigates Police By More Than Half In further evidence that DA Jenkins may not be as aggressive in her pursuit of police accountability as her predecessors, the Chronicle has found that Jenkins has less than half the number of attorneys and fewer investigators working in the unit responsible for investigating police abuses.
Arts & Entertainment Christopher Chen’s New Play 'The Headlands' Explores Mysteries and Memories of a Changing San Francisco This distinctly San Franciscan play, narrated by a native of the Sunset District who's now a Google engineer, evokes noir cinema and the nostalgic city of 30 and 40 years ago to unravel a family mystery.
SF News Hunters Point Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Killing Husband (or Ex-Husband) A 33-year-old woman was arrested Thursday evening on suspicion of homicide in San Francisco's Hunters Point neighborhood, and the victim was apparently her husband or ex-husband.
SF News SF Gallery Owner Seen Hosing Homeless Woman Won't Be Arraigned Until Next Month Foster Gwin Gallery owner Collier Gwin, who held the hose in last month’s ‘spray seen ‘round the world,’ was scheduled to appear for his arraignment in San Francisco Superior Court today.
Arts & Entertainment Elon Musk's Twitter Debacle Mocked on Mardi Gras Parade Float Complete with a sink by his side — let that sink in! — an effigy of Elon Musk appeared on a float in a Thursday night Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, showing us again that the mockery over his Twitter takeover and subsequent behavior is coming from all corners, online and off.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Sunset Explosion Suspect Had a Prior Conviction Darron Price, the suspect in last weeks SF home explosion, is being arraigned and we're learning of a prior conviction; Bird, the scooter company, is leaving SF for good; and a retired Cal professor talks about being on that December flight from Maui that took a dive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Is Ending The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency On February 28 The new street drug “tranq” has been found in the blood streams of SF overdose victims, Depeche Mode announced they’re playing the Chase Center in December, and SF’s COVID-19 public health emergency declaration will end on February 28.
SF Politics Supporters Rally To Get Fired Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong His Job Back Less than 24 hours after Oakland mayor Sheng Thao fired police chief LeRonne Armstrong over the alleged mishandling of an internal investigation, Armstrong’s supporters gave an earful at Oakland City Hall Thursday afternoon demanding Armstrong be reinstated.
SF News San Jose Police Seek Tenderloin Mother And Two-Year-Old She Allegedly Abducted Police in San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland are all on the lookout for a mother they describe as a “heavy drug user,” and whom they believe abducted the two-year-old whom she lost custody of, now missing for 24 hours.
SF News Two People Injured, One Cat Rescued, 13 Displaced In Richmond District Fire A fire Thursday morning in the Richmond District displaced 13 residents, two of whom were rescued with injuries, and one cat was rescued without injury.
SF News Brawl Between Families Outside Sacramento Courthouse After Alleged DUI That Killed Five The first court appearance for an alleged DUI driver in an accident that killed five people was more notable for what happened outside the Sacramento courthouse, as a brawl broke out between families of the victims and the accused.
Business & Tech Tesla Is Now Recalling 360K Cars With 'Full Self Driving' Software Over Reported Flaws Elon Musk's other company now has another software-based recall to deal with, and it relates to some reported dangerous behaviors by the robot cars when in "Full Self-Driving" mode.
SF News New Castro Homeless Outreach Program Touts Early Results, Might Have a Working Blueprint A targeted, one-on-one homeless outreach in the program has gotten nearly half of the neighborhood’s “hard-core unhoused people” into shelter, and may be replicable elsewhere in the city, but requires significant staff and budget.
Arts & Entertainment Books & Brews: Celebrating SF Beer Week, Supporting Local Authors, and Drinking Anchor Brewing's Tell Us When to Go IPA Pack your growlers and reading glasses this weekend – Anchor Brewing Company is hosting Books & Brews, a celebration of SF Beer Week and local authors like Emil DeAndries, whose new novel, 'Tell Us When to Go' inspired of Anchor's new Tell Us When to Go IPA.
SF News Woman Convicted In Notorious SF Dog-Mauling Murder Case Gets Denied Parole Marjorie Knoller, the woman convicted of second-degree murder for the tragic 2001 dog-mauling of Diane Whipple, has been denied parole for a second time.
