SF News Appellate Court Might Expand CEQA's Powers In Berkeley Case, and May Stymie People's Park Development Plan In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Dies In Apparent Hit-and-Run Near Fisherman's Wharf A pedestrian was killed Wednesday in a hit-and-run at Bay and Stockton streets; Oakland police are investigating the death of a toddler whose body was found in Napa; and BART is experiencing rain-related delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Suspects Arrested In 24th & Mission Shooting A 19-year-old and a 20-year-old have been arrested in connection with a fatal Dec. 18 shooting at 24th and Mission; a dramatic car chase ended with lanes closed on I-80 in Vallejo; and Muni has announced free service all night on New Year's Eve.
SF News Rev. Amos Brown Publishes Stemwinder Op-Ed Blasting ‘Nearly Unlivable’ Conditions In the Fillmore Third Baptist Church pastor and SF NAACP president Amos Brown continues his campaign of calling attention to the state of the Fillmore District, in a new op-ed saying the neighborhood is experiencing “an explosion of homeless tent encampments, open drug use, and violence.”
SF News South SF Teen Allegedly Steals Car, Rams Into Multiple Other Cars On Two-Hour Joyride Before Police Catch Him A wild car chase tore through South San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, with the alleged car thief crashing into several cars and a police cruiser, yet this alleged car thief is a mere 15 years old.
SF News More Rain Coming Tonight Through New Year's Eve; Free Sandbags Available In SF It's going to be a soggy New Year's weekend in the Bay Area, as a couple more storms line up to drench us some more — and waterlogged ground is likely going to create some hazards and nuisances in the coming days.
SF News SF Woman Charged With Murder In Incident That Killed Two Children In Bayview Details are scarce, but a one-year-old and five-year-old were found dead in a Bayview home Friday morning, and the DA’s office just announced murder charges against a 34-year-old San Francisco woman in connection with the two children’s deaths.
SF News In Formality, Pelosi Attack Suspect Enters Not Guilty Plea Again, Waives Right to Speedy Trial In another pre-trial hearing in San Francisco Superior Court Wednesday morning, accused Paul Pelosi attacker David DePape again entered a plea of not guilty to the attempted murder charge against him, and he now won't be back in court for two months.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Accused Of Seventh Murder, Which Occurred In Oakland More charges were filed Tuesday in the case against Wesley Brownlee, the 43-year-old Stockton man accused in a string of killings in both Oakland and Stockton, and among them is one new name that had previously not been released.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Search Called Off For Missing Marin Fisherman Marin authorities have called off their search for a fisherman who disappeared on Sunday, a woman was fatally shot outside her Antioch home on Tuesday, and Southwest Airlines continues canceling hundreds of Bay Area flights.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Storms Bring Enormous Waves, Flood-Related Traffic Jams To Bay Area What's shaping up to be the wettest last week of December in 17 years has brought three-mile-long traffic jams to the South Bay, 20-foot waves in the North Bay, and skiers getting turned away on the Tahoe slopes.
SF News BART Extends New Year’s Eve Service Until 2 A.M., Caltrain Will Be Free That Night The New Year's Eve announcements are pouring in from Bay Area transit agencies, and Caltrain will be free from 8 p.m. onward Saturday night, while BART will run extra trains going well after 2 a.m.
Business & Tech TikTok Parent Company Admits It Spied On Two U.S. Journalists Who Exposed the App‘s Surveillance TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance admits it spied on two Buzzfeed journalists, though the journalists say at least four people were spied on and tracked after breaking stories about the seemingly innocuous app’s surveillance of U.S. users.
SF News Video: Abandoned Mountain Lion Cub Recovering Nicely At Oakland Zoo, Where Animals Also Got Christmas Presents New videos from the Oakland Zoo show that the mountain cub hobbled by hypothermia that they took in last week is eating again and pulling a lovely recovery, while the zoo’s animals got Christmas presents to rip open, or faux gingerbread houses to play with.
SF News BART Police Investigating Christmas Eve Incident Involving Fire Extinguisher Sprayed at Passengers A teenage suspect having a verbal altercation with one other individual on a BART car Saturday, as it sat at Coliseum Station, can be seen on video spraying the car full of fire-extinguisher discharge as he backs out of the door — and those caught in the cloud included a baby and a small dog.
SF News Federal Judge Temporarily Halts All SF Homeless Sweeps Amid Major Lawsuit Against City The ACLU and Coalition on Homelessness’s lawsuit against the city of San Francisco has brought an emergency order to temporarily halt all encampment sweeps in the city, and Mayor Breed and her allies are furious with the decision.
SF News Five Hospitalized For ODs on Christmas After Reportedly Doing Contaminated Cocaine at Japantown Residence Five people were hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, after they all apparently suffered accidental overdoses inside a residence on Japantown's main drag on Christmas Day.
SF News Storm Dumps Rain, Brings High Winds and Some Hail to Bay Area This atmospheric river is going to continue bringing rain to the greater Bay Area, and snow to the Sierra, for most of Tuesday — and the rainfall totals are already looking impressive.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Arrest Made In Hate Crime Incident at East Bay In-N-Out This morning's storm winds were causing the Golden Gate Bridge to "sing" again, an arrest was made in the In-N-Out hate-crime incident caught on video, and a man was arrested on Christmas after allegedly stealing a car in Mountain View with two girls still inside.
SF News Brutal Beatdown At Westfield Mall Goes Viral In Reddit Video, But No Charges Filed A very ferocious two-on-one pummeling in front of the Foot Locker at the Westfield Centre has gone viral in a Reddit video, and while Westfield management confirms the incident happened, the victim is declining to file any charges.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Man's Racist, Homophobic Taunts at San Ramon In-N-Out Goes Viral on TikTok A creepy, scary, racist suspect is being sought in an incident that occurred in a San Ramon In-N-Out on Christmas Eve, and most of the incident — at least the audio — was captured in a TikTok video.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Braces for a Fresh Round of Rain The Bay Area will see the first rainfall from the coming Pineapple Express storm tonight, flood watches have been issued for multiple cities including SF, and flight cancellations continued today at SFO.
SF News In Cold, Cruel Christmas Eve Stunt, Buses of Migrants End Up at Kamala Harris’s DC Home On Saturday evening, three busloads of migrants from the southern U.S. border were reportedly bused to Vice President (and former California Senator) Kamala Harris’ home in Washington, DC, reportedly showing up on one of the coldest Christmas Eves on record in just t-shirts.
SF News Christmas Day Links: Two Hikers Stranded By High Tide Are Rescued By State Helicopter In Marin Two hikers were picked up by a helicopter from a Marin beach after getting stuck during high tide; a small plane crashed in Livermore and its pilot is reportedly injured; and South Bay elementary schooler Jaden Williams whose dancing went viral stole the show again at the Christmas Eve 49ers game.
Bay Area Sports The Brock Purdy Cinderella Story Continues as 49ers Beat Commanders There's only so much pixie dust to go around. In a game where analysts were talking about parallels between yesterday's two unlikely starting quarterbacks, Brock Purdy wrestled the glass slipper from Taylor Heinicke and led the 49ers to a 37-20 win.
