mass shooting [Update] Suspect Found Dead In Van Linked to Mass Shooting In Southern California's Monterey Park On Sunday afternoon, a man was found dead, likely of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, in a white van that authorities believe may be connected to the Saturday night shooting.
orinda VIDEO: Landslide Threatens Orinda Neighborhood, Pulls One House Down Hillside After its residents were evacuated Wednesday, the home at 14 Cedar Lane slid to about 30 feet below its original position, staying mostly intact.
SF News Police Arrest San Francisco Man in Connection with Two Armed Bank Robberies in South San Francisco The suspect, 48-year-old Damion Stephen Shoemaker, was arrested in Daly City on suspicion of two counts of armed robbery at the same Chase Bank.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland A's Hall of Famer and World Series Champion, "Captain Sal" Bando, dies at 78 Sal Bando remembered as Oakland A's captain who led the Oakland A's to three World Series wins in the 1970s; the search for missing SFSU student near Pacifica beach called off; and actor Jeremy Renner said he broke at least 30 bones in Nevada snowplow accident.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Swimmer Who Went Missing Off Pacifica Coast Thursday Identified as SFSU Student The 22-year-old, Hamzah Alsaudi, reportedly went for a Polar Plunge when he got swept away by a wave; a Hayward man connected to a vehicle theft ring is on the run and "armed and dangerous," police say; and Madonna added a second SF show to her world tour in October.
SF News Downtown Berkeley’s Last Remaining Movie Theater, the Regal UA, Is Closing Pour another one out for another movie theater biting the dust, as the Regal UA on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley is closing. There’s no closing date announced, but it looks like their lease will expire February 15.
SF News Paid Parklet Permit System Hits Application Deadline, Most SF Businesses Intend To Keep Their Parklets The free ride is over for San Francisco parklets, but now that businesses must pay $2,000 a year for each parking space their parklet occupies, nearly 80% of current parklet owners are still opting to keep them.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Teen Who Won on Food Network Show Opens Cake Shop In Hayward The youngest-ever contestant to win one of the adult baking competition shows on Food Network, Max Soto, has just opened his own Bay Area cake shop, called Max's Cakes.
Business & Tech Netflix Cofounder Reed Hastings Steps Down From CEO Role After a bumpy year for Netflix, co-CEO and cofounder Reed Hastings is stepping down but will remain in the role of chairman.
SF News Whole Foods Moves In Again On Long-Vacant Former Best Buy Location at Geary and Masonic Whole Foods has submitted new plans to occupy the space that Best Buy vacated way back in 2017, as the grocer continues its now nearly-six-year quest to be the new anchor tenant at City Center plaza at Geary Boulevard and Masonic Avenue.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Placed on Administrative Leave Over Alleged Mishandling of Internal Investigation New Oakland mayor Sheng Thao is moving fast, placing the city’s police chief LeRonne Armstrong on paid administrative leave just one day after an internal report was made public saying he’s failed to hold officers accountable for misconduct.
SF News Elizabeth Holmes Booked One-Way Ticket to Mexico After Conviction, Prosecutors Say As federal prosecutors push to get Elizabeth Holmes more quickly into prison, they have revealed in a new court filing that she booked a one-way ticket to Mexico last year not long after her conviction on four counts of fraud.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Google Lays Off 12,000 Workers Google/Alphabet is laying off 12,000 workers, a 3.6M earthquake struck Thursday evening in Sonoma County, and the state wants you to please withdraw your Middle Class Tax Refund ASAP.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Announces Grants Of Up To $5,000 for Storm-Damaged Businesses UC Davis fired the prominent chemistry professor accused of raping a high school student, the wildly popular Dave’s Hot Chicken opens Friday in Oakland, and SF small businesses that suffered storm damage are now eligible for grants of up to $5,000.
SF News The Haight's Page Street Becomes Permanent Slow Street The SFMTA board has signed off on Page Street becoming a permanent Slow Street, capping off nearly three years in which a pandemic experiment became popular for many residents.
SF News Video: President Biden Tours Storm-Ravaged Santa Cruz and Santa Clara Counties, Announces More Relief Funds President Joe Biden touched down in Santa Clara County just before noon, toured the wreckage in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and Capitola, and announced more relief funds in a speech that’s already posted online.
SF News Check Out the Upcoming Ferry Building Renovations, Including a New Coat of Paint Just in time for the Ferry Building’s 125th birthday, we have fresh new renderings of the enhancements coming to the plaza and marketplace, including a new coat of paint with a custom color called “Ferry Building Gray.”
Business & Tech Meta Looking to Offload All Of Its Office Space at 181 Fremont Adding to the already historic level of office vacancy in San Francisco, Meta is looking to dump 435,000 square feet of offices that it leased for Instagram employees five years ago in 181 Fremont.
SF News Study Ranks San Francisco Dead Last In U.S. for Downtown Economic Recoveries Yet another analysis points out the well-reported state of affairs that downtown San Francisco’s economic recovery from the pandemic is awfully sluggish, but this one purports that we’re in last place among 62 North American cities.
SF News More Details Emerge In Tragic Killing of Two SF Children; Mother May Have Had Postpartum Psychosis The Chronicle has obtained the police report for the December 23 discovery of a dead five-year-old and one-year-old in a Hunters Point home, and the senseless killings may have been the result of their mother’s case of postpartum psychosis.
SF News SF Reparations Committee Recommends $5 Million Lump-Sum Payments to Eligible Black Residents In one of the most sweeping and expensive proposals for reparations to Black Americans, a committee tasked with making recommendations for providing reparations to Black residents of San Francisco is suggesting $5 million lump-sum payments to residents who meet certain eligibility requirements.
SF News Suspected Stolen Car Plunges Off Cliff on Twin Peaks During Chase, Lands On Another Car A vehicle suspected of being stolen that was being chased by SFPD officers Wednesday night on Twin Peaks went off a cliff and landed on its side atop a parked vehicle on a roadway below.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Biden to Visit Capitola Pier and Santa Cruz President Biden is visiting the storm-damaged Santa Cruz area, an employee at Trick Dog is being hailed as a hero for saving two elderly people in last week's fire across the street from the bar, and two SF socialites gave money to George Santos.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Palace of Fine Arts Swan Dies at Age 28 Blanche, the 28-year-old Palace of Fine Arts swan, has died; a Nob Hill pot dispensary was robbed to the tune of $100K; and CB2 is closing near Union Square a year after Crate & Barrel also closed.
Business & Tech Fed-Up Artists Now Suing AI Startups For Stealing Their Work To Create Those Stupid ‘Avatar’ Selfies The AI tool behind that Lensa Magic Avatar selfie fad that came and went last month is named in a new batch of copyright lawsuits, as artists say their work was swiped without permission or attribution.
