SF News 5-Year-Old Boy Still Missing After Being Swept Away In Paso Robles Flood; Mom Says He Told Her to 'Be Calm' The search continues for five-year-old Kyle Doan, who remains under "missing" status after being swept out of his mother's grip in rushing floodwaters near Paso Robles on Monday.
SF News Oakland School Board Reverses Course, Won't Shut Down Six Schools That Were On the Chopping Block Many of the Oakland schools that were ordered to close last year will now remain open, thanks to the new school board’s reversal of that decision, though the few schools already closed will remain shuttered.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Struggling SF Bar Owners Say People Aren't Drinking Like They Did Pre-COVID Is it true that people are going out to bars less often now than they did three years ago? That may not be true in many parts of the country, or even in parts of San Francisco, but for some neighborhood and after-work bars, things still haven't gotten back to normal.
SF News SF Burger King Employees Win $2.2 Million In Three-Year Old Wage Theft Case Ch’King! More than 200 Burger King workers are entitled to a whopping $2.2 million in unpaid back wages after winning an appeal to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, and the Burger King franchise operator would have saved $370,000 had they just not appealed the case.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Police Arrest Oakland Man With Slew of Ghost Guns Oakland police arrested a man shooting off weapons in his driveway who had a slew of crazy looking ghost guns, robbers are targeting Mike's Camera stores in the East Bay, and Lake Mendocino is filling up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed at 16th and Valencia A 64-year-old woman was struck and killed while crossing the intersection of 16th and Valencia, Oakland appears to be losing out on a federal grant linked to the A's stadium site, and there will be a recount in the Oakland mayor's race.
SF News Report: Moderna Wants to Charge $130 Per Dose For COVID-19 Vaccines Your COVID-19 vaccines and boosters won’t be free for much longer, and Moderna is reportedly licking its chops at the prospect of charging as much as $130 per dose for your next booster shot.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Proposes New Legislation to Make More 'Gentle Density' Happen In Westside Neighborhoods Supervisor Myrna Melgar introduced legislation Tuesday to create a so-called "family housing opportunity special use district" on the westside that would make building triplexes and fourplexes easier on the sites of mostly vacant single-family homes.
SF Politics Now Barbara Lee Is Running For Feinstein’s Senate Seat, Setting Up a Democratic Party Royal Rumble We’ve got a Democrat donnybrook shaping up over the 2024 race for Dianne Feinstein’s Senate seat, as East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee jumps into a race that will already likely include Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff, and Ro Khanna.
SF News Study: Marijuana-Related Senior Citizen Emergency Room Visits Have Skyrocketed Over The Last 18 Years A just-published UC San Diego study says that senior citizen visits to the emergency room for cannabis-related reasons in California have increased by more than 1800% since 2003.
SF News Bay Area Mother Who Was Bosnian Refugee Sentenced to Three Years For Cyberstalking, Bullying Teen Daughter's Friends A Brentwood mother of a teenage girl who participated in teen beauty pageants has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for cyberstalking and harassing teenage acquaintances of her daughter after they had fallings-out.
SF News We Now Have Video of the Eight-Car Pileup Allegedly Caused By Self-Driving Tesla A reporter’s public records request has produced video of the Thanksgiving Day multi-car crash that the driver claims was caused by his Tesla in “full self-driving” mode, and hmmm, the reporter who obtained the video is suddenly shadowbanned on Elon Musk’s Twitter.
SF News SF Gallery Owner Who Sprayed Homeless Woman With Hose Could Face Battery Charge; He Blames the City A viral video that has sparked outrage this week, showing a San Francisco gallery owner spraying a homeless woman with a hose, could wind up resulting in criminal charges, as the SFPD continues investigating.
SF News 43-Year-Old Woman Found Dead In Submerged Car Near River Road In Sonoma County A Ukiah woman who had called 911 for help when her car became stuck in floodwaters Tuesday morning in Sonoma County was found dead on Wednesday after rescuers could not locate the vehicle earlier.
SF News Surviving Stockton Serial Killer Victim Speaks Out, Says Police Failed Her Natasha LaTour was homeless and addicted to meth and lingering in a shadowy part of Stockton next to train tracks around 3 a.m. when a stranger approached, his clothes seeming to hang off him, and fired eight or ten shots at her.
SF News BART Police Files Reportedly Leaked By Hackers, Now On Dark Web Numerous news organizations are reporting that BART police files have been hacked and posted onto the dark web, including allegations of child abuse against officers, and perhaps your information if you’ve ever been cited by BART Police for a crime.
SF News Humpday Headlines: FAA System Failure Causes Widespread Flight Delays A critical FAA system went down Wednesday causing widespread flight delays and cancellations; a 71-year-old woman was fatally stabbed in West Oakland this morning; and you can expect more rain throughout the day today, along with possible thunder.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Storms Have Claimed At Least 17 Lives An SF gallery owner is going viral for spraying an unhoused woman with a hose, the Giants are now looking vindicated in the Carlos Correa mess, and the death toll stands at 17 in these two weeks of California storms.
Arts & Entertainment Punk Bands Rocked Out an Impromptu Live Show On a Moving BART Train Friday Night Punk’s not dead, it just slithered onto an eastbound BART train Friday night for a live show called “Sh*tshow On BART” that more than lived up to its name before BART Police shut the shenanigans down.
SF News Mother and Daughter Rescued From Car After Tree, Power Lines Fall on Fulton Street A mother and daughter were able to be rescued — and their car appeared mostly undamaged — after a very big tree fell along Fulton Street Tuesday, bringing power lines down with it, one of which blew out their sunroof.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella Lineup Drops, Includes Björk, Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean BottleRock beat them to the punch by a day, but now Coachella's organizers have unveiled the lineup for 2023's dual-weekend fest in the desert — the first lineup in three years that is a wholly new bill and not a cobbled-together lineup of rescheduled acts from a COVID-canceled festival.
SF News Fallen Tree Crushes Car Near Japantown; Tree Falls on Muni Bus Near Union Square A big tree fell over Tuesday next to the Hamilton Playground and tennis courts on Post Street between Pierce and Steiner, totaling a parked car and temporarily blocking part of the street.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50,000 Reward For Information On Cold-Case Shooting In Marina That Killed Visitor 32-year-old Samuel St. Pierre was visiting SF from Placer County when he was shot and killed on June 19, and police are now offering $50,000 for information that could help lead to an arrest.
SF News Update: Lightning Strikes Transamerica Pyramid, Sutro Tower Lightning strikes in San Francisco were caught on video people on Twitter on Tuesday, and bolts appears to strike the tip top of the Transamerica Pyramid — which is not unheard of — as well as Sutro Tower.
Business & Tech Laid-Off Twitter Employees Finally Get Severance Offers, Which Are Unsurprisingly Less Than Promised That three-months severance for laid-off Twitter employees is more like a one-month severance, does not include owed bonus and stock money, and comes with a lifelong commitment to testifying on Twitter’s behalf in lawsuits.
