SF News Winning $2B Powerball Ticket Sold In SoCal; Million-Dollar Winner In San Francisco This is sure to piss off the people in the 44 other states who bought up Powerball tickets and who think that everyone in California is already rich. But the winning $2 billion ticket was sold in the Los Angeles area, we are now learning, and there is one $1 million winner in San Francisco.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge In Elizabeth Holmes Case Denies New Trial Elizabeth Holmes has been denied her new trial and will be sentenced next week, a 37-year-old Brisbane man has been charged in death of a man he allegedly punched and knocked to the ground in North Beach, and the morning rain caused some minor flooding around the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive 'League of Legends' Esports Tournament Took Over Chase Center The family of Alexis Gabe gave an emotional press conference, BART was experiencing weather-related delays, and a massive esports tournament took over Chase Center for the first time and was completely sold out on Saturday.
SF Politics Nancy Pelosi Gives First Interview Since Hammer Attack on Husband, Gets Choked Up Speaker Pelosi gave some hints about her future in her first interview since the attack on her husband, particularly on running for leadership again, saying, “I have to say my decision will be affected [by] what happened the last week or two.”
Arts & Entertainment Most SF Museums Will Be Free the First Weekend In December, Thanks to Anonymous Donors 21 museums across San Francisco will be open to the public free of charge on the weekend of December 3, thanks to some generous, anonymous patrons of the arts who are underwriting the weekend.
SF News Big Rig Full of Shrimp Catches Fire on Dumbarton Bridge, Shuts Down Traffic For Eight Hours A Monday morning truck fire on the South Bay’s Dumbarton Bridge stopped westbound traffic for about eight hours Monday, and the fire was on a truck full of shrimp that somehow managed to ignite.
SF News Water Main Break Floods Big Intersection In Cow Hollow Residents of San Francisco were being advised to avoid the area of Fillmore and Union streets Monday afternoon following a water main break that flooded the intersection — and there was also a report of gas smell in the air.
SF News Man's Partially Clothed Body Pulled From Bay Near Port of Oakland, Investigation Begins An investigation into a suspicious death has begun after a man's body was pulled out of the water near the Port of Oakland on Monday morning.
Business & Tech Reports: Facebook Parent Company Meta Planning Mega-Layoffs, ‘Many Thousands’ May Get the Ax This Week The long-feared Big Kahuna of tech-boom layoffs, massive cuts at Meta companies Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could arrive as soon as Wednesday, and it’s beginning to feel a lot like 2001.
SF News Meteorite Strike May Have Been the Cause of a House Fire In Nevada County A rare meteorite strike may be to blame for a fire that destroyed one couple's home and two vehicles parked outside in Nevada County on Friday.
Business & Tech Elon Musk’s Twitter Begs Some Laid-Off Employees to Return, Amidst Botched, Delayed $8 Blue-Check Rollout The Elon Musk era stumbled out of the gate and stepped on a few rakes this weekend, as the skeleton crew still around was forced to delay the new $8 blue check system, and management are begging some freshly canned staff members to return.
SF News Sideshows Sprang Up Saturday In Multiple East Bay Cities and Vallejo Saturday was a big night for sideshows in multiple places in the Bay Area, as police chased down gatherings of hundreds of cars in Vallejo, Richmond, Rodeo, and Hayward in a span of hours.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Teen Party Shakes Up Quiet Mill Valley An unruly party of 100 to 200 teenagers caused a ruckus in a shopping center parking lot in Marin, parents of seven-year-old twins were killed in a Redwood City crash, and Kathy Griffin had her Twitter account suspended.
SF News ICU Units at UCSF Children's Hospitals at Capacity Due to RSV Cases An outbreak of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory infections are overwhelming Bay Area children's hospitals — forcing ICU units to send pediatric patients to other floors because they've reached capacity.
SF News [Update] Twitter Rolls Out, Then Delays Its $8-a-Month Subscription for Blue Check Marks Twitter began quietly offering its contentious $7.99-a-month subscription model Saturday for blue check marks, citing that users who are willing to pay will enjoy additional niceties like the ability to post longer videos and see half the ads they typically would.
SF News Sunday Links: $1.1M Powerball Ticket Sold in Bay Area The owners of sandwich company Sandy’s plan on opening a physical eatery soon, the fatal multi-victim car crash in Redwood City Friday left two children parentless, and a winning $1.1M Powerball ticket was sold in San Leandro.
SF News At Least 890 Bay Area-based Twitter Employees Were Laid Off Friday Friday was a dark and anxiety-ridden day for tweeps as about half of the workforce was terminated in a Thanos-like snap. And, according to state filings, 784 employees laid off from Twitter worked in San Francisco, while another 106 were based in San Jose.
SF News Partial Remains of Alexis Gabe Recovered and Confirmed Near Sacramento 24-year-old Alexis Gabe went missing on January 26; she was last seen leaving the Antioch home of her ex-boyfriend. Nearly ten months later and after many volunteer-led searches, human remains were found in Plymouth on Thursday and confirmed to belong to Gabe.
SF News Saturday Links: Expect Light Drizzles and Rain Showers Across Bay Area Today Two people were killed in a Redwood City car crash last night, San Francisco was slicked with rainfall again this morning, and Original Joe's is planning on opening an East Bay location in 2024.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Great White Shark Spotted Near Golden Gate Bridge A giant great white shark was recorded close to the Golden Gate Bridge, Nancy Pelosi released a video statement about the health of her husband, and the Haight-Ashbury Thai cuisine gem Ploy II appears to have closed after 33 years of business.
SF News Infamous, Rejected Plan for 27-Story Residential Tower in Nordstrom’s Parking Lot Has New Plans Submitted Reports of the death of the 469 Stevenson high-rise were greatly exaggerated, as the developer has submitted a new plan with stronger retrofitting, and this new version is even one story taller.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Stoa, a New Cocktail Bar From the Nopalito Team, Is Coming to the Lower Haight The Lower Haight has continued to be a pretty bustling neighborhood during the pandemic, and while a couple of key vacancies remain, one corner spot is set to have a new business by early next year.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Campaign Drops Nearly $2 Million To Defeat Electric Car Measure Prop 30 Supposedly climate-friendly Governor Newsom’s campaign just gave nearly $1.9 million to defeat Prop. 30, the millionaire tax that would help fund California’s conversion to electric cars only.
SF News Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams Abruptly Resigns With No Explanation Despite (or because of?) a drop in police shootings on his watch, the Vallejo Police Officers Association wanted Chief Shawny Williams out. On Friday, they got their wish when he suddenly resigned.
Business & Tech Twitter Layoffs Cut Across Many Divisions; Musk Is Whining About Activists Whom He Blames For Advertiser Exodus The layoff sweep at Twitter was nothing if not chaotic and cruel, and after months of speculation and hollow denials about what was to come, employees are left either holding the bag or waiting to find out what their severance packages look like.
