SF Politics San Mateo Appoints Amourence Lee As Mayor, Yet She Is Now Making Corruption Allegations San Mateo’s week-long mayor-less nightmare is over, as Amourence Lee was appointed the city’s first Asian American mayor Monday night, but she still described the proceedings as an attempted "insurrection."
SF Politics SF Elections Commission Reverses Itself, Backpedals After Uproar Over Proposed Director Search A perceived misstep by the SF Elections Commission last month, saying they were not planning to renew the contract of 20-year veteran director of the Department of Elections John Arntz in favor of conducting an executive search to seek a diverse array of candidates, has now been reversed.
SF News Senate Judiciary Committee to Investigate Bureau of Prisons, and Former Dublin Wardens Specifically A Congressional investigation is looking into why a regional prisons official and former acting warden of FCI Dublin was able to rise the ranks despite a history of inmate-beating charges for which other guards got fired.
SF News Dozens of Shots Fired Into SoMa Building, Two Men Injured A shooting Monday evening in SoMa was heard by many in the area, as dozens of shots rang out in the vicinity of Bryant and Ninth, near Dore Alley, and two men were reportedly injured, one of them seriously.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Twitter Dissolves Trust & Safety Council Elon Musk's Twitter abruptly dissolved the company's Trust & Safety Council last night, Joe Biden will sign same-sex marriage rights into law today, and parts of the Bay Area saw freezing temps this a.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California's Flavored Tobacco Ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from R.J. Reynolds on the flavored tobacco ban California voters approved last month, and the ban will go into effect in less than ten days.
Business & Tech Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab Prepare Big Announcement About Advance In Nuclear Fusion Nuclear physicists from the Bay Area will be center stage Tuesday at a Department of Energy announcement about a breakthrough in fusion technology that could ultimately lead to clean energy plants without hazardous nuclear waste.
SF News SFPD Makes Arrest in Fatal Castro Safeway Stabbing From October Two months after a 40-year-old man was stabbed and killed outside the Castro Safeway shopping plaza, police arrested a suspect Thursday who’s currently in custody.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF News Pac Heights Renters Got $410,000 To Move Out, Third-Highest SF Tenant Buyout Ever The tenant buyout market is at an all-time high this year, and we learn that two renters in Pacific Heights were paid $410,000 to vacate their unit, the third-largest ever such buyout in recorded SF history.
Bay Area Sports Brock Purdy Is Magnificent in 49ers' Blowout of Tom Brady and the Bucs Starting in his first-ever NFL game on Sunday, Brock Purdy wrote the next page in his young career, playing with the swagger and polished poise of a veteran. The San Francisco 49ers destroyed Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35-7, and inched one step closer toward improbability.
SF News Suspect In Violent Ambulance Hijacking In Best Buy Parking Lot Arrested and Charged The suspect in a bizarre late August incident in which two SFFD paramedics had to flee from their ambulance as a crazed man allegedly hijacked it and tried to run them down, has finally been arrested and charged.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Elon Musk Joins Dave Chappelle On Stage At SF Show, Gets Booed Lustily The Twitter and Tesla CEO bizarrely joined standup comic Dave Chappelle on stage at the Chase Center Sunday night to a loud chorus of boos, yet the “free speech absolutist” Musk has apparently removed the videos of this from Twitter.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Mount Hamilton Sees Blanket of Snow A rock slide temporarily shut down lanes of Highway 101 in Sausalito, much of the Bay Area saw two or more inches of rain over the weekend, and Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County got blanketed with snow.
SF News San Mateo City Council Fight Leaves City Without Mayor, Breaks 128 Years Of Tradition The City of San Mateo's two new councilmembers are blocking the nomination of their co-member who traditionally would have been selected this time, Councilwoman Amourence Lee.
SF News SFPD Arrests 28-Year-Old Suspect In Bayview Murder of Relative SFPD arrested a 28-year-old male suspect for allegedly killing a 51-year-old female relative Friday night in the Bayview.
SF News Sunday Links: Man Arrested for DUI After Deadly San Jose Crash A truck driver was arrested after a San Jose crash killed one woman and injured two other people, an Oakland youth died of gunshot wounds after a shooting this weekend, and several big rigs trucks on the same West Oakland lot caught on fire early Sunday morning.
SF News Dramatic Flaring and Smoke Plumes at Martinez Oil Refinery Alarm Community Friday afternoon flaring at the Martinez Refinery Company sparked concerns among city residents, and the company also reportedly released hazardous materials on Thanksgiving Day without warning.
SF News Mission District's Planned Overdose Prevention Site Scrapped by Mayor's Office The SF Mayor’s Office reportedly pulled the plug on the city’s first planned permanent overdose prevention site in the Mission, a week after shutting down the Tenderloin Center where onsite drug use spurred controversy.
SF News Saturday Links: Heavy Storm Hits Bay Area, Making Tahoe Inaccessible This atmospheric river passing through raises San Francisco flood warnings, COVID levels are spiking in Santa Clara County wastewater, and NorCal native Mitch Haniger is coming to the SF Giants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Eggo Factory Fined After Ammonia Leak An Eggo waffle factory in the South Bay has been ordered to pay $85K over an ammonia gas leak, Alameda High School has had two weird incidents with intruders on campus, and Elton John announced he's quitting Twitter over its new policies.
Arts & Entertainment WARNING: SantaCon Is Saturday, Though It Will Definitely Get Rained On If you want to mark yourself “Safe From SantaCon,” you’ll want to avoid the bars on Saturday, and once again, some hucksters are out pushing $30 tickets to this event that is actually free and completely unorganized.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chef at Locanda and Prairie to Open Pasta Spot In the Inner Richmond Chef Anthony Strong, who might have had a hit on his hands with Prairie in the Mission District if it weren't for a certain pandemic, has never been one to stay idle for too long.
Arts & Entertainment Acclaimed Broadway Revival of 'Into the Woods' Is Coming to the Curran Next Year A new production of Sondheim's fairy tale mashup 'Into the Woods,' which won rave reviews and became an immediate hit of the latest Broadway season, is heading to San Francisco for a limited engagement in June 2023, as part of a national tour.
