SF News Paul Flores Found Guilty In 1996 Murder of Kristin Smart A 26-year-old mystery out of San Luis Obispo came to a conclusion Tuesday, as Paul Flores was found guilty in the murder of 19-year-old Kristin Smart. His father, Ruben Flores, was found not guilty by a separate jury of being an accessory after the fact.
SF Politics Bizarrely, Clarence Thomas’s Wife Is Pumping Money Into an East Bay School Board Race Three candidates for the Acalanes Union High School District Governing Board have pulled in more than $10,000 in campaign contributions, much of it from the insurrectionist wing of the Republican party.
SF News 50 People Per Month Have Died of Drug Overdoses In SF This Year, and Most Were Not In the Tenderloin Accidental overdose deaths in San Francisco, largely driven by the proliferation of fentanyl, continue to decline slightly in number from a peak in 2020. However they still remain at crisis levels, according to a new report from the city's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME).
SF Politics Gavin Newsom’s 2005 Affair Will Be Back In the News, Courtesy of the New Harvey Weinstein Trial The latest Harvey Weinstein sexual assault trial is shaping up to be a wild one (Mel Gibson will take the stand), and Weinstein’s defense will use emails about Gavin Newsom’s 2005 affair as evidence in the trial.
SF News Homicide Under Investigation at Turk & Taylor Streets A person was apparently shot Monday evening near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets in the Tenderloin.
SF News Probation Records Offer Glimpse Into Troubled Youth of Stockton Suspect The tendency with serial-killer and mass-shooter cases alike is always to want to immediately try to psychoanalyze the suspect and get to the bottom of their motives. The answers are rarely satisfying, but with the Stockton serial killer suspect, Wesley Brownlee, this has already begun.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Would-be Napa Terrorist Ordered to Get Psych Evaluation The Napa Trumper who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb "Democrat buildings" is being ordered to get a psych evaluation, two new Omicron subvariants are likely to drive some sort of winter surge, and Jane Fonda has endorsed Honey Mahogany for D6 supervisor.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One of Two Juries In Kristin Smart Murder Trial Returns With Verdict Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the COVID state of emergency will officially end in late February, a high-speed chase ends tragically in Oakland, and the jury deciding on the guilt or innocence of Ruben Flores in the Kristin Smart murder trial has returned.
SF Politics Breed Zings Elon Musk, Saying He ‘Got a Ton of Tax Breaks in California and Decided to Take That Money and Run’ SF Mayor London Breed had choice words for Elon Musk’s moving Tesla headquarters to Texas in a new Bloomberg interview, and even ribbed Marc Benioff a bit.
SF News Two Oakland Men Arrested On 38 (Yes, 38) Counts of Auto Burglary Two men alleged to be affiliated with gangs are in custody and stand accused of an astonishing 38 counts of auto burglary, and they’re both now in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail.
Arts & Entertainment The Legendary Kiki & Herb Return to San Francisco to Do a Holiday Show at the Curran For the first time in 15 years, Kiki & Herb are on tour, and they are bringing the latest iteration of their holiday spectacular, "Do You Hear What We Hear?" to the Curran Theater for one night only, December 9.
SF News Permanent Sunday Streets-Style Street Park Being Proposed for the Tenderloin It could be Sunday Streets every day on the 100 block of Golden Gate Avenue, as a coalition of volunteer groups and nonprofits continues pushing for a plan to close that street to car traffic and make it a permanent playground.
Business & Tech OMG Elizabeth Holmes Showed Up In Court Looking Pregnant, Again As Elizabeth Holmes stares down a prison term of an indeterminate amount of years, she remained smiling as she showed up in court Monday for an evidentiary hearing that's a last-bid attempt by her attorneys to get her a new trial. And, she seems to be possibly pregnant yet again.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Fall to Atlanta In a Game They Were Expected to Win When the 2-3 Atlanta Falcons marched straight down the field on their first, seven-ish-minute drive on Sunday for the eventual touchdown, it was clear that the game — which on paper favored the San Francisco 49ers — was going to be tougher than expected.
Business & Tech Kanye West is Buying Right-Wing Social Media Site Parler, What Could Go Right? Increasingly incoherent and unraveling rap star Kanye West’s latest bid for attention has him buying the wingnut-haven social media site Parler, though financial terms were not disclosed, and might not even exist.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Did Not Stray Far From His and Relatives' Homes to Find Victims We've learned a bit more information about suspected serial killer Wesley Brownlee since his arrest on Saturday, and it appears that several of his victims were killed within feet of either his home or the homes of relatives in Stockton.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Police Arrest Sexual Assault Suspect BART police have arrested a suspect in an Oct. 6 sexual assault in Walnut Creek, two Sonoma County deputies shot a man near downtown Sonoma who they say fired on them, and flu season may have already arrived in California with an outbreak in San Diego.
SF News [Update] Two People Shot In San Francisco's Fillmore District A shooting Sunday night left at least two people injured on a street near Jefferson Square Park, after a barrage of gunfire was heard throughout the Fillmore neighborhood.
SF News First-Ever Map Depicting San Francisco Bay Is Going to Auction This Month A map, which was scribed in Mexico on October 30, 1770, and is considered among historians to be the first map showing the San Francisco Bay, will be auctioned off to the highest bidder on October 25.
SF News SF Zoo's New Pygmy Hippo Is As Cute As It Is Endangered San Francisco Zoo & Gardens announced Friday that it recently became home to a two-year-old male pygmy hippopotamus named "Udo" — which translates to "peace" in Igbo — becoming the first of this rare species to be kept at the zoo since 2004.
SF News Sunday Links: In Some '90s Nostalgia, Toys 'R' Us Has Returned to the Bay Area Macy’s stores across SF and San Jose are debuting new Toys 'R' Us pop-ups, cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Garfield Square Park, and the space that belonged to the former Touchless Car Wash at Divisadero and Oak streets will no longer become an apartment complex.
SF News Police: Serial Killer Suspect Arrested In Stockton While Out 'Hunting' For New Victim Law enforcement said last week that the modus operandi of an apparent serial killer made him very likely to be caught, and on Saturday, Stockton police announced an arrest.
SF News Bay Area 7-Eleven Sells Winning Mega Millions Lottery Ticket Worth $247M On Friday, one of two winning tickets for the CA Mega Millions lottery was sold at the 7-Eleven at 1413 Kooser Road in San Jose — leaving the two players to split the $494M Mega Millions jackpot evenly, each of them now entitled to a massive $247M prize.
SF News Saturday Links: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Vandalized, Over 60 Windows Broken There was an "ambush-style" robbery in the Mission District, a security camera filmed dozens of windows at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital being broken, and a Yountville bakery made a life-size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite — completely out of carbs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nearly 30 New Lanterns Come to SF's Chinatown — and Each Tells a Story 29 new lanterns were recently installed in San Francisco's Chinatown, Albertsons — which is Safeway with different branding — is being bought by Kroger, and FYI: The largest hay maze in the city is located at the SF Zoo.
