SF News Endangered Gray Wolves Give Birth to Largest Pack Of Pups California Has Seen in A Century Congratulations are in order for the two endangered gray wolves OR-85 and his female mate WHA01F, who just welcomed eight new pups, the largest litter of gray wolf pups California has seen in more than 100 years.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisors Express Their Alarm Over Baby Exposed to Fentanyl, Possibly at Playground One father's post on Nextdoor on Tuesday night set off a cascade of media coverage Wednesday about a highly sensational — and scary — incident involving a baby accidentally ingesting fentanyl, possibly at a city playground.
SF News People Being Warned Not to Drive to Tahoe Today/Tonight Anyone looking to get a jump on ski season and this first big snowfall up around Lake Tahoe should probably have left yesterday, as snowy roadways are already causing problems for drivers in the area.
SF News COVID-Restriction-Flouting San Jose Church Wins Appeal for Flouting COVID Restrictions San Jose’s Calvary Chapel gained notoriety for defying COVID-19 restrictions throughout the pandemic, and the California Supreme Court just shot down $217,500 in fines the church had racked up.
SF News Prosecutors: French Bulldog Theft In South San Francisco Was Arranged By Ex-Girlfriend With Help From Gang Members A case from the summer of 2021 — one of a spate of high-profile robberies involving French bulldogs in the Bay Area — is finally hitting a courtroom in San Mateo County, and it was not a random theft.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Morning Rain Will Be Followed By a Serious Chill Get ready for a very chilly night to kick off December, police in Antioch have made an arrest in Saturday's gas station killing, and a big Silicon Valley law firm just laid off 150 employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Expands Service to Renters Who Want to Host Travelers Airbnb is partnering with corporate landlords to allow renters to sublet units to travelers for short stays, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have mended fences, and Steph Curry sold that mansion in Atherton so where's he living?
SF News SF Public Works Will (Finally!) Clean Off Building Graffiti and Tagging For Free In a long-overdue move, SF Public Works will stop charging small businesses and building owners for having graffiti on their buildings, and instead come out and clean off the tagging for free.
SF News Baby Reportedly Ingests Fentanyl Found In Grass at Marina Park, Saved With Narcan A parent’s worst nightmare came true Tuesday after a trip to Moscone Park in the Marina, as a 10-month-old suffered a cardiac arrest reportedly after finding fentanyl somewhere in the park, and was saved using Narcan.
SF News Mistrial Declared In Antioch Murder Case After Defendant, Representing Himself, Shouts Profanities at Prosecutor and Judge A 27-year-old man from Oakland, representing himself in a case involving the murder of his ex-girlfriend, has spent a fair bit of time shouting profanities and slurs at the prosecutor and judge, and generally interrupting the proceedings. Now the judge has declared a mistrial.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens On Ice Returns to the Union Square Holiday Ice Rink Thursday Night The Union Square Holiday Ice Rink is lacing ‘em up for the 13th annual Drag Queens on Ice Thursday night, as Donna Sachet and seven dazzling drag queens put on their slay bells for the family-friendly show.
Business & Tech Musk Drops Twitter's COVID Misinformation Policy, Because Of Course He Did In another stellar move celebrating unfettered free speech in the Twitterverse, Elon Musk has jettisoned another redeeming guardrail that was keeping the rabid anti-vaxxers in check.
SF News Napa Natural Medicine Quack Who Sold Fake COVID-Fighting Pellets and Vaccination Cards Gets Three Years Juli Mazi, the non-MD naturopath who misled patients during the pandemic into believing that vaccines are "toxic" and she'd made her own natural pellet versions, has been sentenced to three years.
SF News Supervisors Approve SFPD Use of Killer Robots — What Could Go Wrong? The SF Police Department got Board of Supervisors approval to use robots as a “deadly force option” against suspects Tuesday night. But at least the robots will only have bombs instead of firearms?
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Supervisor Has Twitter Account Hacked The Twitter account of SF Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton has been hacked, David DePape is due in federal court today, and police are seeking a bank robbery suspect in South San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Overnight Temperatures May Dip Into the 30s Retail cannabis sales have been a downer this year, two alleged shooters from a fatal August Muni bus shooting have been arrested, and an incoming cold wave could bring overnight temperatures in the 30s, and will leave Lake Tahoe on avalanche watch.
SF Politics Two January 6th Rioters Become the First to Be Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy Of the 900 criminal charges filed against the January 6 insurrectionists, a jury handed down the first two guilty verdicts for seditious conspiracy against the United States, to two Oath Keepers in a Washington, D.C. Federal District court.
SF News Muni Bus Hijacker Identified; SFPD Officer Stopped Bus Before It Hit Oncoming Traffic We have a suspect ID and some further details about a wild Friday-after-Thanksgiving incident in the Mission District, in which a guy allegedly assaulted a Muni bus driver and bus-jacked the bus.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District’s Bond Bar (the Former Esta Noche) May Become New Lesbian-Centric Queer Bar The ownership behind Thee Parkside may have a new “womxn and femme-centered queer bar” on tap in January, apparently in the 16th Street spot currently occupied by Bond Bar, which is the former Esta Noche.
SF News Biden Chooses Berkeley Attorney (and Mohammed Nuru’s Lawyer!) to Be New U.S. Attorney The prestigious position of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California has gone to Ismail Ramsey of the Berkeley-based criminal law firm Ramsey & Ehrlich, and yes, he’s the same guy who defended Mohammed Nuru last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Before New Guide and Star Announcements, Michelin Adds Three Bib Gourmands From Bay Area We're now a week out from the release of the 2022 Michelin Guide to California — which should probably be called the 2023 guide at this point but now that it's all app-based I guess it doesn't matter.
Business & Tech Elon Musk Declares ‘War’ on Apple, In Tweets Clearly Marked as Being Sent From ‘Twitter for iPhone’ Apple is the biggest advertiser on Twitter, but Elon Musk is picking an attention-seeking public feud with Apple, though all of Musk’s tweets on the topic are plainly labeled as being sent from an iPhone.
SF News In Test of Civil Liberties Law, the Mayor of New York Announces Sweeping Program to Remove Mentally Ill From Streets It's likely to incite pushback from civil liberties advocates as well as plenty of outcry from residents of other cities like San Francisco who want to see more mentally ill, unhoused people involuntarily committed for treatment.
SF News Man Shot Near Bus In West Oakland Is City's 112th Homicide of the Year A man was fatally shot Monday night in West Oakland, and an AC Transit bus may have been struck by the gunfire.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Major BART Delays Due to Problem at Millbrae There were major BART delays this morning due to an equipment problem at Millbrae, a UCSF specialist is telling everyone to get their flu shots now, and there's a big game for the US in the World Cup against Iran.
