SF News Vallejo Squatters Whom Neighbors Referred to as 'The Cult' Implicated In Crazy Sword Incident and Shooting An elderly property owner in Vallejo who was close to evicting some squatters got into an altercation with those squatters early Sunday morning in which he ended up with a sword through his chest and one of the squatters was fatally shot.
SF News DMV Lot On Fell Street Floated As Affordable Housing Development Site The state's property at the tip of the Panhandle in SF, currently home to the city's busy DMV field office, is a prime development site that's been discussed before — and Supervisor Dean Preston says the state should step up and "partner" with the city to allow it to become affordable housing.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Musk Gives Twitter Employees New Ultimatum Elon Musk has given all Twitter employees until 5 p.m. tomorrow to commit to being "hardcore" or leave, a beloved community activist and urban farmer was brutally beaten in the Tenderloin, and Matt Mahan's lead grew in the San Jose mayor's race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Engardio Inches to Victory, Ann Hsu Falls Further Behind in Vote-Count Update Accused serial sex offender Bill Gene Hobbs was denied release, Netflix is rolling out a way to kick freeloaders off your account, and the latest vote count is great news for D4 candidate Joel Engardio and bad news for school board member Ann Hsu.
Arts & Entertainment ‘All Over Coffee’ Artist Paul Madonna Severely Injured in Horrifying Hit-And-Run Accident A brutal hit-and-run has left legendary SF muralist and “All Over Coffee” illustrator Paul Madonna with displaced organs, a collapsed lung, and shoulder and leg injuries that will have him in a wheelchair — and unable to create artwork — for a while.
SF News Five Hells Angels Members Charged In Murder That Happened During Chris Stapleton Concert at Shoreline An assault that turned deadly at a Shoreline Amphitheater concert in June has led today to arrests and charges facing five alleged members of the notorious Hells Angels Motorcycle Club — including FBI raids on homes in SF.
SF Politics Accused Pelosi Attacker David DePape Enters Plea In Federal Court; LA Times Tries to Explain His Radicalization The 42-year-old Canadian citizen and longtime resident of the Bay Area accused of a brutal attack on Paul Pelosi three weeks ago, David DePape, made his scheduled appearance in federal court on Tuesday where he faces separate charges from those filed in state court.
Business & Tech Google Agrees To Pay Nearly $400 Million Settlement Over Basically Lying About Letting You Turn Off Location Tracking Google was tracking people even who turned off location tracking, which is kind of a problem in the era of abortion bounty hunter laws, so they’ve agreed to pay a $392 million settlement and they pinky-finger swear they’ll let you turn it off (eventually).
SF News San Francisco Sees Homicides In Civic Center, Western Addition The SFPD has just released a few details in a pair of weekend homicides that left two men dead, one near the San Francisco Public Library main branch, and the other at Fulton and Webster streets.
SF Politics Ann Hsu Falls Behind In SF School Board Race, Might Not Win Seat Mayor London Breed’s clean sweep of appointees getting elected last week is now in serious jeopardy, as school board appointee Ann Hsu fell 1,700 votes behind progressive Alida Fisher in the latest vote-count batch.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Sideshow Law Helped San Jose Police Make Huge Bust The UC academic worker strike moves into its second day, an equipment problem on BART led to smoke and delays in SF, and San Jose police deployed a new tactic and the city's newish sideshow law to issue over 700 citations over the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Takes Stand In Weinstein Trial Jennifer Siebel Newsom gave some emotional testimony in the Harvey Weinstein trial, the Oakland mayor's race remains tight, and Twitter could be in trouble with EU regulators soon.
Business & Tech Scooter Company Bird May Go Bankrupt, or Even Out of Business, After an ‘Overstatement’ of Revenue The scooter startup Bird, which also does business in San Francisco as Scoot, is getting its wings clipped after reportedly overstating revenue for two years, and is now mulling bankruptcy, or discontinuing business altogether.
SF Politics Final Local Ballot Measures Called: Prop M Vacancy Tax Wins, Prop E Affordable Housing Measure Falls The dust appears settled on the final two undetermined SF ballot measures, and the vacant homes tax has passed, while both of the dueling affordable housing ballot measures are shot down.
Arts & Entertainment NorCal Represent! Oakland's Amy Schneider Leads All-NorCal Tournament of Champions Finale Of the major-streak winners in the last season of Jeopardy!, only Amy Schneider emerged victorious after the initial rounds of the latest Tournament of Champions. And on Monday night, she competes against San Francisco's own Andrew He, and Professors Tournament winner Sam Buttrey of Pacific Grove.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Fall Tasting Menu at Nisei Chef David Yoshimura's thoughtful, soulful spins on Japanese home cooking, elevated as a series of finely composed and richly flavored dishes at his one-year-old Russian Hill restaurant Nisei, make for a memorable dining experience.
Bay Area Sports The 49ers Pound Their Way Past the Chargers for a Primetime Win The Niners have won two in a row, and their prospects for the rest of the season are anyone's guess.
SF News Stockton Serial Killer Suspect Appears In Court, Will Remain Jailed Without Bail 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee, the suspect in a string of killings in Stockton this past summer as well as another last year in Oakland, made another court appearance Monday morning but did not enter a plea.
SF News T-Minus Five Days! Central Subway Trains Set To Start Rolling This Saturday It’s only a soft opening that will run weekends only for a bit, but the nearly $2 billion Central Subway starts service Saturday, four years behind schedule — a pretty exciting transit development nonetheless.
Business & Tech In Dueling Sentencing Memos, Prosecutors Push For Elizabeth Holmes to Get 15 Years, While Defense Brings Up Recently Deceased Dog After a federal judge last week denied Elizabeth Holmes a new trial, quashing a last-ditch — and highly aggressive — effort by her defense team to keep her out of prison longer, it all comes down to her sentence.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Jose Mayor's Race Still Too Close to Call The race between Cindy Chavez and Matt Mahan for San Jose mayor is still close with Mahan in the lead, some contractors at Twitter were let go over the weekend, and the US Postal Service is investigating some ballots found by the side of a road in the South Bay.
SF News Of Course Trump Wanted to Dissolve the SF-Based Ninth Circuit Court During His Presidency Released earlier this year, "The Divider" — a book co-authored by Susan Glasser of the New Yorker and Peter Baker of the New York Times — includes a revelation from former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that Trump said "let’s just cancel” SF's Ninth Circuit court in 2018.
SF News Two Photographers Attacked at SF's Palace of Fine Arts — on Same Day In separate incidents, two photographers — one of them visiting San Francisco from Dallas — were subjected to violent robberies on November 9 near the Palace of Fine Arts; no arrests have been made in either robbery.
SF News Sunday Links: Looks Like SF Will Have a Rain-Free Week Ahead Dozens of completed ballots were found near Highway 17 in Santa Clara, mostly clear skies are in the forecast for SF next week, and it looks like Democrats will hold control of the Senate — with the House majority still on a knife edge.
