SF News Day Around the Bay: Typhoon Rains Might Blow Into the Bay This Weekend Sonoma County saw a third small earthquake just before noon today east of the town of Sonoma, Amtrak is suspending routes ahead of a freight rail worker strike, and some typhoon remnants could bring us some early-season rain this weekend.
SF News State of California Sues Amazon for Price Manipulation, Anti-Competitive Practices State AG Rob Bonta claims he has the proof that Amazon forces other websites to maintain artificially high prices, and that’s how Amazon maintains the lowest prices, and that he’s going
Business & Tech SF-Based Twilio Lays Off Around 850 Employees In Effort Toward Profitability It's more bad news on the tech-layoff front Wednesday as San Francisco-based cloud-communications software firm Twilio announced in an SEC filing that it would be laying off 11% of its global staff, or around 800 people.
SF News Vallejo High Football Coach Shot Trying to Break Up Fight Between Students and Adults The Vallejo High School football team’s defensive coordinator Joe Pastrana took a bullet Tuesday afternoon when off-campus adults fired into a crowd of Vallejo students, but his injuries are not life-threatening and he remains in stable condition.
SF News BART to Close Part of Track on Antioch Line Over Three Weekends This Fall For Repairs Residents of Martinez, Pittsburg, and Antioch will be dealing with bus bridges and interrupted service in the coming weeks as BART begins repairs on the section of track that was damaged in a June heatwave.
SF News Ghost Ship Proprietor Derick Almena Faces Jail Time Again For Weapons Possession Found to be in possession of a machete, bows and arrows, and a live bullet, master tenant in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire Derick Almena could face prison time again because Alameda County prosecutors say those items constitute a violation of his probation.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dutch Fire Breaks Out In Placer County Near Mosquito Fire The Mosquito Fire entered the community of Foresthill on Tuesday and threatened many structures, a second smaller fire broke out nearby in Placer County, and four people were shot in a chaotic scene in East Oakland.
SF News 4.3M Earthquake and 3.9M Aftershock Jolt Santa Rosa Area, Cause Minor Damage A pair of earthquakes in quick succession Tuesday evening jolted and rattled Sonoma County, particularly in and around Santa Rosa where the epicenter was.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Police Barricades Finally Removed From Valencia Street Station SF-based Patreon laid off a chunk of its staff, DA Brooke Jenkins will try 16- and 17-year-olds as adults for certain “egregious” crimes, and those nonsense sidewalk barriers have finally been removed from the SFPD Mission Station.
SF News Supes Approve Another Payout in Stengel Beating Case, $47,500 to Victim’s Ex-Girlfriend The last loose end appears tied up in the first excessive force case against an on-duty SFPD officer, as the victim’s ex-girlfriend will receive a $47,5000 settlement.
SF News Woman Whose Rape Kit DNA Was Used to Prosecute Her Sues the City and Chief of Police The fallout continues from a February revelation that SFPD was keeping rape victims’ DNA and using it to potentially prosecute the victims for other crimes, as the Jane Doe in that case has sued the city in a U.S. District Court.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
SF Politics Not One But Two Oakland Mayoral Candidates Have Been Arrested on Gun Charges There are ten candidates vying to be the Mayor of Oakland on the November ballot, and two of them have been arrested on gun charges for incidents that happened in 2021.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Restaurants Make Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List After a year in which it seemed like there were a lot more restaurants closing or just hanging on than opening, Bon Appetit has published its annual Restaurant Issue, and the Bay Area nabs only 2 out of 50 spots on the list.
SF Politics New Poll Finds — Suprise! — San Franciscans Dislike Most of Their City Leaders A new survey that the Chronicle conducted alongside a professional pollster in late June and early July found that San Franciscans are largely unhappy with how the city is being run, and they blame both the mayor and the Board of Supervisors about equally.
SF News RH Drops $25 Million on Napa Resort Full of Crumbling, Formerly Glorious Structures Napa’s Soda Springs resort has been out of use and in disrepair since the 1960s, but RH (formerly Restoration Hardware) just bought it for $25 million and hopes to put it back on the map as a winery and resort.
SF News Mosquito Fire Nears 50,000 Acres, Now 18% Contained The Mosquito Fire, now burning for a week in Placer and El Dorado counties, quickly overtook the SoCal Fairview Fire as the largest fire currently burning in the state, and as of this morning reached 49,761 acres.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: At Least Two Injured During SF Sideshow New video shows at least two people who were struck by cars in a sideshow on Van Ness early Sunday, the suspect in the San Carlos beheading is being sent for a psych evaluation, and the first monkeypox death in the U.S. has been confirmed in Los Angeles.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video Inside the Central Subway Tunnels During Testing An SFPD officer was injured while trying to interrupt a catalytic converter theft, Twitter and Elon Musk are still exchanging barbs, and Jeffrey Tumlin posts sped-up video of a Central Subway train during testing.
SF News 24th and Mission Vending Permit System About to Kick In, Violators to Have Their Goods Confiscated The long-discussed permitting system for 24th and Mission Street vendors will supposedly take effect Tuesday, with violators first getting a warning, and getting their items seized if they get a strike two.
Arts & Entertainment Tommy Lee Told Mötley Crüe Fans In SF to Whip Out Dicks at Oracle, and Some People Were Upset Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee says "The world is too soft!" after someone spoke to the local media and threatened to file an indecent exposure complaint after Lee encouraged fans to expose their genitals during the band's show last week at Oracle Park.
SF Politics Dueling Sports Gambling Ballot Measures Have Tribes, Sportsbooks Spending Big on Misleading Ads There are probably no good guys in the November ballot fight over gambling measures Props 26 and 27, but there is a record $425 million going into ads from tribes and online sportsbooks determined to grab financial control of internet sports betting in California.
SF News Third Consecutive La Niña Winter Now Looking Likely This may be bad news for recovering from the ongoing drought, if not necessarily disastrous. But we are most definitely in for another winter of La Niña, which hasn't brought us sufficient rain and snow the past two years.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Charged In Double Murder; Mother Says He Was 'Blinded By Love' The suspect in the second-most shocking and bizarre Bay Area homicide of last week, Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Devin Williams Jr., was arraigned Friday — even as the double homicide in an East Bay suburb that he allegedly committed was overshadowed by a beheading on the Peninsula.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Look All Wet In Soggy 19-10 Loss to Bears, Trey Lance Already in Hot Water The Chicago Bears were crowing that Trey Lance “ain’t do sh*t” in his first game as the full-time starter, and the 49ers managed to look even worse than the underdog Bears in a bad-weather Chicago game.
