SF News San Jose Kidnapping Tale Grows Cray-Cray-Crazier As Investigators Detail Sordid Tale of Boyfriend-Trapping The real story behind the brazen kidnapping of three-month-old San Jose infant Brandon Cuellar is even nuttier than you might have imagined, and it involves a married woman with multiple boyfriends and a plan to possibly baby-trap one of them without getting pregnant herself.
SF News Humpday Headlines: School Board 'Admonishes' Ann Hsu The SF school board voted unanimously to "admonish" member Ann Hsu over racist comments, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Napa has now claimed one life, and a 30-year-old cold case in Alameda has been closed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Mulls Shuttering Soledad Prison As Incarcerated Population Declines Your last chance at Burning Man tickets arrives at 12 Noon Wednesday, a judge has blocked a huge expansion at the Palisades Tahoe resort, and Soledad State Prison is one of three on the chopping block as California simply has fewer people locked up.
SF News Family Furious After Dog Walking App Loses Dog On Their Watch, Dog Still At Large A two-year-old Maltipoo named Coco was last seen Friday night near Octavia Street, after a pet sitter from the app Rover lost the dog, and a search is underway in Western Addition and the Tenderloin.
Bay Area Sports Giants Wheel and Deal on Trade Deadline, But Their Division Rivals Make One of the Biggest Moves In MLB History After weeks of wild speculation and agonizing among fans, superstar Juan Soto is headed to a California city named after a saint. No, it's not San Francisco, though the Giants will see plenty of the Dominican outfielder this season.
SF Politics Breed Demands Apology From Sup. Walton Over N-Word Use Toward Sheriff's Cadet; Walton Says He Might Sue Instead The war of words over an n-word incident five weeks ago escalated dramatically Monday, with Mayor Breed saying Shamann Walton should apologize to a sheriff’s cadet, and a hardly contrite Walton threatening “he may take legal action.”
Bay Area Sports The USF Dons' Bill Russell, K.C. Jones, and the Alley-Oop Origin Story Bill Russell's recent passing at age 88 highlights the evolution of the game of basketball, and the countless contributions made by two Bay Area-bred greats.
SF News [Updated] SF to Get 10,000 More Monkeypox Vaccine Doses; Available Doses at SF General Out on Wednesday You can still get a monkeypox vaccine if you want or need one this week, either through a clinic appointment or at the drop-in clinic at SF General, but the doses from the latest federal allotment are likely to run out again before the end of the week.
SF News Rec and Parks Gets Ripped Off for $4.5 Million In Cost Overruns on Portsmouth Square Parking Garage An alphabet soup of transit authorities and nonprofit organizations was responsible for a Chinatown parking garage renovation that was completed four years late and went $4.5 million over budget, but a city auditor blames lax Rec and Parks Department oversight.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands’ Weed Area Grass Lands Will Be More Lit Than Ever, With Dub Mission’s DJ Sep Spinning They’re finally making the stage at the cannabis area Grass Lands a music destination, with Dub Mission’s DJ Sep on Saturday, and six-piece tiki band Ape on Sunday.
SF News McKinney Fire Death Toll Rises to Four, Containment Lines Strengthen Outside Yreka The McKinney Fire, burning in a remote part of northernmost Northern California, has claimed at least four lives, after two more sets of human remains were found in residences along Highway 96.
SF News SF Firefighter Allegedly Shot Oakland Man In Puppy-Breeding Dispute A 29-year-old San Francisco Fire Department member appeared in an Alameda County Court Tuesday morning on charges that he not only ripped off an Oakland puppy breeder, but fired several bullets at him too.
SF News 17-Year-Old Boy Killed In Visitacion Valley Shooting A teenager was the latest victim of gun violence in San Francisco, after a fatal shooting occurred Monday evening in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Nancy Pelosi Lands In Taiwan, Beijing Pissed The victim and officers have been ID'd in last week's Geyserville shooting, Paul Pelosi is set to be arraigned tomorrow on misdemeanor DUI charges, and Nancy Pelosi has just touched down in Taiwan in defiance of Beijing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Huge Line Once Again Forms for Monkeypox Vaccine at SF General Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared monkeypox a statewide emergency, another long line formed for monkeypox vaccine today at SF General, and Honey Mahogany has won the local Democratic Party's endorsement for D6 supervisor.
SF Politics Is Mayor Breed Trying to Finish Off SF’s Slow Streets? Recent Developments Raise Questions Breed’s out-of-the-blue announcement that the Slow Streets Program “needs to evolve,” combined with some sudden unexpected restrictions on a popular Slow Street, indicate City Hall may be pushing for a U-turn on the Slow Streets Program.
SF News Photos: Dore Alley 2022 Returns to Its Kinky Roots 37 years after the first Up Your Alley Fair — now more commonly known simply as “Dore Alley” — was held in SoMa, thousands of people again descended on the intersection of Folsom and Dore streets this past Sunday for the event’s famously sex-positive and kink-friendly atmosphere.
Arts & Entertainment A Mini-Golf Course (With Bar) From PGA Pro Rory McIlroy Might Be Slated to Join Mini-IKEA In Mid-Market Complex The retail and entertainment complex known as 6x6, on Market Street between 5th and 6th streets, which is soon to be home to a small-format IKEA store, might also be home to an SF location of mini-golf chain The Puttery.
SF News Pandemic and Street Violence Still Taking Brutal Toll on Oakland’s Chinatown A full 10% of small businesses in Oakland’s Chinatown have closed permanently during the pandemic, and the lingering threat of street violence is hampering any sort of comeback.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole Reopens Wednesday In New SoMa Location With Bar Tartine Chef Nick Balla On Board Much lauded bar-restaurant Bar Agricole is reopening this week, after some pandemic-related delays, in the base of the tower at 1550 Mission Street — and the place has recruited a talented chef in Nick Balla, who's been largely away from the SF scene for several years.
SF News Five-Year-Old Girl Among Wounded at Children's Football Game Shooting In Oakland; Fight Between Parents Might Have Been to Blame A chaotic, scary scene unfolded at a Pop Warner football game on Sunday at Oakland Technical High School, when shots rang out and a child was hit with a bullet, and parents and kids ran screaming.
SF News One Month In, New SoMa ‘Drug Sobering Center’ Gets Mixed Reviews More than 300 visitors have accessed the new SoMa Rise sobering center in its first month open, but it’s still unclear whether it's producing any good outcomes, or justifying its $4.2 million-a-year price tag.
SF News Monsoonal Moisture Brings Scattered Rain, Possibility of Lightning to Bay Area We're getting some of that rare summer precipitation in San Francisco and elsewhere around NorCal, thanks to monsoonal moisture drifting our way from the desert Southwest.
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle Gets Grumpy About Napa Noise Ordinance, Insists On Going Past Curfew Twice at Blue Note Jazz Fest Dave Chappelle did his ornery best to get everyone back on stage and to keep the party going past 10 p.m. on Sunday night, during the closing moments of the inaugural Napa Valley iteration of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, in spite of a local noise ordinance.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Bodies Found In Car In Wake of McKinney Fire The monkeypox vaccine clinic at SF General is back open, two bodies were found in a car in a driveway in the McKinney Fire zone, and one person was shot and wounded near Civic Center on Sunday afternoon.
