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.
SF News Suspect In San Carlos Beheading Reportedly Had Mental Illness, Had Made Serious Threats Weeks Earlier The man accused of brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child last Thursday made his first court appearance Monday, as new details in the case continued to emerge.
SF News Three People Shot In Unsuccessful Robbery Attempt at San Leandro Marijuana Grow What may or may not have been a legal indoor cannabis grow facility suffered an armed robbery attempt where plenty of gunfire was exchanged Sunday morning, with one of the suspects and two facility workers now hospitalized.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Arinell Pizza Has Closed After 33 Years on Valencia Street One of SF's closest simulacra of New York-style pizza, Arinell Pizza on Valencia, closed its doors for good on Saturday.
SF News San Francisco Conducts Drill to Practice Airlifting In Supplies After a Major Earthquake Takes Down Bridges San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management (DEM) warned residents to stay clear of McLaren Park Monday morning as they were conducting a disaster response drill with a helicopter.
SF News Six-Month Manhunt Ends With Arrest of Dhante Jackson, Accused In the Abuse and Killing of 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The man believed responsible for the brutal abuse and killing of an 8-year-old East Bay girl, who has been on the run for the last six months, has been arrested along with several women who have been helping him hide.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay A 2.9M quake hit last night around 10:30 that was centered near the Caldecott Tunnel in the Oakland hills, the SFPD suspended a chase in the Tenderloin Sunday evening for public safety reasons, and Oakland's popular Snail Bar is an annoyance for neighbors.
SF News Photos: Thousands Turn Out to Celebrate BART's 50th Birthday On Saturday, BART fans thronged Lake Merritt Station to attend a big birthday bash for BART's 50th birthday. It was a day filled with themed cakes, a time capsule unveiling, and a "downright disturbing" train replica with a human-like face.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Stabbing at SF BART Station Arrested BART announced that SF police arrested a suspect in the deadly stabbing that happened at the 24th Street Station in San Francisco on August 28.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Man Killed in Saturday Morning Stabbing, Suspect Arrested The Mosquito Fire grew to over 41,000 acres overnight, today marks 21 years since the 9/11 terrorist acts — which remain the deadliest to ever occur on American soil — and a 33-year-old was fatally stabbed Saturday morning in Bayview.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to Over 33,000 Acres, Becomes Largest Currently Burning CA Wildfire As of Saturday afternoon, the Mosquito Fire has burned 33,754 acres — with still 0% of the blaze contained and now threatens 3,666 structures — which makes it the largest fire currently burning in the state.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Heatwave Causes Dozens of Hospitalizations Smokey skies in parts of the Bay Area will likely continue into the weekend, Dog Eared Books is turning 30 years old, and the incredibly hot weather this week led many people to end up in local hospitals for heat-related health problems.
SF News Victim In Domestic Violence Beheading In San Carlos Identified, Friends and Family Say She Feared for Her Life A tragic incident that was the gruesome culmination of an abusive relationship turns more tragic and unfortunate with each new detail that comes out. And we now know the identity of the young mother who was killed by her estranged, violent boyfriend and father of one of her children.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Opera Will Kick Off Centennial Season This Weekend Pete Buttigieg toured areas of Oakland Friday, the Mosquito Fire has now swelled to almost 30,000 acres, and the San Francisco Opera will debut its newest concert season this weekend.
Business & Tech Developer Barreling Forward With $1 Billion Van Ness Office-Condo High-Rise, Despite Office Market Being in Toilet The 47-story development at 30 Van Ness is actually going to be called Hayes Point. And its developers are being called crazy for building office space in the current slump, but they’re rolling up the Brink's truck anyway.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Group Behind Spruce and Village Pub to Open Three Side-by-Side Restaurants In Potrero Hill Bacchus Management Group, which has a history of attracting loyal followings to its restaurants as well as Michelin stars, has plans for three new businesses in Potrero Hill, including an Italian trattoria and a new burger joint.
SF News DA Jenkins Rolls Out New Policy To Clamp Down on Repeat Misdemeanor Drug Offenders Call it a “five strikes” law if you will — SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s new drug misdemeanor policy hopes to tighten the screws on repeat offenders once they’ve racked up five drug possession and/or paraphernalia charges.
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Sets SF Ablaze With Three-Hour Chromatica Ball Extravaganza, Complete With Many Fire Cannons The most anticipated concert tour of 2022 fired up SF Thursday night, as Lady Gaga delivered three hours of glorious pop delirium, more than a half-dozen outfits, and gigantic blazing cannons shooting humongous flames across Oracle Park.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Toured the Central Subway, Said It Looks Great On Thursday, the man formerly known as Mayor Pete joined Mayor London Breed, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to tour the much delayed and still not quite operational Central Subway in SF.
SF News Historic Designation for Stonestown’s Old Movie Theater, Which Is Not Even Used Anymore, Could Alter Housing Plan The now-shuttered Regal UA Stonestown Twin movie theater apparently has some claim to a historic designation, which could throw a monkey wrench into a proposed 2,900-unit housing development.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to 14,000 Acres, Jumps Into El Dorado County, Begins Impacting Tahoe Air Quality A wildfire that broke out Tuesday in Placer County, west of Lake Tahoe, grew significantly on Thursday and overnight, aided by ongoing hot and dry conditions. And it has begun ruining the air quality for late-summer pleasure-seekers around the Lake Tahoe basin.
SF News 33-Year-Old Hayward Man Identified as Suspect In Insane Beheading-By-Sword In San Carlos An intensely brutal scene occurred in the middle of a San Carlos street on Thursday morning in which a man, possibly a former boyfriend with a restraining order against him, allegedly beheaded a young mother of two with a sword.
